Planning to unplug for the holidays? Your out-of-office message can keep clients informed and reassured. Discover tips for a professional sign-off.
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When uncertainty rattles business confidence, the best marketing is to show you’re there for your clients. It’s a purposeful way to connect and position yourself as the trusted adviser they need right now. We show you how to do just that…
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Meetings with prospective clients are a critical part of any lawyer’s business development efforts, but striking the right balance between under-preparation and over-preparation can be challenging. Sue-Ella's S.L.A.Y. framework—Share, Learn, Ask or Affirm, and 'Yes' —provides a clear, actionable method for preparing effectively.
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The results are in, and most of us agree: BD is more difficult for women in the insolvency and restructuring sector. Could the opportunity for niche profiling and a shift in client profiles offer a ray of hope?
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If you’re one of this year’s crop of new Partners let me begin by saying congratulations. Partnership is a significant career milestone and one you should be celebrating. It also means you’re going to have to have a solid game plan for cementing your position and growing your practice into everything it should be.
Here’s my 10-point plan for doing just that …
Word-of-mouth is still king when it comes to building a professional services practice but the new business pathway is getting more tortuous.
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Writing an effective business plan doesn’t have to be painful. Here’s how you can get more out of yours in 6 steps.
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In demanding times like these your business development plans become even more important. Here’s how to tackle them plus 5 CPD sessions to show you even more.
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In this episode of The Boutique Lawyer Show, host Jerome Doraisamy welcomes back Prodonovich Advisory Principal, Sue-Ella Prodonovich (who also regularly serves as a judge for Lawyers Weekly awards programs), to discuss how business development can, and does, prove more difficult for women leaders in law.
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The results are in, and most of us agree: in the context of professional services, BD is more difficult for women. But could the shift to online offer a ray of hope?
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As economic conditions begin to bite, it pays to remember we’ve been here before…
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BD can be more difficult if you don’t fit the stereotype…
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Shutting down your phone and talking frankly could be the key to growing your practice. Here’s why.
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You have just 120 hours a year to get your Business Development (BD) done. So what should you focus on?
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As the legal industry diversifies beyond traditional structures, we’ve witnessed the rise of the hyperspecialised law firm. Often spinoffs from large law firms, hyper-specialised boutiques focus on a particular area of expertise, type of client, or local area
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Winning back clients can be easier than wooing new ones. Wondering how to do that? The key is understanding why they left in the first place.
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Why you should stop thinking about winning work and start thinking about building your ecosystem.
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In my view, most firms make it too easy to say ‘no’ to pitching for work. Here are 8 reasons to say ‘Yes’ to a Request For Proposal (RFP) you don’t think you can win.
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As professionals we often think we need be the dominant player, setting the course and steering the ship. But the best ideas usually arise when we’re surrounded by ambiguity.
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Anyone who’s read my articles for any length of time will be aware of my contempt for pushy cross-selling. But that doesn’t mean you shouldn’t be servicing your clients by joining with your firm’s other sections, areas or practice groups; far from it.
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