After a successful meeting with a potential client, it’s tempting to wait eagerly for the next step — but the key to turning that meeting into real business is knowing when and how to follow up.
From brand and advertising to content creation and PR, your world is creative.
We apply strategic expertise and deep sector knowledge to help creative agencies build predictable, sustainable new business pipelines.
Working as an extension of your team, we deliver focused, strategic and tactical lead generation designed to create quality conversations that convert.
Your business development, expertly handled.
Targeted, relationship-led outreach designed to engage the right decision-makers at the right time and create quality conversations that convert.
Hands-on support to build, manage and convert a high-quality new business pipeline aligned to your agency’s strengths and ambitions.
Strategic foundations including positioning, ICP clarity, roadmapping and long-term planning to support sustainable growth.
Thought-leadership-led events that create meaningful conversations, strengthen relationships and generate commercial momentum.
Clear roadmaps, targeting briefs and timelines that align new business activity with your wider commercial goals.
Whether you require full-scale new business development, targeted lead generation or strategic guidance at critical moments, every engagement is grounded in commercial rigour, market intelligence and a deep understanding of the creative industry. We don’t just identify opportunities. We help you win them.
The Hand works with experienced consultants, who have each had in-house new business experience and work closely with clients to implement strategies for winning business from new clients.
We work with ambitious creative specialists in Advertising, Film Production, Digital, Industrial & Product Design, Brand Design through to Creative Marketing & Comms Agencies.
In fact, there isn’t a creative discipline that we aren’t experienced in. The Hand were the first business development consultancy to thoroughly immerse into the creative industry in the UK and Globally.
This is our specialism, boosting the growth of the creative industry. Our clients are very special to us, as we are to them and therefore as you would expect we are under strict non-disclosure agreements.
After a successful meeting with a potential client, it’s tempting to wait eagerly for the next step — but the key to turning that meeting into real business is knowing when and how to follow up.
As a creative agency director you know how vital networking is to growing your business. LinkedIn is a powerful tool for building relationships with potential clients, collaborators, and industry leaders. But just having a profile isn’t enough – you need a strategy to turn connections into opportunities.