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Business Development in the 21st Century

Successful Independent Consulting

A few months ago, PICA hosted a webinar with Suzette Patterson , a sales and business development expert. Try sending a 30-second video on their birthday or to congratulate them on their promotion. Or post a short video on LinkedIn with a tip or lifehack. Let’s close with a story that Suzette shared in the webinar.

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Webinars: Your Best Promotional Tool

The Fearless Marketer

And I started to offer webinars instead of live speaking engagements. Sales letters, online content, social media, emails, videos, and every other marketing method pales in comparison to the results I’ve gotten with live presentations. And my recent series of webinars proves it. > Most of your webinar should be educational.

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The Connection – Development Process

The Fearless Marketer

Next, you need to DEVELOP those ideas, insights, resources, and connections into something useful. Connect – Develop – Re-Connect – Re-Develop. And nothing new gets developed. But we can also fall into the “development trap.” But we can also fall into the “development trap.” Developing a new service.

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How to Choose a Business Mentor: 10 Ways to Ensure You're Getting the Support You Need

Consulting Matters

Hiring a mentor is the most significant business development decision you'll make. It signifies three things: You're done with trying to cobble together best practices from podcasts, webinars and books and are ready for real traction. This is what I'll show you in this video. You want your business to be the best.

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The Art of Honest Influence

The Fearless Marketer

Influence: the capacity to have an effect on the character, development, or behavior of someone or something. And honesty is a developed characteristic you learned in your family, through education, and in working for a living. But you also need to choose and then develop the media to deliver these elements of influence.

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If you don’t have an assistant, guess what – YOU are the assistant!

Rod Burkert

Face-to-face meetings like lunches can be effective practice development pump primers. Join me this Friday at 1pm ET on Practice Development INSIDER for my interview with Gary Trugman. And valuing small and medium-sized BUSINESSES requires a different practice development effort to attract small and medium-sized BUSINESS OWNERS.

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Ten Factors to Consider Before Jumping into Independent Consulting

Successful Independent Consulting

Short video: Why Friends Don’t Let Friends W-2TM ) The key point is that taxes are a real pain when you are self-employed. Getting new projects – Business development is a common challenge for most independent consultants and solopreneurs. Free webinar with Q&A: Is Independent Consulting the Right Path for Me?

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