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

ByHeather Townsend

What are the greatest barriers to effective business networking? Every lawyer, accountant, and consultant knows that business 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,…

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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…

How do you win a competitive 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…

What does it mean to be made partner
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Has your workload temporarily dried up? Here are 6 ways to keep usefully busy!

ByHeather Townsend

We are used to being “too busy” – our daily lives consisting of juggling work tasks, looming deadlines, clocking out late, and then waking up to do it all over again – but somehow we manage. Somehow we manage to keep pressing on and any dreams of a ‘break in the schedule’ are pushed to…

How to say no to a partner through email
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8 tried and tested tips to keep the faith with your business development efforts

ByHeather Townsend

So many working in professional service firms are shocked when they realise that they are expected to go out and win work. They don’t consider themselves as working in “sales” and can’t work out how to fit it in. Sound familiar? If you want to progress your career, you need to get over these thoughts…

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5 ways your online footprint helps you sign up the right clients quicker

ByHeather Townsend

Every lawyer, accountant, and consultant is looking to save time doing business development. What many professionals don’t know, however, is that they can do just that by building their online footprint. Actually finding and making the time to grow their own client portfolio is one of the biggest challenges for potential partners and that’s partly…

finding your niche
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Everything you ever wanted to know about choosing your niche

ByHeather Townsend

One of the ways you can minimise the time you spend on business development is to focus on developing a niche for yourself. This may not make sense right off the bat, but it does when you think about it. Having a goal or a target to hit puts you on a path to success,…

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9 tried and tested tips to keep the faith with your business development efforts

ByHeather Townsend

I’m sure we’ve all been in that stomach-churning position of wondering just exactly where our next new decent client is coming from, especially if we’ve recently taken a leap of faith to start winning our own clients. It’s truly gut-wrenching, particularly when you’ve been actively getting your name out there and supposedly doing the right…

Business Development mistakes
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7 deadly business development mistakes – which ones are you making?

ByHeather Townsend

The days when you could get to partnership as a brilliant technician are long gone… Even if you only work on very big-ticket items, to get to be a Magic Circle, Big Law, Big 4 partner or partner at a large firm you still need to have proved your ability to win work and be…

business development
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How to make time for business development and still have a life outside of work

ByHeather Townsend

How do you make time for business development when you have a full day – especially if you are a lawyer? As you start to go up the ladder, on the way to making partner, your responsibilities get bigger. And with a full day, how do you ensure that your career still moves forward and…

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