Business Development
Connect your expertise with the right opportunities
Your body of work can contribute to proposals, speaking engagements, partnerships, media opportunities and other forms of business development.
Virtually Myself® helps you find relevant opportunities, assess them and prepare responses grounded in your experience and approved business material.
Find relevant opportunities
Opportunities Finder can surface:
- Speaking engagements
- Podcast appearances
- Journalist enquiries
- Media requests
- Awards
- Grants
- Tenders
- Requests for proposal
- Industry contributions
- Reputation mentions
Recommendations can draw on the expertise, topics and commercial priorities represented in your Vault.
Your feedback helps improve the relevance of future suggestions.
Assess an opportunity
Before committing time to a response, use Virtually Myself® to consider:
- Relevance to your expertise
- Fit with your positioning
- Audience value
- Commercial potential
- Required effort
- Supporting experience
- Available evidence
- Deadlines and submission requirements
- Suitable next steps
You retain the final decision about which opportunities to pursue.
Prepare for a business development conversation
Bring together the material you need before a meeting.
Virtually Myself® can help you:
- Research the context available in your Vault
- Retrieve related experience
- Identify relevant frameworks
- Prepare questions
- Review previous correspondence
- Develop talking points
- Clarify the desired outcome
- Capture the conversation afterwards
Turn meeting notes into a proposal
Proposal Generator can analyse a transcript, brief or set of notes to identify:
- Stated needs
- Possible underlying needs
- Priorities
- Concerns
- Commitments
- Relevant capabilities
- Possible next steps
It can then draw on your previous proposals, approved methodology and business information to prepare a tailored first draft.
Prepare different kinds of responses
Use your Vault to support:
- Client proposals
- Partnership proposals
- Expressions of interest
- Tender responses
- Grant applications
- Speaking applications
- Podcast pitches
- Media responses
- Workshop outlines
- Follow-up documents
Relevant experience can be retrieved from across your body of work.
Follow up in your own voice
Meeting transcripts and notes can help you prepare a follow-up that accurately represents the conversation.
A follow-up may include:
- Agreed priorities
- Open questions
- Relevant resources
- Proposed next steps
- A summary of scope
- A request to see what feedback they have
Your voice profile helps keep the communication recognisably yours.
Retain the knowledge created through business development
Proposals and meetings often contain commercially valuable information about client needs, services, positioning and emerging opportunities.
Selected material can return to your Vault, giving future work a stronger foundation.
Your experience, working for your pipeline
Find the opportunities worth pursuing, then answer them with the depth your existing work already contains.