Your Sales Proposal Needs Help: 10 Telltale Signs

You spot your proposal tucked underneath a wobbly table leg in the client’s office.
Your client calls and asks when to expect a translation of your proposal.
Your proposal was sent out with missing pages and no one noticed.
The list of project assumptions is longer than the description of your qualifications.
Your section on project fees gives your client a “ballpark figure.”
“Methodology” appears in any of the first five paragraphs.
The boilerplate in the proposal is so old even you have no idea what it means.
Someone from marketing put the “finishing touches” on the proposal.
You included a users’ guide for the proposal and a contact number to reach the help desk.
Three of the proposed project team members haven’t been hired yet.