Talk:Proposal (business)/Archives/2011

A business proposal is an offering from a seller to a prospective buyer.

This is the first sentence of this article, and I am already dubious about the accuracy of this article. Surely a business proposal is still a business proposal if it is from a buyer to a prospective seller? --Rebroad (talk) 11:56, 30 March 2008 (UTC) This is exactly correct. The article is simply wrong. It should be fixed (or perhaps deleted). There is no need to look for a citation, there won't be one. Jlawniczak (talk) 01:45, 30 April 2008 (UTC) Sorry, but the term "Proposal" in business refers specifically to written documents of some complexity which are written by sellers to buyers. I've been in this industry for 20 years, and have never seen a "proposal" written from buyer to seller. The term proposal is not a generic term of any document proposing action or change. In the industry it refers to a specific specialty in which thousands of professionals work. I didn't understand why a cite was needed, but have added one just to help out. Lricci (talk) 23:58, 25 July 2008 (UTC)

A "cite" to your own website can't help you prove an incorrect business point. The word "proposal" as commonly used in American business (can't speak for the other English speaking countries) is generic. A buyer can make a proposal to a seller, and it also is not limited to sales: someone can make a proposal that two parties enter into a joint venture, for example. As I and Rebroad mentioned earlier, this article is just wrong and it thus cannot remain in this form, even if edited. I don't think there is any place for a specific article on business proposal in any event, it just has its natural English language meaning. Jlawniczak (talk) 18:03, 26 July 2008 (UTC)

web links

Why are there no external links on this page? Maybe as it's a commercial business subject then links to commercial sites, even if they have free content on aren't supported. I'm going to declare an interest in one of these sites, but not say which one. I think they are all worthy of inclusion because of their usefulness to people interested in finding more resources on this topic - there is a lot of good information out there, much of it free. I don't want to be accused of advertising, so if someone else wants to look through these sites and see if they should be included fine, otherwise this entry can be deleted without, I hope, causing offense.

There are a lot of good resources out there:

http://www.captureplanning.com http://www.learntowriteproposals.com http://www.proposalwriter.com/ http://www.santcorp.com/best_practices/overview.htm http://www.microsoft.com/smallbusiness/resources/expert/strauss090706.mspx —Preceding unsigned comment added by 64.141.96.207 (talk) 21:09, 5 September 2008 (UTC)

Merge with Project mandate

The Project mandate article does not present sufficient information to stand on its own. As it is an aspect of a business proposal, it should be merged into this article. Neelix (talk) 15:47, 29 September 2008 (UTC)

• Support per above. --Alynna (talk) 13:19, 1 October 2008 (UTC)

article still should be deleted

The main premise of the article that a "business proposal" only comes from a seller to a buyer is incorrect and has no usage in American business. It appears that the writers of this article are in that business (which is why all the "references" appear to be to their personal websites), but sellers don't own the term "business proposal." Offers to enter into other types of contracts, joint ventures and all sorts of other "business deals" can and do start with a business proposal. The merge didn't do the article any good, it's still incorrect as a matter of business practice. Jlawniczak (talk) 20:51, 3 October 2008 (UTC)

Categories?

I'm glad the article exists..but it has no categories! Can someone put some in? -- kosboot (talk) 16:20, 29 January 2009 (UTC)

Seems like an essay

This article seems like an essay to me (Cited References, etc). It also needs standard linked footnotes/references. Ian01 (talk) 04:01, 1 April 2009 (UTC)