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new business prospecting

Who Says A Prospect Is A Prospect?

Second Wind
5/1/2026


With thousands of companies to choose from, and so little time to choose them, your agency needs to define who qualifies to be a prospect or client. Not every company ...

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The Power of Consistency: Thirteen Weeks to New Business Success

Second Wind
1/13/2026

Talking about new business in an agency is easy. Committing to it is rare. Building it in a way that actually works requires something most agencies avoid: a system.

Agencies ...

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Full Court Press

Second Wind
10/22/2025


The process of gaining new business is tough. In our seminars, we stress the need for being relentless about prospecting. It almost always takes more than one call to get ...

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Incentives For Everyone Who Delivers New Business

Second Wind
10/2/2025


Every agency knows the importance of a sustained new business effort. Most agencies assign that responsibility to a handful of people and leave everyone else out of the equation. That ...

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7 Tips for Spotting Prospects Who Are Just Window-shopping

Second Wind
8/19/2025


Tire-kickers, time-wasters, window-shoppers. Call them what you will. They are the bane of the small and mid-sized agency, eating up time and resources that would be better spent on serious ...

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How to Nail Your First New Business Meeting

Second Wind
8/13/2025


It is working. The weeks of calls, outreach, and relationship building are paying off. A potential client wants to meet.

What do you do?

Who attends

The ideal situation is ...

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Ten New Business Actions

Ten New Business Actions You Should Be Taking NOW

Second Wind
6/19/2025


In today’s fast-paced, competitive environment, clients aren’t just looking for agencies—they’re looking for strategic partners who can deliver results and help them stay ahead. That means ...

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Too Many Clients from the Dark Side? Try Aligning Agency-Client Values

Second Wind
1/27/2025

An agency principal lamented to me about her clients, saying, “It seems as if we’ve been in a great client drought for the past few years. Each of our ...

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Let Me Google That… Know Your Prospect Before You Meet

Second Wind
3/1/2024

When I was fresh out of college, I did something that haunts me to this day. Before you make assumptions, let me just stop you and say, no, I did ...

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The Joy of New Business Comes from Within

Second Wind
7/9/2015


Most agencies build prospect lists around rational criteria. Budget size, industry fit, geographic proximity, financial stability. All of those filters are necessary. The one that almost never appears on the ...

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