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Proposal Writing, Proposal Writing Tips

Proposal Writing Course – Lesson #1 How to Write Customer-Focused Proposals

Posted on by Anthony James
26
Apr

In this updated proposal writing course, we’re going to start by looking at how you can write a more customer focused proposal. Now, this might sound obvious but it can easy to miss the mark when you, and other contributors, are looking for ways to promote your company.
So, before you start writing a ‘me’ focused proposal, let’s look at how to step back, study the ask from the client’s point of view, so you can craft a response that zeroes in on their specific needs.

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Business Writing

1 Minute Writing Tips: Writing an Executive Summary

Posted on by Anthony James
16
Apr

What’s an Executive Summary? Think of it as a sales pitch. It’s designed to encourage the reader to turn the page and read the rest of the document. How do you do this? What’s its purpose? Its purpose is to: Highlights the major points of the report Describes any results, conclusions, or recommendations from the […]

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Business Writing

How to Write Abstracts – Part 2

Posted on by Anthony James
09
Jan

In this tutorial, we describe how to write an abstract, for example, for reports, proposals, case studies, and other types of documentation. An abstract… it sounds so simple… Ok, explain ‘gravity’ in one sentence? Hard, isn’t it? Remember the frustration you’ve felt when someone asked you to explain a difficult concept? It’s easy to talk […]

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Business Plan Templates

5 Step Approach to Business Plan Writing

Posted on by Anthony James
16
Apr

You have an idea for a business. You know what you want to sell, who you can sell it to, and how much you stand to earn from it. There’s just one more thing you need: a business plan. Many people dread the idea of preparing a business plan. They think of them as complicated, unnecessary documents that exist only to make it more difficult for them to get started as an entrepreneur. They are wrong.

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Business Plan Templates

9 Mistakes to Avoid When Starting Your First Business

Posted on by Anthony James

In 1996, I downloaded Netscape Navigator 2.0 and got on the web. It was incredible. If you weren’t there, it’s hard to explain the sheer excitement of getting your first AOL account, dialing up to go online, waiting for your first page to slowly download, and then going WOW!

The first day I went online—it was a lovely Sunday, I still remember it—I stayed online for 7 hours straight. I was transfixed. The world outside melted into the background. Hook, line and sinker. I was pulled in.

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Business Writing

How to Write a Preface for Technical Documents

Posted on by Anthony James
18
May

Summary: Create a preface for technical documents to describe the scope, contents, and materials referenced in the main document. Does a document need a preface? Not always. Short documents are fine without one. However, longer documents, especially those that have changed over releases will benefit from a preface. From one angle, the purpose of the preface is to set […]

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