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Introductory Offer : Professional Service Providers

Bruce Donnelly   bruce@gdi-solutions.com    (Biography)

Please call (contact details above) to discuss your own marketing plans, and what we can do for you to help promote your professional services.

How will executives and advisors find out about the benefits of your capabilities for their purposes, unless they are already searching for information about your company?  We consolidate such market knowledge to make it easy to find you.

Various contacts have requested our website visit statistics since they often receive such data from publishers who are promoting banner or other online ads, which do not reflect our approach to professional services marketing.

Visit statistics : daily   monthly  regional

Promotion of this website started in 2004.

Try the Google site search feature available on every page of this website.  By sharing better knowledge of your service capabilities through this site, it will be fast and easy for executives and their advisors to find you whenever your services may be relevant.

How can you efficiently attract the interest of executives who may not yet recognize your relevance and capabilities to meet their needs as they grow their business?

This is an economical channel for professional service providers reach potential clients.

•  Highlight your capabilities through a GUIDE Service Profile presentation, which is prepared with search engine optimization in mind so that it can be found easily through topics of frequent interest to potential clients.
  • We also include a GUIDE Biographic Profile for the key point of contact, which can be helpful for both project referral introductions and media contacts
•  An economical alternative is our  Professional Services Survey, which basically provides a one page executive summary of your service capabilities so that visitors can see at a glance why they should be interested.
•  Simple directory listings are free on request to professional organizations relevant to this field.  Reciprocal links are welcome.

We also work selectively with relevant professionals on a success fee basis for actual sales achieved, as explained below, which is somewhat like a referral fee or commission.

The key point is that our referrals as an independent service are driven by our knowledge of relevant capabilities to meet the needs of an executive, not by our referral fee potential.  The base work of a GUIDE Service Profile or Professional Survey helps us to recognize relevant opportunities.  The referral fees are generally consistent among similar service providers, so that they reward our work without biasing it for reasons unrelated to their relevant professional service capabilities.

We focus on developing long-term working relationships as a trusted professional network.  We are not acting as a direct sales representative or agent of the service provider, nor are we a party to any resulting transaction between the company and service provider.  We are introducing executives to potential solutions for their needs as an independent service.

After just 3 years, total visits to this website already exceeded or were similar to leading magazines in this niche market which had been in circulation for 20 - 50 years to 25,000 - 45,000 recipients.

We are not a publisher using statistics to boost advertising sales or prices.  The statistics just demonstrate usage patterns which may interest some supporters of our work.  We contact executives directly about their project interests.  We use many targeted marketing and professional networking activities to reach them.

We don't just wait for them to find and contact us, although we get calls from company presidents and other executives.  They learn about this unique business through the website, referrals, or our general marketing activities.  We openly share our knowledge of thousands of professional contacts like a concierge service, as well as the practical experience we have developed through contact with executives at thousands of companies about their project plans.

As a very specialized niche service, we target our marketing work and networking to reach top executives at a few thousand major companies with high growth potential, rather than on attracting tens of thousands of irrelevant website visitors just to pad our statistics.

The fees we charge for our work enable us to maintain this service and reach a growing number of executives to support their project plans and develop ongoing working relationships.

As more service providers participate, we will be able to hire more professionals to develop more corporate relationships and project referrals.

The base fee covers the time we need to invest to understand the potential scope and value of your services, and what differentiates your capabilities, while it also supports some of our general marketing work in this niche.  The success fee approach is usually more relevant to working together even more proactively, such as to seek the specific types of potential clients which you want to meet as we do our work.

By working together on a fixed fee or success fee basis, we develop better knowledge of your capabilities so that we can recognize relevant opportunities, and we openly share some of that knowledge through GUIDE Service Profiles and other tools so that executives and their advisors can easily learn of your capabilities without even asking us directly for a referral.

Unlike publishers, we are in the business of making well-qualified referrals to relevant top executives, and making it very fast and easy for executives and their professional advisors to find the services and information they need as they plan major capital investment projects.

Rather than pushing editorial content at executives through publications as magazines and newsletters or other organizations do, we're building a professional networking and research resource to efficiently address their own specific business development interests at any time.

This is more analogous to a concierge service - organizing market knowledge and contacts in advance so that we can make very relevant introductions quickly for a wide variety of needs.

Our service is the network of contacts and base of knowledge and research capabilities to make relevant connections quickly, rather than just the publication of website content.  We selectively publish website content because it supports this mission and makes it easier for executives and their advisors to find what they need quickly, with or without our personal intermediation to offer relevant referrals.

No matter how a visitor enters our website (since search engine results take them directly to relevant pages for their specific interests, rather than our home page), it will be easy to find your company and reach you and your website with just two or three clicks.

The responsible executives quickly found us while seeking help with their investment plans because of our substantial prior investment in making it very easy for them to find us.  We already invested three years of global market research work, website development, and marketing work to create this service and attract their attention and interest.  This isn't like a reader service process for a magazine publisher.  Making referrals is our professional niche.

Contact us directly to discuss how we can support your sales objectives.

Please participate in our Professional Services Survey.

Our Survey is a fast and easy way to update our network of contacts and knowledge of your service capabilities.  We can also publish replies for a small fee so that investors and their advisors can readily access such knowledge directly at any time.  Publishing a Survey Response is a very simple and economical way to quickly highlight what you have to offer.

Biography - Bruce Donnelly  

•  North American sales for PricewaterhouseCoopers' global location consultants
•  Set up a new "Big Four" consulting practice during hyperinflation in Brazil
•  Investment promotion for a leading regional development agency
•  US Foreign Service Officer with an MBA in International Business

$_____ minimal initial fee for our time to become familiar with your service capabilities

$_____ per lead which is agreed to be worth follow-up (confirmed interest in your services)

$_____ per well-qualified referral to a prospect (worth visiting soon, proposal opportunity)

$_____ bonus per proposal which results within 12 months

$_____ or ____ % bonus per actual sale within 24 months

We will consider any motivating combination of the above, or whatever is customary practice for your company to reward referrals, and especially those which lead to actual sales.

We have obviously invested a lot of professional time and money to create this service, and rely on the fees we can earn by introducing executives to relevant professionals.

What does it really cost you to develop such prospects on your own?  We are confident that, by working together, we can drive down your "cost of sales" while helping executives and their advisors to quickly identify very relevant solutions for their needs.

If you want to add a button or banner link to our website, you can find the images through the above.  Contact us if a custom "landing page" or "deep links" may be appropriate to highlight the content most likely to be of interest to your contacts.

For example, if you participate in our GUIDE Service Profile service, your Profile can serve as a landing page, with easy links to other resources of potential interest to users.  This can efficiently complement the knowledge which is available directly through your own website.

We know of no comparable service in the world.

With your participation, we can make this even more efficient as a source of good referrals which can economically complement your own promotional efforts during the year.