abbyp
07-11-2007, 02:23 AM
The approach the book took wasn't going to work with my boss--it's too impersonal and she'd see right through it anyway. Neither my job nor I are ready to part ways from each other just yet, so I was looking for remote work arrangement proposal advice that would respect her intelligence. The free stuff I found on the Web wasn't going to get the job done--it was incoherent, poorly written, disorganized, incomplete, etc. You get what you pay for. Then I found http://workoptions.com/ (http://workoptions.com) and the telecommuting proposal that they sell.
I bought it last night, and I'm impressed with how thorough it is, how it accounts for every objection the boss will raise, and how it requires thinking through each issue. Completely worth the $29.95. They give you a PDF that helps you prepare your arguments and statements AND the Word template, so half the writing (which is good--persuasive, not too much sucking up, grammatically/editorially sound) is done for you and then you fill in the blanks with all the preparation you just did. It felt good "outsourcing" the proposal template over which I would have agonized and wasted more than $29.95 worth of my time!
I totally wish I was making a commission on this, but I'm not.
(In a meta sense, take a look at how the site owner, Pat Katepoo, has built her own little Muse with all these proposals--no customer interaction required--and the GoToMyPC promotion, for which she likely gets some sort of referral or advertising fee.)
Enjoy!
Abby
I bought it last night, and I'm impressed with how thorough it is, how it accounts for every objection the boss will raise, and how it requires thinking through each issue. Completely worth the $29.95. They give you a PDF that helps you prepare your arguments and statements AND the Word template, so half the writing (which is good--persuasive, not too much sucking up, grammatically/editorially sound) is done for you and then you fill in the blanks with all the preparation you just did. It felt good "outsourcing" the proposal template over which I would have agonized and wasted more than $29.95 worth of my time!
I totally wish I was making a commission on this, but I'm not.
(In a meta sense, take a look at how the site owner, Pat Katepoo, has built her own little Muse with all these proposals--no customer interaction required--and the GoToMyPC promotion, for which she likely gets some sort of referral or advertising fee.)
Enjoy!
Abby