Business Development

Advanced social media use amongst lawyers, accountants and surveyors

I have been involved in social media almost since its inception. Initially, when I was asked to help firms it was often for training in terms of basic awareness of the main tools and helping people set up appropriate profiles. There was little appetite for using social media to support Read More

Helping fee-earners prepare the perfect pitch

Earlier this week I led the first of a new training session on this topic (Helping fee-earners prepare the perfect pitch) with 18 delegates representing global law firms, medium sized law firms, accountancy practices, economists and actuaries with varied experience of pitching and selling. Initial discussions centred around the challenges. The Read More

2015-01-28T13:29:49+00:00November 8, 2012|Accountants, Kim's Blog, Lawyers, Marketing, Selling|

Marketing planning – Are you seaweed or a limpet?

Last week, I had the good fortune to spend the morning with some bright young professional services marketing folk at a workshop entitled “Marketing and Business Development Planning in a nutshell”. We acknowledged that whilst marketers needed detailed marketing and BD plans, fee-earners only needed a short, sharp one page summary Read More

2013-08-09T19:31:19+01:00September 19, 2012|Kim's Blog, Marketing, Strategy|

Business development for lawyers – five key insights

Recently, I ran another of the successful Business development for lawyers full day training sessions in London. Unusually, the delegates were predominantly from commercial areas including corporate, property and employment representing a range of small and larger firms from across the UK. Some of their target markets were interesting: aviation, Read More

2014-12-22T16:29:35+00:00June 21, 2012|Kim's Blog, Lawyers, Marketing, Selling, Social Media, Strategy|

Hubspot’s guide on 15 business blogging mistakes

Hubspot is a source of excellent material on most digital marketing topics and this guide is no different – it is available from: http://www.hubspot.com/15-business-blogging-mistakes-and-easy-fixes/ - although there were a couple of the 15 points which appeared to duplicate information. One of the most valuable elements of the ebook is the statistics: Read More

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