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Re: More on Know of courses on writing RFP responses?
Subject:Re: More on Know of courses on writing RFP responses? From:kcronin -at- daleen -dot- com To:techwr-l -at- lists -dot- raycomm -dot- com Date:Tue, 3 Feb 2004 06:50:53 -0700
Sant makes proposal software. I've demoed it, but never purchased it.
I don't know of any courses, but when I started doing proposals and RFP
responses, I found the following books (listed in order of usefulness)
very helpful:
? Proposal Development: How to Respond & Win the Bid - Bud Porter-Roth
? Handbook For Writing Proposals - Hamper, Baugh
? The Consultant's Guide to Proposal Writing - Herman Holtz (a prominent
Techwr-l poster until his death several years ago)
? Persuasive Business Proposals - Tom Sant
? Writing Winning Business Proposals - Freed, Freed, Romano
The first two in particular were crucial to me in ramping up for this gig.
Also, search the archives for posts about proposals and RFPs - there's a
few of us proposal writers here, and some good info has been exchanged.
Good luck - I've found this field more interesting and rewarding than
regular documentation. Hope you will, too.
Keith Cronin
I'm not a tech writer, but I play one on TV.
