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Defending the Cause of Consistent Proposal Formatting
Do you spend too much time formatting (and reformatting) the same content and not enough time on higher-level activities? Maybe your ...
Saluting Women Business Owners in the Proposal Industry
This week is National Business Women’s Week® -- did you know that women own 42% of all businesses in the United States and that these businesses generated $1.9 trillion annually?
Our company is ...
Customer Service Week: Exemplary Training Key to Service
Expedience Shares Four Core Training Philosophies that Have Helped Drive a +94% Retention Rate
It’s Customer Service Week – an international celebration of the importance of customer service – ...
What Proposal Writers can Learn from the ‘KonMari Method’
Tidying Up Your Proposal Content
Today I am posting part two of our blog series for proposal writers looking to bring order to their content. Once again, I draw inspiration from the KonMari ...
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What Proposal Writers can Learn from the ‘KonMari Method’
No one likes clutter -- not in closets, and not in a proposal content library.
But in the fast-paced world of RFP deadlines, proposal ...
MS Excel for Proposal Writers: Organize References
Learn to use Excel Tables and Filters to Create Dynamic Lists such as References, Case Studies, and More.
Matching the best references or case studies to a specific proposal can be challenging, ...
Stress Free SMEs for your Proposal and RFP teams
Tips for Working with Subject Matter Experts that Minimize your Stress Levels and Theirs
Proposal Managers must juggle resources and calendars to make their deadlines. Here are a few tips to ...
5 Ways Your Proposals Today Are Killing Your Business
There are a million things that your business could invest in this year. Why should proposal software be on the top of that list? Let me share with you my 5 Ways Your Proposals Today Are ...
How to Motivate Your SMEs to Comply With Deadlines?
Continuing our series, we now turn our attention toward the education of the SME team. Some of your SMEs will likely be familiar with RFPs and proposals, but others may not. Have you ever ...
Bullet Lists in Excel
“How do I insert bullet lists into Excel?” This is one the most frequent Excel questions that we receive at Expedience. Unlike Microsoft Word, Excel does not provide a simple way to apply ...
Part Two: How to Motivate SMEs to Ensure Better Compliance with Deadlines?
In our initial article on this topic, we turned the question around – focusing on how we as Proposal professionals can first evaluate and manage our own efforts to better assist our SMEs. ‘Be a ...
Part Three: How to Motivate SMEs to Ensure Better Compliance with Deadlines?
With the start of a new year, our thoughts often turn to ways to improve our processes and procedures. Let’s focus on how to improve our relationships and team-building in order to keep the ...
Checking-In on Google Docs
Google Docs: Ready for Power Proposal and RFP Response Users?
We frequently monitor the progress Google is making with Google Docs. Given the ubiquity of the Google offerings and their ...
Why Professional Implementation Services?
Most software implementations involve some amount of setup and configuration. So how do you know what the right amount of assistance is right for you?
Yes/No Decision
Let’s make this quick – ...
Microsoft Word Running Slow? Is It Lagging? Try This!
As proposal writers we spend a lot of time in Microsoft Word. So If Word becomes slow or unstable it multiplies the time and effort, not to mention frustration, it takes to complete our work. ...
RFP Content Libraries and the Chaos Dilemma
We often think that content automation will solve the vast majority of our reusability problems when it comes to finding exactly the right answers to our mountain of RFP questions. To some ...
Mysterious Case of the Self-Locking Excel RFP
“HELP! Sometimes when I am answering an Excel RFP, a cell suddenly becomes locked, making it impossible to edit it afterward. What causes this?” Having an Excel RFP suddenly lock answer cells ...
How to Navigate Data Restrictions on Excel RFPs
The most frustrating challenge in answering Excel RFPs is not knowing if or what restrictions have been placed on the RFP answer cells and having to rely on Trial-and-Error. Is there any way ...
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Teams do extraordinary things with Expedience Software
I used several proposal software applications and knew the importance of ease of use. Many of the proposal apps are so complicated that users revolt against the system. Expedience is the easiest proposal automation software that I’ve ever used, and our proposal writers actually love using it!
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