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20 Dec 2019
The relationships you establish at the start of your career will only benefit you as your career develops. It will also make growing your network organically as you advance much easier and much more time efficient.
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17 Dec 2019
The most common answer I get when I ask this question is “lack of time”. I want to challenge this. When I ask the same people if they have exercised in the last week the majority say they have and the reason that people have found time to run/go to the gym/do yoga is that far too many fee earners in professional service firms still place a higher value to their personal well-being than they do on business development. Here are some of my thoughts on what you can say and do to make sure your colleagues’ BD doesn’t fall by the wayside ...
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13 Dec 2019
Believe me it happens to us all! And to prove the point, here are 3 stories from my own adventures in BD ...
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13 Dec 2019
Today is Friday the 13th. There is a lot of nonsense talked about this date and it’s a superstition that certainly hasn’t been helped by a certain American horror film franchise. However, whatever its origin is, the legend of Friday 13th got me thinking about some of the myths and nonsense people still believe about marketing and business development ...
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10 Dec 2019
Professional service firms spend a lot of time talking about how to grow fees. Typically this conversation will focus on 3 things - winning new clients, growing fees from existing clients and improving cross-selling internally. All worthy business development objectives but maybe you should start giving more attention to fixing leakages in your fee income?
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06 Dec 2019
Most people think they’re a good presenter. Unfortunately usually they’re not. The evidence is all over LinkedIn - people hiding behind lecterns or other physical barriers, text heavy slides, presenters staring over their shoulders at the screen, auto-cues and scripts and my personal hate, endless bullet points. If you want 5 things you could do differently to immediately improve the way you present, they are ...
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