
New on Forbes Business Development Council this week, the opening instalment in my Partnership Playbook series. The worst channel partnership I ever signed looked perfect on paper. Strong regional presence. Experienced sales team. National footprint. Within six months, that partner had repositioned our product into a price bracket we’d spent two years building away…

There is a metric in property development that often gets overlooked in the spreadsheet. “The First Touch” When a prospective buyer approaches a premium house, they have already made a subconscious judgment before entering. If they have to fumble with a cheap, jagged key or a plastic fob, the value of the asset drops…