Annual membership
Annual memberships gives you access to ALL the content and so much more. Monthly webinars, daily emails and the BDA network.
Bundle includes
Here are all the products that are included in your bundle.
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Course: Networking - Managing your network
CourseLearn how to manage and grow your network with purpose. This module covers staying in touch, adding value, tracking key contacts, and building relationships that last - without it feeling like a chore.
£50 / year
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Course: Networking - Following up
CourseMake your networking count. This module covers how to follow up effectively after events - building real connections, staying front of mind, and turning conversations into opportunities.
£50 / year
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Course: Networking - Working the room
CourseLearn how to confidently work the room at networking events. This module covers starting conversations, reading the room, making genuine connections, and leaving a strong impression without feeling awkward or forced.
£50 / year
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Course: Mastering Networking - Learning path
CourseMaster the art of networking in 12 practical modules. This course helps you build confidence, connect with purpose, follow up effectively, and grow valuable relationships that support long-term success - both internally and externally.
£50 / year
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Course: BD Essentials - Learning path
CourseGet to grips with the fundamentals of Business Development in this 10-module course. Learn how to plan your approach, build relationships, pitch effectively, and win work - with practical tips to help you grow your commercial confidence.
£50 / year
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Course: Planning your approach
CoursePlan your approach to business development with purpose. This module helps you identify where to focus your energy, add value to your contacts, and build relationships that lead to real opportunities - all through consistent, thoughtful engagement.
£50 / year
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Course: Winning business tips
CourseLearn how to win new business with confidence. This module shares tips on identifying the right opportunities, crafting compelling messaging, building credibility fast, and approaching prospects in a way that feels natural, strategic, and effective.
£50 / year
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Course: Planning and preparation
CourseEffective planning is essential for winning new business. This module shows you how to organize your week, craft client-focused propositions, and connect with purpose — helping you engage strategically and profitably every time.
£50 / year
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Course: Engaging with contacts
CourseBuild stronger connections with your network. This module covers how to engage with contacts in a way that feels natural, timely, and valuable -helping you stay top of mind, add real value, and turn conversations into commercial opportunities.
£50 / year
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Course: Preparing for the pitch
CoursePreparation is everything when it comes to pitching. This module covers how to understand your client’s needs, tailor your messaging, align your team, and rehearse effectively — so you walk into every pitch confident, clear, and ready to win.
£50 / year
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Course: The pitch presentation
CourseDeliver pitch presentations that stand out. This module covers how to structure your content, bring your value to life, and present with clarity and confidence. Learn how to engage your audience, handle questions, and leave a lasting impression.
£50 / year
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Course: Pitching 'Best Practice'
CourseLearn best practice at every stage of the pitch process. This module covers how to prepare, assign team roles, deliver with impact, and follow up effectively - helping you stay focused, stand out from the competition, and pitch with confidence.
£50 / year
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Course: Pitching to win: win more work, more often
CoursePerfect your pitch with this 13-module course. Learn how to craft compelling proposals, deliver standout presentations, handle objections with confidence, and run effective post-pitch reviews to win more work and build lasting client trust.
£50 / year
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Course: Mastering business development discussions & meetings
CourseMaster business development conversations with this 9-module course. Learn to make strong first impressions, sell consultatively, manage meetings with confidence, and handle fee discussions effectively to drive better outcomes and build trust.
£50 / year
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Course: Targeting new business
CourseUnlock the skills to target new business with confidence. This module helps you spot opportunities, start the right conversations, and build a pipeline by focusing on what your clients care about - turning relationships into real results.
£50 / year
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Course: Nurturing and protecting the client relationship
CourseStrengthen and protect your client relationships with this 9-module course. Learn practical client management tips, how to stay in touch meaningfully, add value consistently, and build long-term partnerships that lead to repeat business.
£50 / year
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Course: Cross-selling
CourseUnlock more value from your existing relationships. This module covers how to identify cross-selling opportunities, start the right conversations, and position additional services in a way that feels relevant, helpful, and focused on the client.
