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BUSINESS DEVELOPMENT SERVICES DEMYSTIFIED.<br />

Almost all accounting firms claim on their websites (and other<br />

marketing materials) that they provide BD services. For most, those<br />

claims are largely aspirational.<br />

When you ask them to explain their BD offering, most can’t. That’s<br />

because they don’t have a clear menu of BD services that they are<br />

proactively marketing to their clients, they are simply dispensing<br />

advice on a reactive basis.<br />

So what is<br />

Business Development?<br />

At <strong>The</strong> <strong>Gap</strong>, we define Business Development as<br />

‘service that creates enduring value for clients’.

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