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Improving business conditions - Increasing SME Access to Finance: A Four Pronged Approach
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| Improving business conditions, boosting the capacity of
SMEs, expanding the financial sector and strengthening
links between firms will permanently increase SMEs’ access
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13 Lessons Learned on Approaching the Press
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| Until I did my first public workshop here in Boston last June, I didn’t realize the amazing similarities of my work as a publicist and how it relates to the work I know do with helping my coaching and consulting clients to land large corporate contracts and sponsorship programs with Fortune 500 companies. Since then, these ideas have been rattling around in my mind and I thought I’d share them with you.
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An Oasis of Creative Thought and Action in a Desert of Conflicting Policy (Associated Manufacturing Marketing Group Profile)
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| “From a domestic engagement perspective, public sector procurement practices are leading to an erosion of the overall supply base. This escalating level of erosion and its negative impact on innovation was initially presented as part of an October 2002 U.S. report by the Executive Office of the President.
Specifically, the practice of contract bundling which resulted in a steadily decreasing number of Small – Medium enterprises receiving federal contracts was seen as a direct threat to the nation’s pool of “innovation and creativity.” This of course has paved the way for newer legislation which has resulted in agencies such as NASA unbundling contracts in an effort to make business more manageable for small enterprises, or groups of small enterprises.
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Contract War Stories from the Trenches
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| Yes, indeed, oral business contracts are enforceable… but written contracts are preferable. If I offer to sell you my product for a specific dollar amount, you pay the amount asked, and I deliver to you my product... voila, we have completed our contract! Would that they were all so smooth (hint: they aren't).
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Contract Management Services – For The Supplier Or The Purchaser.
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| Contract management services are the management of purchasing and supply contracts by external consultancy companies. These are two-fold. The first is a service provided to purchasers who require one or more of their contracts to me managed. |
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Writing Tenders -Your Key to Winning Lucrative Government Contracts
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| Any company that is involved with Government work knows that these contracts are obtained only after fierce competition. The large size and recurring nature of these contracts makes them very attractive to companies that deal in that particular field |
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Is it legal?
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| When we think about contracts, the tendency is to think of a multipage document with clauses, headings, and two signatures at the end. However, a contract doesn’t necessarily have to take that format and in our digital age it is becoming increasingly more common for contracts to be formed in a variety of ways – all of which are “legal”. |
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Can You Afford To Treat PQQs Lightly?
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| Companies that are planning to enter the lucrative business of working for the Government or big private companies need to know many things about the complicated process of getting these contracts. Most agencies only award these contracts on the basis of tenders and it goes without saying that these tenders are fought for very fiercely by an ever increasing number of competitors. |
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Bid Training – Why Do You Need It?
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| Do you apply for a great number of government or private contracts only to get eliminated in the process of tendering? Are there many contracts that you hear of too late to apply for? This is a common fate that befalls many companies, especially small ones that do not have the resources to do the bid process carefully and efficiently enough. |
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Handling PQQ’s in the Correct Manner
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| The business world is highly competitive and one area where this is very easily seen is the awarding of contracts on the basis of tenders. As a result, there are many measures in place to weed out companies that do not make the grade. One of these measures is called a Pre Qualification Questionnaire (PQQ). Companies and Government agencies that use the tendering process to award contracts use PQQs to find out whether the companies that are desirous of doing their work are actually capable of doing it. |
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Customer Supplied Agreements... Two Suggested Changes Before Signing
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| The holiday season invariably finds my clients pushing aggressively to turn sales into contracts and lock those contracts down by the end of the year. It's understandable… we all want to begin the new year strong, with lots of contracts in the pipeline. The rush to sign at year end, however, can have dire consequences, particularly for those accustomed to using their own standard form of services contract rather than signing a customer's form of agreement. |
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