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Proposal writing went from hours to five minutes, so he bids on jobs he used to skip

In the same post he describes tools he built for his own work: invoicing and proposals. Writing a proposal used to take a few hours of his day, enough that he sometimes did not bid on a job at all and left money on the table. Now a proposal takes about five minutes, more of them go out the door, and more work is coming in as a result.

How it works

  1. Build tools for invoicing and proposals
  2. Feed in the job details
  3. A proposal that took a few hours now takes about five minutes
  4. Send more bids
  5. More work comes in

Why it’s worth knowing

The win was not a better proposal. It was the bids that used to never happen at all because the paperwork cost more than the job felt worth.

Where it’s from

Summarized from a public post on reddit.com. See the original ↗

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