August’s Bristol business networking event with super seminar and THE lunch

July 27, 2017

It’s all about you…..

You benefit from the free business seminar
You will meet other business owners, directors & decision makers over drinks 11.45am – 12.30pm
You have relationship building conversations over a served, 2 course lunch from 12.30pm
Your table is hosted & you don’t sit with anyone who does what you do
You get an event programme full of great opportunities, offers and the delegate list.
Your dietary requirements can be catered for
Back to your office for the afternoon as event finishes at 2pm.

The business seminar before lunch

Growing your business with effective proposals and tenders

The government has committed to 33% of all its spending to go small to medium-sized enterprise (SMEs) by 2020 and with 1,981 published tenders with an aggregate value of £19,000,000,000…..

Pitching for bigger value contracts in the public or private sector means getting involved with formal tendering. Significant challenges and opportunities lie ahead when your business goes down this route. There are significant risks too. In the world of competitive tenders, competition is often fierce and the rules are strict. Knowing how to be persuasive and state your USPs clearly, while staying within the rules is an art you need to master.

Why you should come

You will get some insights into how you could expand your business through the tender process and formal proposals. A sound bid process is a vital component of your sales effort. Winning Tenders has recently won some £750,000 worth of business for clients…

What you will take from it

An understanding of the need to create real interest and even excitement about your proposal; and the fact that bid preparation and writing are skills in their own right that have to be blended with your subject matter knowledge if you want to be successful.

About Ian Smith – Winning Tenders

Ian is a highly experienced and successful senior executive with excellent writing skills and 30 years’ experience operating across all aspects of public transport, outsourced managed services, proposal writing, bid management and tender evaluation. Effective bid writing has been fundamental to his achievements.

Followed by

The networking lunch

11.45am until 12.30pm there is an informal free range networking session with drinks.

12.30pm – lunch is called, you sit at a hosted table with decision makers from businesses that don’t do what yours does! You have up to 3 minutes to explain what you do, the benefits that your business brings, how you can help others succeed and how others can help you

1.30 to 1.40 your opportunity to go and talk to someone else in the room, using your copy of the seating plan or continue your conversation or start a new one with someone else on your table.

1.40pm – 1.50pm Speaker – Ken Abbott

2.00pm Lunch finishes – you can still continue to network with the others in the room, maybe set up a follow up meeting, gather information from the literature table. A great time to make those appointments and even continue your discussions in the venue’s facilities.

ALL OF THIS OPPORTUNITY CAN BE YOURS FOR

£38.00 (Inc VAT) covering seminar, coffee, 2 course served lunch with drinks, event programme with delegate list, networking tips, event correspondence.  Car parking for those attending the event is available in adjacent NCP at 50% discount