Despite over two decades of successful sales experience, I am not a fan of telephone cold calling (my reasons are shown below if you are interested). However, whenever I provide a marketing, sales or business development training course (as I was doing yesterday morning), people ask me how to be Read More
I have been helping law firms for almost two decades with their major informal pitches and formal tenders. I’m pleased to report that my success rate is almost 100%. I train both marketing/business development people and lawyers themselves in effective sales and pitch techniques. So I was interested to hear Read More
I’ve just written a full review of this book on business networking for Professional Marketing magazine - and it’s full of praise for this down to earth and immensely practical book. It's written by an accountant from Manchester who has dedicated decades of his professional life to improving professionals' networking Read More
At a recent workshop on “How to increase buy-in” (see http://www.pmforum.co.uk/training/), the delegates identified the following as the most useful tips and hints to add to their persuasion armoury: Align aims – You may have a clear vision of what you want to achieve and understand the benefits to the Read More
At this week’s Profile (property marketing network http://www.profile-network.com/) session these three organisations shared their experiences of using video as part of the marketing communications mix for property marketing. Berwin Leighton Paisner http://www.blplaw.com/home Brian Macreadie, Head of Brand and Sector Marketing, explained that he was a “digital marketing geek” who had Read More
