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Breaking Into New Categories: Diversifying & Growing Your Pipeline

Date & Location

Jun 2011 24
1:30PM- 3:00PM Eastern Webinar
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Breaking Into New Categories: Diversifying & Growing Your Pipeline

This is an ideal session for CEOs, management teams and new business directors to help develop a prospecting strategy to move the agency into new business categories.

Expanding into new categories can provide a lucrative source of new revenue. However, most do not target and convert "low hanging fruit" in a strategically-sound fashion. Agencies often randomly target categories and prospects where the firm has no credibility, ultimately ending up with little success. This online workshop will take you through the challenges and the key strategies necessary to position and package your agency to enter new categories, fast.

You’ll wrap up with action items that you can immediately begin applying.

About the Instructor
Heather Witalisz
Heather Witalisz Mirren Business Development

Heather Witalisz is the Small and Mid-Size Agency Training Specialist here at Mirren, leading a number of innovative research and training initiatives. As these smaller agencies know, resources are tighter, they don't have an army of people, and they certainly don't have millions of dollars to spend on new business. Heather firmly believes that it's not about spending more, it's how you organize, focus and go to battle with what you already have.

Heather leads our training programs that cover Proactive Prospecting, Competitive Pitch Performance and Accelerated Organic Growth. A key part of her counsel: smaller agencies must stop chasing every shiny penny and be uber-focused on going after and converting better quality prospects.

Experienced as a New Business Director herself, Heather certainly understands the swamp, chaos and exhilaration of new business. With several years at Adams & Knight a (progressive and talented agency outside of Hartford, CT), she was able to implement several Mirren best practices to increase overall agency sales, grow an existing customer base and convert new business wins to the agency's bottom line.

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