relationship-first business development
Relationship-first business development for professionals
Relationship-first business development on LinkedIn and email for lawyers, accountants, consultants and fractional executives. You approve every draft.
Work comes from people who know you
For lawyers, accountants, consultants, coaches and fractional executives, most new work arrives through referrals, former colleagues and people who watched you do good work. Business development is then mostly staying visible and useful to the right few hundred people, not a high-volume blast. The aim is a steady, modest stream of real conversations that does not take hours away from client work.
What FollowArc does for that
You choose who to reach: referral partners, past colleagues, centers of influence and people at the kinds of firms you want to serve. You can bring a list in as a CSV, paste LinkedIn profile URLs, or use a LinkedIn search that keeps adding matches. Sophia drafts the connection note and the follow-ups in your saved voice, sends them from one sequence on LinkedIn and email, and drafts an answer to each reply for your approval.
You stay in control of what goes out
You review the sequence before the campaign starts and can edit every step. LinkedIn actions need your approval by default, and email replies are never sent automatically. Per-account daily limits, a gradual warm-up, send windows and a killswitch apply on top, though no tool can remove the risk of LinkedIn restrictions.
A pace that suits relationship work
A campaign gets a full month before its acceptance or reply rate is used to slow it down or stop it, so a small and patient list is not judged on a few early days. Safety limits on the account, such as provider refusals and send windows, still apply from the first day.
What FollowArc does not do
FollowArc does not hand you a ranked list of five people to contact each morning. If a daily follow-up habit built around the people you already know is the whole need, a tool made for that may suit you better, and the BD4Pros comparison page covers one and says where the two differ.
Confidentiality and professional rules
Your professional rules come first. Bar and accounting bodies can set limits on solicitation, and you stay responsible for what goes out in your name, so check them and keep every message plain and free of promises. FollowArc makes no promise about privileged or client confidential material and does not yet hold a SOC 2 report, so keep that content out of notes and messages. The Security page lists the protections it does have.
Priced per connected LinkedIn account
$149 a month for the first connected account, stepping down to $79 a month per account at 16 or more. Every account includes the full product. There is a 7-day trial that needs a card, costs $0 today and costs nothing if you cancel before day 7.
Frequently asked questions
What is relationship-first business development?
It means winning work mainly through people who already know, trust or can vouch for you: referrals, former colleagues, past clients and partners. The work is staying in touch, being useful and making introductions easy, more than cold prospecting. Tools can help with the list, the drafting and the follow-up, but the relationships and the judgment stay yours.
Can I use FollowArc to keep in touch with people I already know?
Yes, on LinkedIn and email. Bring in a list or search for the people you want to reach, and Sophia drafts the notes and follow-ups in your voice for your approval. You choose who goes on the list, because FollowArc does not rank a daily list of people to contact.
Is FollowArc a CRM for professionals?
It has a built-in CRM for contacts, conversations, tasks and deals. HubSpot connects directly, and other CRMs receive replies and meetings through signed webhooks. It is built around outreach and the inbox, not firm practice management.
Does FollowArc protect privileged communications?
FollowArc makes no promise about privileged or confidential material. Keep it out of notes and messages, check your professional rules, and read the Security page and the data processing addendum before you connect an account.
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