Business Development

Fabulous First Meetings – 16 selling insights

My first book, published in 2000, was on selling skills so it gives me great pleasure to sometimes indulge my passion and provide sales training. I recently completed a series of short in-house training sessions for a property client on “Fabulous First Meetings” where we covered a range of selling Read More

What’s right to write? Highlights from a persuasive writing for business development workshop

Last week I was joined in London by accountants, tax advisers, surveyors, lawyers and business development folk for the first public workshop on persuasive writing for business development.  Writing topics of interest At the outset, I asked the delegates to share their areas of interest or concern and their main Read More

2017-02-02T10:43:01+00:00February 2, 2017|Accountants, Kim's Blog, Lawyers, Marketing, Web Sites|

Book Review – The Analytical Marketer – How to transform your marketing organization by Adele Sweetwood

Health warning: This book "The Analytical Marketer – How to transform your marketing organization" by Adele Sweetwood is for serious marketers who are faced with adapting their marketing organisations to embrace the exciting (albeit a little bit scary) transformation being driven by the advances in marketing technology and automation.   This is an Read More

2017-01-09T20:27:27+00:00January 9, 2017|Kim's Blog, Marketing|

Referrer management strategies: Plan, target, focus, research, relationship, add value and let go (Manchester, 2016)

Recently in Manchester, I was joined by accountants, lawyers and insolvency practitioners for the MBL  referrer management training workshop on “Developing more work from referrers and intermediaries”. Here are the delegates’ views of the highlights. Plan – Back to basics  Most firms have referrer management programmes and activities – but Read More

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