Here are the key points from a presentation titled “Cross selling – the dream versus the reality” I made yesterday at The Law Society Law Management Section Annual Conference 2014. Thanks to all those folk who took the time to give me some positive feedback afterwards – it was much Read More
Earlier today I ran a sold out half day “Marketing and business development writing workshop” http://www.pmforum.co.uk/training/ in London with participants from across the professions in the UK. As always, I asked the delegates to tell me the most useful idea that they picked up during the session and here are Read More
At the “Towards KAM – helping fee-earners with relationship management” session last week one of things generating most interest and discussion was the issue that while most firms had identified the stages in the sales or new business development process in their firms, few had achieved the same level of Read More
When providing business development coaching to lawyers and accountants, one of the metaphors I use is that it is like growing a tree. It’s not an overnight process. It takes time for a young sapling to find the right location, acquire the necessary resources and grow steadily each year until Read More
There was an interesting piece on growth and UK accountancy market trends in Accountancy Age on 13 January looking at the trends within top 100 accountancy practices (http://www.accountancyage.com/aa/analysis/2322595/full-top50-50-analysis-mixed-bag-of-success?utm_term=&utm_content=headline_title&utm_campaign=AA.Best_Practice_RL.EU.A.U&utm_medium=Email&utm_source=AA.DCM.Editors_Updates) The main points were: There were 12 new entrants into the market – in some ways this is encouraging as it shows Read More
