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Business Development
- Competitor Analysis with a Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) Request
- Using White Papers and Point Papers to Gain More Federal Business
- Master Getting Government Sole Source Awards to Make Life Easier for You and Your Federal Customers
- Use Pipeline Criteria to Find the Best Federal Contracting Opportunities
- Invest in Your Business Development Education
- Win Federal Contracts By Improving Your Business Development Part 2
- Win Government Contracts By Improving Your Business Development Part 1
- How To Be Successful in Federal Business Development
- Improving Your Government Proposals' Pwin Part 3: Rethink Your BD, Capture Management, and Proposal Processes
- Improving Your Government Proposals' Pwin Part 2: Change Your Business Development Culture
- Getting More Productive in Business Development
- Success leaves clues – using competitive analysis for your growth strategy
- Are you Equipped to Respond to Short Turnaround IDIQ Task Order Proposals?
- Identifying and Qualifying Pipeline Opportunities
- How to Take Advantage of Government Fiscal Year End Spending Rush
- How Full Is Your Pipeline?
- Want the Blueprint to Success in the Federal Market?
- Who Is the Decision Maker?
- Smart Competitor Analysis Starts With the Customer
- Reading the Pipeline Tea Leaves
- Measure 2x for Better Business Development
- What Can Business Development Certification Do for You?
- Seven Deadly Proposal Sins, Part 6: Lust
- Turning Ops Personnel into a BD Army
- Nailing Business Development for Indefinite Delivery Vehicles
- Gratitude for our veterans and food for thought
- Preparing for the Next Storm
- How to Build an Opportunities Pipeline with High-Probability Bids
- My (Almost) Graceful Skydiving Experience
- The Tools and Techniques for Establishing Federal Government Relationships
- What People are the Main Ingredient in Winning Contracts Consistently
- Public Bid Posting Doesn’t Mean a Level Playing Field
- Employ a Strategic Business Development Planning Process
- How is FedBizOpps Useful in Business Development?
- Dealing with Fiscal Constraints and the Increased Competitive Edge
- Earning a Trusted Advisor Status
- The Scoop on Government Procurement Teaming, Affiliation, JVs, and More
- Developing Information Dominance Over Your Competition
- Know When to Talk to Government Customers
- How to grow your business development capability
- News
- How Good Teaming Partners Are Like Parking Spaces
- Rules of Interfacing with Government Personnel that You Don't Want to Break at Any Cost
- Why worry about what your competitors do?
- What does aerobatics have to do with business development organizations?
- Techniques and News: How to dominate IDIQ’s competition and Minority contracts threats
- Government is relying on IDIQs more than ever
- Three major problems with business development
- Win Themes Development Techniques
- How To Manage Proposal Consultant Costs
- Avoiding Business Development Budgeting Pitfalls and Proposal Cost Cutting Blunders
- How Much Do Consultants Charge?
- When Do You Need a Proposal Consultant?
- How do capture and proposal consultants charge for their services?
- Capture Management: The Right Way Of Gathering Intelligence
- Win strategy for your proposal
- Proposal manager’s midlife crisis?
- Where to find good proposal consultants?
- Success Factors In Federal Business Development
- 6 Steps To Put Your Proposal Team On The Same Page
- 5 Basic Principles for Keeping Productive State of Mind
- Task Order Proposal Management Best Practices
- Successful Planning for your BD Strategy. Interview with Business Development Expert
- Obtaining Senior Management Buy-in
- Capture Wars
- How to capitalize on IDIQs
- Roadmap to winning in proposal cost volumes
- Creating Job Security, Higher Pay, and Development for Federal Proposal Professionals
- Rules of Thumb for Proposal Win Themes
- Nothing is great right out of the can, proposal resumes included
- Mediocrities complain, superstars don't... True?
- The Art of Capture Management: How to Position to Win Before an RFP Issuance
- Why Understanding the Cycle of Business Development is important to Winning Government Proposals
- Inspiring Quote for all the Business Developers who Dare
- 10 Tips for Winning Government Contracts and Growing Your Business
Capture & Proposal Metrics
Capture Planning
Federal Proposal Training
Government Proposal Training
Government Proposal Workshops & Seminars
GSA/VA
Hiring Consultants
ID/IQ
IDIQ Contracts
IDIQ Vehicle
Management & Risk
Multiple Award
News
- Webinar: Proposal Best Practices in the FY Q4
- How to Entice a Prospective Teaming Partner to Team with You
- Finding Teammates for Federal Contracting Opportunities the Right Way
- Federal Contractors: Team Up for the Benefits While Avoiding the Risks
- Using Unsolicited Proposals for Innovative Federal Solutions
- Latest Indefinite Delivery Vehicle Trends
- Apply for the SBIR Proposal Lab
- Federal Fiscal Year End Opportunities
- Top 7 Capability Statement Mistakes to Avoid
- Make Life Easier-Teach Your Proposal Team to Write
- Keeping Capture Momentum
- What is a Proposal? The Art of Persuasion
- Don’t be too picky with task order qualification
- Memorial Day Weekend
- How to Get The Most Out of Your IDIQ Contract
- Want the Blueprint to Success in the Federal Market?
