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 was asked the other day what I considered to be the important emerging trends in marketing (and not just professional services marketing) so I had a bit of a think. There’s so much going on! My initial ideas are below and I would be interested to hear your views Read More
Yesterday I was in Manchester (which was sunny and warm if you want to know) delivering another of the CLT training sessions on “Developing a privately funded family law practice” with 19 enthusiastic family law practitioners. During the day we covered the planning cycle and development of an appropriate business Read More
Last week I attended CLT’s conference on “Managing and marketing a profitable private client department” where I delivered an hour paper on marketing, drawing in part on the lessons and case studies I had recently gathered to update the marketing chapter for the Law Society’s Probate Practitioners Handbook Knowing that Read More
One of my favourite lawyer clients is chairing a discussion for an international group of small-medium law firms soon debating “the essentials for a law firm web site?”. Whilst most firms will have a web site, often they were hastily put in place without due consideration as to aims and Read More