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Shipley Capture Guide Winning Strategic Business
Mary Ann Anelli Over 200 pages of guidelines, best practices, and tips for improving
this critical phase of business development: capture management. The
Capture Guide is organized around key process areas.
Several relevant topics provide guidance on each area. The guide also
provides a valuable roadmap that serves as a framework for ensuring
effective capture planning. Business development professionals will
find value in referring to these best practices that include an
annotated Capture Plan template that provides a model for capture teams
responsible for producing this critical document.
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Winning Government Business: Gaining the
Competitive Advantage
Steven R. Osborne
Winning Government Business is a handbook for elevating your company
above other offerors at every step of the way. In tutorial fashion,
Osborne takes us through the pre-proposal stages, the development of
the proposal itself, and the negotiation and closeout stages,
systematically incorporating multiple examples and techniques
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How to Talk to Customers: Create a Great
Impression Every Time with MAGIC
Diane Berenbaum and Tom Larkin
A common-sense manual for Making A Great Impression on the Customer
(MAGIC), this book provides lucid and pragmatic approaches to companies
and employees for their everyday interactions with clients. It shows
how to exceed customer expectations by responding daily to setbacks and
inquiries as they develop throughout the course of a project. This is
important for program performance, which then translates into those
customers' willingness to award more programs to your company.
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The Art of Connecting: How to Overcome
Differences, Build Rapport, and Communicate Effectively with Anyone
Claire Raines and Lara Ewing
Raines and Ewing highlight the ways that we can pick up on what other
people want, be they customers or co-workers. Once we are tuned in to
the many helpful cues that others exhibit, we can communicate and
interact with them more agreeably, making collaboration on projects and
proposals easier and more efficient.
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Great Customer Connections: Simple Psychological
Techniques that Guarantee Exceptional Service
Richard S. Gallagher
Gallagher presents a formula for keeping clients happy even when you
can't give them exactly what they want. Rather than focus on what you
can't do for a customer or government agency, you should make a habit
of acknowledging and speaking to what they need.
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Little Black Book of Connections: 6.5 Assets for
Networking your Way to Rich Relationships
Jeffrey Gitomer
This book is an impressive and straightforward manual from the nation's
#1 sales trainer for forming all kinds of connections. It will teach
you how to establish a good rapport with clients whose repeat business
is extremely profitable as well as co-workers and bosses whose
influence could be key to a successful project or career.
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Naked Conversations: How Blogs are Changing the
Way Businesses Talk with Customers
Robert Scoble and Shel Israel
Naked Conversations outlines six critical elements of web log culture
to argue that the efficiency and wildfire-like spread of information in
the blogosphere has changed the face of the business world. The
implication for contractors and subcontractors? Manage a blog
effectively, and it will speak volumes about your company's commitment
to transparency, accountability, and good business.
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How to Persuade People who Don't Want to be
Persuaded: Get what you Want- Every Time!
Joel Bauer and Mark Levy
Bauer and Levy present some basic secrets and tactics of persuasion and
then show us how to apply them in everyday contexts. This book will
help you to get your employees to think the way you do and to eliminate
the naysayers, know-it-alls, idlers, and nonconformists on your
proposal team.
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Winning Behavior: What the Smartest, Most
Successful Companies Do Differently
Terry R. Bacon and David G. Pugh
Winning Behavior identifies four specific ways to set your company up
to systematically exceed expectations and earn repeat business from
valuable clients. By building key "operational," "interpersonal,"
"exceptional," and "symbolic" acts into the framework of your services,
you will substantively outshine the competition every time.
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The Giants of Sales: What Dale Carnegie, John
Patterson, Elmer Wheeler, and Joe Girard Can Teach You About Real Sales
Success
Tom Sant
By breaking down the techniques of four of the most famous salesmen of
all time, Tom Sant's book convinces us that the best businessmen are
always selling more than just their product or service; in many cases,
they are also selling a relationship or even an entire network of
friends, recommendations, and referrals. Obviously, the most successful
contractors and subcontractors recognize that they have a vested
interest in establishing rapport and relationships beyond a single
winning bid. This book illuminates the techniques for doing so that
have been historically validated as timeless.
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