Testimonials

Dave Plunkett is one of the most valuable businesspeople I’ve met in the last few years. He has deep specialist knowledge, a fantastic network and, most importantly, a deep empathy with people and a passion for helping them succeed.

Undertaking the Kick-Ass Collaboration Programme from Collaboration Junkie has achieved three things for Sufu that, even as an experienced founder who is a decade into my journey, I was struggling to achieve alone.

1. Targeting - I was able to see past some deeply embedded misconceptions about who my most valuable partners were, why, and how to redirect my focus. We all have blindspots, Dave removed mine.

2. Process & Systems – Dave has the “how” of partnerships down. You don’t need to worry that partnerships mean creating a lot of documentation, Dave has done the vast majority of the work for you, you can just tweak them to your needs.

3. Getting to work – The last value working with Dave has given me is simply the ability to make me move the dial for myself! He is as adept at working with people who are unsure and need nurturing, as he is with people who are confident and need challenging. He gets you to get it done!

I’ve already started to achieve tangible outcomes from my work with Dave in terms of securing valuable mentoring roles, getting content co-creation opportunities with valuable partners and improving my commercial outcomes through better pricing and negotiation.

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If I had a dollar for every time someone said to me one of these; "Why bother investing in a consultant to help you bring in high quality new business through partnerships and referrals?" or "That's so obvious isn't it?" or "Don't you do that already?" or "Is that even a thing?", then... well I wouldn't actually still need to be in business...

Thanks Dave Plunkett and the folks at Collaboration Junkies. In just a few months, you've opened our eyes to a whole new world of opportunity, plenty of exciting prospects and some fully signed up new clients. I think you're on to something.

ExecutiveSurf - hooked on Collaboration junkies

ps. the answers to those questions: 1. Because there's a big ROI, 2. Yes but when did 'obvious' get a free pass into marketing strategy? 3. A bit, but blindly, making it pretty unproductive, 4. Yes, but don't tell anyone about it.

Dave is a rare breed of person.

I met Dave about 3 years ago, and he was one of the few folks who could concisely convey the sorts of people he wanted to speak to and why.

Not only that, but he's a talented and natural communicator and networker. As a result, through the last 3 years, we've been able to put a lot of business each other's way.

I thought I had seen the best of Dave, but I was wrong.

I recently joined the Kick Ass Collaboration Program, and had the privilege of being on the receiving end of Dave in his natural habitat.

Dave brings partnerships to life!

Im ADHD and normally struggle with workbooks and classwork, but dave made it all very simple and easy to do, but importantly, he's a brilliant facilitator as well as an amazing communicator.

He's created a small group who are comfortable to help each other and have full transparency between us. That takes a special sort of person, and Dave is more than up to the task.

If you think you have a partnership proposition in place, or you have no idea where to start... Take some time and talk to him.

There are levels above where you are now that you have no idea exist, and that's where the magic is.

Cannot recommend Dave highly enough. Top bloke

I was looking for someone to give me clarity around my strategy, help me answer the questions that were swirling around in my head, and provide me some structure so that I could move forwards.

But more than just giving me the brain space to answer the questions I already had, Dave asked the right questions to get me thinking even more. He provided the right triggers for me to think outside of the box and start to join those dots. The fact that I didn’t have to take any notes as Dave was doing all of that made it even more freeing. And although there was a process that was followed it wasn’t rigid, enabling us to explore tangents as and when they arose.

By the end of the first half of the day I was so excited about the opportunity. The exploration and validation of the different client profiles and partner types provided some unexpected results and the clarity that brought came with a sense of relief as well.

My business is growing rapidly through referrals but I didn’t have any real understanding of how or why I was getting them and the thought of these leads drying up concerned me.

Strategic Partnerships seemed the ideal way to build on this, but as someone who’s very process driven I knew that I needed to have a formal and structured programme in place to get the most out of this channel.

I needed to understand the non-financial drivers of why people refer so that I could form a strategy that was dependable and scalable through proactive effort, rather than the slightly clumsy ad hoc inbound strategy we had in place before, as successful as it was.

If I was going to push this I also wanted the confidence and security of knowing that what I had on offer for my partners was water-tight...

After deliberating about making the investment in the profitable partnership program I have just had the first of my sessions with Dave and I am incredibly excited for the future.   Dave not only made me cry (in a good way) but also unpicked so much opportunity for the growth of our business. For anyone who thinks they know their stuff on partnerships.... think again. Dave KNOWS about partnerships.   

For anyone considering working with him but are holding off, just do it! I already know a million percent that the money I've invested is going to come back to me tenfold.  

The Directors of THIS R&D engaged Collaboration Junkies services to build our strategic industry partnerships in 2021.  

Working with Dave was both educational and insightful. It has given us a clear road map to follow and we are beginning to see results.  

Ultimately, we are happy to recommend any businesses looking to grow to Collaboration Junkie. The process funnels your enthusiasm for business into a pragmatic playbook for results.   

What to say without coming over as a total fanboy? Dave knows his brief: partnerships, referrals, business through relationships — he knows this stuff deeply and he walks the talk. It's so relevant to all businesses I would heartily recommend anyone work with Dave. He's also funny, kind, and curious which are a big deal to me, and I hope to you too. Recommended without reservation.

Dave’s knowledge and enthusiasm for partnerships knows no bounds, and his energy is infectious. Where he really excels though is the level of detail he provides, backed up by real life examples and contextualised for the businesses he’s working with.

I can’t recommend working with Dave highly enough.

Thank you, thank you thank you!

