Business Development

How to design a marketing and business development team

I’m frequently asked to help with the challenge of how to design a marketing and business development team in professional service firms that is fit for the future. I have developed a consultancy methodology for doing so. I recently used it to talk through the process with the director of Read More

2023-03-23T14:42:15+00:00November 20, 2015|Kim's Blog, Management Skills, Marketing, Strategy|

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|
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