Posts in Business Development Ideas
How To Prepare For a Client Meeting: Sue-Ella's S.L.A.Y. Meeting Tool

Meetings with prospective clients are a critical part of any lawyer’s business development efforts, but striking the right balance between under-preparation and over-preparation can be challenging. Sue-Ella's S.L.A.Y. framework—Share, Learn, Ask or Affirm, and 'Yes' —provides a clear, actionable method for preparing effectively.

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Sue-Ella’s Guide For New Partners

If you’re one of this year’s crop of new Partners let me begin by saying congratulations. Partnership is a significant career milestone and one you should be celebrating. It also means you’re going to have to have a solid game plan for cementing your position and growing your practice into everything it should be.
Here’s my 10-point plan for doing just that …

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The Boutique Lawyer Show: Why BD is harder for some than others [Podcast]

In this episode of The Boutique Lawyer Show, host Jerome Doraisamy welcomes back Prodonovich Advisory Principal, Sue-Ella Prodonovich (who also regularly serves as a judge for Lawyers Weekly awards programs), to discuss how business development can, and does, prove more difficult for women leaders in law.

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How Online Learning Hurts Your Business Networks

There’s a trend among professional services firms to doing more training online. But is it effective when it comes to building networks and learning the right way to do BD? Or are you better off going back to face to face?

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