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Business Development Clinic: How to deal with negative comments online.
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Business Development Clinic: How to deal with negative comments online.

Jon Baker helps professional service firms grow from 5-50 employees. In this business development clinic, Jon explains how to deal with negative comments online. Many firms and professionals are wary of social media, because they are worried about what may get written – and what will come back to bite them at a later date….

Business Development Clinic: How can I save time with social media?
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Business Development Clinic: How can I save time with social media?

I am often asked about how to effectively use social media, without it taking up too much time. After all, most lawyers, accountants and consultants have chargeable time targets to hit. These targets don’t reduce just because you decide to use social media within your business development mix. In this blog post, I will give…

Business Development Clinic: How do I help my partners embrace different ways of marketing?
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Business Development Clinic: How do I help my partners embrace different ways of marketing?

In this week’s business development clinic, Heather Townsend answers a knotty problem. How to change the way your practice markets itself? i.e. how to make your partners sit up and take notice of some of the newer and more effective marketing practices now available? This is not an unusual problem – and I see it…

Business Development Clinic: How to network effectively without having to go out networking in the evening
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Business Development Clinic: How to network effectively without having to go out networking in the evening

  Heather Townsend helps professionals become the ‘Go To Expert’. She is the author of the award-winning and best-selling ‘The FT Guide To Business Networking‘. In this post, Heather shows you that it is possible to build up a network which helps you win business without compromising on your evenings with the family. How does…

Business Development Time Savers: Have a networking strategy – part 6
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Business Development Time Savers: Have a networking strategy – part 6

Probably the biggest waste of time I see lawyers, accountants and consultants do with their business development, is network without a clear purpose or strategy. It isn’t helped by many firms asking their people to sub in for another person at the drop of a hat. Having a personal networking strategy that you can use…

Business Development Time Savers: Have a networking strategy – part 5
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Business Development Time Savers: Have a networking strategy – part 5

Probably the biggest waste of time I see lawyers, accountants and consultants do with their business development, is network without a clear purpose or strategy. It isn’t helped by many firms asking their people to sub in for another person at the drop of a hat. Having a personal networking strategy that you can use…

Business Development Time Savers: Have a networking strategy – part 3
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Business Development Time Savers: Have a networking strategy – part 3

Probably the biggest waste of time I see lawyers, accountants and consultants do with their business development, is network without a clear purpose or strategy. It isn’t helped by many firms asking their people to sub in for another person at the drop of a hat. Having a personal networking strategy that you can use…

Networking for the newly qualified- creating your networking goals
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Networking for the newly qualified- creating your networking goals

You’ve probably heard lots of talk in your firm about networking and “getting out there”. But what does that mean in reality?  You’re not expected to win your own work (yet!) but you do need to be seen as someone who is building a network of people around them.  But how to do this when…

5 ways to always have something meaningful to say on social media
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5 ways to always have something meaningful to say on social media

In yesterday’s post we looked at a daily routine for you to use on LinkedIn. In this post we are still continuing our theme of how to save time with business development, and we are still looking at ways of doing this with social media. One of the biggest barriers I hear lawyers, accountants and…

5 ways to build your profile without physically being there – Part 1
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5 ways to build your profile without physically being there – Part 1

When I started my own business I had a 20 month old and a 3 year old. My decision to be my own boss had been preceded being made redundant, whilst the global economy crashed. Yes, that was three years ago. As my business was started in haste, I didn’t have the luxury of pots…

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