Writing your first business proposal doesn't have to be intimidating. It's amazing how much stress can come from a blank sheet of paper and a deadline. Our guide tells you what you need to know so you can submit your proposal with confidence.

Our best selling tutorial provides help for the most important part of a proposal.  The Executive Summary is critical because a lot of people will read no further. Learn how to write a fantastic Executive Summary that can persuade the reader all by itself.

This guide is organized like a cookbook, providing over 180 items divided into 20 topics.  It will help you answer your customer's questions regarding how the work will be done, who will do it, what resources will be required, how to mitigate the risks, and what you will do to ensure quality. It will help you proove to your customer that you can successfully manage the project and deserve to win the contract.

Get some serious inspiration for proposal authors at all levels. It's perfect for figuring out what to write, and for making sure you answer all of your customer's questions.  We provide the questions, you supply the answers. While it may not be as sexy as a template that writes the proposal for you, it's actually one of our most useful documents.  Highly recommended.

The most frequent question we get asked is "what should my proposal look like?"  This is closely followed by "can I see a sample of a proposal?"  Even though we tell people that winning proposals are built from the ground up to meet the concerns of specific customers and not by following samples, people still crave them.  This package bundles includes our Proposal Format Guide, Sample Introductory Paragraphs, and Sample Proposal Layouts all for a single discounted package price.

Simple and practical guidance for people who must complete a proposal against a tight deadline, with little or no advance preparation.  Enough said.

Provides easy to follow approaches to business development for people with technical backgrounds. If you have technical managers with responsibility for growth or sales but don't have the experience or background to feel comfortable with it, the problem solving approaches in this document are just what they need.

See a real proposal, and discover what we like about it and what is wrong with it. You get much more than just a sample. You'll get our extensive review comments to help you understand how to apply the lessons learned.  We take the original proposal and give it a makeover.  You get to see the original proposal as well as the new and greatly improved version that we created.

When the biggest companies in world submit proposals worth hundreds of millions or even billions of dollars, they turn to Mike Parkinson to make their proposals communicate visually.  This is the only book on our site that we did not write ourselves.  We're proud to offer it along side our own documents becuase it's just that good.  It's a traditional, hardbound book --- it has to be so you can see the graphics the way they were meant to be seen.

Provides you with electronic access to our tutorials and samples for less than half the cost of purchasing them separately.  If you can use more than one of our tutorials, a membership is a much smarter way to go!

A Professional Membership adds webinars and online training to what you get with the Discount Membership,  It turns our site into a just-in-time online learning resource for business and proposal development.  You'll be joining a community where you can participate in webinars to enhance your skills and share lessons learned. While it costs a little more than the Discount Membership, it's actually a much better value.  Save hundreds of dollars!

Get our solution to late starts, teams that don't work together, and reviews that provide too little guidance too late to do any good. Includes everything from our other membership levels and adds the CapturePlanning.com MustWin Process™, our off-the-shelf process documentation for capturing business opportunities. The MustWin Process™ provides clear guidance for every step from lead identification through award. With this membership you can start implementing a top quality written process immediately to capture your most critical pursuits. It offers huge benefits for companies that rely on winning proposals and is definitely our best value.