Getting Started: Blocks To Start Building An Awesome Business Proposal

Each month, Quote Roller is going to focus on an important topic that goes into creating kick-ass business proposals. For the month of March, like Julie Andrews, we started from the very beginning (a very nice place to start): Getting Started with your Business Proposals. We talked about learning from previous proposals, the power of SWOT and Sales Proposal Funnels, debunking sales proposal myths, and a lot more. Here we are just putting all those great bits of advice in one place.

“Check Out” Our Library of Business Proposals: Getting Started:

First we sent our newsletter subscribers Quote Roller’s first ebook: Business Proposals Kick-Ass Guide: How to write, present & manage, which gives you 10 keys to opening the door to successful sales proposals.

And then, we dug a little deeper with 8 blog posts on how to kick off writing your next business proposal in the most awesome way:

• Why you should treat each proposal as a 5-step Process — Apply the capture planning technique and score big.
• What is a Mission Statement and why you need it for your proposals — Ask yourself: Why does my business exist?
• 12 Questions to ask yourself after Losing a Deal — Turn that frown upside down and snag that next sale!
• Write clear business proposals with the Power of SWOT — It stands for Strengths, Weaknesses, Opportunities, Threats, but how does that spell SOLD?
• Six stages of an Effective Sales Proposal Funnel  — A + I + E + P + R = $.
• Top proposal myths debunked — brought to you by Picasso and Yoda.
• 5 Skills for creating Great Proposals — 1. Strategic Planning, 2. Know Your Prospects, 3 … 4 … 5 …???
• The 7 stages of a Business Proposal Lifecycle — Like Simba, even Business Proposals have circles of life.

Next month we get down to the nuts and bolts of How to Write a Proposal. What are your tricks? Are there any topics you’d like to see us cover?

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