Put Your Clients to Work in Business Development
A great business development tactic we recommend is to introduce your clients/prospects to your firm’s other clients. Another great tactic: ask you clients to introduce you to their other business unit executives, suppliers, supporters, advisors, and the individuals they go to as experts.
In other words, in order to meet new prospects and develop new client relationships, work with your clients to “host” meetings with non-competing and complementary prospects.
More in our next column on building successful business development relationships.