How to restart your BD when you’ve stopped for a while
| | | | | |

How to restart your BD when you’ve stopped for a while

ByClaire Meddings

Have you ever let your business development slip. And then found yourself paralysed about picking it back up again? It happens to all of us. Life gets in the way. A week turns into a month. And suddenly you’re not just behind on your BD activities; you’re dealing with the added weight of embarrassment, procrastination,…

People sat around a table developing business relationships
| | | | | |

How to always make time for Business Development

ByClaire Meddings

This is how to fight back against constant demands from partners and clients stopping you getting to your Business Development actions and plans. Does your week ever feel like a game of Diary Jenga? Do you keep telling yourself you’ll focus on business development “when things quiet down”? You carve out time, but then an…

online presence
| | |

5 ways growing your online presence NOW can help you sign up the right clients later

ByHeather Townsend

With so many people working remotely right now, there has never been a more important time to have an online presence. Think about it, everyone is at home and searching online, so if you don’t have a presence, how will your prospects find you? We have always stressed how vitally important your online footprint is…

creating a strong linkedin profile
| | | | |

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

ByHeather Townsend

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 usually the first place that they will find you….

clients buying journey
| | | |

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…

a beach fire to represent sure fire tips for linkedin publishing success
| | |

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…

Daily business development habits
| | |

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…

seedlings to represent business growth checklists
| | | |

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…

good content for linkedin
| | | | |

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

ByHeather Townsend

If you truly want to make the best out of your business development efforts in LinkedIn, you need to pay close attention to crafting a strong profile but also at the sort of content you are sharing there. In this fragment of our Progress to Partner Academy Virtual Masterclass “How to win work in only…

A person balancing rocks to symbolise building trust on social media
| | | |

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…

End of content

End of content