- The Ultimate Inspiration Is the Deadline
- Cracks in the LPTA Armor?
- What Do 1,569 Recent SeaPort-e Winners Have in Common? $2,501.
- The Power of Substitutes: What Business Are You in?
- Seven Deadly Proposal Sins, Part 6: Lust
- Six Strategies to Grow Your Business with the Treasury
- The Seven Deadly Proposal Sins, Part 5: Sloth
- The Seven Deadly Proposal Sins, Part 4: Envy
- The Seven Deadly Proposal Sins, Part 3: Greed
- The Seven Deadly Proposal Sins, Part 2: Gluttony
- The Seven Deadly Proposal Sins - Part 1: Pride
- Turning Ops Personnel into a BD Army
- The Difference between Proposals and Super-Proposals
- Nailing Business Development for Indefinite Delivery Vehicles
- Incumbent-itis pitfalls
- A memorable story can make all the difference in winning proposals
- Pwin, Any Given Sunday
- I Once “Captured” a Fish… THIS BIG
- BD is not drinks, golf, and dinners. It is goals, customers, and pipeline
- Win themes and Strategy Brainstorming Session… Is it OK to Wait if the RFP Slips to the Right?
- 5 Simple Rules for Constructive Feedback
- Say No to Bureaucratic Compliance
- Gratitude for our veterans and food for thought
- Ready Up: Making the Most of Your Time Before the Next Potential Government Shutdown
- The Number One Goal of Capture
- Four Key Tasks for Productive Engagements with Government Customers
- The Day You Stop Wanting to Be Better is the Day You Stop Being Good
- Influence the RFP by Shaping the Requirements
- Red Team and Other Important Reviews Best Practices
- Proposal Color Reviews Expectations: Pink Team
- Proposal Writing Planning Phase and Reviews
- Bad Things Proposal Professionals Do
- How to Build an Opportunities Pipeline with High-Probability Bids
- The Weapon of Seasoned Government Contractors: Capture Planning
- Make These Three Shifts to Become a Better Proposal Writer
- Strategies for Penetrating Government Market for the First Time
- Proposal Management: How Did We Get There? Where Are We Going? How Are We Going to Get There?
- The Tools and Techniques for Establishing Federal Government Relationships
- “Picasso Method” for Proposal Graphics That Work
- Do's and Don'ts of Risk Management Sections
- Public Bid Posting Doesn’t Mean a Level Playing Field
- 2013 APMP Conference Updates
- Three Categories of Win Themes
- Why You Need a Proposal Process
- Keeping Your IDIQ Team on the Same Page
- Five Reasons Subject Matter Experts Struggle with Proposal Writing
- How is FedBizOpps Useful in Business Development?
- Seven (Almost) Deadly Proposal Review Sins
- What are your top three proposal management challenges?
- What are your top three proposal management challenges?
- 10 Things to Avoid When Writing Proposal Sections
- Dealing with Fiscal Constraints and the Increased Competitive Edge
- Your Proposal's Overall Professional Look and Feel
- Seven Cardinal Rules of Proposal Graphics
- Can You Outsource Capture to Consultants?
- Seven Signs an RFP is Wired
- Earning a Trusted Advisor Status
- The Scoop on Government Procurement Teaming, Affiliation, JVs, and More
- Multiple Award Contracts Trends
- What to Prepare Prior to RFP Issuance
- Don’t Let Errors Undermine Your Credibility
- Olessia’s interview on Federal News Radio on LPTA, upcoming IDIQs and more
- Proposal Editing: The Key Step to Selling in Your Proposal
- Developing Information Dominance Over Your Competition
- Know When to Talk to Government Customers
- Relationship between Strategy and Themes
- Pros and Cons of Using Boilerplate in Proposals
- Secrets of Persuasive Proposal Writing
- Winning Proposals is a Team Sport
- The Scoop on GSA Schedules
- How Good Teaming Partners Are Like Parking Spaces
- Tips and Tools for Improving Proposal Readability
- After Award Debrief as a Tool for Winning Proposals
- What does aerobatics have to do with business development organizations?
- How to succeed in the current resource-strapped environment?
- Government is relying on IDIQs more than ever
- Back to basics: Understand the full cycle of business development to get more contracts
- Proposal Mastery: Affecting Proposal Outcomes through Content and Leadership
- Avoiding Business Development Budgeting Pitfalls and Proposal Cost Cutting Blunders
- Traditional Capture is Wasteful - Long Live Capture-less Proposals?
- Redefining Proposal Professionals as a Warrior Class?
