It’s always a risk to agree to review a book by someone that you know, and, in this case, admire. I’ve known Laurie for many years and indeed we have both lectured on the CIM/PSMG’s professional services diploma courses sharing evenings amongst delightful new entrants to the world of professional Read More
I recently attended a short PSMG session led by Paul Denvir of The Pace Partners on the psychology of price. He started with an exercise where we were all to noted down what we would consider the values of expensive cars and houses and cheap holidays and we quickly saw Read More
As a result of the White Paper on selling and social media for the professions (see 15th December 2010) and the blogs on why and how to use Twitter in December 2009 several of my clients (including the barristers) have asked for a beginner’s guide to LinkedIn for lawyers, accountants and surveyors as Read More
Earlier this week I did some training on sales conversion on the telephone and in meetings with some delightful family lawyers in Wolverhampton. At the end of each training session, I always ask people which key idea they found most useful. Not surprisingly, the majority of responses relate to the Read More
In the course of my work with many different clients in the professions, I get to sit through a lot of CRM demonstrations – sometimes they are “bolt on” modules for accounting systems and sometimes they are standalone systems, sometimes they are tailored to a particular sector’s needs (e.g. property, Read More