For small businesses, growth often depends on the ability to win new clients and secure profitable deals. One of the most ...

Jennifer Simonson is a business journalist with a decade of experience covering entrepreneurship and small business. Drawing on her background as a founder of multiple startups, she writes for Forbes ...

Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. I write about the life of a freelancer. Unless you’re a nepo baby, if you want to be a freelancer, you gotta write proposals.

For your business to continue growing, you need to keep adding to your client portfolio. To do so, you must be able to sell your business and communicate what you can do for prospective clients. One ...

Read the request for proposals and any other grant maker materials thoroughly. As you read the written materials, make a list of the grant maker’s buzzwords and make sure they are always in front of ...

NOTE: This post was co-authored with the SUNY New Paltz students in PSY 307 (1) of Spring 2018 (in particular, Zachary Ertrachter, Mariah Griffin, and Gianna Petrera). A solid psychology education ...