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Business Development Clinic: 6 tips to get back in touch with old colleagues

Getting back in touch with people and old colleagues is something that many of us find difficult. Regardless of whether your motive is driven by a commercial need or you are just curious, it doesn’t make it any easier to get back in touch. However, for most of us, there is a huge amount of…

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Business Development Clinic: How do I qualify a lead?

Today’s business development clinic has come to us via a conversation with an aspiring partner who was finding that he was spending too much time chasing potential clients which didn’t go anywhere. We asked him, did he qualify his leads at any stage in the business development process. He looked at us blankly… This is…

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Business Development Clinic: Your 5 a day

In today’s business development clinic, Jon Baker, discusses the 5 networking activities you should do daily. As Jon explains here, successful business networking is about taking small steps, every day. Growing a great network takes time, but then you can harvest the results. This article is about 5 steps that you can take every day…

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: Actions speak louder than words
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Business Development Clinic: Actions speak louder than words

This is the third blog in a series by Martin Bragg, highly experienced business development expert with 20 years experience in professional service firms. Martin has worked in business development for major international law firms including the magic circle and for accountancy practices in the big four and beyond. (See here for Martin’s 1st and 2nd…

Business Development Clinic: Only promise what you can deliver
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Business Development Clinic: Only promise what you can deliver

This is the second blog in a series by Martin Bragg, highly experienced business development expert with 20 years experience in professional service firms. Martin has worked in business development for major international law firms including the magic circle and for accountancy practices in the big four and beyond. (Martin’s 1st blog post can be found…

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…

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