Buy in

Two big guns of communication – Face-time and reframing

At a recent workshop for “Practical and professional skills for marketing and business development assistants”  I asked the participants for their views on the most important practical tips that they were taking away. They picked two – one might argue obvious - techniques to help them improve their communications with partners Read More

2023-09-23T16:27:32+01:00March 7, 2013|Kim's Blog, Management Skills, Relationship Management, Selling|

Future Marketing Manager – The challenges

I promised the delegates a note of the key points that arose at the recent, action-packed Future Marketing Manager workshop in London. Amongst the solicitors and accounting firms attending, I was delighted that there were also two barristers chambers represented. Despite the variety of delegates (in sector and seniority), the Read More

2015-12-11T17:35:02+00:00November 22, 2012|Accountants, Kim's Blog, Lawyers, Marketing, Property, Statistics and trends, Strategy|

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|

Getting it past the partners – All about buy in

Having test run this new training session earlier in the year at a City law firm, I am pleased to report that its first public outing last week was deemed a success – with positive comments from the assistants, managers and partner who attended. Some of the feedback comments included: Read More

2015-11-13T13:33:23+00:00June 25, 2012|Accountants, Kim's Blog, Lawyers, Property, Relationship Management, Selling|

Lessons from recent inbound marketing and social media course

This week I lead another of the successful inbound marketing and social media courses for professional services marketers for PM Forum http://www.pmforum.co.uk/training/index.aspx. I was glad that there were delegates from all the professions – lawyers, accountants and surveyors – although having a range of 3 to 9.5 (out of ten) Read More

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