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You’re pleased to submit your proposal. So what? You care about quality. So what? You’ve got great experience. So what? You’ve got top-in-class, state-of-the-art solutions. So what? You’re fast growing. So what? You’ve won awards. So what?  Why should the customer care? How do you know if you’ve said something the customer cares about? Ask yourself if it passes the “So what?” test.  People often say things in their proposals that do not pass the “So What?” test. They start their propos

You’re pleased to submit your proposal. So what? You care about quality. So what? You’ve got great experience. So what? You’ve got top-in-class, state-of-the-art solutions. So what? You’re fast growing. So what? You’ve won awards. So what?  Why should the customer care? How do you know if you’ve said something the customer cares about? Ask yourself if it passes the “So what?” test.  People often say things in their proposals that do not pass the “So What?” test. They start their prop

Within the MWPPSS there are three roles people can play: Content Planner. Can add/change/delete the outline and planning items. Can control access. Writer. Can view the planning items, report their progress, and comment. Reviewer. Can review the planning items. Permissions are set section-by-section. You can have as many planners, writers, and reviewers as you need. So you can have someone planning one section and reviewing another. Or have someone doing all three in eve

Most of the things you do on PropLIBARY earns you points. Everything you read, every course you take, and more. These points are used to: Automatically generate student transcripts Show how much training a student has acquired Provide a foundation for certifying student accomplishment Provide an incentive and recognition system Your total score aggregates it all into a single number. Your transcript shows what you did to earn your points. Your percentile rank sh

If you lose your proposal, it’s because the customer chose another alternative. Maybe they chose another proposal, or some other alternative.  The best way to win a proposal is to prove that you are the customer's best alternative. And being their best alternative requires anticipating the others and positioning against each one. Winning a proposal is about helping the customer make a decision, not just about your proposal, but about which of the alternatives they should move forward with.

For single users, you can browse and find information related to where you are in the pursuit process and what you are trying to do and learn how to do it better. You can get our process recommendations and use them to fill gaps in your existing process or implement a pursuit process from scratch. You can get immediate online training. You can improve your proposal writing by using our recipes. PropLIBRARY is so flexible because people arrive here at different points in time, play different role

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Disclaimer In describing our plans, we're not making promises. All dates, features, prices, details, and everything else on this page are subject to change. This is just how we'd like things to play out at this moment. If we get a better idea later, we might follow it instead. But if you don't hold us to any commitments here, we'll gladly share some of what we're working on. Attention potential corporate subscribers... If you do the kind of proposals that require a team o

Sometimes the friction between sales and fulfillment results in the company being afraid that someone might say something in the proposal that the company can’t deliver in order to make the sale.  I see this often at engineering companies, where the customer’s concerns can deviate from the engineering realities. A proposal is supposed to be written from the customer’s perspective and address their concerns. But what about the engineering realities? The truth is that there is no conflic

Proposal managers get all the glory and usually more money. Proposal writers are sometimes treated like low-skilled interchangeable assembly-line workers. It's as if anybody who can complete a sentence can do the job. But proposal writers are different from other forms of writers. And if you care about your win rate, it’s a difference that matters. Proposal writers are matchmakers as much as they are writers. They don’t merely put things on paper, they put things in context. They don’t me

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PropLIBRARY is rapidly changing from being a resource library into an organizational change tool for improving win rates. That’s not a bunch of marketing speak, that's a result of combining our information resources with a customizable online training platform. We have added more than a full day’s worth of online training to our process documentation and best practice guidance. We will continue to add courses until we have about a week’s worth. And we’re not charging extra for it. Our Corpo

While proposal sight reading is a good technique to know, if you are using it to perform all of your reviews something is wrong. It is better to have a proposal quality methodology that is comprehensive and not simply quick. You can read more about improving your proposal reviews here. The process we recommend for methodically reviewing proposals and maximizing their quality is called Proposal Quality Validation. We will post online training in how to implement it soon!  

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