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9780814417850

Persuasive Business Proposals

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  • ISBN13:

    9780814417850

  • ISBN10:

    081441785X

  • Edition: 3rd
  • Format: Paperback
  • Copyright: 2012-04-30
  • Publisher: Amacom Books

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Summary

Writing a winning proposal has always been an important part of sales. In recent years it has become vital. But many companies are still cranking out confusing, unpersuasive proposals and RFPs, few of which result in new clients or contracts. Now everyone can dramatically boost their success rate with the third edition of Persuasive Business Proposals. This classic guide explains how to craft compelling messages and powerful proposals that attract prospects' attention and speak to their needs. The new edition includes more valuable information than ever before, including: * Essential questions for qualifying opportunities * Ways to "power up" cover letters and executive summaries * Advice for overcoming "value paranoia" * Guidelines for incorporating proof into a proposal * Tips for winning renewal contractsMost people find proposal writing to be tedious and time-consuming-and their documents show it. With clear instructions as well as before-and-after samples, Persuasive Business Proposals takes readers step-by-step through a highly effective process for writing customized packages that capture new business.

Author Biography

Tom Sant is a well-known sales and proposal consultant, whose clients range from small entrepreneurial operations to Global 500 companies, including General Electric, Microsoft, Wells Fargo, and Accenture. He is the creator of the world's most widely used proposal automation systems, Proposal Master and RFPMaster. He lives in San Luis Obispo, California.

Table of Contents

Prefacep. vii
Seven Deadly Sins
A Good Proposal Is Hard to Find… But It's Worth Lookingp. 3
Recognizing Realityp. 11
Rushing to the Exitsp. 16
A Primer on Persuasion
Understanding Persuasionp. 23
Winning by a NOSE: The Structure of Persuasionp. 25
Seven Magic Questions: How To Develop a Client-Centered Messagep. 39
Why the Inuit Hunt Whales and Other Secrets of Customer Behaviorp. 57
The Cicero Principle: How to Avoid Talking to Yourself in Printp. 75
Fluff, Guff, Geek, and Weasel: The Art of Saying What You Meanp. 93
Weaving Your Web: How to Pull It All Together Right from the Startp. 113
The Art of the Part: Where to Put Your Effort
Letter Proposalsp. 127
The Structure and Key Elements of Formal Proposalsp. 141
Writing the Business Casep. 146
Recommending and Substantiating Your Solutionp. 158
Persuasive Answers to RFP Questionsp. 167
Presenting Evidence and Proving Your Pointsp. 175
Gathering and Tailoring Reusable Contentp. 181
How to Manage the Process Without Losing Your Sanity
Deal or No Deal?: Qualifying the Opportunityp. 185
An Overview of the Proposal Development Processp. 195
The Pursuit of Perfection: Editing Your Proposalp. 208
The Packaging Is Part of the Productp. 224
Presenting Your Proposalp. 230
Tracking Your Successp. 242
Creating a Proposal Center of Excellencep. 254
Special Challengesp. 266
Indexp. 276
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<html><head></head><body><p style="margin-top: 0">Preface </p><p style="margin-top: 0">This edition of Persuasive Business Proposals has been thoroughly revised to reflect changes in the world of work that affect proposal writing and, more important, to incorporate lessons I have learned from working with some wonderful clients. </p><p style="margin-top: 0">The basic principles of persuasion have remained consistent from the first edition onward, but thanks to insightful client feedback I have developed more effective ways to explain those principles. For example, the NOSE pattern that I present in Chapter 5 is an important instance of finding a simpler, more memorable way to communicate the key concept of persuasive structure. Likewise, the characterization of bad writing into the four categories of Fluff, Guff, Geek, and Weasel—an idea that I first presented in The Language of Success—has proved so popular in workshops and speeches that I decided to bring it to Persuasive Business Proposals, too. </p><p style="margin-top: 0">The use of technology has exploded, moving us from the local area network to the cloud, and by collaborating with clients who are themselves at the forefront of information management I have learned how to use that technology to make the proposal writing task easier. I feel extremely fortunate to have the opportunity to work with proposal experts at Microsoft, Cisco, CIBER, Booz Allen, Thomson Reuters, Qvidian, and other leading high-tech firms. Technology can transform the way we work, as evidenced by the rise of virtual proposal operations on a global scale in recent years. But technology can also exert new pressures on the bidding process and the proposal writer, too. I have tried to address these new realities in this edition. </p><p style="margin-top: 0">* </p><p style="margin-top: 0">Excerpted from PERSUASIVE BUSINESS PROPOSALS, 3rd Edition by Tom Sant. Copyright © 2012 by Tom Sant. Published by AMACOM Books, a division of American Management Association, New York, NY. Used with permission. </p><p style="margin-top: 0">All rights reserved. http://www.amacombooks.org. </p><p style="margin-top: 0"></p></body></html>

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