About Keith Smith
My company runs the UK's only independent company data, insight and new business tool kit that effectively levels the playing field for new business campaigns. We offer marketing, PR, creative, digital and tech agencies the opportunity to access, affordable, accurate and simple tools to develop new business strategies.
Underpinning this is the support of the UK's leading business development agencies as well as endorsements from comms industry trade organisations.
Entries by Keith Smith
Rob Harrison-Plastow: Sales Revelations
The Meta Crisis, pluralistic ignorance, how marketing can address feelings of helplessness and overwhelm, changing perceptions through creativity, climate change mitigation, ecological overshoot, the new economy and collective brain power.
Richard Robinson: The Game Changer – Agency Pitch Predictor
Why and when big brands pitch their marketing, advertising and PR accounts. Richard Robinson is Executive Director of Ingenuity+ whose ‘Pitch Predictor’ research gives you and your agency the best chance of winning new business.
How much does it cost to pitch?
What is a pitch?
Advice for CMOs on holding a pitch.
How to write a brief, and the value of operational discipline.
Hannah Springett: HLabs – What’s the Story?
How no code is revolutionising web design for marketing and branding work. The importance of constant innovation, how over-servicing clients works, the difference between luck and opportunity, remote working and diversity and new tools for presenting and pitching.
A Survival guide for noligarchs: How the wheels came off at Tesla, with Rachel Konrad, Esben Pedersen & Craig Davis
Can Tesla reclaim its clean, green status? Will Musk abandon Tesla or will Tesla abandon Elon? Who is Elon Musk, what was he like to work with and what has be become? Three of his closest former employees give their views on how we got here and what we can do.
Tina Fegent: Eat the Pitch
How procurement solves CMO problems, RTO, the power of independent agencies, diversity, how to make the agency short list, the importance of creativity, agency remuneration, public sector work and AI’s efficiencies.
Keith Smith & Ian Truscott: PRCA NewBizFest’25
The average first meeting to pitch process can take up to 21 months. How do you keep the prospect engaged and informed throughout this time?
Paul Holmes: Thought PRovoking
One of the most high-profile figures in the global PR industry – Paul Holmes on Purpose and profit, PR’s role in the climate debate
Working from home and the WPP rule, Unsocial media and free speech with Trump, Musk, Bezos and Zuckerberg, DEI and America’s abandonment of equality laws
AI and modern journalism,
Pitching and new business, Man’s best friend and a place called home.
Debbie Little: Better pitching for PR agencies
PRCA’s ‘Pitch Forward’ research detailed, dissected and analysed. How PR agencies can improve the pitch process and tip the odds in their favour.
Domenica Di Lieto: Breaking China
Predictions for the year of the snake, what US and UK can learn from China’s business methods, common assumptions dispelled, how to know your customers, competitors and your advantages, how sales process works in China, the influencer market and the Chinese consumer mindset.
Interesting facts
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