Game Changers For Government Contractors

In this special episode of Game Changers, you go 1-on-1 with Michael LeJeune to talk about not being ready for certain aspects of being a government contractor. For example; a lot of companies rush to be a prime contractor before they know their customer, have any past performance, or have the cash flow to successfully manage a contract. If you're not ready, you are going to struggle to win contracts and you will have a very frustrating experience. This podcast talks about things you can do to slow down, get your ducks in a row, and properly prepare to be a successful government contractor. ----- Federal Access is helping Government Contractors win more contracts. It can help you too. Here's a special offer. Visit https://federal-access.com/gamechangers today and get started for just $29. *You are going to get access to a digital copy of the Government Sales Manual. * Over 85 strategy videos * More than 30 webinars * 300 documents and templates AND * SME support. So when you run into an issue, you can e

In this episode, we talk with Matthew Schoonover about The Pitfalls of Government Contracting. One of the biggest challenges that we see for new government contractors is the rush to jump into serious relationships such as a joint venture or the mentor protégé program. We discuss the pros and cons of both of these as well as some recommendations on how to approach them properly. We also discuss common pitfalls during the teaming and proposal process. ----- Federal Access is helping Government Contractors win more contracts. It can help you too. Here's a special offer. Visit https://federal-access.com/gamechangers today and get started for just $29. *You are going to get access to a digital copy of the Government Sales Manual. * Over 85 strategy videos * More than 30 webinars * 300 documents and templates AND * SME support. So when you run into an issue, you can email me directly for help. Go check out this special offer today at https://federal-access.com/gamechangers

In this special episode of Game Changers, you go 1-on-1 with Michael LeJeune to talk about Ghosting to Influence an RFP. Ghosting is hands down one of the most underrated things you should incorporate into your BD/Capture process. Ghosting by definition is: positioning the value of your capabilities and differentiate in such a way as to marginalize your competition. If executed properly, informal and formal ghosting tactics will allow you to influence decision-makers so that RFPs come out written in such a way that your company is the obvious choice for the work. This episode will break down several areas that you can and should ghost during pre-acquisition. ----- Federal Access is helping Government Contractors win more contracts. It can help you too. Here's a special offer. Visit https://federal-access.com/gamechangers today and get started for just $29. *You are going to get access to a digital copy of the Government Sales Manual. * Over 85 strategy videos * More than 30 webinars * 300 documents and te

In this episode, we talk with Chris Rabassi about Doing Business with Marine Corps Installations East. Most of the guests we interview on the show are either contractors or other experts in government contracting. This time, we get to hear what it's like being on the government end of these conversations. We discuss several tactics and strategies for approaching a government agency for the first time. While this discussion revolves around MCI EAST, the tactics and strategies that we discuss are applicable government-wide. ----- Federal Access is helping Government Contractors win more contracts. It can help you too. Here's a special offer. Visit https://federal-access.com/gamechangers today and get started for just $29. *You are going to get access to a digital copy of the Government Sales Manual. * Over 85 strategy videos * More than 30 webinars * 300 documents and templates AND * SME support. So when you run into an issue, you can email me directly for help. Go check out this special offer today at h

In this special episode of Game Changers, you go 1-on-1 with Michael LeJeune to talk about Persistence - The Secret to Success. One of the top reasons people fail in life and business is because they give up too early. The road to success is not a simple or straight path and it often has unexpected twists and turns. You will also encounter a lot of resistance on the path to success. This is why so few people achieve the success they desire. This episode of Game Changers talks about our path to 200 episodes and will give you insight on how to stay the course to get the success you deserve. ----- Federal Access is helping Government Contractors win more contracts. It can help you too. Here's a special offer. Visit https://federal-access.com/gamechangers today and get started for just $29. *You are going to get access to a digital copy of the Government Sales Manual. * Over 85 strategy videos * More than 30 webinars * 300 documents and templates AND * SME support. So when you run into an issue, you can emai

