Blizard 2010 and Emergency Planning for Proposals

February 10th, 2010

This is a video I recorded for you in the Washington, DC 2010 snowpocalypse – stay warm and plan better for proposal emergencies.

Executive Summary Secrets to Transform Your Executive Summaries (and Your Proposals) to Win More

January 27th, 2010

I have just finished several proposals in a row – it has been a very busy time. In all of this hard work through the holidays and beyond, I realized that more than two months have elapsed since I blogged, and I never let you know about my new Executive Summary Secrets self-study course. I apologize for this oversight.

I put together this course because executive summary is the TOP proposal persuasion tool that goes a long way to make your proposal truly SELL – and get you to a win. Yet, many people struggle with executive summaries, or do all the wrong things that have disastrous repercussions for their proposals. I took almost two years to get this course put together, and test and tweak the approach – but now it is there for you to make your proposals shine. You can find out more at: http://www.ostglobalsolutions.com/execsumsecrets.htm.

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Hope you can make it – Free Teleseminar Nov 19 – Executive Summary Secrets: 6 Simple Steps to Persuade Evaluators to Award the Contract to You”

November 17th, 2009

Have you ever agonized over what to write in your Executive Summary? And when it was finally finished, it was bland and full of fluff? Did you know that it is up to the contracting officer’s discretion whether any other evaluator sees your executive summary (if it is not required by the RFP)? The contracting officers I polled said they shared only the good executive summaries with other evaluators, and kept the “usual” ones in their own file.

Executive Summary is the top proposal persuasion tool. When you face tough competition, you need to know how to use this tool to your advantage, learning the latest tips and tricks, rather than wasting the opportunity.

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Free Teleclass November 19: Executive Summary Secrets – 6 Simple Steps to Persuade Evaluators to Award the Contract to You

November 13th, 2009

Do you want to win government proposals more often and wonder how to use the Executive Summary, which is the top persuasion tool, to your advantage? Do you want to transform your bland and boring executive summaries into “cut and paste verbatim” material for award justification memos?

There is a catch.

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Are “Executive Summary Secrets” Absolute Ready-Made Stuff?

November 12th, 2009

I had a very interesting comment from a friend via Facebook to my blog. I thought I’d share it with you because it brings up a neat perspective and enables me to clarify an important point.

This comment is for my blog post yesterday announcing the new title to my workbook/CD “Executive Summary Secrets” coming out next week:

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