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August 11, 2024
Account Managers and Strategy
I’m a huge fan of the account management function, which is why we do a huge annual conference on the subject every March. We’ve also covered how to understand account managers in […]
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: Account Managers and Strategy
Managing Clients
January 2, 2024
Stopping Is As Important As Starting
It’s a lot easier to start things than to stop them. Starting feels like growth and adventure, and things feel alive. Stopping can feel like loss and failure, but it […]
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: Stopping Is As Important As Starting
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September 10, 2023
See Yourself Anywhere In These?
This article is a grab bag of the things I’ve noticed in working with 1,000+ firms through the Total Business Reset process. Maybe you’ll see yourself in some of them: […]
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: See Yourself Anywhere In These?
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September 4, 2023
How Good Clients Can Change Your Life
I’ve been thinking about great clients, these days, and they frequently come to mind when they are harder than ever to find. During tougher times (which the industry seems to […]
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: How Good Clients Can Change Your Life
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August 6, 2023
The Interplay Between Purpose-Driven Affinity and Expertise
I started noticing something about two years ago, but it was significant enough that I didn’t want to be wrong, so I just watched it develop until it was clearly […]
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: The Interplay Between Purpose-Driven Affinity and Expertise
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July 31, 2023
How a Great Referral Strategy Helps Service Offering Design
Picture this for a minute. You look at all the service offerings you make available to clients and all of a sudden it looks more like a Luby’s Cafeteria than […]
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: How a Great Referral Strategy Helps Service Offering Design
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June 19, 2023
Quit Overthinking Your Own Content Plan
It would be a mistake to imagine that your own self-doubt is unique, thinking that the people who share things publicly are more self-confident or less fragile. I’ve never measured […]
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: Quit Overthinking Your Own Content Plan
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June 12, 2023
Should You Be Present, Prominent, or Dominant?
I decided to write this article four years ago and I have made zero progress on it until today. But its continued presence in my “ready to write” folder is […]
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: Should You Be Present, Prominent, or Dominant?
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June 4, 2023
How To Run Your Firm In Uncertain Times
I’ll talk with 3-4 prospective clients and 15-20 clients every week, and I like to ask them how things are going. I also try to stay in touch with larger […]
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: How To Run Your Firm In Uncertain Times
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May 20, 2023
Incongruities Of What We Say…and Do
Okay, let’s have a little fun. But let’s do it at your expense, and not mine. That’ll be even more fun! Picture this. You finally go to the dentist, reluctantly. […]
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: Incongruities Of What We Say…and Do
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May 8, 2023
The Two Main Reasons Your Firm May Not Be As Profitable As You’d Like
I don’t think I need to spend much ink supporting the idea of making a profit. A hobby costs you money, a job delivers a fixed amount of money for […]
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: The Two Main Reasons Your Firm May Not Be As Profitable As You’d Like
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April 30, 2023
Five Questions Your Salesperson Should Be Able To Answer
Many factors yield a successful new business strategy. A few of those include: So after marketing delivers those opportunities, it’s the role of sales to: But let’s say that I […]
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: Five Questions Your Salesperson Should Be Able To Answer
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