£50 / year
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Course: Growing the client account
CourseGrow your client accounts with confidence in this 9-module course. Learn how to spot cross-selling opportunities, navigate fee discussions, and strengthen your position as a trusted adviser — all while driving greater value for your clients and your
£50 / year
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BDA Network
CommunityGot a challenge, issue to just want to share? Here you can connect with your peers - let's help raise each other up!
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Video: Cross-selling tips: Five approaches to take
CourseCheck out these five great tips to boost your chances of cross-selling success.
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Video: Cross-selling effectively
CourseGet cross-selling right and you can develop client loyalty and win significantly more work. Here are six cross-selling approaches that are working for others. Will they work for you too?
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Video: Conducting a post project review with your client
CourseThe best professionals go beyond just gathering feedback from their contact and acting on the points made. They also use post project reviews to get a deeper understanding about what’s next on the client’s agenda.
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Video: Managing the long distance relationship
CourseWhen you are managing a long distance client relationship you need to create the feeling of being just around the corner – even though you’re not. That means breaking down the distance barrier by becoming a valuable source of help and support.
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Video: Ways to make your contact look good in their organisation
CourseThis is more subtle than just providing ‘added value’ services that will help them. It’s about being valuable because the things you do help your contact stand out positively and impress those around them. Can you use any of these 10 approaches?
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Video: Maintaining contact between deals and pieces of work
CourseClients don’t always expect frequent communication in between projects, but they will want to feel you are interested in them and their business. Try these strategies to keep in professional contact, with integrity.
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Video: Phoning to arrange a meeting
CourseWe can often think that we will be intruding on our contact’s time if we telephone. But we have all had situations where we know it would have been more valuable to pick up the phone. So how do you do this professionally?
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Video: Time effective ways to network internally
CourseA lot of your business opportunities will actually lie with colleagues in your firm, so here are some effective ways to network internally.
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Video: Getting colleagues to provide referrals
CourseThis video takes a look at four actions that will help motivate your colleagues to refer new work opportunities to you. They could be the easiest things you do to generate more business.
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Video: Dealing with objections in business development conversations
CourseIn BD conversations, no matter how well you identify your potential client’s needs and no matter how relevant your solution is, you may still have to deal with challenging objections. Here are the steps you can take to get the most positive outcome.
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Video: Four fee negotiation essentials
CourseGet four great tips on how to become a better negotiator.
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Video: Successful pitching key steps
CourseThere are no prizes for coming second in a pitch. These are the mistakes to avoid so that you win significantly more times than you lose.
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Video: Six strategies to safeguard your client relationship
CourseTry these strategies to strengthen your relationships with your existing clients.
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Video: Managing first meetings with a potential client
CourseFirst meetings are crucial when it comes to building relationships with potential clients. Get them right, and you can start to build the rapport and trust needed. Get them wrong, and it’s likely you won’t hear from your contact again.
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Video: Strategies to position you and others for work
CourseOne thing that many professionals find challenging is gaining commitment from their clients and potential clients to give them the work. These strategies work face to face and on the phone – they also work in written communication too.
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Video: Building target lists and engaging with target clients
CourseTargeting is an inexact science, and we all know that new work can come from random sources. But the most successful business developers focus their efforts on well thought through targeting campaigns. How do you do it?
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Video: Simple ways to improve your BD performance and success
CourseYou will want to put what little BD time you have to good use. Here are 10 simple, but effective, activities that can help you to win more business.
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Video: Using questions to guide your Business Development discussion
CourseThe more time spent asking questions in a business development discussion and really understanding your potential client’s needs, the easier it will be to demonstrate how you can help them.
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Video: Creating and implementing a practical client plan
CourseA practical client plan should enable you to do two key things as a team. How do your client plans and actions measure up?
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Video: Setting your business development targets and creating your plan
CourseSuccessful professionals have a BD action plan and review and refine it on a regular basis, assessing their progress along the way. So what specifically do you need to do to create and deliver on a plan that works for you?
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Video: Questions to ask potential work referrers
CourseWe all know that a warm referral is much more likely to lead to new business than a cold approach, but we often feel uncomfortable asking for referrals and miss a lot of opportunities as a result. Here are some professional strategies that work.
