Building your client portfolio
The 3 most likely reasons why your leads are not converting
Do you find that you have good conversations with prospects which never quite seem to lead to paid work? You are not alone! This is one of the most common challenges professional advisors have with their business development. Particularly when they are new to business development. In this article I explore the 3 most common …
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Buying signals: How to recognise them and swiftly close the sale
How do you know when a client is thinking of buying your services? They start to give off buying signals. This blog post answers the question, what are buying signals? Then, when you recognise a buying signal how to progress the sale swiftly to a conclusion with your potential client. What are buying signals Before I …
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How to build up a pipeline of new work via my network
How to create a pipeline of new work via your network Recently I have been having a similar conversation with my clients who are in the process of building up a pipeline of new work and their client portfolio via their network. Therefore, in this blog post I will share the conversation I had with …
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The two secrets every networking grandmaster knows!
Every great networker knows that to generate business via networking you need to be visible and seen to be credible.
Business development advice that harms more than helps
Clients often tell me about the business development advice they have had from well-established partners in their firm. Lots of these tips are spot-on and very helpful. Others are . . . well, we have a chuckle! Some of the tips I have heard have been at best unhelpful and sometimes actually damaging to winning …
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7 tried and tested ways lawyers can make the time to network
Networking tips for lawyers I’m guessing you became a lawyer because you love the law. Yes? Makes sense. You didn’t go into it because you love forging relationships with strangers. However, that’s what you have to do. Network. If you want to move your career forward you need to have built and nurtured a …
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How to write great blog content in no time
Great blog content is a brilliant way of growing your profile and attracting the right type of clients. However, when I speak to lawyers, accountants and consultants, I often hear that they are scrabbling around for content, and simply don’t have the time to write anyway. “I’m worried that we don’t have the time to …
How specialist do I really need to be?
I am on record many, many times saying you need to be niche to build up your own practice and win your own clients. But how niche or specialist do you really need to be? Do you need to be THE expert? In this blog post I answer the question, ‘how specialist do I really …