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Shakespeare on Bids: What He Can Teach You

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Grammatical Gaffes to Avoid in Bids

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Bid-Writing Lessons from the World’s Greatest Authors

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Editing for Style & Tone

The tone or writing style of a bid need not be uniform across all sections of the submission, but an editor should ensure against a mish-mash of different, non-complementary styles.

PPPs: 'Mind Maps' Do NOT Constitute A 'Bid Strategy'

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Less is Often More

More “Jones Group is committed to incorporating ethnic participation as...

Three Reasons 'Templating' Is A Bad Practice When Developing Bid Strategy

Adopting an 'anti-template' policy is just as important in...

The Bid Writer’s Checklist (Part Two)

The checkpoints in Part One of the list focused...

Why You MUST Avoid the ‘Tools & Templates’ Approach of the Average ‘Strategy’ Consultant

F     Bidders’ proficiency in strategy formulation is being materially hampered...

How to Avoid Your Sales Proposals Reading Like Your Website

'Superior', 'State of the Art', 'Best of Breed', 'Best...

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Shakespeare on Bids: What He Can Teach You

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How to Move to A New Level of Bidding Smarts

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De-commoditise, Differentiate & Prosper

If a company struggles to differentiate its product or...

Bid-Writing Lessons from the World’s Greatest Authors

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How to Be A More Productive Writer

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Capture Your Conversational Content

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The 13 Stages of Competent, Comprehensive Post-RFP-Release Bid Management

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Don’t Let Your RFP Responses Read Like A Procedures Manual

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Grammatical Gaffes to Avoid in Bids

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Pre-Bid Communication That Prospects Will Appreciate

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The 11 Stages of Competent, Comprehensive Pre-Probity Bid Management

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Swap the Dry, 'Academic' Writing Style for An Approach that WORKS

Many contributors to Expression of Interest (EOI) and Request...

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Why You Should Take Cultural Alignment Seriously

One of the less tangible, less immediately "visible" reasons...

Why You Should Take Cultural Alignment Seriously

One of the less tangible, less immediately "visible" reasons...

The Real Skill Set of A Peak-Performing Business Development Operative

When an organisation's leadership looks within for bottom-line improvement...

How to Turn Raw Information into Bid-Winning Intelligence

Whenever I start working with a company, the first...

Swap the Dry, 'Academic' Writing Style for An Approach that WORKS

Many contributors to Expression of Interest (EOI) and Request...

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BID COMMANDOS

An action-oriented training program comprising a set of 11 modules — designed for self-implementation by the enterprise, without the need for a formally qualified trainer.

Modules cover mindset, assessing capability and readiness, intelligence collection-and-conversion, upskilling frontline assets for optimal engagement with the target (prospective client), observing the enemy (competition), formulating a winning (bid) strategy and documenting clear, coordinated guidance, ensuring functional and coordinated (production) support, and optimising debriefs to ensure repeat and/or future victory.

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