Here is a summary of the highlights of the MBL “Business development for professional service firms” conference which took place in London on 1st October 2014. The delegates were an interesting mix – half were fee-earners and the others were marketing/business development professionals. Medium sized law firms dominated although there Read More
At the recent PM Forum conference, I picked up an accountancy marketing case study from technology suppliers there about the use of marketing technology by accountancy firm Grant Thornton. The Senior Executive – CRM, Marketing and Business Development talks about the use of the CRM solution amongst the 200 partners Read More
KPMG hosted a panel discussion last night where some of the brightest stars of professional services marketing shared their reflections, insights and advice on how to break through to the next step of your career beyond Head of Marketing roles. I’ve summarised the key points from speakers and contributors (Simon Read More
A couple of months ago there was a bit of a furore about reports that some business development and marketing people at London’s top law firms were being paid as much as £477,000 (even though this turned out to be a combination of the highest base salary awarded (£345,000) combined Read More
I’ve read numerous books on strategy since before my MBA in 1996 and ever since. There were some good and some poor. As part of preparing for the forthcoming course on “Being more strategic” for PM Forum http://www.pmforum.co.uk/training/ I needed to select a couple of books to recommend to delegates. Read More