The Rainmaking Podcast TRP 120: Clarity in Business Development with Bruce La Fetra
In this episode of The Rainmaking Podcast, host Scott Love speaks with Bruce Lafetra, business development strategist and speaker, about achieving clarity in business development. Bruce explains how law firms and professionals can attract their best clients by identifying what truly makes them valuable. He emphasizes that clients don’t hire professionals for the work they do—they hire them for what they can accomplish because of that work. By shifting their perspective, firms can focus on attracting the right clients while eliminating those who drain resources and profitability.
Key topics include how to identify ideal clients, understanding why they choose your firm, and leveraging those insights to generate more high-value business. Bruce shares the importance of interviewing best clients to uncover their real reasons for working with you, using storytelling to highlight differentiation, and refining marketing messaging to remove self-centered language. He also discusses the "us, we, our" test—an exercise to shift the focus from the firm to the client. This episode offers actionable strategies for firms looking to build stronger relationships, increase profitability, and create a sustainable business development strategy.
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Bruce La Fetra is a business development catalyst and speaker working with attorneys and law firms to fundamentally change how and who generates business. Focusing on their Best Clients sets in motion a virtuous cycle where revenue grows, profitability increases, and the business development cycle shortens as the firm attracts more of its Best Clients.
Clients call Bruce The Client Whisperer because he interviews a firm's Best Clients to reverse-engineer that firm's secret sauce and gains highly credible and actionable insights.
Bruce consults with small to mid-sized law firms, coaches individual attorneys, and speaks to firms retreats, and Managing Partner peer groups.
Bruce earned a degree in Economics, cum laude, from Claremont McKenna College and a MBA from the Tuck School at Dartmouth College. He is also a trained facilitator. Bruce isn't an attorney, but he is married to one.
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Links:
https://LinkedIn.com/in/brucelafetra
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