I have several new clients and I thought I’d entertain you on a Bank Holiday Monday with a short list of what I am up to. Job number one (for fun) is to write an italian musical dictionary.  I used to play lots of violin music and it is a great challenge to review my [...]








Image by wimbledonian via Flickr I am continuing with my trial of the Leads Explorer service. I think one of the biggest challenges in B2B marketing is to know who your incoming readers are and which companies they work for. And so I’d like to welcome new readers from Calian Canada Kyp UK Taylor Nelson [...]








Michael Gass has written the “post of the year” Social Media Philosophy and tips for new business in which he sets out his views and advice based on years consulting to creative agencies on how to do their business development. Read it. It is brilliant.








Dear Sir [it's always a man, dontchakno?] Thank you for asking me to comment on how I could help your company improve its business development, incoming leads pipeline and sales pipeline. The following comments apply not just to you, but to a large nubmer of corporates whose websites have never been updated since launch.  Please [...]








Razorfish, the global marketing agency, has released “Fluent” a report on social influence marketing.  There is a big buzz on influence and perception or sentiment analysis towards brands going on recently – and I think it is a small red herring; a phase the internet is going through.  Whether customers buy is the really important [...]








Always looking for new ideas and relevant content, can you help us out? We’d like to receive ides for new subject areas to write about offers of guest posts – write for us on YOUR topic of interest recommendations of new content, links to interesting posts or websites other things about biz dev that you [...]








Today’s trending twitter topic is #bandfoodpuns check it out My favourites so far Buns and Roses Ragout against the machine Figgy Stardust Jimi Hamsteaks Elvis Parsley Pjork Durian Durian








Blogs Can Convert Visitors into Leads for Ad Agency New Business The chief benefit to your agency from using social networking is “getting new business leads.” Creating a community of followers through Twitter and a regularly updated stream of content on a blog builds engagement, can boost your agency’s presence on Google and ultimately bring in more [...]








Are you a big team or a corporate internal department?  Four Groups is looking for testers for their new software.  Bruce Lewin writes Before we get onto the review of the quarter, we’d just like to say that we are looking for people who want to offer feedback and potentially pilot our new team building [...]








You will have read the guest post yesterday from Steve McKee. He generously gave me two copies of his book (hardback) to give away and so if you’d like one, please comment below and I’ll pick a winner on Friday and get your mailing address. Good luck! [Affiliate link]