Imagine I asked you to lend me £50 and promised to pay you back £60 within 24 hours. Sound good?
Now imagine the offer is backed up by client testimonials from names you recognised know who have already accepted the offer and benefited from the 20% profit in 24 hours. What would you do?
Politely say “no thanks, it sounds too good to be true”?
Accept the offer and immediately hand over £50?
Or, if you don’t have the money, borrow it from someone so you don’t miss out?
Number 2? Of course it is …
… so why is it that so many leaders of professional service firms dismiss opportunities to develop their businesses by saying “we don’t have it in the budget”?
If a business development opportunity is real accept it and find the funding required. If you’re sceptical you can always mitigate the risk by building in fee caps, sharing risk and building in clauses to terminate projects at agreed breakpoints if you are not seeing a return.
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