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Boilerplates Can Make Writing Proposals a Breeze

Posted by on Jan 14, 2010 in proposal writing | 0 comments

Tweet After writing a few proposals, you will eventually figure out that it’s easier if you recycle bits and pieces, so that you can reuse them in upcoming ones. It will help your proposal writing efforts to be easier and faster than having to rewrite the same information over and over again. This can be helped by using boilerplates. As you may have guessed, boilerplates are snippets of text that can be reused as many as times as you...

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How to Mix the Old With the New When Writing a Proposal

Posted by on Aug 17, 2009 in proposal writing | 0 comments

Tweet I have read many technical documents that are collages of past documentation. The worst is when it’s a proposal. Why? Proposals are vehicles for companies to get more business. If the proposal looks like a bad cut+paste job of past proposals, it could cost you the contract. I have seen proposals where writers even forgot to omit the last organization’s name, and the paragraphs had dissimilar phrases. Many businesses...

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