In this special episode of Game Changers, you go 1-on-1 with Michael LeJeune to talk about Leveraging Your Socio-Economic Status. Most people have heard news stories about how much the government spends on small businesses. But how can that information help you? This podcast helps break down some of the small business goals, we give an overview of each of the top socio-economic statuses, and we round out the episode with five recommendations to help you leverage your statuses. ----- Federal Access is helping Government Contractors win more contracts. It can help you too. Here's a special offer. Visit https://federal-access.com/gamechangers today and get started for just $29. *You are going to get access to a digital copy of the Government Sales Manual. * Over 85 strategy videos * More than 30 webinars * 300 documents and templates AND * SME support. So when you run into an issue, you can email me directly for help. Go check out this special offer today at https://federal-access.com/gamechangers

In this episode, we talk with David Neal about Filling Your Small Business Pipeline. One of the challenges for small businesses is that they don't have enough tools or resources in their tool bag. That makes companies rely very heavily on just one or two strategies such as their status in order to fill their pipeline. It's like being a carpenter and only having a hammer in your tool bag. During this podcast, you will hear several tactics and strategies for filling your pipeline. Our hope is that two or three of these will resonate with you and then you will be able to add those to your tool bag. ----- Federal Access is helping Government Contractors win more contracts. It can help you too. Here's a special offer. Visit https://federal-access.com/gamechangers today and get started for just $29. *You are going to get access to a digital copy of the Government Sales Manual. * Over 85 strategy videos * More than 30 webinars * 300 documents and templates AND * SME support. So when you run into an issue, you c

In this special episode of Game Changers, you go 1-on-1 with Michael LeJeune to talk about what to do if you are new to government contracting. If you are new to government contracting (your first 12 to 36 months), you need to listen to this podcast immediately. This podcast will help you understand if the market is right for you, where to do your initial research to identify your top buyers, what steps you should take before you start prospecting, it will provide a simple process for reaching out to small business offices and contracting officers, how to properly find a teaming partner, and much more. ----- Federal Access is helping Government Contractors win more contracts. It can help you too. Here's a special offer. Visit https://federal-access.com/gamechangers today and get started for just $29. *You are going to get access to a digital copy of the Government Sales Manual. * Over 85 strategy videos * More than 30 webinars * 300 documents and templates AND * SME support. So when you run into an issue

In this episode, we talk with Jon Barker about Price to Win Strategies. Winning a government contract often comes down to your price. If your price is not competitive, you lose. If your price isn't justified, you lose. If you don't understand your pricing or don't have a clear pricing strategy, you will likely lose. We fix this by having an overall pricing strategy that we can easily modify for each opportunity. Jon and Mike talk about all of this as well as ways to find pricing information to help build your strategy. ----- Federal Access is helping Government Contractors win more contracts. It can help you too. Here's a special offer. Visit https://federal-access.com/gamechangers today and get started for just $29. *You are going to get access to a digital copy of the Government Sales Manual. * Over 85 strategy videos * More than 30 webinars * 300 documents and templates AND * SME support. So when you run into an issue, you can email me directly for help. Go check out this special offer today at https

In this special episode of Game Changers, you go 1-on-1 with Michael LeJeune to talk about Managing Your Pipeline. Pipeline management can make or break your government contracting business. If you don't have enough opportunities in your pipeline, you won't hit your quota. If you don't have the right mix of opportunities, you may have trouble getting traction or your sales could drag on for months or even years. There's a very simple process for managing your pipeline. I talk about several areas that will help you improve the quality of your pipeline and the ability to win contracts faster. ----- Federal Access is helping Government Contractors win more contracts. It can help you too. Here's a special offer. Visit https://federal-access.com/gamechangers today and get started for just $29. *You are going to get access to a digital copy of the Government Sales Manual. * Over 85 strategy videos * More than 30 webinars * 300 documents and templates AND * SME support. So when you run into an issue, you can em

