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Fighting the “I don’t have time for this”. How to create daily habits for business development.
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Fighting the “I don’t have time for this”. How to create daily habits for business development.

ByHeather Townsend

‘That’s just too hard!’, ‘I don’t know where to start!’, ‘How to find the time for business development?’, ‘…but I’m a good technician…I don’t need to win new businesses’. Sound familiar? Quite frankly, the biggest thing that holds so many great lawyers, accountants, and consultants from progressing their career is knowing how to find the…

The 6 greatest barriers to effective networking – which do you struggle with?
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The 6 greatest barriers to effective networking – which do you struggle with?

ByHeather Townsend

Every lawyer, accountant, and consultant knows networking is an essential component for career success; they invest time and effort building their list of contacts and developing the relationships with people as they know it’s key to business growth. Although like many smart, talented people, they know just how essential it is to execute networking properly,…

7 deadly business development mistakes – which ones are you making?
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7 deadly business development mistakes – which ones are you making?

ByHeather Townsend

The days when you could get to partnership as a brilliant technician are long gone… Even if you only work on very big-ticket items, to get to be a Magic Circle, Big Law, Big 4 partner or partner at a large firm you still need to have proved your ability to win work and be…

3 reasons why you are struggling to win bigger and better clients
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3 reasons why you are struggling to win bigger and better clients

ByHeather Townsend

It seems that every accountant, lawyer or consultant I meet wants to win bigger clients but isn’t sure how to go about it. In this article, I explore why you are struggling to win bigger clients and how to make the changes you need to starting winning bigger and better clients. Not having a niche…

6 crucial choices you need to make to be successful with business development
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6 crucial choices you need to make to be successful with business development

ByHeather Townsend

If you’re on your way to making partner, thinking about how to win your own clients is one of the main thoughts that is probably on your mind. But have you ever thought about some of the choices that you need to make that could help you with this? This article looks at 6 crucial…

How to create a sound bite that helps you easily win business
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How to create a sound bite that helps you easily win business

ByHeather Townsend

We are going to dig into Chapter 3 of my book The Go-To Expert: How to Grow Your Reputation, Differentiate Yourself From the Competition and Win New Business and explore in more depth the concept of a sound bite. On the surface of it, having a sound bite doesn’t sound that important if you work…

Business development advice that harms more than helps
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Business development advice that harms more than helps

ByHeather Townsend

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…

The Go-To Expert System – The Proven way for you to grow a partner-sized client portfolio

ByHeather Townsend

This three month course will help you build a partner-sized client portfolio. Learn how to win your own bigger and better clients. Don’t waste time on business development activities which go nowhere. You will discover how to: Turn on a tap of referrals Win new clients using our tried, tested and proven 30 minutes per…

The 3 reasons professionals limit their new business wins by becoming jack-of-all trades
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The 3 reasons professionals limit their new business wins by becoming jack-of-all trades

ByHeather Townsend

For the next few months to celebrate the launch of our next book ‘The Go-To Expert’, I will be blogging weekly, including extracts from The Go-To Expert, about topics to help you become The Go-To Expert and build a partner sized client portfolio. In this week’s blog post we are going to look at why…

3 key questions to answer in order to build up a Business Case when you are currently in industry
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3 key questions to answer in order to build up a Business Case when you are currently in industry

ByHeather Townsend

In this post, we look at how to build a Business Case for partnership when you are in industry and looking to return to practice as a partner. After working with people aiming to make partner, we know that considerable numbers of people are returning from industry into practice. Incentivised by the chance of finally achieving…

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