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Video: Managing the informal business discussion
CourseNot all business discussions take place in formal meetings or over the phone. Informal face-to-face conversations are an important part of the relationship-building process – so here are some tips on turning these discussions into work.
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Video: Writing effective meeting follow ups
CourseAt the basic level, a follow up note to a meeting gives your contact a helpful summary of the discussion and focuses on the action points and next steps. On another level it can also help you to gain their commitment to your proposals.
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Video: Ways to professionally keep in touch with contacts
CourseKeeping in touch with contacts isn’t about calling or emailing from time to time to find out how they are, hoping that an opportunity will suddenly reveal itself.
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Video: Five things you should know about your client
CourseSo, what are the fundamental things you should know about your client and how do you go about finding out this information? There are 5 key areas to focus on...
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Video: Get more from the articles you write
CourseMany senior fee-earner hours get poured into producing articles. Here’s a recent example of how an article generated a good return for the time a Partner invested in writing it.
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Video: Becoming a more commercial adviser
CourseWatch this short video for some more ideas on how to demonstrate you commerciality.
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Video: Turning a social contact into a business one
CourseTo turn a social relationship into a potential business one, you need to evaluate if this would be beneficial for the specific friend or contact. Watch the video to get some tips on how to successfully do this.
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Podcast: Phoning to get the meeting
CourseMany professionals are reticent about using the phone to get meetings with clients and prospective clients. This podcast demystifies the process and shares the ‘how tos’ of making engaging calls.
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Podcast: Tips from the networkers
CourseWhat do you do to make an excellent personal impact so that you can initiate and build contact relationships that will strengthen your network?
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Podcast: Some selling tips
CourseSelling – the ‘sharp end’ of winning work – needs to be handled carefully. Here’s some advice on techniques that work.
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Podcast: Even more work winning tips
CourseListen to a range of approaches that are helping senior professionals to win work. Which of them could you apply, or adapt to your situation?
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Podcast: More work winning tips
CourseListen to a range of approaches that are helping senior professionals to win work. Which of them could you apply, or adapt to your situation?
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Podcast: What’s your excuse for keeping in touch?
CourseWe all know that it is important to keep in regular, relevant contact with our clients and other contacts – but how do we do it in a professional way that maintains and builds the relationship?
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Podcast: Sharpening your listening
CourseAsk anyone who is great at winning business and they will tell you that the ability to really listen to what your contact is saying and align your approach to their situation is a core skill. Try these tips to help you find ways to improve.
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Podcast: Tips for making business development easier
CourseFitting BD time into an already busy work schedule can be difficult – daunting even. This podcast shares the approaches others are taking that really work for them. Can you adopt any?
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Podcast: Developing great rapport 1
CourseGetting the ‘chemistry’ right between you and your contact is a fundamental building block for business development success. But how do you do it in a business environment? The developing great rapport podcasts will explain.
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Podcast: Developing great rapport 2
CourseGetting the ‘chemistry’ right between you and your contact is a fundamental building block for business development success. But how do you do it in a business environment? The developing great rapport podcasts will explain.
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Podcast: Following up to build relationships
CourseResearch shows that most professionals are poor at following up initial contact from networking events. This podcast gives practical tips to make the follow up moves easier and more comfortable.
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Podcast: Managing the business development discussion
CourseHolding effective business development discussions could mean the difference between winning the work and losing the opportunity. This podcast shares the secrets of success in handling these crucial opportunity-converting conversations.
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Podcast: Using ‘touch points’ effectively to build relationships
CourseA touch point occurs when you have person to person contact with someone in a position to give or refer work. This could be a personalised email, a call or a face to face conversation.
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Podcast: The power of body language
CourseThe research of Albert Mehrabian and others tell us that a major part of our message read by our contact is our body language. We need to use ours in a positive and helpful way – and watch body language in others to decipher what they are thinking.
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Podcast: Six tips for Rainmakers
CourseA ‘rainmaker’ is someone who is great at building relationships to win work for themselves or others. We share some of their key revenue-generating secrets in this podcast
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Podcast: Overcoming Fee Resistance
CourseHow do you handle ‘push-back’ on fees by clients in a professional way? The challenge is to maintain your integrity, and to demonstrate confidence that your fee represents value for money. Here we share some tips that are working for others.
