Crafting a strong LinkedIn profile that gets you the results in a few simple steps
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Crafting a strong LinkedIn profile that gets you the results in a few simple steps

ByHeather Townsend

Now that people aren’t necessarily meeting face to face, LinkedIn has become the place for professionals to network, as it is the social media platform where people network for mainly business reasons. It also has most of the decision makers you want to meet on it. When those decision makers ‘Google’ your name, LinkedIn is…

Helping your clients go through the Buying Journey: How do you get your content to do your heavy lifting with clients
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Helping your clients go through the Buying Journey: How do you get your content to do your heavy lifting with clients

ByHeather Townsend

There are a lot of misconceptions around business development and content creation in the professional services world. The first of them being that it takes too much time. The second is that, as a lawyer, accountant or consultant, you need to sell your services. And these two are simply not true. If you want your…

5 Sure-fire Tips to Generate Impact from Creating a Post in LinkedIn Publisher/Post
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5 Sure-fire Tips to Generate Impact from Creating a Post in LinkedIn Publisher/Post

ByHeather Townsend

LinkedIn has opened the floodgates to a world of professional content with their publishing platform. Top influencers are publishing their content on LinkedIn and in turn, a lot of professionals are seeking out content on the platform to read. With this fact alone, it’s no surprise then that lawyers, accountants, and consultants who are looking…

Fighting the “I don’t have time for this”. How to create daily habits for business development.
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Fighting the “I don’t have time for this”. How to create daily habits for business development.

ByHeather Townsend

‘That’s just too hard!’, ‘I don’t know where to start!’, ‘How to find the time for business development?’, ‘…but I’m a good technician…I don’t need to win new businesses’. Sound familiar? Quite frankly, the biggest thing that holds so many great lawyers, accountants, and consultants from progressing their career is knowing how to find the…

Your checklist to expertise: 6 daily habits you must have to become a rainmaker
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Your checklist to expertise: 6 daily habits you must have to become a rainmaker

ByHeather Townsend

Using check-lists may not sound “fun” or “creative” or anything like the reason you went into law, accountancy or consultancy, but they are essential if you want to turn on a reliable tap of new business leads coming to you. (Which then becomes the basis of your Business Case for partnership.) They are essential if…

Boosting your online visibility: What makes for good content on LinkedIn?
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Boosting your online visibility: What makes for good content on LinkedIn?

ByHeather Townsend

With the COVID-19 crisis and social distancing measures imposed around the world (at the time of writing), a lot of lawyers, accountants, consultants, and overall experts in professional services, are being forced to reconsider their business development efforts. Now that large networking events are not allowed or highly restricted around the world, LinkedIn has become…

6 sure-fire ways to build trust and win leads online
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6 sure-fire ways to build trust and win leads online

ByHeather Townsend

One of the challenges that many lawyers, accountants and consultants face is not just producing content, but understanding why producing, sharing and curating content is so important now for business development. Whether you understand it or not, it’s a fact that the content you share and how you show up online is key to building…

The 6 greatest barriers to effective networking – which do you struggle with?
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The 6 greatest barriers to effective networking – which do you struggle with?

ByHeather Townsend

Every lawyer, accountant, and consultant knows networking is an essential component for career success; they invest time and effort building their list of contacts and developing the relationships with people as they know it’s key to business growth. Although like many smart, talented people, they know just how essential it is to execute networking properly,…

7 key ingredients to improve your tender win rate
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7 key ingredients to improve your tender win rate

ByHeather Townsend

There’s nothing more disheartening than losing a tender. After all the late nights, early morning coffees, and pestering (or being pestered) for essential information, it’s a real kick in the teeth when all that effort on writing a bid doesn’t end in success. There are no prizes for coming second… So what can you do…

15 great tips to help you win a competitive tender/bid
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15 great tips to help you win a competitive tender/bid

ByHeather Townsend

How do you win a competitive bid? In this blog post, we will share our top 15 tips to help you write winning proposals so that you can ace that bid for a competitive tender.  Tip 1: Highlight your 10% difference Unfortunately, much of what you put in your proposal will be mirrored in your…

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