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  • Developing Information Dominance over Your Competition
  • Know When to Talk to Government Customers
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    Olessia Smotrova-Taylor started the topic Top 7 Problems With Proposal Win Themes in the forum Acquisition, Contracting, Procurement 9 years, 2 months ago

    Most companies, despite their best intentions (and even understanding of what a win theme is supposed to look like), fail to sell in their proposals. Win theme is one of the top five elements of proposal persuasion – and if they don’t work, it will be much harder to stand out.
    Time pressures force the team to start writing before themes are…[Read more]

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    Olessia Smotrova-Taylor replied to the topic Is it Wrong to Judge Someone Based on Grammatical or Spelling Errors? in the forum Miscellaneous 9 years, 5 months ago

    Eric, I respectfully disagree with you on the third point – beginning sentences with a conjunction. It is not just simply acceptable anymore – it is actually perfectly correct in modern English. Starting a sentence with a “But” or an “And” helps with transitions. Transitions are words that take us by the hand from one thought and smoothly guide us…[Read more]

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    Olessia Smotrova-Taylor started the topic Proposals Writing: Solution Development – Win Themes, Management, Risk, Past Performance, Resumes, Technical Volumes in the forum Homeland Security 9 years, 11 months ago


    April 28-29, 2011 in North Bethesda, MD

    This course will offer you techniques, templates, checklists, and opportunities to develop win themes, management sections, risk sections, past performance references, resumes, and technical volumes. This course focuses on solution development, including Concepts of Operations (CONOPS), and explores in…[Read more]

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    Olessia Smotrova-Taylor started the topic Proposals Writing: Solution Development – Win Themes, Management, Risk, Past Performance, Resumes, Technical Volumes in the forum e-Learning 9 years, 11 months ago


    April 28-29, 2011 in North Bethesda, MD

    This course will offer you techniques, templates, checklists, and opportunities to develop win themes, management sections, risk sections, past performance references, resumes, and technical volumes. This course focuses on solution development, including Concepts of Operations (CONOPS), and explores in…[Read more]

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    Olessia Smotrova-Taylor started the topic Proposals Writing: Solution Development – Win Themes, Management, Risk, Past Performance, Resumes, Technical Volumes in the forum Department of Defense 9 years, 11 months ago


    April 28-29, 2011 in North Bethesda, MD

    This course will offer you techniques, templates, checklists, and opportunities to develop win themes, management sections, risk sections, past performance references, resumes, and technical volumes. This course focuses on solution development, including Concepts of Operations (CONOPS), and explores in…[Read more]

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    Olessia Smotrova-Taylor started the topic Proposals Writing: Solution Development – Win Themes, Management, Risk, Past Performance, Resumes, Technical Volumes in the forum Gov Consultants 2.0 9 years, 11 months ago


    April 28-29, 2011 in North Bethesda, MD

    This course will offer you techniques, templates, checklists, and opportunities to develop win themes, management sections, risk sections, past performance references, resumes, and technical volumes. This course focuses on solution development, including Concepts of Operations (CONOPS), and explores in…[Read more]

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    Olessia Smotrova-Taylor started the topic Proposals Writing: Solution Development – Win Themes, Management, Risk, Past Performance, Resumes, Technical Volumes in the forum GovLoop Canada 9 years, 11 months ago

    April 28-29, 2011 in North Bethesda, MD

    This course will offer you techniques, templates, checklists, and opportunities to develop win themes, management sections, risk sections, past performance references, resumes, and technical volumes. This course focuses on solution development, including Concepts of Operations (CONOPS), and explores in…[Read more]

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    Olessia Smotrova-Taylor started the topic Proposals Writing: Solution Development – Win Themes, Management, Risk, Past Performance, Resumes, Technical Volumes in the forum Consultants Corner 9 years, 11 months ago


    April 28-29, 2011 in North Bethesda, MD

    This course will offer you techniques, templates, checklists, and opportunities to develop win themes, management sections, risk sections, past performance references, resumes, and technical volumes. This course focuses on solution development, including Concepts of Operations (CONOPS), and explores in…[Read more]

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    Olessia Smotrova-Taylor started the topic Proposals Writing: Solution Development – Win Themes, Management, Risk, Past Performance, Resumes, Technical Volumes in the forum Graphic Design in Government 9 years, 11 months ago


    April 28-29, 2011 in North Bethesda, MD

    This course will offer you techniques, templates, checklists, and opportunities to develop win themes, management sections, risk sections, past performance references, resumes, and technical volumes. This course focuses on solution development, including Concepts of Operations (CONOPS), and explores in…[Read more]

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    Olessia Smotrova-Taylor started the topic Proposals Writing: Solution Development – Win Themes, Management, Risk, Past Performance, Resumes, Technical Volumes in the forum AFCEA International 9 years, 11 months ago


