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Are Your Proposals Hitting the Mark? How to Calculate and Improve Your Success Ratio
Apr
You and your team pour hours, days, sometimes weeks into crafting detailed proposals. You hit submit, cross your fingers, and wait. Sometimes you win, sometimes you lose. But do you actually know how often you’re successful? When I ask clients, ‘What’s your win rate?’, I often get answers based on gut feelings or recent memory – “We win a fair few,” or “We lost a big one last month.” Relying on anecdotes isn’t a strategy; it’s flying blind, hoping for the best without truly understanding your performance.
Proposal Format. Your Business Proposal should match the Request For Proposal guidelines and include a three-page executive summary. This applies to proposals to Government, Research, Sales and Construction Proposals. How do I format my Business Proposal? If the Government agency’s Request For Proposal does not provide guidelines, then format your proposal as follows:
You know your Business Proposal matches the client’s requirements exactly, right? You also know that your proposal is good Value For Money and resolves the pain points for the funding agency. But, you still need to show them why.
Looking for tips to format Business Proposals? These writing guidelines will help with Sales, Grant, Government and Research Proposals.
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