Insights


Business Development and Marketing Insights

Searching for practical advice to help you with your Business Development and Marketing efforts? You’ll find it here. It’s all covered in articles from The BD Ladder team and other featured guest experts. All of our blogs and articles are focused on giving you practical advice. Welcome to our Business Development and Marketing Insights page.

Many people have a good understanding of what Marketing is. However, they are less sure about what Business Development is. Business Development is often defined as the strategies that create long-term value. This value comes from your clients. Therefore, the articles below are aimed at growing your business.

We hope you enjoy our latest thinking. And we’re confident our articles will help make you think.  All of the Insights below are regularly updated.

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The BD Ladder’s Insights are aimed at helping you and your business climb the ladder of success.

BD & Marketing in lockdown
No one can be certain when they may or may not go into a lockdown again. As I write this ...
August BD Round-Up
The August BD Round-Up is jam-packed with the usual practical hints and tips. This month, the August BD Round-Up features ...
The Professional Services Content marketing round-up blog
Why there is a (now increasing) need for businesses to produce authentic, relevant content. In this content marketing round-up, I ...
BD tips from the inside - Interview with Farrah Motley
Presentations, webinars, and playing the long game – how a new law firm built a client base during the pandemic. ...
July BD Round-up Banners
Welcome to the July BD Round-Up.  Ben has handed the BD Round-Up reins back to me this month.   This month’s BD Round-Up includes ...
The affairs of BDM and sustainability
In this Covid-recovery era, there’s so much talk of a new normal, building back better and a general sense that ...
June BD round-up 2021
The June BD Round-Up includes a raft of articles covering a wide range of different topics, at this half-way point ...
Content Marketing for Professional Services
Today, when we think about engaging with a professional services firm to solve a need we have, the obvious first ...
RFP Preparation - 8 things you should include in your checklist
If you have followed the advice and tips set out in 8 ways to pre-position for an RFP, you will have been invited to ...
8 ways to pre-position for an RFP
If you sit and wait for RFPs to be issued, then your chances of being successful are very slim. That ...