The five best new clients look identical. The website says “any sector”.

Revenue often reorganises itself around one kind of customer long before the marketing notices, and the obvious response is riskier than it looks.

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At some point in most annual reviews, someone notices that the year’s best new business has a shape to it. Three or four of the largest wins, or the fastest to close, or the least painful to deliver, turn out to share something: the same sector, the same size band, the same moment in their own lifecycle. Nobody planned it. The website still describes a firm that works with anyone. Two instincts follow, and both fail for the same reason. The first is to ignore the pattern, because it feels…

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