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Why should small businesses respond to public sector RFPs?
Building your business and stabilizing your revenue may seem like a daunting task. Responding to public sector RFPs offers you the chance to gain experience while leveraging your position as a small business.

Are you in love with your Proposal Content Library?
Does your organization have a Proposal Content Library?
If so, does it have the information that you need when you need it?
Is it formatted consistently to play nicely with and flow into your templates?
Do you have a team that nurtures it?
Does it reflect how amazing your organization is?
Does it help you win business?

Proposal Stories Part 1: Perspectives
My husband and I have a great proposal story, but that’s not the kind of proposal story I’m referring to. Every business proposal and RFP

Raise your hand if you want to be a Proposal Writer!
One of the most common questions we are asked as kids is: “What do you want to be when you grow up?”
If you asked me at any point between when I started to talk and when I completed my Master’s in Library and Information Science, I would not ever have put together the words Proposal and Writer.

RFPs in focus: Parkinson’s Law
Parkinson’s Law: “Work expands so as to fill the time available for its completion.”
Is this ever so true as when you are working towards a deadline, such as for an RFP response? I feel this from all of the perspectives: Client Relationship Executive, Sales Executive, Proposal Manager, Proposal Writer, Subject Matter Expert (SME).

RFPs in focus: defining winning.
RFPs in focus: defining winning. Winning is ubiquitous in business talk. And we hear it in so many different contexts. When you’re in the trenches

APMP-GMC Symposium 2019 is in the books!
Last week Caryn Kent Dean, founder of Once Upon an RFP, attended the Association of Proposal Management Professionals Greater Midwest Chapter (APMP-GMC) Symposium in Chicago.

Welcome to the Once Upon an RFP Blog
Welcome to the Once Upon an RFP Blog! We are so happy to have you here.