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Tips on Proposals That Win

Monday, August 11th, 2008

Let’s talk about what to focus on in proposals. Should the focus be on your products and services? Should it be on your reasonable fees? On your client satisfaction rates? On your expertise in the industry? On your uniqueness?
The answer to all the questions above is NO. Your focus should be on your reader–that is, […]

Planning and Writing a Business Plan

Friday, August 1st, 2008

A written guide to starting and running your business successfully is essential.  This plan will encourage loans, promote growth, and provide a map for you to follow.

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Planning a Business Proposal

Friday, August 1st, 2008

The goal of business proposal writing is to answer your customer’s questions and persuade them to select you. Business proposal writing should be more about your customer than it is about you.
You should plan and write your business proposal to meet your customer’s expectations. But first you have to know […]

How to Write an Effective Survey Questionnaire

Tuesday, July 29th, 2008

Writing an effective questionnaire is not a task for novices. At the very least, it requires an understanding of four basic issues: 1. Considering the differences between a questionnaire that respondents fill out themselves and one that a professional interviewer administers […]

An Introduction to How to Write a Business Proposal

Tuesday, July 15th, 2008

If you want to know how to
write a business proposal,
the person to ask is your
customer. The goal of
business proposal writing is
to answer your
customer’s
questions and persuade
them to select you.
Business proposal writing
should be more about your
customer than it is about
you. You should write your
business proposal to meet
your customer’s
expectations. But first you
have to know what they
are. Some general advice
for how to write business
proposals is provided
below… How to write a
business proposal and
business proposal writing
tips

Easily Summarize A Word 2007 Document

Friday, May 16th, 2008

When you have a long Word document containing a lot of different information pertaining to the same thing, it can be difficult to create a summary of the document. AutoSummarize is a feature in Word 2007 that scores the document by giving points to sentences that contain frequently used words. You can then use […]

How Do You Refer to Your Own Company in a Report

Monday, October 1st, 2007

How should a company be referred to repeatedly in a document. We are struggling with an audit report-writing issue. We use the business’s legal name, for example, Joe Smith Trucking Inc. We are not sure . . .

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Find Solutions with Your Subconscious

Thursday, August 30th, 2007

Whether you are looking for the best way to make your sales presentation unique or you need an innovative for solving a business problem, you know that problems like these never have a ready and evident solution.
You may try to sit down with a legal pad to brainstorm, working your way down the page and […]

Research: Build Bibliographies Fast with BibMe

Wednesday, May 23rd, 2007

Website BibMe helps you create and download a bibliography with minimal time and effort.
We’ve covered bibliography generators in the past (most notably, EasyBib), but BibMe has an incredible AutoFill mode that lets you search for a book or other source online and fill in all the relevant info with the click of a mouse. […]

Believe What You See: Use Nonverbal Communication

Friday, March 23rd, 2007

Have you ever made up
your mind about a
candidate based on the
body language he exhibited
in your lobby? How about
that clammy, wet, limp
handshake? Or, how do
you react to the candidate
with dirt under her
fingernails when she folds
her hands on your desk. I
gave too little credence to
these nonverbal clues in
the past. As an example, I
hired the Mom with the
dirty fingernails; she told
me she had just had a baby
a week earlier and I
forgave what was an
obvious heads up for me.
Believe What You See: Use
Nonverbal Communication

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