Do you want a surefire way to get your firm’s ALL-IN marketing training program launched? There are five practical steps that marketing and HR departments can take in adopting, developing, and implementing a long-term, AEC-focused marketing training program.
Rain Making: The Professional’s Guide to Attracting New Clients by Ford Harding is written for anyone who wishes to bring in business, generate leads, and develop relationships that turn into profitable projects. In essence, this book—chock full of resources, research, and technique—is for anyone who wants to hone a marketing mentality, made accessible.
Stephanie Munoz, Business Development Director for Dibble, talks in-depth about he all-in environment, mentors, and storytelling in marketing.
Though punctuation is small, it leaves a big impression. Check up on your grammar habits and make sure you're writing correctly—in this case, specifically with the comma and apostrophe.
Karen Carr, Business Development Director of Boldt Construction, describes her process of starting from scratch with new perspectives and firm-wide buy-in.
Finance, human resource, management, and operations leaders are all major factors of a smooth marketing campaign. Understanding their roles in marketing objectives allows for firm-wide, ALL IN marketing to work on another level.
Stephanie Ray, Corporate Director of Marketing for Sunrise Engineering, provides in-depth answers to our marketing questions and outlines a thorough process to strengthen her firm through marketing support and initiatives.
Know your options! The presentation world comes with a robust number of applications and resources available to make your proposal interview shine. Create a promising physical presenation, and your proposal will shine.
Eric Stratford, Director of Business Development & Preconstruction Services at R&O Construction, shares his experience in working as a team with leadership, business, and marketing to create a cohesive and supportive approach to the firm's marketing development.
A proposal is nothing without prepared technical professionals, but preparedness takes a lot of legwork before even the RFP drops. Positioning in advance puts proposals at an advantage throughout the entire process.
Preparing for and executing a proposal takes an especially involved brand of teamwork. The firm being All In for this process is critical to successful proposals and business as a whole.
Patricia Cantley, Regional Marketing Director of Brown and Caldwell, describes her experience at her job and explains what steps she has found are necessary for marketing success in the industry.
Cynthia Re’Mine, Marketing Director for Reaveley Engineers, provides concrete advice and objectives in response to our questions on her marketing success. From establishing marketing as a serious and fruitful commitment early on to her practices in getting the right people on board, there's wisdom to be found in her informed answers.
Even when your newly developed website is considered “complete,” it still requires attention. Marketing Coordinators, you are a crucial team partner in guaranteeing the continued effectiveness of your website. Adding website optimization to your task list is essential.
When creating a lead-generating website, technical staff are crucial for creating quality content that appeals to potential visitors and draws them in. Technical staff are the ones who create appealing educational libraries for everyone and anyone to learn more about both the firm and the business, and it's expertise that keeps clients coming back for more.
As the Client Relations Director at Calder Richards Consulting Structural Engineers, there is much to learn from Nancy Wolthuis. She's worked in the AEC industry for 35 years, and has developed the skills and network to help firms grow through leading by example. She knows clients want to communicate with the people working on their projects, and she works hard to shape up her people and spaces to make sure every connection to clients is a strong one.
For Myrna Wagner, Vice President of Business Development at Swinerton Management and Consulting, the most important step to marketing mentality was to create a culture of collaboration and accountability with the leadership team. Her approach is to provide them with tools to help and encourage their involvement with business development. MARKETLINK Principal Stephanie Craft asked some questions to find out more.
Whether your firm has a formal Client Care Program or not, one way to enhance your client relationships and further your career is by thinking of yourself as a Client Care Manager.
MARKETLINK Principal Stephanie Craft caught up with Chuck Hack, a Lionakis principal and owner, to learn more about how he and Lionakis’s leadership have created and fostered a marketing mentality within the firm.
Whether you’re new to the industry and just wondering how to get started or you’ve been creating proposals for years and you’re always trying to find “that one write-up you created for that one proposal,” it’s never a bad time to organize your marketing materials!
As we continue to adapt to the new paradigm, we must adjust to the limited ability to meet face to face, while remembering how important this activity is to creating a longstanding relationship. Here are six suggestions for pivoting and making the most of your business development efforts.
Now more than ever, knowing how to conduct online training is a must for marketing and management staff. In these times of uncertainty, firms must be nimble in the ways they pursue their long-term strategic planning goals. This means providing your professionals with the right tools to keep them on track to meet overall marketing and new business development goals and objectives. Most of these tools can be provided through training and coaching, so you'll want to be at the top of your game with for training online.
We’ve all heard the adage “the best way to get somewhere is a straight line,” but author Rich Christiansen suggests otherwise. Christiansen is an entrepreneur who has founded or cofounded more than 30 businesses. Some of them were colossal failures, others were multi-million-dollar successes.
Interested in doing something good for the body and soul that doesn’t require running shoes, a gym membership, or scheduling an appointment with a therapist? Try being grateful! Here at MARKETLINK, we’re implementing a 10-day Gratitude Challenge.
Excel spreadsheets, workflowy lists, and back and forth emails, move over! If you’re looking for an app to keep everyone in your organization on the same page, we suggest Asana. Asana is a simple yet powerful work management platform full of features that project managers of all types need.
Working in marketing for the AEC industry, you have undoubtedly been confronted by – or are yourself considered – the grammar police. (You know who you are.) Want to avoid that embarrassing moment when one of your colleagues catches a subject-verb agreement error or a sentence fragment?
Creating templates for your AEC proposals is very helpful in streamlining your pursuit efforts, and crucial for meeting deadlines. Over the past 30 years, we have learned some valuable lessons in AEC proposal strategy and development. Learn our top six tips for an effective AEC proposal template.
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