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Rookie errors ruining your pitch and reputation
Unfocused, too long, generic boilerplate responses and irrelevant content.
Time and time again, industry research concludes these are some of the most common views clients and procurement specialists have when asked about what they think about the pitches they are presented with. It is clear that distinctiveness is still lacking when it comes to client pitch documents, with clients feeling they have been sent a standard law firm brochure as opposed to a focused pitch with specific applicability to their requirements.
Your law firm may be a perfect fit for the client, and the problem is not that your firm can’t do what the client wants, but that you are not presenting your expertise in the most distinctive way possible. Is your Law Firm better than your pitch?

Here are a few examples of rookie errors that clients said put them off pitches they received:
Boilerplate content
Too many marketing sections irrelevant to the tender
Lengthy CV style experience presentation
Too much focus on previous triumphs for other clients
Indistinct client focus
Failure to engage from the start
Over emphasis on the firm not the client
Lack of client industry understanding
No fee clarity
Hard to read and out dated material
The key to a successful tender is preparation; where the lawyers have done detailed research into the client’s needs and have reflected this in their pitch document. Making a good first impression is crucial, but style over substance will not win the tender. However, with the amount of time required to generate multiple pitches, it is easy to see why many law firms or their business development teams fall in to the trap of sending generic company sales brochures that don’t distinguish themselves.
Pitching software you already know how to use.
We understand the importance and value of a law firm’s time and have found a way for high-quality, branded and consistent marketing and business development documents to be created in Microsoft Word and PowerPoint.
PitchPerfect automates the creation of these documents through an add-in for Microsoft Office. Available in Word and PowerPoint, PitchPerfect connects your branded templates to your approved content, stored in a single content library (in Microsoft SharePoint).
PitchPerfect is built to your requirements, ensuring your firm’s internal language is used to make adoption easier, and retaining your brand’s unique content and design.
Through automating the process of creating pitches and other supporting documents, PitchPerfect gives you more time to focus on tailoring the pitch to meet the specific requirements of your client or prospect.
Key features and benefits
Create design quality proposal documents quickly and easily
save time and allow more focus on creating a unique pitch tailored to the prospect
increase the marketing team’s value by transforming them from being document assemblers to strategic thinkers
differentiate your firm from others with the speed and quality of your documents
Customisable tracking and analysis against active and historic pitches
understand areas to adapt for best practice to help improve the success rate
analyse win rates by region, practice, sector or fee earner
review performance, and profitability
A variety of pitch templates built uniquely to your firm's branding
ensure firm wide consistency
retain and apply formatting and styles for all your content
can be maintained and updated internally
Works directly in Word, PowerPoint and Excel
familiar and easy to use by the business development teams but also by fee earners and secretaries
reduce training time and resistance, as no need to learn a new system
flexibility and ease-of-use as any other Word or PowerPoint document
A centralised content management system in MS SharePoint or Office 365
ensure everyone is always using up-to date and approved content, preventing silos and inconsistent information
automate the process of managing content through workflows and version history tracking
structure and tag all content including experience, capabilities, quotes, images and biographies
Synchronise with other systems such as CRMs, websites and experience management systems
avoid duplication of effort
maintain content in the most appropriate system
ensure a seamless process of content management
Logic-based, configurable searching of all content
refine searches to ensure most relevant content can be easily found
manage large volumes of diverse content including text, images, graphics and PDFs
respond quickly to RFPs
Accessible by any user, anywhere, on any device
facilitate collaborative and agile working
enable fee earners and key people to access content and documents at crucial times
ensure only current and approved information is used
Assign tasks and deadlines
seamlessly collaborate firmwide
keep track of responsibilities and deadlines
manage and review all tasks in one place
If you would like further information on PitchPerfect you can download our brochure here or request a demo, alternatively contact us on 020 3743 9626 or make an online enquiry here.