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There is no doubt that going into fiscal 2014, the market will be different. Sequestration and continuing resolutions will take their toll on the federal budget, resulting in fewer procurements. The net result is that competition for the remaining government dollars will be stiffer as companies battle for market share. As part of our webinar series on Winning Business in the Government Market, we polled over 300 companies to see what they were doing to raise their competitiveness in the coming year and found some interesting results. Here’s what we learned.

During Bob Lohfeld’s recent Bold trends in capture and proposal management webinar, part of the Lohfeld Business Winning Webinar Series, Bob presented some of the more interesting trends in capture… Continue reading How to deal with contracting offices that don’t allow interaction with industry

Bob Lohfeld presents some of the more interesting trends in capture and proposal management and discusses how these are changing the competitive landscape for these firms – watch the webinar replay.

As a follow up to Briana Coleman’s proposal production series, we’re sharing some helpful checklists and tools for you to use in planning your next proposal production plan. Download the… Continue reading Proposal production checklists (Part 4 of 4)

As a follow up to Briana Coleman’s proposal production series, we’re sharing some helpful checklists and tools for you to use in planning your next proposal production plan. Download the… Continue reading Proposal production checklists (Part 3 of 4)

As a follow up to Briana Coleman’s proposal production series, we’re sharing some helpful checklists and tools for you to use in planning your next proposal production effort. Download the… Continue reading Proposal production checklists (Part 2 of 4)

As a follow up to Briana Coleman’s proposal production series, we’re sharing some helpful checklists and tools for you to use in planning your next proposal production plan. Download the… Continue reading Proposal production checklists (Part 1 of 4)

All great proposal teams know the few golden rules of proposal development: Writers are more productive when they are fed. Whatever can go wrong, will go wrong. And… You can’t… Continue reading Confessions of a proposal production expert – delivery (Part 5 of 5)

In theory, printing and assembling your final proposal books doesn’t sound too hard. You hit print, wait for the printer to spit out a few thousand pages, put them in… Continue reading Confessions of a proposal production expert – printing and assembly (Part 4 of 5)

AppMaven’s latest presentation (July 23, 2013) provides more time and effort-reducing PC and Mac tools and tricks to develop, manage, and WIN proposals more efficiently and effectively. Download the presentation and 2013 favorite PC/Mac & iPad apps checklist.