Creative Tenders Team Profiles – John Hudson

Posted on 12th August 201626th January 2022 by John Hudson

Creative Tenders Team Profiles – John Hudson

When did you start working in the creative sector?

12 years whilst I was still at University.

What is the biggest change you’ve seen in the sector in the last ten years?

Everything moving digital and online, social media becoming more and more important for businesses, and online communities becoming more popular than offline events.

What made you stay in the creative sector?

The diversity and fast paced environment, I’m the type of person that needs to be kept on my toes, and the creative sector does that every day.

What is your biggest achievement in the sector?

Building a leading B2C videography business with 50% year on year growth. For future achievements I am hoping Creative Tenders will become THE leading tender portal used worldwide by creative businesses and purchasing managers.

If you could describe the sector in 3 words what would you say?

Fast, dynamic and fulfilling (unlike my current diet).

If you could see anything happen in the creative sector, what would it be?

For smaller agencies to realise the potential in exporting. Geography shouldn’t be an issue now when we do business with one another.

If you didn’t work at in the creative industries what would you do?

Probably a PE teacher, I like working with people and helping people realise what they are capable of.

What 3 skills do you think you need to be successful in this sector?

Approachable, open-minded, a good work ethic. If you have those 3 three things, drop me a line or send me your CV.

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Creative Tenders – Officially launched – Website, Design & Marketing Tenders all in one place!

Posted on 25th May 201610th January 2022 by John Hudson

Creative Tenders – Officially launched – Website, Design & Marketing Tenders all in one place!

The day has finally arrived, and the team at Creative Tenders couldn’t he happier. Creative Tenders officially launched.

We are now open for business. We have proactive marketing campaigns running in parallel recruiting new creative sign ups and new private sector opportunities onto our system. We have streamlined processes where we check over 1,000 tender websites daily to locate 100% of tenders available online that are relevant to creative sector businesses only, meaning two things you won’t miss a single tender, and you won’t need to search through hundreds of irrelevant tenders to find opportunities suitable for your business.

The system is running a start up cost of £12 per week for agencies and £6 per week for freelancers, but this cost is only for the first 100 registrations. Following the 100^th registration, the full system fee is payable at £18 per week for companies and £12 per week for freelancers. So don’t forget the early bird catches the worm.

Website Tenders Launch

The site officially launched on Tuesday and by Thursday afternoon we saw the registration of our 10^th user, and we are overwhelmed by the response from the sector.

If you are interested in seeing a demo of the system, you can organise by this emailing our Director of Sales Andrew Gibson or by phoning our office and speaking with one of our sales representatives.

Thank you for keeping up to date with Creative Tenders, we look forward to helping you grow your agency.

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Are you a sales professional in the creative sector?

Posted on 23rd May 201626th January 2022 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 tender 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 Tenders 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 tender opportunities.

Sounds fantastic right? You can sign up today!

Look forward to working with you!

Creative Tenders moves to Durham

Posted on 16th April 201610th January 2022 by John Hudson

Creative Tenders moves to Durham

We are excited to announce that Creative Tenders will be moving to Durham in April 2016 to support its bid for high growth. The growing software company will be moving to the prestigious business park – City West at Meadowfield in Durham after signing a five-year lease for 1,600 square foot.

Managing Director John Hudson said “we are very excited to move the business to Durham. The new office space allows us to grow massively and will support with finding the right team, with the right experience to lead our business to become the leading creative tendering portal across the UK”.

He went on to say “if you are looking for a new challenge then Creative Tenders could be the business for you. We have a full list of open vacancies on our website ranging from sales executives to account managers”.

Creative Tenders Portal

The product is due to go live in February and the team believes that it’s the start of something very exciting for the creative industries. The team will launch UK wide from day one and Directors Jill and John a husband and wife team has heavily invested into the business and its product development.

Jill said “I have worked in the creative sector my whole career, and I always knew I wanted to streamline the way new business was secured, as no matter what agency I worked with they struggled to find quality leads and new business opportunities”

“Our new team will be forward thinking experienced sales and marketing representatives from the creative sector and will drive forward the agencies that sign up to our product. Following the signing of the new office lease we have everything we need to build a leading brand”.

We welcome feedback on our product so please contact Jill Hudson – jill@creativetenders.co.uk to discuss our business further.