In my travels I hear contractors say, no matter how low I bid, I still can't get any work; my estimators are busy all the time; we are still striking out; and I'm at my wit's end. Usually they want to ...

Business development plans provide guidance to organizations in purpose, including mission, vision and values, as well as product or service, target audience and the strategies they will use to ...

Creating a budget plan and utilizing business development resources effectively are essential skills for any biz dev leader. However, it can be challenging to know where to start and how to allocate ...

Search “business development best practices” in your favorite search engine and you’ll get just over 55 million results in less than half a second. Not exactly a clear place to start. Even if you were ...

In a previous article, "How to Properly Align Marketing, Business Development and Sales," (Marketing the Law Firm, July 2022), we provided a high level explanation of the three business functions that ...

Although it’s only October, many lawyers in my firm are already beginning to look towards updating their business development plans so they can hit the ground running in 2017. It’s my favorite part of ...

What should be in your business plan? Creating a business plan is a key part of starting any business venture. Even if you’ll never use it in this format for attracting investors and raising capital, ...

Opinions expressed by Entrepreneur contributors are their own. President Dwight D. Eisenhower once said, “In preparing for battle I have always found that plans are useless, but planning is ...

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2020 and 2021 have not just been bends in your business development road — it has been more like the road has been placed on top of a roller coaster where you cannot see what the next curve holds.

Lawyers can accelerate their business development through face-to-face digital interactions. Set up Zoom coffee meetings, host online seminars or webinars, etc. In addition to using technology tools ...

With the first round of approvals for an economic recovery and business development plan geared at revitalizing Laguna Beach’s economy through, discussion on modifications to current business and ...