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Successes & Lessons in State Contracting: Highstreet IT—with Josh Ezring - EP110

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תוכן מסופק על ידי Lisa Rehurek. כל תוכן הפודקאסטים כולל פרקים, גרפיקה ותיאורי פודקאסטים מועלים ומסופקים ישירות על ידי Lisa Rehurek או שותף פלטפורמת הפודקאסט שלהם. אם אתה מאמין שמישהו משתמש ביצירה שלך המוגנת בזכויות יוצרים ללא רשותך, אתה יכול לעקוב אחר התהליך המתואר כאן https://he.player.fm/legal.
Are you struggling with state government RFPs?

Though it seems counterintuitive, you will win MORE contracts by bidding LESS.

Just ask the team at Highstreet IT Solutions. They reduced their response rate from six to three formal RFPs per month. And doubled their win rate in the process.

Josh Ezring is Vice President of Business Development at Highstreet IT. He has more than 20 years of experience as a senior sales leader with top enterprise software companies including Oracle, HP and IBM.

On this episode of the RFP Success Show, Josh joins me to explain why his team committed to state contracts as a source of revenue and how they’ve evolved to focus on quality over quantity when it comes to RFPs.

Josh discusses what he did to get buy-in from SMEs and describes Highstreet’s strategic process for making the go/no-go decision.

Listen in for Josh’s insight on making time for the RFP review process and learn how doing less work translates to higher win rates on state contracts for Highstreet IT.

Key Takeaways

Why Josh committed to RFPs as a revenue source at Highstreet IT

The challenge Josh faced getting buy-in from SMEs to build a strong RFP response team

How Highstreet IT incentivizes content contributors to support RFPs

Why Highstreet reduced its response rate from 6 to 3 formal RFPs per month

Highstreet’s process for making the go/no-go decision

How Highstreet improved its down-select rate from 25% to 80% and doubled its win rate on RFPs

Why Josh’s team stopped bidding on blind RFPs

Highstreet’s ongoing commitment to serve both commercial and higher ed/public sector markets

How Highstreet ensures that they have enough time for the review process

Josh’s insight on how to bid less yet win more business with RFPs

Josh’s advice for companies struggling with state government RFPs

Connect with Josh

Highstreet IT Solutions

Josh on LinkedIn

Connect with Lisa

Lisa’s Website

Lisa on Twitter

Lisa on Facebook

Lisa on LinkedIn

The RFP Success Company on YouTube

The RFP Success Company on LinkedIn

Subscribe on iTunes

Email podcast@rfpsuccess.com

Resources

Oracle

American Rescue Plan

Freedom of Information Act

Book a Call with the RFP Success Company

Dare to Be Influential: Maximizing Your Positive Influence While Still Being True to You by Lisa Rehurek

The RFP Success Book by Lisa Rehurek

The RFP Success Institute

  continue reading

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Manage episode 407486231 series 3561036
תוכן מסופק על ידי Lisa Rehurek. כל תוכן הפודקאסטים כולל פרקים, גרפיקה ותיאורי פודקאסטים מועלים ומסופקים ישירות על ידי Lisa Rehurek או שותף פלטפורמת הפודקאסט שלהם. אם אתה מאמין שמישהו משתמש ביצירה שלך המוגנת בזכויות יוצרים ללא רשותך, אתה יכול לעקוב אחר התהליך המתואר כאן https://he.player.fm/legal.
Are you struggling with state government RFPs?

Though it seems counterintuitive, you will win MORE contracts by bidding LESS.

Just ask the team at Highstreet IT Solutions. They reduced their response rate from six to three formal RFPs per month. And doubled their win rate in the process.

Josh Ezring is Vice President of Business Development at Highstreet IT. He has more than 20 years of experience as a senior sales leader with top enterprise software companies including Oracle, HP and IBM.

On this episode of the RFP Success Show, Josh joins me to explain why his team committed to state contracts as a source of revenue and how they’ve evolved to focus on quality over quantity when it comes to RFPs.

Josh discusses what he did to get buy-in from SMEs and describes Highstreet’s strategic process for making the go/no-go decision.

Listen in for Josh’s insight on making time for the RFP review process and learn how doing less work translates to higher win rates on state contracts for Highstreet IT.

Key Takeaways

Why Josh committed to RFPs as a revenue source at Highstreet IT

The challenge Josh faced getting buy-in from SMEs to build a strong RFP response team

How Highstreet IT incentivizes content contributors to support RFPs

Why Highstreet reduced its response rate from 6 to 3 formal RFPs per month

Highstreet’s process for making the go/no-go decision

How Highstreet improved its down-select rate from 25% to 80% and doubled its win rate on RFPs

Why Josh’s team stopped bidding on blind RFPs

Highstreet’s ongoing commitment to serve both commercial and higher ed/public sector markets

How Highstreet ensures that they have enough time for the review process

Josh’s insight on how to bid less yet win more business with RFPs

Josh’s advice for companies struggling with state government RFPs

Connect with Josh

Highstreet IT Solutions

Josh on LinkedIn

Connect with Lisa

Lisa’s Website

Lisa on Twitter

Lisa on Facebook

Lisa on LinkedIn

The RFP Success Company on YouTube

The RFP Success Company on LinkedIn

Subscribe on iTunes

Email podcast@rfpsuccess.com

Resources

Oracle

American Rescue Plan

Freedom of Information Act

Book a Call with the RFP Success Company

Dare to Be Influential: Maximizing Your Positive Influence While Still Being True to You by Lisa Rehurek

The RFP Success Book by Lisa Rehurek

The RFP Success Institute

  continue reading

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