I scan the media regularly to capture insights into the latest marketing and business development (BD) strategies and campaigns in professional services. Delegates on my public and inhouse training sessions often ask for case studies into what their peers and competitors are doing. Case studies allow you to compare and Read More
Earlier this week I ran a full day workshop on selling for MBL (“The art of selling professional services and winning business”). The day was organised into six modules: the sales process, sales planning, integration with marketing, psychological selling, selling skills and measuring sales success. I selected four themes in Read More
I’ve combined the key delegate insights from the two most recent MBL workshops on referrer management (http://www.mblseminars.com/Outline/Developing-More-Work-from-Referrers-_-Intermediaries/5770/) in London and Manchester to provide 14 pragmatic steps to improved referrer management. The sessions had a fascinating and productive blend of views from senior leaders, fee-earners and business development professionals. 1. Analyse Read More
As part of my ongoing review of technology systems supporting professional service firms (PSFs), I went along recently to speak to Mark Bilson of Intapp. Intapp is an interesting cloud-based platform as Intapp integrates technology and information across the client life cycle at a firm – once understood the potential Read More
At last week’s “Marketing planning in a nutshell” workshop by Professional Marketing Forum http://www.pmforum.co.uk/training/ the delegates requested that I write a blog on selecting strategies. The first part of the session focused on the marketing audit – analysing internal and external sources of information in order to identify strengths, weakness, Read More
