There was a variety of delegates at a recent workshop by MBL on “Pitch Perfect – How to prepare and present winning pitches and tenders”. From trainees to partners, from beginners to marketing and business development experts, from private client to commercial services and from large and smaller firms. I’ve Read More
At a recent PM Forum workshop (Selling processes and sales skills for marketing and business development professionals (MBD)) delegates from legal and accountancy firms focused on improving the sales processes and skills at their firms. Some were from large firms and others were from smaller firms. Their firms varied in Read More
A recent MBL workshop on referrer management was attended by fee-earners and business development professionals from law and accountancy firms. The over-arching theme to emerge was to improve the knowledge we have about our referrer relationships. Considering the data, research, systems and habits we need for referrer relationships prompted one Read More
Having worked in professional services marketing (at legal, accountancy, property and consultancy firms) for almost three decades I have spent a lot of time working on cross-selling and referrer (referral) management initiatives. This includes internal referrals (cross-selling) and external referrals (both from existing clients and third party intermediaries). A recent Read More
It was a full house for July’s “Be more strategic” PM Forum – PM Forum workshop for marketing and business development (MBD) professionals. During the session we considered three key areas: thinking strategically, business strategy and marketing/business development strategy. Be more strategic – Strategy is about making choices. Strategy is about making Read More
