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What to Ask Vendors Before You Sign on the Line

Sometimes, participating in an RFP process is like eavesdropping on an awkward first date. You can tell everybody is trying to say the right thing, but nobody really understands wh...

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Jan 5, 2017
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What to Ask Vendors Before You Sign on the Line

Sometimes, participating in an RFP process is like eavesdropping on an awkward first date. You can tell everybody is trying to say the right...

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Dec 29, 2016
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If You’re a Vendor’s First Rodeo, You’re Probably About to Be Taken for a Ride.

You and your vendors come from different worlds. Vendors love to work with large companies that have deep pockets and teams of experts to gu...

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Dec 22, 2016
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Sniffing Out the B.S. in a Marketing Proposal

I admit it. I didn’t get it for a long time. There I was, working in-house at advisor firms, putting out RFPs to marketing agencies and cons...

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Dec 15, 2016
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8 Tips To Keep Your Next Conference From Being a Total Waste of Money

At FiComm, we attend conferences with a certain passion that can only be explained by our fangirl/fanboy like view of the independent wealth...

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Dec 13, 2016
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Order and Chaos: How to Apply a Military Mindset to PR

In the Navy, I fixed combat aircraft. F/A-18’s and F-14’s primarily, with some EA-6B Prowlers and S3 Viking sub-hunters sprinkled in occasio...

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Dec 8, 2016
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Your Own Marketing Department: To Build or Not To Build? (Part II)

This is the second half of a two-part post. In the first, I gave you homework—a few questions to identify what you really need before you hi...

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