Send & Track Your Proposals with Proposable

Imagine delivering a sales proposal to a client and having access to detailed reports about how they interacted with it.  Were they confused about the pricing structure?  Did they completely skip over the qualifications section?  Answering these questions is the goal of new web app startup Proposable.

Right now you probably send out your proposals to clients via a word document that gets attached to an email.  It may sit there for days in the inbox, or it may get interacted with right away.  Either way, the client’s reaction to it tells you a lot about their interest level and when you should contact them again.  With Proposable you have real-time access to see how and when the client is viewing your proposal.  You can even set notifications to be instanly notified when they are viewing your proposal and what they are viewing.

Your clients have an incentive to use Proposable as well, as they can mark up your proposal with comments, which you can receive in real-time.  The concept seems to be create a win-win for both parties and they will be willing to put up with the big-brother analysis.

This product was just rolled out in 2010 and unlike most web apps does not have a free option.  The lowest price option starts at $19 per month to deliver and track 15 proposals.

GIVE ME AN EXAMPLE
As with all apps we supply you with a sample usage case that will hopefully help you generate some ideas of how your business could be using this product.

Architecture Firm – As an owner of 15-person design firm, you spend hours of your week creating proposals for prospective clients.  You hammer away on each proposal, typically waiting until the day before you told the client you would have it to them, then you send it off into the great unknown.  You don’t know if the prospect got it, if they’ve read it, or if the client was even serious about the project in the first place.  So you sign up with Proposable for $19 per month, send out your first proposal, set the alerts to notify your mobile phone and sit back and wait for the client to interact with it.  It takes a day before they open it the first time but then you notice them coming back to the same page for the next two days.  It is the page on qualifications.  So you give them a follow-up call and casually remind them that you just designed a building down the street from their location, with a similar setup.  Three days later they seal the deal thanks to the extra information you gained from Proposable.

FINAL THOUGHTS
Although it is a brand-new product the methodology and architecture of Proposable appear to be very solid.  The pricing structure is missing a free, entry-level option but will likely get a lot of businesses to dip their toe in the water for $19 per month.

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