Why a Positive Mindset = Results
To produce a winning bid it is essential that you have the correct mindset, as well as a good offering and price.
Tips and advice on the use of good grammar and punctuation when writing business bids, proposals and tenders.
To produce a winning bid it is essential that you have the correct mindset, as well as a good offering and price.
Do you still use underlining as a way of highlighting important text?
Writing in the first person (I, we, or us) implies a relationship with the buyer. It is professional, friendly and means objectives sound sincere.
Do you ever struggle with words that sound the same? Here is a handy guide:
There are several tests which gauge the readability of a document. These include Flesch-Kincaid, ARI and Coleman-Liau.
A sentence which runs over several lines may be grammatically perfect but is likely to be unnecessarily complex and include several sub clauses which mean the reader has to concentrate extremely hard to understand the meaning and thus increase the chance that they will stop reading before they reach the full stop at the end of the sentence.
The colon and semicolon look and sound similar, but have very different uses.
If you provide reviewers with clear guidelines, they are more likely to give you meaningful feedback.
Good punctuation makes writing easy to read. The inappropriate use of commas, apostrophes and other punctuation marks can cause confusion and even change the meaning of your writing.
The correct use of English is essential if you want to appear professional.