I admire our New Business Directors. It is one of the toughest jobs on the planet. Persistent, yet polite. Skin as tough as steel. Smart, creative, strategic. Able to wear their Agencies on their sleeves and sell ethereal agency offerings with enthusiasm and zeal.   Focus On The Close It was about 3-4 years ago […]

Director of Business Development

What’s the role of your Director of Business Development, or for those of you who handle new business, what is your role? Is it seeking out the right prospects-building awareness and opening doors, or is it that, plus finishing and closing those opportunities? There are strong arguments for and against both. I lean toward the […]

Mark (our owner) sent me a Craigslist lead generation job posting recently thinking it might spark some thoughts on a post. Indeed it did. A West Coast agency was looking for an intern to work on new business and the job description included making “minimum 100 calls a day.” Time for the scalpel-we’re going to […]