    April 28-29, 2011 in North Bethesda, MD

    This course will offer you techniques, templates, checklists, and opportunities to develop win themes, management sections, risk sections, past performance references, resumes, and technical volumes. This course focuses on solution development, including Concepts of Operations (CONOPS), and explores in…[Read more]

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    Olessia Smotrova-Taylor started the topic Proposal Writing Workshop: Writing Better Sections in Half the Time in the forum Homeland Security 9 years, 12 months ago

    In this course you will learn and practice speed-writing techniques to produce compliant and compelling federal and commercial proposals in half the time. This frees up your schedule and resources for brainstorming on a solution and polishing your proposal to raise your win probability. It will help you stress less, and make the writing process…[Read more]

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    Olessia Smotrova-Taylor started the topic Proposal Writing Workshop: Writing Better Sections in Half the Time in the forum e-Learning 9 years, 12 months ago

    In this course you will learn and practice speed-writing techniques to produce compliant and compelling federal and commercial proposals in half the time. This frees up your schedule and resources for brainstorming on a solution and polishing your proposal to raise your win probability. It will help you stress less, and make the writing process…[Read more]

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    Olessia Smotrova-Taylor started the topic Proposal Writing Workshop: Writing Better Sections in Half the Time in the forum Department of Defense 9 years, 12 months ago

    In this course you will learn and practice speed-writing techniques to produce compliant and compelling federal and commercial proposals in half the time. This frees up your schedule and resources for brainstorming on a solution and polishing your proposal to raise your win probability. It will help you stress less, and make the writing process…[Read more]

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    Olessia Smotrova-Taylor started the topic Proposal Writing Workshop: Writing Better Sections in Half the Time in the forum GovLoop Canada 9 years, 12 months ago

    In this course you will learn and practice speed-writing techniques to produce compliant and compelling federal and commercial proposals in half the time. This frees up your schedule and resources for brainstorming on a solution and polishing your proposal to raise your win probability. It will help you stress less, and make the writing process…[Read more]

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    Olessia Smotrova-Taylor started the topic Proposal Writing Workshop: Writing Better Sections in Half the Time in the forum Consultants Corner 9 years, 12 months ago

    In this course you will learn and practice speed-writing techniques to produce compliant and compelling federal and commercial proposals in half the time. This frees up your schedule and resources for brainstorming on a solution and polishing your proposal to raise your win probability. It will help you stress less, and make the writing process…[Read more]

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    Olessia Smotrova-Taylor started the topic Proposal Writing Workshop: Writing Better Sections in Half the Time in the forum Gov Consultants 2.0 9 years, 12 months ago

    In this course you will learn and practice speed-writing techniques to produce compliant and compelling federal and commercial proposals in half the time. This frees up your schedule and resources for brainstorming on a solution and polishing your proposal to raise your win probability. It will help you stress less, and make the writing process…[Read more]

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    Olessia Smotrova-Taylor started the topic Proposal Writing Workshop: Writing Better Sections in Half the Time in the forum Graphic Design in Government 9 years, 12 months ago

    In this course you will learn and practice speed-writing techniques to produce compliant and compelling federal and commercial proposals in half the time. This frees up your schedule and resources for brainstorming on a solution and polishing your proposal to raise your win probability. It will help you stress less, and make the writing process…[Read more]

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    Olessia Smotrova-Taylor started the topic Proposal Writing Workshop: Writing Better Sections in Half the Time in the forum AFCEA International 9 years, 12 months ago

    In this course you will learn and practice speed-writing techniques to produce compliant and compelling federal and commercial proposals in half the time. This frees up your schedule and resources for brainstorming on a solution and polishing your proposal to raise your win probability. It will help you stress less, and make the writing process…[Read more]

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    Olessia Smotrova-Taylor started the topic Overcoming Proposal Writer’s Block in the forum Homeland Security 10 years ago

    FREE One-Hour Webinar on April 14, 2011 (Thursday) at 1pm ESTThe proposal clock is ticking, pressure is building as the deadline is getting closer, and soon the stress becomes palpable. But you still have a hard time squeezing the words from your or your proposal team’s brains down on paper. You produce something by the deadline, because you have…[Read more]

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    Olessia Smotrova-Taylor started the topic Overcoming Proposal Writer’s Block in the forum e-Learning 10 years ago

    FREE One-Hour Webinar on April 14, 2011 (Thursday) at 1pm ESTThe proposal clock is ticking, pressure is building as the deadline is getting closer, and soon the stress becomes palpable. But you still have a hard time squeezing the words from your or your proposal team’s brains down on paper. You produce something by the deadline, because you have…[Read more]

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