SCENARIO: You've been asked to write the executive summary of for a sales proposal. Because you know your competitors are also writing proposals, you want to make certain that your proposal gets read ...

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An executive summary is a portion of a business plan that sums up all of the information a business plan contains. Since this is a summary of the plan's contents, you write this piece last. For a ...

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Dear Sam: I'm really struggling to see why my resumes aren't effective. I have spent time explaining what I did at each job, highlighting accomplishments, and still I don't get a response. I even ...

You might approach your LinkedIn summary the way you do the "objective" part of your résumé — you would rather ignore it, or you're not sure if you need it, or maybe you're not even sure what, exactly ...

The most important part of every sales proposal is the executive summary-but many people in sales get it completely wrong. Some sellers wrongly believe that the executive summary should summarize the ...