Many freelance business owners are forced to wear many hats to run their business, some they do very well, others not so much. For those things we don’t do as well as we would like we try to find help from friends and business associates, or we try to muddle through as best we can. Its a rare thing to find someone that is very good at what they do and is also very good at all aspects of running their business.
Take sales for instance. I know a great many awesome SEOs who have never been as successful as they could, or should, be simply because they are not salespeople. They understand algorithms, they understand what search engines want, but they struggle with getting potential clients to commit. They don’t have time to do all the things required to close a sale, they are too busy working. We fall squarely in to that category, and that is why we built our proposal software, to help us reduce the amount of time spent putting together proposals for potential clients.
How often do you find yourself putting together an initial proposal, one that looks like a hundred other initial proposals that you have done, and thinking that you had done this before, or looking for your word template so you can do a search and replace for basic things like your client’s name? phpProposal is designed specifically for these instances. How many more initial proposals could you get out to potential clients if you could put together a proposal in a few minutes rater than a few hours? How many potential clients could you save because now when you see an email asking for a proposal you can take it seriously and fire off a reply, with a proposal and price instead of ignoring it until you have time to work on it?
phpProposal is fully customizable with templates for design and content so you can build your proposal exactly the way you want. You can even include a brief contract at the end to further streamline the process and get more jobs. Or at the very least, give the tire kickers something to look at and decide if they are really serious about hiring your for your expertise and not eat up a lot of your time with more and more proposal requests.
Proposal Tip:
This Agreement shall be effective upon receipt of initial payment.
or
Payment constitutes acceptance of contract.
and then include a way for the client to pay you easily, either by check, credit card, or even PayPal. This puts a call to action right in front of the client and puts the urgency of moving forward squarely in their hands. It is now up to them to choose to go forward or not.
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