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Five Spice Girl lessons from a pitching workshop (May 2022)

As well as delegates from across the UK (including a few from Romford in East London), we were joined at this session on “Helping fee-earners to prepare the perfect pitch”  by people in Warsaw, Poland and Lisbon, Portugal. During an intense and fast-paced half-day we covered a lot of material Read More

2022-05-30T17:05:06+01:00May 30, 2022|Kim's Blog, Marketing, Selling|

Five pitch insights – M&BD adding value, pitch processes, knowledge base, content production and alternative presentations

Earlier this week I facilitated another day workshop for MBL on pitching “Pitch Perfect - How to Prepare & Present Winning Pitches & Tenders” . Delegates represented law and property firms and both marketing/business development professionals as well as fee-earners. While we covered a huge amount of material, there were Read More

2021-10-02T13:41:20+01:00October 2, 2021|Kim's Blog, Lawyers, Marketing, Selling|

Perfect pitches – Five key points (Video)

This short (10 minute) video takes a look at pitching and shows the client reaction to submissions to a fun make-belief pitch. Five tips are explored: process, research and empathy, relationship, document and presentation and differentiation. Please enjoy perfect pitches – five key points. Video script Hi, I’m Kim Tasso Read More

Pitching and Tenders – Nine top tips and client feedback (June 2019)

I’ve led several public courses on tendering and pitches recently (e.g. through Professional Marketing Forum https://www.pmforum.co.uk/training.aspx) and for professional service firm clients on an in-house basis. Here’s a round-up of the points that had most resonance on pitching and tenders – Nine top tips and client feedback: 1. Have a Read More

Book review – “Strategic tendering for professional services” by Matthew Fuller and Tim Nightingale

It’s about time that there was a new book on strategic tendering for professional services. It’s too long – 1993 - since John de Forte and Guy Jones wrote their ground breaking “Proposals, pitches and beauty parades”. Whilst I valued Basil Sawczuk’s “Creating winning bids” in 2013 it is focused Read More

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