Recent posts by Cheryl Smith

11 minute read
April 27, 2021

3 Best Practices: Post-Proposal-Review Improvement

Post-review revisions, or proposal Improvement, are typically a crossroads for the proposal team; the course of action taken determines your proposal quality. The quality of...
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10 minute read
April 21, 2021

3 Best Practices: Proposal Review Inspection

Proposal reviews are a best practice for inspecting and improving content throughout the writing process. They are iterative, aimed at compliance and accuracy and focused on...
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8 minute read
April 13, 2021

3 Best Practices: Proposal Management Writing Collaboration

Proposal writing is a team sport, tasking experts from across your organization to collaborate and bring a compelling and persuasive capture strategy to life in the proposal....
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7 minute read
April 6, 2021

3 Best Practices: Proposal Management and Bid Qualification

As a busy proposal manager, you’re juggling a lot of different tasks, from writing and reviewing and monitoring and reminding to compliance and deadlines. To keep your team...
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7 minute read
March 25, 2021

Proposal Management Improvement: Post-Review Revisions

Proposal management is the best practice process of leading a team through the written portion of the sales cycle. Proposal writing is a form of persuasive writing, designed...
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6 minute read
March 16, 2021

Proposal Management Inspection: Review Team Collaboration

Proposal management is the best practice process of leading a team through the written portion of the sales cycle. As the team writes, proposal reviews are a critical step in...
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5 minute read
March 8, 2021

Proposal Management Interplay: Team Collaboration

Proposal management is the best practice process of leading a team through the written portion of the sales cycle. Unfortunately, the people who comprise this team already...
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5 minute read
March 1, 2021

Proposal Management Intersection: Business Development & Proposal Team

Proposal management is the best practice process of leading a team through the written portion of the sales cycle. Throughout, there are experts to wrangle and tasks and...
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4 minute read
February 17, 2021

Get the Upper Hand on Proposal Team Chaos

Missed emails, shifting priorities, competing deadlines; proposal team chaos. If left unchecked, it inserts a hairline crack into an otherwise effective proposal process....
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