Style-Manual Travails
Style manuals are essential to any large proposal, guiding writers and (more importantly) editors in the task of making text from many writers look as if it came from one mind.
Tag: Managing standards
As schedule-driven projects, RFP responses require special attention to the management of standards: in writing and production, among others. This focus and discipline must apply at both the team and individual levels.
Hobgoblins and Text Boxes
Writing good RFP responses is iterative: get the content, get it clear, and then look for successively better ways to make it “pop.” Allow time for this process in your schedule.
Cost + Markup = Price
Managing standards is an essential element in project management of RFP responses: doing more than “good enough” or “professional enough” is neither good nor professional.
Comma Chameleon
Deadlines are the voice of reason in proposal management – helping us focus on what matters above all: on-time delivery.
What We Have Here…
Resumes are notoriously difficult documents in RFP responses, requiring special attention as well as the acceptance that they will not be as good as we want .