I had the best conversation ever with a prospective strategic partner this morning. It certainly wasn't as complete as it could have been as I've not written my process yet, but we established who in the practice was client facing, what I could do for them to make it easy for them to keep me front of mind and refer me and how we keep in touch.

I have a lot of work to do on the back of the conversation but I believe that this could be the start of something pretty amazing. It wouldn't have gone that way if we hadn't had our session on Thursday.

Thank you, thank you, thank you!

Dave was great at helping us to see the benefits that a more structured approach to partnership working could have on our programme. It was also very valuable to understand the processes and systems needed to enable us to manage those partnerships. All the information was provided in a really clear way that meant we could take immediate action as well as build for our future partnership working.

Dave Plunkett of Collaboration Junkie is one of the best in the world at creating a simple path and process for getting service and SAAS businesses to scale through partnerships. He has demonstrated a well-developed ability to get clarity, simplification and results. Gaining referrals and partnerships that actually work is challenging, and Dave is more than up to the task of knowing what needs to be done AND communicating it effectively to others. Why not work with the best instead of any of the rest? Highly recommended.

It has and continues to be an absolute pleasure to be a part of any presentation that Dave Plunkett delivers. He is the consummate connector, bringing a wealth of experience and business acumen, that makes generating leads seamless. Dave presented for our Global Chamber Atlanta, Advisory Board earlier this year, sharing steps, that when implemented improves relationships and potentially drives new and repeat business.

He is someone I highly recommend working with if you want to scale your business through referrals.

Referrals were something I knew held great potential, but I just didn’t know the process, or art, of getting them on a consistent basis.

My morning with Dave put that right.  It wasn’t just theory from a book, it was real, down to earth advice, tailored to my business, that meant the very next day I was able to go and take action. 

The practical applications discussed have allowed me to instantly visualise how this will bring revenue into my business, and I’m buzzing about being able to proactively take control of this process 

I was massively Impressed at just what could be covered in a single morning and wouldn’t hesitate to recommend other business owners to take the opportunity of gaining Dave’s advice.

Although happy asking for case studies and testimonials from my happy clients, I’ve always felt really awkward asking for referrals, and wasn’t sure on how to approach my wider network, even though I know many of them would be only too happy to recommend me.

Working with Collaboration Junkie really helped me grow my skills and I’m now much more confident in who, how and when to ask. So much so that I even asked a prospect who wasn’t proceeding who else they could recommend me too! I would have never believed I would have been able to do that prior, so thank you Dave!

Before working with Dave I would have said that we were in a pretty decent place for referrals, we've organically developed relationships where referrals naturally happen.

But it's random, not consistent at all. When a lead does come in, it's more of a bonus lead, less of a planned, intentional and thought through part of our lead generation.

Since working with Dave, I realise how much more opportunity there is out there for us, and how we haven't made it easy for others to refer into us.

I now have tangible, realistic - and exciting - steps and goals to work toward to create a strong and consistent pipeline of pre qualified leads coming through to us (how amazing is that!?).

Dave is a 'Big Thinker', he helps you shoot for the stars, with high level, strategic planning. But he's also hugely practical and realistic, and will support you in creating and taking the steps you need to implement a referral strategy that works. He's also a thoroughly nice guy, and a pleasure to work with.

If you're looking to increase the amount of leads coming into your business, with a trusted and expert advisor, who 'gets people' and knows how to craft sustainable and impactful relationships - look no further - talk to Dave.

I’m not great on workshops or training courses, I can find them a bit of a struggle, especially online. Dave’s delivery was awesome. There was lots of interaction, it was made relevant to my business, and it was really fun, which meant my attention was held all the way through. 

As for the content, I used to think I wasn’t asking for referrals as I didn’t have the time. Even though I knew they had huge potential for me because of the positive feedback my business gets. I know now that it was actually just that I didn’t have a process in place. I mean, how long does it take to ask for a referral?   I came out buzzing. My business has already been growing rapidly, and with this additional strategy behind it I’m really excited about what it could mean for my lead generation. 

I’m always so busy I just don’t ask for referrals, even though I receive a steady flow of them, I’d also love to get my team asking, but I know they’ll be resistant as they’re not sales focussed. In amongst having a lot of fun, the content delivered during the Collaboration Junkie session was absolutely brilliant. It’s one thing showing where you have a gap in your business, it’s something else entirely to make you realise how you can fill that and inspire you to take action.

it really opened my eyes to the potential and gave me a framework that I can now build into my business moving forwards – I’ve already set the wheels in motion.

I’m looking forward to working with Dave again in the future and would recommend other business owners find the time to do the same.

Running a membership organisation, I’m already used to levering my audience for referrals, so I have to be honest I wondered how much I would get from the session. I couldn’t have been more wrong as I learned so much more than I ever thought I would.

It was fun & engaging and the fact it was personalised to my business was great.

The level of content was really thorough, I took loads of notes, have some simple actions to get started with right away, and am excited by the future potential.

I’m one of those people who, despite getting a high percentage of my work through referrals, was always really passive in how I went about actually getting them.

Working with Dave has helped me change that significantly, giving me the strategy & direction to be much more active in how I use referrals.

It's allowed me to open up a whole new model of working with some great clients, and the idea that referrals can work at multiple levels means we’re now

building them into our top of funnel marketing and lead magnet materials.

And some of the concepts discussed during the workshop have real relevance to our broader marketing and customer communications.

On the session itself I enjoyed there being a mix of different sectors – group learning is always more impactful for me but especially so when the insights are so varied.

Overall, I can’t recommend working with Dave highly enough. Honestly, just do it!