The 18 delegates at the April PM Forum day workshop on “The Proactive Marketing and Business Development Executive” were evenly split between legal and accountancy firms with a slight majority from law firms. Throughout the day there was lots of interaction through polls, break out exercises and discussion. Here I Read More
In today’s video I explore the art of storytelling. Why stories are so powerful in communication. How stories can be used to persuade. How to structure a great story. And how to tell a great story. So here’s this month’s video – The art of storytelling. (Video script - 12 Read More
I have read many books on persuasion and influence. My favourites are those by Dr Robert Cialdini - and I recently made a short (10 minute) video covering his six principles of persuasion. This is a book review - “Persuasion: the art of influencing people” by James Borg. It is Read More
I’ve done lots of training and workshops on storytelling (see this 2017 summary of ideas on selling legal services with storytelling ). Often as part of persuasive writing sessions. The image below shows you some of the tools I use in my storytelling workshops. Most people know that research shows Read More
Last week I had the pleasure of facilitating delegates from legal and accountancy firms in the PM Forum’s “Referral Management and Cross-Selling Accelerator” workshop. Here are the key points from the polls, break-out and discussion sessions with referrer management and cross-selling insights. I’ve also included a summary from a recent Read More
