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  • Selling Services to Federal Agencies
    Our newsletters repeatedly emphasize the need to establish a relationship with end users when selling in the federal market...
  • Sell the Customer and then Write the Proposal
    It is nearly impossible to produce a winning, customer-centric proposal by writing a blind bid in response to a federal Request for Proposal (RFP). The key to writing winning proposals is to sell the customer first, then write the proposal...
  • Wild Cards Can Delude You
    An attendee at one of our proposal writing seminars stated that her company calls blind bids on FedBizzOpps solicitations "wild cards". Every once in a while when the stars line up correctly they play a wild card and they won one last year...
  • Why Proposals Win
    Winning a bid opportunity does not occur due to blind luck. Wins are almost always the result of intense and aggressive upfront sales efforts to end users. Deciding on whether to bid on an opportunity can be a stressful and challenging task...
  • Turn a Losing "Blind Bid" into a Winning Opportunity
    An agency of the US Government may send you a random Request for Proposal, which looks like it is a perfect fit for your organization...
  • Loss Avoidance as a Sales Tactic
    Companies hoping to land large federal sales opportunities quickly discover that bids offered under a public, Request for Proposal (RFP) are often expensive prospects to bid upon...
  • Responding to Public Procurements
    In previous installments we discussed how to sell in the publicly-advertised IFB, RFQ, and RFP markets. In this installment we discuss how to respond (prepare a bid) to bid requests...
  • New and Clueless About Proposal Writing
    Scenario 1Your business is an experienced federal contractor with one or more full time proposal managers. And your firm engages an outside proposal-writing firm to fill in when the number of proposals being written exceeds the firm's resources...
  • Proposal Writing: The Ugly Step Child of Your Business
    I wrote my first proposal in 1967 for Booz, Allen, and Hamilton; that's 40 plus years of proposal writing...
  • Advanced Proposal Writing: Wisely Choosing What to Pursue, Part 2
    Companies often fail to understand that while they may have the best product or provide the best services, this means little if their proposals don't win...
  • Don't Write Losing Proposals
    Don't write losing proposals. Some would say this is a trite and simplistic statement and others would say this is one of the secrets to success in the federal market...