In this episode, we talk with Alexa Tsui about Teaming and Working with Frenemies. If you are going to be successful in government contracting, you need to embrace the concept of teaming. Most companies only want to team with their "friends." And that's understandable. But government contracting often requires you to work with a company or individual/s that you may not like. That other company may already be on another contract with your client and now you are forces to work together. This podcast will give you practical advice you can use to work successfully with frenemies. ----- Federal Access is helping Government Contractors win more contracts. It can help you too. Here's a special offer. Visit https://federal-access.com/gamechangers today and get started for just $29. *You are going to get access to a digital copy of the Government Sales Manual. * Over 85 strategy videos * More than 30 webinars * 300 documents and templates AND * SME support. So when you run into an issue, you can email me directly

In this special episode of Game Changers, you go 1-on-1 with Michael LeJeune to talk about Task Blocking. Each time I share how many projects I'm working on with folks, the reaction is always the same. When do you sleep? Trust me, I get plenty of sleep. My secret to productivity and time management is actually very simple. I use a process that I call Task Blocking. Everything that I work on becomes a "project" with "tasks" and those tasks go on my calendar. In this podcast, I break down how I use task blocking to manage over a dozen new projects at any given time. ----- Federal Access is helping Government Contractors win more contracts. It can help you too. Here's a special offer. Visit https://federal-access.com/gamechangers today and get started for just $29. *You are going to get access to a digital copy of the Government Sales Manual. * Over 85 strategy videos * More than 30 webinars * 300 documents and templates AND * SME support. So when you run into an issue, you can email me directly for help.

In this special episode of Game Changers, you go 1-on-1 with Michael LeJeune to talk about Prepping for and Attending Conferences. Attending government conferences is a critical part of your growth strategy. Done wrong, it can be very expensive. Done right, you can walk away with valuable education, intelligence for future and current opportunities, and priceless relationships with contracting officers, program managers, and teaming partners. This podcast will give you valuable insight on steps you should take prior to attending a conference, what you should do while you are at a conference, and toward the end we have a list of several of the top conferences that we recommend. ----- Federal Access is helping Government Contractors win more contracts. It can help you too. Here's a special offer. Visit https://federal-access.com/gamechangers today and get started for just $29. *You are going to get access to a digital copy of the Government Sales Manual. * Over 85 strategy videos * More than 30 webinars * 3

In this episode, we conclude a two-part series about Your GovCon Marketing Strategy by talking with Chad Rodriguez. Chad talks about his experience using a third-party (Flourish) to build and execute their marketing strategy. Having a professional marketing strategy has allowed their company to stand out in the market and reach their target audience. Chad is also a huge fan of monitoring the analytics on the back-end of all of their marketing. This allows them to know what's effective and what's not so that they can adjust their marketing methods, strategy, and message to be more effective. ----- Federal Access is helping Government Contractors win more contracts. It can help you too. Here's a special offer. Visit https://federal-access.com/gamechangers today and get started for just $29. *You are going to get access to a digital copy of the Government Sales Manual. * Over 85 strategy videos * More than 30 webinars * 300 documents and templates AND * SME support. So when you run into an issue, you can em

In this episode, we talked with Megan Nivens-Tannett about Your GovCon Marketing Strategy. The average government contractor completely skips over creating a marketing strategy for their GovCon business. Most use what I would call the brute force method. This involves cranking out RFPs with the hope that if you just respond to enough, you will eventually win something. A well-thought-out marketing strategy will help you understand your market, increase your chances of winning an RFP, and ultimately accelerate your success in the government market. ----- Federal Access is helping Government Contractors win more contracts. It can help you too. Here's a special offer. Visit https://federal-access.com/gamechangers today and get started for just $29. *You are going to get access to a digital copy of the Government Sales Manual. * Over 85 strategy videos * More than 30 webinars * 300 documents and templates AND * SME support. So when you run into an issue, you can email me directly for help. Go check out this

