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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 Case
Proposal 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 ...
Organizing References in MS Excel for Proposal Writers
Excel Tables and Filters for References and Case Studies
Matching the best references or case studies to a specific proposal can be challenging, especially when there are many to choose from and ...
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 ...
Motivating Your SMEs to Meet 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 ...
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 ...
Effective Strategies to Motivate SMEs for Timely Compliance
With success strategies in mind, 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 ...
Why Opt for Professional Services in Software Implementation
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?
The Investment Decision
Let’s make this ...
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: Solving 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 ...
Mastering Excel RFPs: Overcoming Data Restrictions with Ease
The most frustrating challenge in answering Excel RFPs is not knowing if or what restrictions have been placed on the RFP answer cells and having to rely on Trial-and-Error. Is there any way ...
Protecting Data in Excel RFPs: A Guide to Locking Cells
LI respond to a fair number of RFP’s in Excel. The RFP’s are usually locked so I can only edit the answer cells, but sometimes there are other restrictions too, like not allowing images or not ...
What is AutoCorrect and How to Use Autocorrect in Word and Excel
AutoCorrect is an automatic editing feature that is often maligned for causing unwanted and sometimes embarrassing word substitutions. It is also a long standing feature of Microsoft Word that ...
Back to the Desktop – Real-Time Co-Authoring in Microsoft Word 2016
The emergence in recent years of the Web-based version of Microsoft Word has led some people to speculate that the desktop version of Word would one day soon become obsolete. But nothing ...
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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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