Business Development

10 steps to create a business development campaign

At a recent CLT course on “Business Development for Lawyers” I asked delegates (many of whom where insolvency experts) what they would most like as a follow up blog post. They asked for something that pulled everything together on developing a marketing and business development campaign. This is a topic Read More

2015-11-13T12:45:19+00:00November 13, 2015|Accountants, Kim's Blog, Lawyers, Marketing, Relationship Management, Strategy|

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|

Do perfect pitches need proper processes?

I’m just back from a fabulous session with lots of marketers and business developers from law firms, accountants and wealth managers at the PM Forum training session on “Helping fee-earners prepare the perfect pitch”. Thank you Addleshaw Goddard for hosting the event – your breakfast and hospitality staff were amongst Read More

2021-04-11T20:19:46+01:00October 8, 2015|Kim's Blog, Marketing, Relationship Management, Selling|

Change management in a surveyors’ practice – Bridging the gap between the old and the new

Last week I was joined by over 20 surveyors at the first presentation on this new MBL course on “Managing and marketing a profitable surveyors’ practice”. Change management is a key topic. During the day we covered a lot of material including: business planning, strategy development, management functions, market analysis, Read More

2016-07-11T18:06:05+01:00July 27, 2015|Kim's Blog, Management Skills, Property|

Where do I start? Business Development for Lawyers (MBL Private Client Training July 2015)

At a recent MBL seminar on “Developing and sustaining your private client practice” https://www.mblseminars.com/Outline?progid=5747&AddSeminarToBasket=1026988 a delegate said that while she found the day really good, she had so many ideas that she didn’t know where to start. So this blog post is for her. 1. Understand the numbers Make friends Read More

2015-07-21T11:15:01+01:00July 21, 2015|Kim's Blog, Lawyers, Marketing, Relationship Management, Strategy|
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