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Why do you need a business plan?

Many of the clients I work with in the legal, accountancy, property and other sectors are relatively small but fast-growing businesses with up to 30 owner-managers. It is surprising the number of them that either don’t have a business plan or have a plan that is out-of-date or that doesn’t Read More

2020-03-02T09:48:27+00:00March 2, 2020|Accountants, Kim's Blog, Lawyers, Management Skills, Property, Strategy|

Nine reflections on thought leadership (2019)

It was a full house at the recent Professional Marketing Forum training workshop https://www.pmforum.co.uk/training.aspx on thought leadership. Here are the nine reflections on thought leadership identified by the 18 delegates at the end of the session: Use books for thought leadership – Publishing a book was the original way that Read More

2019-09-09T15:55:29+01:00September 9, 2019|Accountants, Kim's Blog, Lawyers, Marketing, Property, Statistics and trends|

Enquiry management: Converting more telephone enquiries with basic sales training

At a “Business development for lawyers” course a while back the topic that the delegates asked me to write about was that of converting telephone enquiries. More recently, at a practice development course for private client solicitors, the same issue arose and other insights were shared at a recent in-house Read More

Research report: 24th Annual Smith & Williamson Law Firm Survey 2018 “Brexit, what Brexit?”

The annual Smith & Williamson law firm survey 2018 obtained the opinions of over 130 managing partners and senior management personnel across the UK in August 2018. The clear message emerging from this year’s survey show that law firms are continuing to fight for top talent in a competitive market Read More

2021-04-03T15:05:13+01:00July 15, 2019|Kim's Blog, Lawyers, Management Skills, Statistics and trends, Strategy|
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