Course Description

Overview


Do you want to win more business?

Have you had experience of bidding or are you new to the process?

The Bid Management Top Tips will teach you the approaches and techniques to develop your future bids and better pitch your business!

Developing your bidding approach can give you significant advantages:

  • Understanding how to pitch your proposals.
  • Better understand your client's requirements.
  • Achieve greater success for your inputs.
  • Develop your management techniques to optimise your submissions.

The video-based tutorial by award winning bid management specialists, Purpol Marketing, has been developed to provide insight into the approaches and techniques to improve both your submission and management processes.

Bid Management Top Tips provides insight and techniques into improving your approach to bidding providing information on What to do First, How to Achieve Consistently Successful Bids and the Critical Elements In The Bidding Approach.

The Purpol Team highlight the techniques we as an award-winning bid management agency utilise to build our approach to a tender, the methodology and management to really stand out.

You will be introduced to the choices available, techniques and tactics, as well as what to measure to make sure your efforts return results. Each topic will enable you to improve your bidding approach, so you finish the tutorial with the tactics and approaches to apply to your next tender.

How can improving my bid management approach benefit me?


A structured approach to your bid management can not only increase your success but also understand how to best promote your business within a constrained time-frame.

How will this help my business?

Our tutorial features tips on techniques and tactics, in easy to understand sections. Based on our award winning and highly successful approach; it will help you:

  • Identify the opportunities that best fit your business and avoid wasting time and effort.
  • Understand your clients needs and wants.
  • Present your proposals in an effective and concise manner.
  • Achieve greater tendering success.

What are the advantages of this course?

  • Learn at your own pace
  • Understand your options
  • Revisit each tip
  • Set goals and priorities
  • Get ongoing support

Who should sign up?

  • Business owners and entrepreneurs who want to improve the effectiveness of their tendering process.
  • those new to tendering looking to find their way in the process.
  • Experienced bid managers wishing to enhance or refresh their knowledge of key concepts and frameworks.
  • Those looking to improve their management and development of their tendering approach and methods.

Managing Director, Purpol Marketing Denise O'Leary MBE

Purpol Marketing is owned by Denise O’Leary MBE, a Board level Marketing Director who has maintained her ongoing accreditation as a Chartered Marketer with the CIM – Chartered Institute of Marketing every year since 2005. Denise holds both a Masters Degree specialising in Marketing and Business Strategy and a First Class Honours Bachelors’ Degree in Business Administration. Denise is a dynamic, enthusiastic, award winning, marketing specialist and coach with 20+ years’ extensive experience of delivering impressive results. Denise utilises a pragmatic, market-based approach to deliver measurable company development in all aspects, including communication strategy, brand development, competitor understanding and customer engagement.

Course curriculum

    1. Purpol Top Tip - back up with evidence

    2. Purpol Top Tip 2 - Register on relevant portals

    3. Purpol Top Tip 3 - keep an eye on industry websites and hashtags

    4. Purpol Top Tip 4 – Assess the opportunity

    5. Purpol Top Tip 5 – Develop a Bid Library

    6. Purpol Top Tip 6 – Use External Expertise

    7. Purpol Top Tip 7 – Collaborate

    8. Purpol Top Tip 8 – Don’t Waste Time

    9. Purpol Top Tip 9 – Use Specialist Consultants

    10. Purpol Top Tip 10 – Don’t Exceed Stated Limits

    11. Purpol Top Tip 11 – You Can Contact The Buyer!

    12. Purpol Top Tip 12 – The Tender Timeline

    13. Purpol Top Tip 13 – Define Team Roles

    14. Purpol Top Tip 14 – Answer the Question Asked

    1. Purpol Top Tip 15 – Revisit Old Bids

    2. Purpol Top Tip 16 – The Winning Angle

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    3. Purpol Top Tip 17 – Client Perspective

    4. Purpol Top Tip 18 – Avoid Jargon!

    5. Purpol Top Tip 19 – Keep Formatting Consistent

    6. Purpol Top Tip 20 – Create a picture

    7. Purpol Top Tip 21 – Use The Bidder’s Words

    8. Purpol Top Tip 22 – Differentiate

    1. Purpol Top Tip 23 – Showcase Your USP

    2. Purpol Top Tip 24 – Create a Theme

    3. Purpol Top Tip 25 – Price Sustainability

    4. Purpol Top Tip 26 – Avoid Tender Traps

    5. Purpol Top Tip 27 – Contaminated Tender

    6. Purpol Top Tip 28 – Proof Read Allow Time

    7. Purpol Top Tip 29 – Interview Success

    8. Purpol Top Tip 30 – Patience after Submission

    9. Purpol Top Tip 31 – Relive The Bid

    10. Purpol Top Tip 32 – Get Feedback

    11. Purpol Top Tip 33 – Impactful Content

    12. Purpol Top Tip 34 – Communicate Visually

About this course

  • £59.00
  • 35 lessons
  • 0.5 hours of video content

Reviews

5 star rating

Such useful tips!

Elan Parry-Lowther

This course is brilliant for honing in on the most important aspects of bid writing. It is succinct and easy to follow and enables you to build a framework f...

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This course is brilliant for honing in on the most important aspects of bid writing. It is succinct and easy to follow and enables you to build a framework for future bid writing endeavors. I found the content to be incredibly useful and am grateful to Denise for sharing her wisdom through this course!

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5 star rating

Clear and concise

James Garbutt

Great overview on the top tips surrounding bid management.

Great overview on the top tips surrounding bid management.

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5 star rating

good structure

Brandon Jones

a well structured course by a lady at the top of her field 10/10

a well structured course by a lady at the top of her field 10/10

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5 star rating

Useful, Concise course!

Jorja Holmes

I liked that this course was ultimately a list of bullet pointed top tips for bid writing. It summed up the Better way to Bid and Triumphant Tender Documents...

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I liked that this course was ultimately a list of bullet pointed top tips for bid writing. It summed up the Better way to Bid and Triumphant Tender Documents courses well and was a good recap of the information.

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5 star rating

Filled with great advice.

Ashleigh Sands

Filled with great advice. This course is straight to the point, leaving you with buckets of strong and informative information.

Filled with great advice. This course is straight to the point, leaving you with buckets of strong and informative information.

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5 star rating

Bullet Points are Fab

Samuel Aspden

The format of this course is extremely helpful to the learning. Every piece of info is short but crucial. A Quickfire information round.

The format of this course is extremely helpful to the learning. Every piece of info is short but crucial. A Quickfire information round.

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5 star rating

Clear and easy to understand

Anjulee Bharath

Clear Top tips and summary of the Bid process.

Clear Top tips and summary of the Bid process.

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Bid Management Top Tips

Tom M

A simple, straight-to-the point set of tips that are really easy to follow. Lots of great information and suggestions to improve your bids.

A simple, straight-to-the point set of tips that are really easy to follow. Lots of great information and suggestions to improve your bids.

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4 star rating

Bid management tips review

Ilana Day

This course was really insightful, making it clear what you need to do in bids. Would recommend to people who are going to bid and don't have much experience.

This course was really insightful, making it clear what you need to do in bids. Would recommend to people who are going to bid and don't have much experience.

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