This question is a great one and was prompted by a reader enquiry (thanks Kate). Many agencies seeking to integrate social channels into their campaigns want to know whether they can charge their clients for the work. Our view is that this should be a chargeable service that you can provide. First check a couple […]
If you are in business development, it’s important to stay connected to the buzz in the marketplace. One of the hard things is to find a single place to gather all your news sources. Biz dev can be written about in marketing magazines, books, industry magazines, online in blogs and forums. It’s a disparate subject […]
One of the nicest things about getting your biz dev working well is when inbound enquiries start to come to the business. I am working with Websters , a niche chartered accountancy practice specialising in service charge accounting. They have worked hard on a new website and blog as well as some collateral and internal […]
This week I got a couple of newsletters from organisations – both happen to be agencies one is in PR and the other is an integrated retail specialist. HAve a read of these opening statements Well here we are, more than halfway through the year that was sent to challenge the retail, travel and leisure […]
From Jock McNeish over at Thinking Pharma. Made me smile No related posts.
What are your most recent pitch wins? [wrong first question!] We don't tend to put ourselves onto pitches The reason is that we are a different sort of agency. We formed around a group of nomads from the creative industries – ad, design, tech media. The agency is 4.5 years old We set up […]
Image by vincos via Flickr Suw , a client [full disclosure] has posted this question on LinkedIn. Have social tools helped your career? I answered it. You may find some of the other answers useful / insightful. I’m writing a piece on how social tools can help people develop their career and would like to […]
Every advisory business has to write proposals at some point in order to persuade clients to buy from them. Proposal writing is both an art and a science. It’s easy to follow a simple formula for the headings, sub headings and how the argument to persuade the prospect to buy from you. But this is […]
A “Golden Question” is one in which the answer tells you more than the question itself would imply. Useful for research, discovery and us biz dev types who need to quickly assess new prospects and whether they will buy from us. I learnt about it from Don Peppers who integrated it into his CRM method […]