Article - Professional Business Support - Customer Jigsaw Puzzles

By S. O'Brien

The strengths of a business center around its ability to solve problems. But problem solving frequently consists of many pieces of information coming from several different sources. These pieces of information must fit together much like a jigsaw puzzle.

Think about your customers and the jigsaw puzzles they present to you in the form of a request for a proposal of your products, services and skills. Do you have the right resources to provide the professional business support to fit the puzzle pieces together?

The puzzle’s border comes from the customer – the outline of their requirements. The main picture of the puzzle comes from your sales strategy for your products and services. Larger puzzle background elements – mountains, barns, trees – come from your professional business support. Puzzle details – grass, leaves, flowers – are provided by your ability for any pricing concessions or service giveaways.

The puzzle pieces must mesh together properly to become your proposal to your customer. As with any puzzle, there are often challenges. Puzzle pieces can be missing or too many puzzle pieces take attention away from the customer's main goals. Some pieces do not fit strategically either for the customer or for your business. Though the problems can be many, the task remains: solve the customer's problems and gain business and revenue for your company. 

Professional business support including the appropriate professional business writing and business spreadsheets can make the tasks of putting the jigsaw pieces together as quickly as possible easy. These proposal templates and spreadsheets should be set up specifically for your business. Once set up, you can easily modify them to meet any unique customer requirements.

Your goal, in addition to solving your customer's needs, should be to build the proposal as efficiently as possible to meet or exceed the customer’s expectations and deadline. Business success is often a numbers game. The more quickly you respond, the more customers to which you propose your services and the more efficient you are with the process mean you increase your revenues and grow your business - better, faster, cheaper than your competition.

Solutionability, LLC provides its customers with extensive experience in problem solving and building both quantitative and qualitative proposals for customers. We support you with both business writing and business spreadsheets to help your business play both the word game and the numbers game in generating revenue.

We adjust our services to the depth and breadth you need to improve your efficiency and effectiveness with your proposal tasks.

Contact us to obtain our professional business support services when you need proposal support with customers, partners or funding sources.