three things you can use right now
Pick the one that sounds like your problem
Three of them, all free. Not one makes you hand over an email before it tells you anything, which is most of the reason I built them instead of writing another post.
new this week
You sent the proposal and heard nothing
Paste the last one you sent. It gets checked against five things, all of them lifted from my own proposals, and you get the fix for whatever is missing.
Check five is there because I went back through nine of my own proposals that never got a reply. Not one of them asked the client a question.
What it will not do is tell you whether you were ever going to get that job. It scores the shape of a proposal, not your odds.
About a minute. Nothing you paste is uploaded anywhere and nothing is saved.
if the money part feels messy
Which money section made you wince?
Nine questions, one for each section of the free money checklist. Answer them honestly, because the section that makes you wince is your starting line and the quiz hands you the first step for it.
Most people already know which one it is before they finish reading the question. That is the point.
About a minute. No email needed to see your result.
before anybody books anything
Will you two survive four days together?
Seven questions, both of you, about the seven things that actually go wrong on a trip with somebody you like. One of you answers, hands the phone over, then the other does. You get the gaps and the exact words to fix each one.
A trip falls apart over money and sleep and who wants to be out of the hotel by nine, not over whether you like each other. Those are the seven.
Two minutes. No email needed to see the result.
The honest part
Every one of these could have been built to hold your result back until you type an email in. That is the standard move in this corner of the internet, and it is why you have stopped trusting quizzes.
Mine do not do that. You get the answer first. I ask once, afterwards, and you are welcome to ignore me.
The proposal teardown runs entirely inside your browser. What you paste in is never uploaded and never stored, which matters, because what you are pasting is usually somebody’s client work.
And none of the three will do the hard part for you. The teardown can tell you there is no question at the end of your proposal. It cannot tell you whether the job was worth applying for in the first place. That one is still yours.
and if you only do one thing
Get the Big Sis Letters
One letter on the last Friday of the month. Real numbers when I have them, and nothing I would not read myself. New tools go out there first.