Business proposals are the executive's primary tool for attracting new clients and expanding your business. The savvy executive knows that prospective buyers often sift through tens of proposals every day, and after a while they all start to look alike. You know that you need to use every tool in your arsenal of skills to make your proposal rise to the top. When your goal is to put your proposal in the best light and make it attractive to a potential buyer, it pays to use custom-designed icons, templates and stencils. Microsoft Visio makes it easy to create one-of-a-kind designs that are sure to draw the favorable attention of your client.

You can use Visio templates as the jumping-off point for your proposal. In a template frame you will find all the tools you need to design a proposal page. Included in a template are Visio shapes, which are the building blocks you will use in your proposal design.

There are also Visio stencils included in the template frame. The stencils contain th