How to Find BD Opportunities in Your 'Reader Highlights' Emails

Turn real-time engagement into opportunity — here’s how

ReaderHighlightsEmailJD Supra's Reader Highlight emails land in your inbox during the workweek to do one simple thing: alert you to noteworthy engagement with your firm’s thought leadership — right when it happens.

Unlike broader analytics reports, these alerts spotlight timely moments of interest: a reader at a specific company, in a specific role or industry, engaging with a specific piece of your content.

The value? It’s not just a signal — it’s an opportunity.

Here's how to use your Reader Highlight email as a trigger for smart follow-up, target outreach, client development, and internal wins.

If You’re in Business Development or Client Relations

What to look for:

  • Someone at a target company just read your attorney’s post.
  • A contact at an existing client is reading about a new or different topic area.
  • Multiple people at one company have recently engaged with your content.

What to do next:

  • Alert the relationship partner: "Looks like someone at [Company] is engaging with our [Topic] content. Worth a check-in?"
  • Use it as a conversation starter: "We noticed increased interest in this issue — here’s something additional to consider…"
  • Log it in your CRM: Add the reader activity as a touchpoint or note.
  • Coordinate with marketing: Is there follow-up content we should plan?

Pair these alerts with findings from your broader analytics (including your Beacon Insights) to understand if this is a one-off read or part of a bigger trend with that company or industry.

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