The One-Page Proposal: How to Get Your Business Pitch onto One Persuasive Page

As clear, concise, and concrete as its subject, Patrick Riley‘s The One–Page Proposal promises to be the definitive business guide to getting your best ideas fully understood in the least amount of time. Today more than ever, business decisions are made on the fly?d first impressions can make all the difference. Now, in the first book of its kind, successful entrepreneur Patrick Riley shows you how to boil all the elements of your business proposal into one persuasive page?d magnify your business potential in the process. Lean. Trim. Clear. Concrete. In A World Where Decisions Are Made Between Two Rings Of A Cell Phone, This Is What A Successful Business Proposal Must Be. It's A Lesson Entrepreneur Patrick Riley Learned After One Too Many Potential Partners Ignored His Painstaking (but Long And Forbidding) Proposals. And Now, In The One-page Proposal, He Shares His Secret Strategy -- The One That He Has Parlayed Into A Multimillion-dollar Business Career. Riley Describes Every Important Element Of A Successful Business Proposal -- From The Basic Message To The Financial Details. Step By Step, He Outlines How To Create The Perfect Attention-grabbing Pitch, Offering Dozens Of Strategies To Help Organize Your Research, Focus Your Message, Eliminate Unnecessary Language, And Anticipate Potential Reservations. 1 The Birth Of An Idea 1 -- 2 The One-page Proposal 7 -- 3 Preparation 17 -- 4 The Road Map--starting To Think It Through 31 -- 5 Translating Your Knowledge Into The One-page Format 39 -- 6 Writing The One-page Proposal 45 -- 7 Improving, Reducing, And Compressing 59 -- 8 A Great One-page Proposal 71 -- 9 Production Values 81 -- 10 Presenting The One-page Proposal 83. Patrick G. Riley. As clear, concise, and concrete as its subject, Patrick Riley‘s __The One–Page Proposal__ promises to be the definitive business guide to getting your best ideas fully understood in the least amount of time. Today more than ever, business decisions are made on the fly?d first impressions can make all the difference. Now, in the first book of its kind, successful entrepreneur Patrick Riley shows you how to boil all the elements of your business proposal into one persuasive page?d magnify your business potential in the process. Offering a step-by-step guide to creating a concise but persuasive business proposal, this practical handbook outlines the fine art of creating an attention-grabbing pitch, with helpful tips on how to identify one's audience, use positive language, compress and focus data, distill one's ideas, and express one's thoughts clearly and convincingly. Original. In the mid-1980s, when I was a thirty-seven-year-old businessman, Adnan Khashoggi, one of the richest men in the world, invited me to Monte Carlo to join him aboard his vacht.