The answer is an unquestionable YES! Your chances to secure a new client using RFPs are much better than you may think.

Unfortunately, some virtual assistants do not want to submit a proposal to a PC (potential client) believing that too many other VAs are vying for the same opportunity. As a result, VAs believe their own chances are slight to even be considered for a client opportunity due to the anticipation of an overwhelming number of proposals submitted before their own can even be reviewed. As a result of this misperception, VAs often overlook RFPs as a key resource to a steady income stream.

While it is true that a truly compelling opportunity for VA work may indeed elicit many proposals, it is my experience that a number of these proposals will be ‘tossed out’ immediately because they simply are not written clearly and professionally. Other reasons for disregarded proposals may be that the VA did not follow the PC’s instructions, or the VA did not make a personal and professional connection with the client, or that the proposal is clearly a ‘copy-paste’; or an un-customized response typically using a common template.

Those proposals which capture the attention of the PC through a variety of techniques will succeed for several reasons which includes the careful attention to instructions along with understanding the RFP ‘between the lines’, avoiding red flags, making a necessary and meaningful connection with the PC and most importantly… becoming the solution to the PC’s problems without being sales-y.

It is those VA proposals that offer more than professionally-expected skills which will stand out from all other submissions. If these proposals connect through the use of social media to the PC and if the VA offers a complete picture of his/her business as part of the proposal process, the submission success increases 10-fold and moves the VA forward toward the client consultation arena.

Professionally submitted proposals are the icing on the cake for the PC seeking a VA who understands their own target market and who has an internet presence that fulfills a brand and message the PC views as a stable and a confident business owner.

Using the RFP system is not a submit it and forget it process to attaining new clients. It is a system which begins with locating the right RFP for the VA willing to do the research; who can write a winning proposal that connects with the PC that not only describes how the VA can solve the PC’s problems but who IS genuinely the right VA behind that proposal.

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