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RFP help is commonly asked for by people like yourself who are required to write an RFP, then review the proposals and select a vendor having never done anything like it before. If you’re inexperienced with the RFP process, the whole thing can be a little daunting. If you’re in need of help with your RFP, the IBCC is here for you.

RFP help from the professional consultants at the IBCC is available for small businesses, non-profits, large enterprises and government organizations alike. It doesn’t matter which type of organization you’re affiliated with, the IBCC can help you navigate the entire RFP process from start to finish.

The RFP help center offers information on how to write your own RFP including RFP sample templates but if you’re looking for more in-depth RFP help, the professionals at the IBCC are experienced and have an understanding of what is needed in order to write an effective RFP . This ensures that your vision for your project is communicated properly to your potential vendor pool. But the RFP help doesn’t end there. Once you receive your proposals back, evaluating the RFPs can be an equally difficult and often scary process. For those who have limited experience with the RPFs, evaluating and judging the proposals is tough because it’s difficult to judge which vendors are most qualified for your project. The evaluation criteria used by the IBCC eliminates the less qualified candidates and clearly identifies the strongest proposal, ensuring that the best possible vendor is chosen for your project. To learn more about the many ways that the IBCC can help with your RFP, visit our RFP Assistance page.

Just a quick little tip today.  This one is quite funny.  Did you know that you may have words on your site that may be harming your position on Google?  You may have a site that’s completely clean, but Google sees your content and thinks you’re trying to trick the search engines.

Here’s what I mean.  You have to look at your content with a “dirty mind.”  Read through it and see if other people would take it to mean something else.  Are there words in there that have double meanings?  That’s the biggest mistake people make when writing their content.  If you have anything that sounds dirty, you can be banned from “clean searches.”

Here’s a funny example.  A site for preschoolers may say “Kids l0ve ju1ce and cookies.”  That looks pretty clean.  How could that possible be turned into something dirty.  Look again.  You see, the proximity of the words makes the difference.  See where it says, “l0ve ju1ce.”  Now use your imagination and you can figure out what kinds of sites might be putting something like that on their sites.  Also, note that I didn’t type those words out using letters.  I substituted in a few numbers so that Google doesn’t think I’m talking about fowl things in this blog.  That would be pretty stupid, wouldn’t it?

So if your site contains innocent things like the phrase “Kids l0ve ju1c and cookies” you could be penalized in Google’s search results.  If you’re webmaster wrote your copy but neglected to scan the copy for potential things that could harm your rankings, that’s SEO malpractice.

Until later…

Chadd Bryant