Apr 10
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In the first two parts of this series, we determined that it may not always be possible to have direct contact with your end customer, a Federal employee. In fact, it may be difficult to identify the best and most reliable contacts. In any given acquisition, you must deal with Contracting Officers and Specialists, Program […]
Mar 16
Although I do not have a large number of followers, some of you might have noticed that I have not written anything new for several weeks. This was not by design. I just got tied up with too many deadlines and activities, a phenomenon I have come to call “The Clump Factor”. You may ask […]
Jan 30
President Obama began his term as President with the announcement that the Federal Government would be more transparent and open, better known as the Open Government Initiative. Most of us assumed that this would mean we would have better access to information, plans, and people. But, is this really the case? Let’s look at one […]
Nov 22
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All of us have heard the saying: Tell the audience three times: Tell them what you are going to tell them; tell them; and tell them what you said. I think this is Presentation for Dummies – dummies who make presentations as if they were presenting to dummies. I prefer to treat my audience as if […]
Nov 14
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This weekend offered me a perfect example to illustrate why ATTENTION TO DETAILS is on of my main themes. As a result of my failure to pay attention to details, I am writing this from my home office instead of on a warm and sunny beach in Florida. Here is what happened. My wife and I were scheduled to […]
Nov 7
Business development is all about finding business. By nature, being in business involves risk. Yet, so many companies are so risk phobic that they seem unable to make a decision. One of my pet peeves is “analysis paralysis” or the process of analyzing something to death resulting in the inability to make a timely decision and missing out on a significant […]
Oct 18
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Business development is a process that begins with nothing and ends (hopefully) with winning some new business. From my experience, I categorize the business development process into the following four stages: Stage 1: Figuring out what you want to chase (AKA Strategic Planning) Stage 2: Finding opportunities compatible with your goals (AKA Identification and Qualification) […]
Sep 29
I suspect that many of you have come to this website looking for a “deep, dark secret” or “silver bullet” that will give you an “unfair advantage” over the competition in the Federal market, resulting in sole source or very limited source competitions in which you are the favored vendor. That sounds like a mouthful, […]
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