Federal Ecosystem and Community

The government contracting market has many options for paid data and opportunity identification systems. Unfortunately, these platforms don’t want you to know that most data can be accessed for free. The Pulse has four creative ways to source market intelligence for free.

Cold calling is not dead – but how chilly should your introduction be to be effective? The Pulse offers four methods to warm up federal sales outreach.

CX is meant to be a holistic aggregate of your experiences with an organization. CX is a critical component that drives our day-to-day experiences and subconsciously (or consciously!) impact what vendors, brands, products, or organizations we choose to deal with. While CX is commonly considered an element only important to product marketing and sales, we believe it is also directly related to business and proposal development in the GovCon space. Why? Because CX is directly linked to the fulfillment one feels throughout the process. Do you feel like your proposal process is ineffective? Is your team experiencing burnout? It may be time to re-evaluate your proposal development journey. Here are four CX principles you can directly apply today.

You’ve done it – you found the guy who has drank whiskey and smoked cigars with the best of GovCon over the last 20 years. His base pay is over 200k – non-negotiable. You hire him only to find out he doesn’t know what FBO is, and the start to his every answer is “According to GovWin…”. What went wrong?

Somewhere along the way, building a proposal became streamlined (out of necessity) and rooted in fundamentals and processes (this part is debatable). As a result, outlining an RFP has, quite simply, become formulaic, and any person who is good “at managing proposals” can support almost any RFP from any agency and in virtually any subject area. GASP? They don’t need subject matter expertise? Direct agency familiarity? No, because setting up the skeleton of an RFP is just a paint-by-numbers exercise that requires attention to detail.

Capture is too big a topic to cover in one video. We could dive into numerous elements, processes, and best practices, including their fair share of overplayed tropes and clichés– walking the halls, knocking on doors—and shaping the opportunity. But what is shaping?  Is it as easy as hitting the gym and eating better to get into the best shape of your life? Here are four tangible ways to shape and opportunity.

“I don’t think that means what you think it means.” In this episode, The Pulse walks through our favorite GovCon verbiage misconceptions!