Hi new biz friends 👋 has anyone here had any luck with procurement people and getting their attention? Or have you seen any other agencies doing particularly interesting outreach?

Which holds better value a sub with date or without?

What size Cartier Tank (Solo or Must) for a 6 inch wrist? I’m assuming small as I think large might not look right

Hi Fishes,
What's your thoughts, need valuable feedback.
I am currently working in TCS wd CTC as 18lpa
Got offer from below organizations.
HCL(25L+1.52L is variable) - Senior tech lead
CTS(25.5L+70k variable+ 1.2L JB) - senior associate Project

Exp 8+

Priority -WLB and job security.

Please suggest which one to consider at this time keeping the market scanario around ressession now.

Does Coforge has office in Pune?

What salary to expect at a Director level at PwC in Saudi Arabia? I am a brit with over 15 years experience in transformation consulting, and never worked in the ME!

Hi do you interview from time to time just to check what’s your market worth?

Has the process of releasing offer letter slowed down recently? Is anyone else waiting for the offer letter ?

PWC phone question - started at pwc last month from a non b4 firm. If I order a new phone off the if pwc website, can I switch it with another phone? My current phone is about to die so I was...

Hi! Am wondering what folks are paying for new 2022 Toyota 4Runners? I’m located in Virginia (near DC). Any informed people out there know what to expect? (Even if not in Northern VA - just thought I’d throw that out there)

LA vs Boston. Which city pays higher? Big4 tax

Anyone working at BDO Singapore?

Hi Everyone!

I am a Software Engineer looking for opportunities in Singapore. Do let me know if you can refer me for open positions

Skillset: Microservices, Golang, Openshift and more

Any idea how it will be second round in Dell for .net angular position having 4.5 years

My wife often calls me by 5:45/6 to ask where I am if I’m not headed home yet. Sometimes she’s stressed with kids/dogs/dinner and really wants me home. This really throws off my concentration because it makes me feel rushed. Like many practices sometimes I’m out at 5:30, other times it’s much later. Just depends and is unpredictable. Any advice on how to approach this?

First time Dad and my 15 month old keeps running up the stairs at my in-laws place and they keep encouraging it. Stairs are almost 10 inches high with nothing underneath and I’m worried that he might slip and fall in between the stairs. My FIL is a bit of a know-it-all and keeps insisting it’s safe and I don’t agree. What do I do? Don’t want to fight the entire house full of people about this and kid enjoys it too much and cries a lot if I/we prevent him from climbing

How do you brief your creative teams to concept for influencer activations? any tips?

Thinking about biz dev on the media agency side: How do you find newness in strategy to get clients excited? Isn’t it 100% data now? As if media wasn’t unsexy enough.
How do media agencies do it?

Any McCann NY new business fish in here? I see you have an opening and would love to get the inside scoop.

How do you NewBiz pros say “no” to doing work for free as part of the pitch process? What’s your “script” for saying no (all my past efforts have only pissed prospects/procurement off)??

Does anyone know where to source an updated list of search consultants. My 4A’s list is terribly outdated.

I've been starting to work more in new biz at my agency and the president said in a meeting this afternoon that he wants to increase our close rate to "at least 50%" once we're at the pitch stage.

Anyone have any experience landing a porn account?

Is anyone landing new biz these days? If you’re landing new projects with existing clients, that’s interesting. But what about new logos?

Anyone going to Mirren next week?

Have any of you ever brought in someone to do presentation design training for your agency. Not public speaking, but making the actual deck more interesting? If so, who?

How do agencies prospect for leads? Is there a database that allows companies to submit an RFI/RFP and then agencies just submit to it? How do agencies know when a company wants to be pitched?

Anybody care to share tactics for negotiating rates with procurement? Know they’re bluffing to drive all competing agencies down, but not sure what leverage we have to push back.

Anyone have any intel on who led the last review for Wolf/ sub zero? Shot in the dark here for some intel.

Hello biz dev folks! How are pitches going? I know summer is upon us but curious if the threat of recession is affecting anyone. I had my first client say they were holding off on an initiative due to that. But it could just be a good excuse. 😂.

Curious about the biz dev career track. Have you stayed in biz dev your whole career? Or did you start in biz dev and use it to move into another role? What did you move into and how?

Anyone know of or use a good pitch strategy guide/template that helps focus and structure the final deck? Any best practices you could share would be appreciated. Thanks!

Anyone know of great junior talent looking to get into New Biz? We’re hiring

What kind of digital (design, platform) RFPs are you seeing out there recently? Looking for some digital new biz trends. What keeping digital marketers up and where are they investing in 2021?

What do you guys think about consultants that charge agencies for their services? I’m new to the model and curious if it ends up being worthwhile?

Besides the infamous google sheet and Glassdoor, where are you all looking to make sure you’re been compensated appropriately? I feel like our little niche is tricky to do proper comp research on, but it’s possible I’m missing something…