Press Release: KDM & Associates Announces Strategic Partnership with Taoti Creative
April 28, 2009 | Washington, DC
Today, KDM & Associates announced a strategic, teamingpartnership withTaoti Creative. KDMprovides consulting andsolutions to government contractors looking to procure business with the Federal Government. Taoti provides brand development and marketing solutions to similar clients. The teaming agreement between the two companies will provide for KDM to offer Taoti’s branding and marketing services to its client base, while Taoti offers KDM’s government procurement consulting services to its own client base.
“This is a classic ‘fits like a glove’ scenario,” says Brent Lightner, Taoti’s founder and CEO. “KDM’s clients need that polished image and message when seeking to do business with the government under the Federal Recovery Act. And polishing a corporate image is one of our fortes. But there is more to a polished image if you want government procurement officers, small business directors, and program managers to take you seriously. That’s where KDM’s comprehensive business development services come into play—they can help position our clients so that their core services and solutions can be more effectively communicated to the decision makers.”
According to KDM’s founder, Keith Moore, “This alliance between KDM and TAOTI will allow the two firms to implement an effective team approach and work seamlessly on developing competitive differentiators to build a value proposition by which our mutual clients’ interests are best served. This strategy will give decision makers greater justifications to become confident that our clients bring true value and real solutions. The KDM-Taoti collaboration will yield a better result than either company providing services as a stand-alone service provider. Taoti joins a long list of respected professionals in the federal sector and in the words of Joel Salmon (Director of Sales at Taoti), “The partnership creates one of those rare two-way street relationships, by which Taoti’s services help KDM clients, and KDM services will help Taoti’s clients. A win-win, all around.”
The partnership is the formalization of a working relationship already in practice. Both companies see this agreement as an opportunity to streamline operations in their working relationship, while being able to increase service offerings and the caliber of services for their own clients, while sharing cross-marketing opportunities. KDM has been actively pursuing a branding and marketing partner for two years prior the consummation of this KDM-Taoti partnership.
About KDM & Associates – http://www.kdm-assoc.com
KDM & Associates, LLC was established in August of 2001 to assist large corporations to identify small and minority owned firms that could become effective strategic teaming partners or subcontractors to large and mid size public sector contracts. KDM uses a team approach utilizing the talents of exceptionally diverse and professional business and marketing firms. We offer unique and customized solutions including 8a certifications, GSA schedules and small business marketing plans that focus on driving return-on-investment to our clients. Our core strengths include business, market, and channel development for our clients, government affairs consulting, and public relations for domestic and international markets, specifically Africa, Latin America, China and Liberia). For more information, contact KDM at 703.212.2205 or info@kdm-assoc.com.
About Taoti Creative – http://www.taoti.com
Taoti, a Washington, DC-based marketing and web development agency on Capitol Hill, founded in 1996, provides an array of award-winning marketing and IT-related services to more than 700 clients in more than a dozen countries. Clients include the California State Senate, The World Bank, Penn State University, and many other commercial, governmental, and NGO organizations. Based in Washington, DC with offices just steps from the US Capitol, Taoti is a non-partisan operation with services ranging from brand development to enterprise-caliber database and web design. Taoti both provides the solution strategy as well as the production and implementation of the solution specifications. For more information, contact Taoti at 202.546.8946 or info@taoti.com.
