Winning new clients is the lifeblood of our agency. I have won some and lost some over my long career. What I struggle with is not in having to compete for business, but rather in the RFP process ...

Jens Lungaard shares 10 tips for creating an RFP for digital asset management systems that will future-proof your organization. Every vendor that sells a digital asset management (DAM) system will ...

According to the Federal Reserve, commercial and industrial loans with U.S. banks totaled more than $1.4 trillion in April 2012. Whether you are starting your small business or planning to expand it, ...

What do companies do when they need a service, procurement of a commodity or asset they do not have internally? They release a request for proposal (RFP) or request for information (RFI). If you are ...

Writing a request for proposal (RFP) or request for information (RFI) is exactly what it sounds like. You submit requests to vendors asking for detailed proposals before deciding which wins your ...

Are you tired of deadly answers to your requests for proposals? Give your RFPs new life by avoiding questions no one will answer truthfully and asking questions that will get real-life answers. The ...

If there’s one task that IT executives despise, it’s writing a telecom request for proposal. It’s time-consuming, detailed and starts a process that most IT execs hate: the sales negotiation. Small ...

Outsourcing is enjoying a surge in respectability now that businesses of all types and sizes are striving to contain costs and operate more efficiently. Making the case for outsourcing often crosses ...

Writing grant proposals, one of the most common fundraising activities, has become increasingly complex. Grant writers have to navigate an ever-shifting archipelago of funders and funding philosophies ...