In July 2017, I presented another of the successful MBL sessions on “Developing a private client practice”. As the nature and interests of the delegates – and the most pressing issues in the legal market – vary at each workshop, so the key points change. Here are the topics that Read More
Client Experience Management CEM is all the rage. It was the theme of last year’s Professional Marketing Forum conference, there have been fantastic PM Forum events by Paul English of Grant Thornton and other notable experts and I recently led PM Forum’s first training workshop on the topic. But it’s Read More
At a recent cross-selling and referrer management course we tackled: Cross-selling – The Big Questions. What are you trying to achieve? – Most firms have cross-selling initiatives. Many firms repeatedly launch new initiatives to improve cross-selling. However, the starting point has to be to set some clear goals about what you Read More
I provide many public training courses on marketing planning in a nutshell. But questions about marketing planning arise in many other public and in-house training courses on business development, referrer management and social selling. And of course people ask me for a standard marketing plan template. But it’s rarely as Read More
Differentiation is a question that is raised in many of my strategy and business development workshops for professional service firms. Differentiation is the process of identifying a difference between your own and competing products or services that has some value to clients. Differentiation provides sustainable competitive advantage. So this article Read More
