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5 Ways to Write Action Plans that Get Results

Here are five ways to write an Action Plan to make your business more competitive. Action Plans fail if they are too difficult to use or too hard for readers to understand Who does What and When. Make your Action Plan simple to follow, with clear goals and concrete deadlines.

10 Writing Tips for Construction Proposals

Kevin asked me for formatting tips for Construction Proposals. Writing a business proposal for the first time can be difficult. To make this easier we’ve compiled this list of best practices for developing your next proposal. This applies to Software, Sales, Research and Government proposals.

7 Mistakes to Avoid in Strategic Action Planning

Need to create a Strategic Action Plan? Your business will benefit from using an Action Plan to link your business goals to your strategies. This plan lets your develop a series of tasks that you can assign to targets and review as they are accomplished.

7 Ways to Improve Business Proposal Acceptance Rates

Why do some Business Proposals get accepted and others never get funding? You can improve your bid win rate if you look at how the Proposal evaluation team, and others in the procurement industry, assess, review and evaluate Proposals.

Klariti Top 100: Download Most Popular Articles in PDF

Ever wanted to find that article about writing Business Proposals, or using White Papers for Marketing? How about how to write your first Marketing Plan? Klariti.com now has close to 900 articles. Keeping tabs on these is now always easy, so what I’ve done is start to PDF the most popular articles and drop them […]

What Jose Mourinho Taught Me About Market Research

Jose Mourinho is the most successful football coach in the world today. No one else has won more league titles and silverware than the Portuguese manager.

What fascinates me about Mourinho is the incredible attention is the staggering amount of research he does before meeting the opposition team. Unlike most sports managers, Mourinho will spend late nights crunching numbers and seeing what system best suits his team – based on the data his research team has gathered.

Market Research – What Do Customers Secretly Think of Your Brand?

This is Part One of a Ten part series on creating a Market Research Plan. The sections will roughly be the following:

1. Define What and Who You Want To Research. Who is your real target audience?
2. Define the Problem Statement
3. Develop a Market Research Proposal
4. Design the Research Study
5. Develop Your Market Research Proposal
6. Test the Market Research Design
7. Collect Data
8. Analyze and Interpret the Data
9. Report the Results
10. Next Steps