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Subject:RE: Response to RFP help From:"Dori Green" <dgreen -at- associatedbrands -dot- com> To:<techwr-l -at- lists -dot- techwr-l -dot- com> Date:Tue, 22 May 2007 08:51:10 -0400
One of the best snippets of advice from the Shipley course: build a personal relationship right from the beginning of the proposal process with somebody on the other end. Tell them of your concern about using a generic format that might not fit their needs, and ask for access to recent winning proposals so that you can see how those applicants formatted their proposal. If the agency/foundation/whatever representative can't release those detailed documents, maybe they can provide you with the table of contents. That would be enough to give you a head start on copying the formats.
Dori Green
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