It is an interesting set of responses on that URL though.<br><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Mon, Feb 1, 2010 at 9:26 AM, Greg Knaddison <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:Greg@growingventuresolutions.com">Greg@growingventuresolutions.com</a>></span> wrote:<br>
<blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); padding-left: 1ex;">We no longer do RFPs unless we're on the short list already and the<br>
short list is truly small.<br>
<br>
Our "win" rate wasn't as low as 2%, but it was a significant drain<br>
without much upside.<br>
<br>
I think, like everything, you have to try it out and see what works for you.<br>
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Regards,<br>
Greg<br>
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On Mon, Feb 1, 2010 at 6:23 AM, Fred Jones <<a href="mailto:fredthejonester@gmail.com">fredthejonester@gmail.com</a>> wrote:<br>
> The last comment here: <a href="http://tinyurl.com/ybjvcgn" target="_blank">http://tinyurl.com/ybjvcgn</a> says:<br>
><br>
>> unless you are in an agency large enough to have a dedicated staff member to write [responses to] RFPs then forget it because it’s too time consuming for small agencies and freelancers to write responses to RFPs.<br>
><br>
> I added the brackets. A commenter above (the author actually) claims that he:<br>
><br>
>> produced solid responses to more than a dozen RFPs with a win rate of less than 2%,<br>
><br>
> Don't know how you can have a 2% win rate unless you were to do 50<br>
> responses and win just one, but anyway these guys are designers, not<br>
> math majors. :)<br>
><br>
> I myself am a programmer, not a designer. Do people think this is<br>
> correct? That a 'mere' freelancer like myself shouldn't bother with<br>
> RFPs? Even for a project I think I could handle?<br>
><br>
> Thanks,<br>
> Fred<br>
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