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Proposal Development Secrets: Win More, Work Smarter, and Get Home On Time

Remember I said there was something exciting I was working on. It’s officially here, and I want you to be the first to know about it. Before I tell you all about it, let me give you a little background. What I’ve Learned About Proposals I believe my experience in the world of proposals to […]

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What If You Were A Proposal Superhero?

What it looks like to be a proposal superhero?

Many of us spend a great deal of our time developing proposals. I think the majority of us are pretty good at putting them together. We have learned from others, read the books, and attended the presentations. We all know the best practices. As children, we all knew superheroes. Normal people who were either bit […]

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Interview With Rachel Yoka on Productivity

TimHaahs' Rachel Yoka

In the February 2011 issue of SMPS Marketer, I interview Rachel Yoka, Vice President of Strategic Business Planning and Sustainability at TimHaahs. Much of what we talked about couldn’t fit in SMPS Marketer. But I felt the unused portions provided a perspective that would be useful to the HelpEverybodyEveryday readers. In this unpublished piece, we […]

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How I Built a Great A/E/C Corporate Website for Under $7,000

Over the last several months, I published a series on how I had our entire A/E/C corporate website redesigned and built for under $7,000. I got a lot of great response from readers in the A/E/C industry who really liked the series and found it helpful. I’ve collected the entire series here for easy navigation. […]

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The Complicated Relationship Between Efficient and Effective

After reading a post by Bernie Siben, I got to thinking. Efficiency sometimes gets a bad rap. Efficient means achieving maximum productivity with minimum wasted effort or expense. You can do something wrong very efficiently. Or you can do something right, but do it very inefficiently. I think the concept is somewhat misunderstood. Consider this […]

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How Getting on Proposal Teams is a Lot Like Dating

The vice president of a construction consulting firm sent me an email after reading my SMPS whitepaper, “Marketing to the Mind.” Here is the question he asked: “How does one best apply these techniques to a crowd mainly composed of business development or marketing personnel? The vast majority of the national conferences and monthly organizational […]

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The $7,000 A/E/C Corporate Website: The Technologies

trauner services first look

I mentioned in my last post that I would talk about the new technologies in our site. You probably wouldn’t know these technologies are built into the site without me telling you. I think the best technologies are the ones that you don’t necessarily notice. Let’s take a look at them.

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The $7,000 A/E/C Corporate Website: Bring on the Consultants

I’ve gone over the design, goals, and major concepts of our website redesign. But I haven’t touched much on the how. Remember when I said that the SMPS National Build Business conference played a major role in the redesign? That’s what this post is about.

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The $7,000 A/E/C Corporate Website: Major Concepts

As I laid out in my last post, I had certain goals for our website redesign. They included: Reduced Bounce Rate and Increased Conversion Increase Time on Site Better Placement on Google Succes(s) Approach to Text Two Blogs Increasing time on the site and better placement on Google had an obvious solution. We incorporated two […]

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The $7,000 A/E/C Corporate Website: Goals of the Text

Once I had an idea of what the website would look like, which you can read about in my previous post, it was time to get to the easy part…the words. Or at least that’s what I thought. In my mind, words are important. With anything I do, I tend to focus much more on words […]

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