Breaking BizDev

Referrals are a powerful tool to use in lead generation toolshed. Referral leads tend to move faster in your pipeline, they're more likely to close, and they end up becoming fantastic clients. But referral generation is used unevenly across professional services firms. On this episode, John and Mark outline a process on generating new referrals: Create a list of potential referrers Define you...

On this episode, John and Mark call out every single person who, in the name of “BD”, has sent a useless “I’m just checking in” email that produced zero results. We'll break down: Why "checking in" is bullsh*t The hamster wheel of ghosting (and why it happens) The role of the magic email After listening to this episode, you'll have a new tool in your toolkit to get your pipelin...

"Strategic planning" is an oxymoron. Strategy and planning are two different things. In this episode, Mark and John beat this topic up, differentiate between strategy/planning, and offer a revenue-centric lens with which to help with both your strategy and planning efforts.  There are three lenses to look at revenue in order to help define your firm strategy, and  ultimately your plannin...

We all know there are good and bad salespeople. We get inundated with the flood of "pitch slaps" on LinkedIn, cold email clogging up our inbox, and sales reps who can't quite seem to understand your challenges. Which begs the question, do "good salespeople" even exist? On this episode, John interviews Mark about his perspective on bad and good selling in professional servi...

In this episode, Mark interviews John about what poor marketing looks like in professional services firms, including: Lack of plan or lack of patience Poor customer experience Messaging is too company-centric Brand is based on assumptions Lack of a content strategy Listen to hear what not to do, and how firms can turn these blind spots into areas of relative strength. www.breakingbizdev.com Share...

Professional services firms lump marketing and sales together into one bucket. It gets confusing. Sometimes, it’s a total mess. They call it “business development.” In this episode, John Tyreman and Mark Wainwright introduce the Breaking BizDev podcast and explain how they're going to break down, beat up, and redefine "business development" for the professional services firms of tom...