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Proposal Carnival - August 29, 2007

Filed under: Uncategorized — LRicci at 1:21 pm on Wednesday, August 29, 2007

Welcome to the August 29, 2007 edition of business proposal carnival. These posts from other sites have nuggets you may find helpful.

Management

Karl Goldfield presents Building a plan Part 3: Hunters, Gatherers, Communicators, and Collaborators.(ed. There are good tips here for interviewing team members.)

Proposals

Ben Yoskovitz presents Top 10 Reasons Why Proposals Fail .

Ben Yoskovitz presents The 4 Immutable Laws of Giving Great Proposals, saying, “As much as we might not like RFPs, proposals are necessary in a lot of cases to get business. Learn how to write better proposals.”

Strategy

Charles H. Green presents When Business is Incontinent , saying, “So often we know what we should do, nothing stands in our way, we want to do it… and yet we don’t. Why?”

Charles H. Green presents The Deeper Message of Financial Markets’ Volatility , saying, “In a massively connected world, corporate strategy is less relevant than customer strategy. It’s your ability to cut agreements with customers and suppliers that helps you—not your ability to squeeze pennies out of them.”

Chris Tackett presents How to Write a Headline and Grab Your Prospect by the Eyeballs! , saying, “The art of writing headlines is important for direct marketing. I will cover how to come up with some great headlines just like the one I use in this article.”

Tactics and Tools

Jason Rakowski presents How To Deliver Technical Support That Delights The End User, Part Two, saying, “For computer companies technical support can make or break you. If you are in high-tech this is a must read.”

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    Comment by Ben Yoskovitz

    August 29, 2007 @ 4:13 pm

    Oops! Didn’t realize I made two submissions, but I’m glad you enjoyed and posted both of them.

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