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proposals

A collection of 100 issues

Leading with Legacy

A while back I helped someone by observing a video meeting of a tender interview. The state of play was as on a final shortlist of two. Six attendees; two seller side with four buyers. The Tender Response doc was 34 pages of mainly beautifully formatted tables. Chiefly detailing how

Their Present & Future Pin Code

Eight billion humans now inhabit the Earth. How long can it go on? Back on 20 Nov 2012, when our souls totalled roughly a billion fewer, reading the standard Greenwich meridian centred map conventionally from left to right, the late Hans Rosling tweeted; 1114 is the present PIN-code for the

Could Half-a-Billion Dollar News Format Be Your Draft Proposal Template?

The media world is abuzz with the US$500m sale of an American news site. Axios (me neither) launched 2017, with at least $30m funding, The secrets of its success now enviously pored over. They appear built on two pillars; * old school newsletter drops daily, personalised for your specified topics,

Sham Russian Ballots

"People are panicking." Fear flooded Ukraine's occupied territories as Russian forces rounded up men to fight against their own country and forced residents to vote in a staged referendum on joining Russia. https://t.co/vsxPn3gpNL — The New York Times (@nytimes) September 25, 2022 The nowadays unreliable, dubiously activist, bewilderingly

Has Your Project An Emoji Available?

> Read the brand new memoir by @LauraFWInNYC [https://twitter.com/LauraFWInNYC?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw].#Available [https://twitter.com/hashtag/Available?src=hash&ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw]🍑 is empowering, funny and very peachy! https://t.co/wIynDaCamC pic.twitter.com/PXYcOWeLKl [https://t.co/PXYcOWeLKl] — HarperFiction (@HarperFiction) June 12, 2021

Apply J-Value To Your Prospect Case

J stands for Judgment. The 162 countries with data follow a fairly well defined curve for the relationship between GDP per capita and life expectancy. You can apparently plot how much GDP falls from coronavirus lockdowns against any prolonging life expenditure for impact on mortality. Using this as their J-value,

Document Section Headers & Titles

[https://kaizen.co.uk/] I came across a link to a ‘white paper’ from this online video production outfit. For over a decade now there’s been a movement, as evidenced by people promoting such as ‘infodocs’, that business documents should more closely resemble the look and feel of glossy

Good News Columns Not Rows

> I wrote the good news column in today’s paper ❤️ pic.twitter.com/7SUNGRylV7 [https://t.co/7SUNGRylV7] — Helena Horton (@horton_official) March 30, 2020 [https://twitter.com/horton_official/status/1244512793174388740?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw] Today’s print edition run of what for a week or so has been

Autocomplete Answering Goes Mainstream

[https://twitter.com/BorisJohnson/status/1222280472132308993] I’ve blogged on the sales-wonder of autocomplete before (here’s two, from May [http://salespodder.com/the-essence-of-selling-from-heavyweight-champion-of-the-world/] then Oct [http://salespodder.com/when-worlds-biggest-advertiser-uses-the-autocomplete-slide-so-can-you/] of 2017). Now it seems the freshly installed UK Prime Minister is rebalancing their messaging channels to push digital marketing

Is Your Proposal Modernising?

The British web couldn’t get enough of this week’s meeting announcing swathes of job losses at the news division of tax funded broadcaster, BBC. Through this, I was also intrigued to learn of their original mission, “happier homes, broader culture and truer citizenship”, which is nowadays replaced by