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Podcast: Some thoughts on targeting new business
CourseWhere to begin? Let this podcast give you a few easy pointers.
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Podcast: Turning a social relationship into a potential business one
CourseGetting from a quick drink at an event to being sat around their boardroom table can be difficult. Listen to our podcast to get some great ideas on how to make it happen.
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Podcast: Ten things you can do internally to improve your business development
CourseEffective business development needs a sound internal base. This podcast shares ten tips on using your internal network and resources in a way that helps position you for new work opportunities.
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Podcast: Ways to follow up effectively after an event
CoursePlenty of strategies, tips and techniques to help you to further build relationships whilst avoiding being a nuisance to your contact can be found in this podcast on following up effectively.
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Webinar: How to strengthen your relationships with intermediaries and referrers
CourseJohn Timperley explains how to strengthen your relationships with intermediaries and referrers.
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Webinar: Strengthening long-distance client and contact relationships remotely
CourseHow can you strengthen long-distance relationship with clients and contacts? John Timperley explains how in this webinar.
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Webinar: Creating a successful personal business development plan
CourseWhat's the best way to create a successful personal business development plan? John Timperley explains what you need to consider.
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Webinar: Consultative Selling – What does it mean in professional services?
CourseJohn Timperley takes us through Consultative Selling – What does it mean in professional services – how can you apply the approach with clients?
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Webinar: Writing effective pitch documents in the current environment
CourseJohn Timperley explains how to write effective pitch documents in the current environment.
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Webinar: Quick Business Development activities to do when you’re busy
CourseJohn Timperley shares some quick Business Development activities to do when you’re busy.
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Webinar: Protecting and developing your key client relationships
CourseJohn Timperley explains how to Protect and develop your key client relationships.
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Webinar: Practical research to give you a winning edge
CourseJohn Timperley explains how practical research will give you a winning edge.
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Webinar: Mastering scoping conversations to win work in the current environment
CourseJohn Timperley explains how to master scoping conversations to win work in the current environment.
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Webinar: How to win more work through end of assignment client conversations
CourseJohn Timperley explains how to win more work through end of assignment client conversations.
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Webinar: Engaging with the C-Suite with executive presence and impact
CourseJohn Timperley explains how to engage with the C-Suite with executive presence and impact.
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Webinar: Quick-wins to get 2024 off to a strong start
CourseJohn Timperley outlines some quick-wins to get 2024 off to a strong start.
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Webinar: How to generate profitable revenue from key clients
CourseJohn Timperley deep dives in to how to generate profitable revenue from key clients.
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Webinar: Five ways to bring the value of the firm to clients
CourseJohn Timperley explores five ways to bring the value of the firm to clients.
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Webinar: Developing your entry strategy
CourseJohn Timperley outlines techniques to develop you entry strategy to get you and your firm on the client's radar.
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Webinar: Delivering a work-winning pitch presentation
CourseJohn Timperley shares his best-practice advice to deliver a work-winning pitch.
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Webinar: Being selective with new work in the current environment
CourseJohn Timperley explains how to be selective with new work in the current environment.
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Webinar: Mastering Client Listening
CourseJohn Timperley explains how you can master client listening.
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Webinar: How to follow up after networking events
CourseJohn Timperley shares his best-practice advice on how to follow up after networking events.
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Webinar: Bid techniques to up your win-rate
CourseJohn Timperley shares his bid techniques to help up your win-rate.
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Webinar: Simple ways to keep in touch with clients when you’re busy
CourseJohn Timperley explores some simple ways to keep in touch with clients when you're busy.
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Webinar: Mastering networking events
CourseJohn Timperley outlines how you can master networking events.
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Webinar: Raising your profile within your firm
CourseJohn Timperley demonstrates how to raise your profile within your firm.
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Webinar: 15 ways to get more out of your internal relationships (and win work)
CourseJohn Timperley provides 15 ways to get more out of your internal relationships (and win work)!
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Webinar: Mastering Difficult Client Conversations
CourseJohn Timperley explains how to master those difficult client conversations.
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