Book review

Book review: The leader’s guide to negotiation by Simon Horton

I’ve read a lot of books on negotiation. And this 270-page “leader’s guide to negotiation – how to use soft skills to get hard results” by Simon Horton is up there with my favourites. It’s stuffed full of research and useful insights from psychology. It provides a plethora of helpful Read More

Book Review – The Thought Leadership Manual by Tim Prizeman

I read “Thought Leadership Manual – How to grab your clients’ attention with powerful ideas” a while ago but I’ve been so busy I didn’t get round to writing the review. And it’s an important book that many marketing, communications and business development folk will find useful. Tim starts with a Read More

2016-06-01T10:06:17+01:00June 1, 2016|Accountants, Kim's Blog, Lawyers, Marketing, Property|

Book review: Managing online reputation – How to protect your company on social media by Charlie Pownall

I’ve just reviewed this book on "Managing online reputation" for Professional Marketing magazine http://www.pmforum.co.uk/magazine/ It’s a timely book considering the increasing use of social media in professional service firms and the underlying fear that problems in this arena – whether of internal or external origin – could have a catastrophic Read More

2016-03-23T08:29:49+00:00March 23, 2016|Accountants, Kim's Blog, Lawyers, Marketing, Property, Social Media|

Book Review – Persuasive writing (how to harness the power of words) by Peter Frederick

I review lots of books on persuasive writing (see the list below) to identify those that will prove useful to the lawyers, accountants, surveyors and marketers who attend my writing courses. As the importance of good quality content increases, there is continuing demand for those who can write persuasive copy Read More

2016-01-16T14:11:31+00:00January 16, 2016|Kim's Blog, Management Skills, Marketing, Selling|

Book Review: Professional Services Marketing Handbook (Edited by Nigel Clark with Charles Nixon)

You would expect a book coming from the folk at Cambridge Marketing College to be good. And it is. Unusually, it’s not a text book – there’s little theory within it. But it’s a fabulous collection of case studies, best practice and insight from a glittering array of the great Read More

2015-10-09T12:01:53+01:00October 9, 2015|Accountants, Kim's Blog, Lawyers, Marketing, Selling|
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