In this special episode of Game Changers, you go 1-on-1 with Michael LeJeune to talk about the Your Government Contracting Social Media Plan. It's easy to get overwhelmed with all of the choices for social media. First, you have multiple platforms that you can you choose. Second, you have to figure out how to build an audience. Third, you have to figure out what to post. And those are just the initial decisions you have to make. This podcast will help simply all three of those questions and give you clear actionable advice on how to get started. ----- Federal Access is helping Government Contractors win more contracts. It can help you too. Here's a special offer. Visit https://federal-access.com/gamechangers today and get started for just $29. *You are going to get access to a digital copy of the Government Sales Manual. * Over 85 strategy videos * More than 30 webinars * 300 documents and templates AND * SME support. So when you run into an issue, you can email me directly for help. Go check out this s

In this episode, we talked with Mark Hijar about Teaming with Large System Integrator / Primes. Small businesses face several challenges when approaching a large prime to team. They have to differentiate themselves from dozens if not hundreds of other small companies with a status, provide valuable intelligence to the prime about an opportunity, speak the language of the primes, and ultimately provide a competitive advantage for an opportunity. This podcast will help small businesses understand how large primes operate and how to better position on a team so that they actually get work from the prime. ----- Federal Access is helping Government Contractors win more contracts. It can help you too. Here's a special offer. Visit https://federal-access.com/gamechangers today and get started for just $29. *You are going to get access to a digital copy of the Government Sales Manual. * Over 85 strategy videos * More than 30 webinars * 300 documents and templates AND * SME support. So when you run into an issue,

In this special episode of Game Changers, you go 1-on-1 with Michael LeJeune to talk about Managing Your GovCon Finances. Money management is critical to your success in any business and can often be the difference between staying in business and shutting your doors. You need to understand simple things like; your monthly break-even, how to track A/R, systemizing your payroll, the cost of borrowing money, your financial scorecards (P&L & Balance Sheet), and maybe most importantly, your margins. We discuss all of these and much more. ----- Federal Access is helping Government Contractors win more contracts. It can help you too. Here's a special offer. Visit https://federal-access.com/gamechangers today and get started for just $29. *You are going to get access to a digital copy of the Government Sales Manual. * Over 85 strategy videos * More than 30 webinars * 300 documents and templates AND * SME support. So when you run into an issue, you can email me directly for help. Go check out this special offer

In this episode, we talked with Eric "Doc" Wright about the GovCon Benefits of having a PMP and/or Sec+ Certification. Hands-down, one of the hottest businesses to be in right now as a government contractor is project management. Every contract needs some level of project management and being able to prove your fluency and capabilities as a PM are critical to winning government contracts. This distinguishes certification holders from the true practitioners of project management. ----- Federal Access is helping Government Contractors win more contracts. It can help you too. Here's a special offer. Visit https://federal-access.com/gamechangers today and get started for just $29. *You are going to get access to a digital copy of the Government Sales Manual. * Over 85 strategy videos * More than 30 webinars * 300 documents and templates AND * SME support. So when you run into an issue, you can email me directly for help. Go check out this special offer today at https://federal-access.com/gamechangers

In this special episode of Game Changers, you go 1-on-1 with Michael LeJeune to talk about the Top 5 Proposal Mistakes. We've all been in a position where we write our best proposal, submit it, and then lose. When it comes time for a debriefing, you realize you made a simple mistake. You make the correction next time, and to your surprise, you lose again! This time, your debriefing doesn't really turn up any valuable intelligence so you are stuck not knowing what really happened. This episode talks about five things that aren't usually going to come up in a debriefing. These are things that you are definitely being judged on; but no one wants to tell you about because quite honestly, the government doesn't have the time to teach you how to properly write and submit a proposal. ----- Federal Access is helping Government Contractors win more contracts. It can help you too. Here's a special offer. Visit https://federal-access.com/gamechangers today and get started for just $29. *You are going to get access t