Yesterday I had a fabulous day at the SMART Social Media for Business conference in Westminster. I tweeted throughout the day, and there was a LOT of material, but here are some of the most memorable bits. Setting the scene John Barnes (Incisive Media) opened the event and then Charlie 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
The Sixth Edition of the Law Society’s Probate Practitioner’s Handbook finally arrived in the post today containing my updated chapter (pages 380 – 412) on marketing, selling and relationship management. The chapter – which I have revised extensively in each edition since its original publication back in 1991 – is Read More
During the inevitable end of year office tidy up I came across a briefing paper called “The State of Marketing” written by the wonderful Professor McDonald (I call him the “Patron Saint of Marketing Plans”) for the Cambridge Marketing College in 2009 and thought it was worth reviewing his thoughts 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