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31Time, Money, and eIntelli
Filed Under (Money, Time) by admin on 31-12-2009
Benjamin Franklin coined the phrase, “Time is money.” But if you spend an inordinate amount of your workday creating business proposals, you may be more inclined to agree with Oscar Wilde who said, “Time is a waste of money.”
Indeed, the hours spent crafting proposals that eventually get rejected can be a colossal waste of resources. But Ben and Oscar didn’t have eIntelli to help them grow revenue and increase productivity.
Creation, Presentation, and Follow-Up
There are three distinct phases of the online business proposal process, and eIntelli makes each one easier and more efficient:
1. Creating the proposal. Our templates, master lists, and online collaboration tools streamline the proposal creation process, slashing your time investment and amplifying your output.
2. Presenting the proposal. eIntelli gives you the option of delivering a dynamic, interactive online proposal, or creating a polished and professional printed document to present to the client. Either way, our software lets you build an impressive package that will land more contracts and bring in more business.
3. Following up on the proposal. Staying in contact with the client is crucial to sealing the deal. With eIntelli’s instant alerts and client feedback system, you’ll be able to hone your follow-up strategy and re-engage your client at the most opportune time.
Let’s take a closer look at some of the features that make eIntelli the ideal time and money saving tool for all three phases of the proposal process.
Templates and Master Lists
I’ve got good news and some bad news. The bad news first: eIntelli unfortunately cannot defy the solar system by adding hours to the day. But the good news is that our software can make the hours that you do have more productive.
One of the best ways to save time during proposal creation is to repurpose your best content for a variety of clients. Of course, you don’t want your proposal to look like a boilerplate with the potential client’s name pasted in every now and then. That’s where eIntelli’s templates and master lists come in. Add your logo, define the color scheme, change the layout, and make it look like your team built it from scratch.
The master list feature allows you to store content in the system and drop it into the appropriate section of the template. No searching for previous proposals. No cutting and pasting from multiple documents. All of the information is all ready at your fingertips.
These two features alone can cut your proposal creation time in half. But that’s just the beginning.
Remote Collaboration
It doesn’t matter if your team shares a single office or is spread across three continents– the ability to collectively create and edit a proposal regardless of location to one another is built right into eIntelli.
Now your team can get work done in real-time without setting up complicated Web meetings or transferring information from one program to another. Just another example of the time (and frustration) saved through eIntelli.
Stand Out in a Crowd
Put yourself in your customer’s shoes: They receive numerous proposals and read page after page of statistics and pitches. After a while, they all start to run together. eIntelli is different, and when it comes to business proposals, different is good.
With eIntelli, you can create an electronic proposal with audio, video, and eye-catching graphics, and present a professional package that has been proven to improve conversion rates and earn you more business.
And once you’ve wowed them with your professional e-proposal, eIntelli allows the client to accept the proposal and make payments immediately– right in the proposal screen. The easier it is for the client to say yes, the more likely they will.
Proposal Alerts and Feedback
Sometimes the difference between a lost bid and a new contract is follow-up. That’s why eIntelli helps you maximize your follow-up strategy by leveraging timeliness and client reactions.
First, with the proposal alert feature, you can be notified when your proposal has been read, who read it, and how long they spent reading it. This invaluable information lets you target your follow up approach toward clients who have actually reviewed the proposal, as soon as they’ve read it.
Second, the proposal feedback feature lets the client tell you what they thought of your proposal. They can add comments about what they liked, what they disliked, and what they would change. Based on this information, you can adjust your proposal and submit a new draft that more closely matches your client’s preferences.
Time is Money
Any business that relies on business proposals to generate income should always be looking for ways to make the process faster and more efficient. And as you can see, eIntelli is full of time-saving functions and income-generating features.
So go ahead. Give eIntelli a try, and find out what Mr. Franklin was talking about.
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