Category: Business Development

Business Development in the Time of COVID-19

March 31, 2020
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As professionals across all industries head into week three of working in isolation (many of them while simultaneously caring for family members without the help of school, child care and other community support), they are battling twin challenges:

Fatigue: The first week we were fueled by pure adrenaline. The second, by incredulity that the whole thing was still going on. But now, like Phil Connors, Bill Murray’s character in the movie Groundhog Day,...

Find Your Own Way to Originate Business

September 17, 2018
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You don’t have to eat steak and smoke cigars, but you’ve got to do something.

Back in the good old days (okay, let’s just call them the old days, since we can think of more than a few things about them that were anything but good), there was a place for “service partners” in law firms—the lawyers who kept their heads down, provided excellent client service, and did great work. The business coming in from the big rainmakers kept these lawyers busy. Service...

Shameless Marketing (Especially for Women)

February 14, 2017
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As a woman-owned business, we’re passionate about supporting other women in their professional success.

So, earlier this year, Page 2 founder Deb Pickett helped members of the Chicago Bar Association Young Lawyers Section launch their 2017 business development efforts with an inspiring presentation titled, Shameless: The Art of Self-Promotion (Quantifying Your Value Without Being Arrogant, a Humblebragger, or a Suck-Up.)  You can check out the presentation here: