3 Phases
1. Discovery
Engaging with Potential and Existing Clients to explore opportunities to work together
- Explore clients problems, situations and questions
- Identify the services that will solve their problems
- Needs to be quick, do not give away all your answers
- Initiates the beginning of the production phase
- Efficiently set up meetings and take “orders” from clients
2. Proposal
Converting the Lead into a paid Client
- Take “orders” collected by Client Manager and processing them into a paid engagement
- Produce Proposals & Engagements
- Turn the proposal into an easily accepted workflow for the Production Team
- Client should be able to easily accept proposal and
3. Production
Producing and Delivering the work for the Client
Separation of duties
- No one does the work unless there is an Engagement in place, whether or not its a paid gig = Liability management
- Production team only works on jobs that result from accepted proposals