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Are you a sales professional in the creative sector?

Posted on by John Hudson

Are you a sales professional working in the creative sector?  Need help sourcing quality leads?

Calling all creative sector sales professionals!

Are you sick and tired of searching hundreds of RFP sites trying to find suitable opportunities for your business to bid for? Are you fighting against a huge target and struggling to see straight? Do you hate cold calling and wish someone were doing it for you?

We understand the bugbears that sales professionals in our sector face. So many people tell us they hate cold calling. Hey we built a strong business from the fact that sales professionals in the creative sector hated cold calling. It takes a specific type of person who loves cold calling, but managing this team also take strong and coordinated management. Not a skill that many creative sector owners have from their own admission.

Our system doesn’t compete with sales professionals it supports sales professionals. Your sales professionals should focus on what they do best and let us do the leg work. We work with sales professionals not against them, we aim to fill their inbox with lead after lead for them to respond to and submit a winning bid.

Sales professionals shouldn’t see us as a threat, if anything we are an extension of their team and your dedicated account manager from Creative RFPs will be working with you to understand the types of clients you are looking to win so that they can brief our calling teams to run targeted campaigns aimed at populating the system with relevant RFP opportunities.

Sounds fantastic right? You can sign up today!

Look forward to working with you!

 

Struggling with creativity? Our suppliers can help!

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Struggling with creativity?  Our suppliers can help! – Marketing RFPs

We all hit a brick wall sometimes and this doesn’t have to mean that creativity has to stop. We just need to know where to look for support and guidance with marketing RFPs.

No one person can know everything, but collectively as a group we can make a difference to UK based businesses looking for growth. Sometimes UK marketing isn’t a problem, but moving from UK to international sales can be daunting and sometimes we need professional help to move us and handhold us into the unknown.

Creative RFPs Suppliers

Our suppliers can help! Creative RFPs has suppliers UK wide who have experience in UK and international marketing, from app developers, to design agencies, web development companies to content marketers. Think of a creative requirement, and you will be able to find suppliers on our system.

Since we’ve launched the portal we have new suppliers joining weekly, meaning the breath of knowledge we can offer non-creative businesses is immense.

We say to businesses that need help with creativity to tell us what they want to achieve. We can then help them write a specification for this and help them find the ideal provider to drive forward their business. Sounds simple enough right? Best thing, it’s FREE.

Did you know there are approximately 180,000 creative agencies in the whole of the UK of varying sizes and capabilities? How could you possibly know which one is right for your business? Let us help find you that perfect relationship that will make a positive impact on your business growth.

WE SOURCE CREATIVE CONTRACT OPPORTUNITIES FOR SECTORS INCLUDING;

Book a free live demo with Creative RFPs to see how we can help your business grow. 

Struggling to find the right supplier for your marketing project?

Posted on by John Hudson

Struggling to find the right creative supplier for your marketing project? 

Finding the right creative supplier for your business is extremely important. From research into the businesses that use Creative Finder we have been informed that they use our service for multiple reasons:

  1. They wouldn’t know who to contact, or who the best in their region are?
  2. They don’t know how to approach agencies or if they are getting a good price?
  3. They don’t know how to specify what they are looking for and don’t want agencies to take them in a direction they don’t think they need / want
  4. They want to obtain competitive quotations with the right advice and guidance
  5. They have used the same agency for years and want to see if they are getting the best deal, the best creative ideas or the best marketing approach

Creative Finder

Businesses who use Creative Finder each have their own reasons for using the service. Those who use it is either business owners, marketing managers, or senior business representatives looking for help. It is a great way to get competitive quotes and find the best agencies.

Using our system is so easy and it is 100% FREE. There is also different levels of support available:

  1. You may already have a brief and just want to upload your opportunities and start marketing it suitable agencies
  2. Or, you may be struggling to set out your exact requirements and need help writing a specification

Whatever category you fall into, we can help and its 100% free. Our marketing experts have 15 years experience in the industry so helping you specify your needs is second nature to us, giving you the confidence that we know what we are doing and you will be asking for your exact needs, allowing you to get like for like quotations.

If you wan to chat further about Creative Finder, contact Jill by email at jill@creativetenders.co.uk and she will call at a convenient time to discuss your needs further.

 

What do you find difficult about creative sector RFPS?

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Creative sector RFP, what do you find difficult about it?

As you’ve probably guessed by now we want to see the creative sector in the UK grow, and we believe we can help. Each week we will launch an open discussion and your feedback counts. The more feedback we get from these discussions, the better our system becomes. Simple!

So. Today we are asking what you find difficult about creative sector RFP.

I have worked in the sector for 16 years now and the RFP process has changed somewhat, but the basic principles have remained the same. The hardest thing I have found is the sheer volume of different websites I have to check weekly just to ensure I have not missed any opportunities. How many do I actually check, you may ask? Currently it stands at 1,017. Yep you heard it right. Over 1,000 sites weekly and boy is it boring and time consuming, and definitely a task which needs to be done on an evening in front of the TV as I don’t actually have time during my working day.

Creative sector RFP

The worst thing, over 50% may not even have a single RFP on the site, but I have to check them just in case anything is missed. Seriously, who actually has time to do this? Yes I could give it to a junior to do but I would be worried they wouldn’t pick up on all of the opportunities and the search functions can’t be relied on, as they don’t always work. It doesn’t help by the fact that around 75% of public RFPs have been categorised incorrectly.

So, help us please understand what it is you don’t like about creative sector RFP and we will ensure our system provides you with a much improved system, a one that will take away your bug bears and make your life easier.

Sign up for a free demo of Creative RFPs and review the following opportunities:

Event RFPs

Website RFPs

Printing RFPs

Video Production RFPs & many more.

 

 

Struggling to win website RFPs?

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Struggling to win website RFPs?  Would you like us to provide feedback on your website RFPs submission?

Are you struggling to win public RFPs, or even be shortlisted when submitting proposals? Isn’t it annoying?

We have produced a blog previously about the importance of gathering feedback, but some feedback isn’t actually that helpful. For example, the client may say – cost. Well that’s helpful isn’t it?

RFPs writing is an art form.

RFP writing is an art form. Once you’ve got a formula that works for you, you’re onto a winner. No, that doesn’t mean you will win everything you go for, but it does mean that you are presenting your business in the best possible light, answering the questions that are asked of you, rather than telling them information you believe to be important and sometimes realising that less is more.

For those of you struggling to win bids, it’s sometimes good to get an outside perspective. This is what we launched Creative Growth. We work with creative agencies to help them become bid ready. We can usually see from an initial RFP review where you might be going wrong and we can help you to reduce the number of common mistakes you ate making.

Free RFP review service.

Throughout the next 12 weeks, Creative Growth is offering member companies of Creative RFPs access to a free RFP review service. We will critique one of your recent RFPs that has not been successful and provider pointers for improved success. What’s not to love about this?

If you would like us to critique one of your RFPs, you need to send us the ITT in full (including all of the supporting documents) and your response (in full, including appendices). Once we have this we will get our review complete with 14 days and offer a telephone advice session about what you need to be to be 100% RFP ready.

Please send all documents including the reference GROWTH21 to jill@creativetenders.co.uk.

 

Sign up for a free demo of Creative RFPs and review the following opportunities:

Event RFPs

Website RFPs

Printing RFPs

Video Production RFPs & many more.

 

 

The importance of receiving RFP / proposal feedback on Graphic Design RFPs

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The importance of receiving RFP / proposal feedback on Graphic Design RFPs

It’s disappointment when we receive the unwanted email from those companies we have RFP for, and sometimes more than others. But why is this?
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