- When Do You Need a Proposal Consultant?
- Win strategy for your proposal
- Advanced Proposal Management
- How to recognize IDIQs and Task Order patterns and use them to your advantage
- How to benefit the most from working with proposal consultants, and 30% Spring discount
- Success Factors In Federal Business Development
- Frontload your cost proposal strategy and raise your Pwin
- The six aspects of capturing Government contracts
- If we just had done a few things differently… OR 3 main problems with capture management
- 5 Basic Principles for Keeping Productive State of Mind
- Developing your pipeline and preparing for a great year of winning business
- Overcoming difficulties in calling government customer
- Top 7 Problems With Proposal Win Themes
- Obtaining Senior Management Buy-in
- Reminder and Olessia’s 5 tips for proposal professionals
- Tips for overcoming proposal writer’s block
- How to organize to win every task order on an IDIQ
- When you don’t have time for capture
- Developing a Winning Capture Strategy and Avoiding Legal Pitfalls
- Do you have a task order manual for your IDIQ?
- Where are we going with proposals – federal contracting trends
- The only way to make money on IDIQ contracts
- Dominate your competition and win more task orders
- Conference notes and more future predictions for proposal profession
- How will the proposal industry change?
- Parenting and proposal parallels
- Beware of Proposal Editors
- Preparing Winning Multiple Award and Task Order Proposals
- How to Succeed as a Proposal Consultant
- It was a dark and stormy night...
- Winning Government Proposals Course Overview
- Capture Management Class Overview
- Halloween Proposal Horror Stories
- Proposal Lessons from an Aerial Forest Adventure Park
- Heads Up
- Proposal Manager's Tips for Running Fast Turn-around Proposals
- Lessons Learned from a Proposal Disaster
- Why Finding Rock Star Government Proposal Managers is Tough
- Why Understanding the Cycle of Business Development is important to Winning Government Proposals
- Inspiring Quote for all the Business Developers who Dare
- 10 Tips for Winning Fast Turn-Around Proposals
- Tip 1 for Winning Government Contracts: Understand the full gamut of federal market opportunities and where your business could benefit from these. PART 2.
- Tip 1 for Winning Government Contracts: Understand the full gamut of federal market opportunities and where your business could benefit from these. PART 1.
- Five Simple Techniques to Build a Cohesive Proposal Team
- Blizard 2010 and Emergency Planning for Proposals
- Executive Summary Secrets to Transform Your Executive Summaries (and Your Proposals) to Win More
- Are "Executive Summary Secrets" Absolute Ready-Made Stuff?
- How do You Start an Executive Summary?
- Advice on Delivering News to Clients
- When Do You Write an Executive Summary?
- How to Vet Potential Teammates to Prevent Teaming Pitfalls
- 20 Questions You Need to Ask Your Customer When Collecting Opportunity Information During Capture
- How to Double Your Probability of Winning Bids by Mastering the Art of 'Capture'
- APMP International Conference - Last Day (Part 2)
- APMP International Conference - Last Day
- Proposal Manager's Toolkit
- How to Win Government Proposals - Webinar Starting May 19
- Evaluators' comments to my post on six aspects of capture
- Six aspects of capture - pre-proposal preparation that makes a winning difference
- About to finish my new workbook and CD: Writing Dynamite Executive Summaries
- Virtual Proposal Secrets
- OST Business Development Primer
- How to Make Your Proposal Language More Powerful to Win More Government Contracts
- After-Award Debrief as a Tool for Winning Government Contracts
- What Issues Keep You Up At Night in the Area of Growing Business and Winning Contracts?
- The Pains of Moving from Bidding People or Products to Proposing Services and Solutions to the Government
- Hiring a Great Business Development Person
- Pondering Over the Predicament Mid-Size Businesses Face
- The Truth About Proposal Evaluators
- Proposal Writers Beware - Confused Mind Says "No"
- Growing Your Business from Small to Large
- 10 Tips for Winning Fast-Turnaround Proposals
- How to pick the right mix of proposal professionals to build and drive your bid engine (Part 3 of How to Build a Bid Engine Series)
- Making it through the proposal season
- How to Build a Bid Engine - Part 2: What goes into building a bid engine that wins you proposal after proposal?
- How to Build a Bid Engine - Part 1: How to grow and develop business aggressively
- Business Developers How Are Your Time Management Skills?
- Win rates: marketing ploy or a real metric?
- Share BD Blog Posts With Your Friends!
- The Skinny on Proposal Consultants - Part 1: How You Can Work Well with Consultants and Benefit the Most
- The Secret of High Win Rates - Part 2
- The Secret of High Win Rates - Part 1
Past Performance References
Proposal Bid Engine
Proposal Consultants
Proposal Management
Proposal Solution Development
Proposal Training
Proposal Writing
Resumes for Proposals
RFPs
Speed Writing
Task Order
Technical Volumes
Win Themes