Recently in Manchester, I was joined by accountants, lawyers and insolvency practitioners for the MBL referrer management training workshop on “Developing more work from referrers and intermediaries”. Here are the delegates’ views of the highlights. Plan – Back to basics Most firms have referrer management programmes and activities – but Read More
TED’s mission is to nurture the spread of powerful ideas. Anyone who has seen a TED talk knows that they are expert, entertaining, often emotional and always compelling. And never more than 18 minutes. So while many business presentations might not be suitable for the full TED treatment, there must Read More
Long ago, before the digital revolution, I wrote a book on media relations and how leading experts in professional services could build their media profile to become the “rock star” of a niche. Since then, the digitisation of communications and understanding of thought leadership have made this strategy commonplace – Read More
Following a networking introduction from a lawyer at Keystone Law (Thank you!) I had the pleasure of meeting Frank Bertele, former adviser at UBS and director of start-up company NETZ. We had a chat and a demo of the system at the WeWork co-working base in the City of London. Read More
At a recent PM Forum training session “Helping your fee-earners prepare the perfect pitch” (http://www.pmforum.co.uk/training/) we focused on how research is a vital to pitch success – both for marketing and business development professionals to add value to the pitch process and to develop differentiating and compelling value propositions for Read More
