09.14.2020 - By Chip Griffin and Gini Dietrich
In this episode, Chip and Gini discuss whether you should share ideas with prospective clients during the business development process.
If you don’t share ideas, you worry that you can’t prove your expertise and creativity.
If you do share ideas, you worry that the prospect will take your thoughts (for free) and implement them on their own.
So what are you to do?
Transcript
Chip Griffin
Hello, and welcome to another episode of the Agency Leadership Podcast. I’m Chip Griffin,
Gini Dietrich
and I’m Gini Dietrich,
Chip Griffin
and this time we really are here to sell you an idea.
Gini Dietrich
We are But first, I would like to tell people who cannot see you about the shirt you’re wearing today. It’s a lovely blue color, t shirt, round neck, and it says it depends, which is amazing and totally perfect for this podcast. Now I feel like I need to order myself one and we will match. I’ll get red or something.
Chip Griffin
I can say this is the first time I have ever appeared in a public video wearing a T shirt.
Gini Dietrich
I believe that that’s true.
Chip Griffin
I think it’s probably the first time I’ve ever done any work function wearing a T shirt either of any kind.
Gini Dietrich
I believe that that’s also true knowing you like I know you but it’s perfect. It’s perfect for this and I clap When I saw it,
Chip Griffin
I thought it was fun. So I, you know, you got to have.
I think it’s great.
Chip Griffin
Yeah. I thought maybe it was a good antidote to the doom and gloom episode that we published
Gini Dietrich
the doom and gloom, but by the way, after we stopped recording, he went on and told me more about his doom and gloom. And then I was like, wow, I have a migraine. I wonder why?
Chip Griffin
Well, you know, it’s, it’s important not to completely depress the audience because we want them to come back. Just
Gini Dietrich
me. Yeah, just depress me.
Chip Griffin
Well, yeah. But I share the unvarnished truth with you, Jenny. I
Gini Dietrich
do and it wasn’t on varnished. I
Chip Griffin
slightly varnish the truth for everybody else. Not much. Not much. So. I mean, no,
Gini Dietrich
I would say you didn’t. You just, I wouldn’t say you varnished the truth. I would say you just didn’t go it’s say everything.
Chip Griffin
Yes, I stopped at a certain point. The point I stopped that was much more speculative. So in all fairness, so we don’t We don’t tease the audience too much into two.
Gini Dietrich
Oh, yeah, it was.
Chip Griffin
It was,