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SOW 101 Guide: How To Write an Effective Statement of Work
A Statement of Work, or SOW, is a well-known document for anyone involved with project management. An SOW is the first step toward collaboration between two companies. It is a legally binding ...
The Power Duo: How CRM & Sales Enablement Work Together
CRM systems and Sales Enablement Software share a lot in common—they’re both used as part of a sales strategy, provide tools and collect necessary information, and are both essential for sales ...
How to Write a Proper Request For Proposal (RFP) Response
Successful request for proposal (RFP) responses are a way for your organization to land important sales and contracts. Writing an effective RFP response is a critical tool for gaining business. ...
Expedience Software: Your Key to Winning More Bids
The Costs of Manual Proposal Processes
Typical Manual RFP/Proposal Creation Process
This child’s board game illustrates an all-too-common scenario for organizations with manual proposal ...
Why Proposal Automation Software?
How Do You Spend Your Proposal Creation Time?The purpose of proposal automation software is to reduce the time your writers spend on administrative functions when creating a proposal while ...
Proposal Automation Software? Building the Business Case
Building the Business CaseProposal automation software doesn’t make sense for every business. For example, organizations with less complex sales cycles, or organizations that create few ...
Exemplary Training: The Cornerstone of Outstanding Customer Service
How Expedience’s Training Strategies Achieve Strong Client Retention Rate
A key component of Expedience service begins with how we train clients on our proposal automation software and empower ...
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, ...
Achieving Stress-Free Success: A Guide for SMEs
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 ...
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 ...
Level Up Your Spreadsheets with Bullet Points, Copy Paste & Symbols
“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 ...
Software Implementation: Why Choose Professional 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 DecisionLet’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 ...
MS Excel Locking Made Easy: Lock Cells & Unlock Sheets
“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 ...
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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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