Last week I facilitated MBL’s workshop on “How to manage and grow your private client practice”. Amongst the delegates were newly-appointed partners and heads of Private Client departments. Almost every delegate left with the view that they needed to consider strategic issues, engage the team in those discussions and agree Read More
Client listening, research and insight are the lifeblood of professional services marketing. Because marketing is about anticipating and meeting client needs profitably. And client research is required for just about everything including: needs analysis, strategic planning, marketing planning, branding, key account management (KAM), targeting, service delivery, client experience management, pitching Read More
I’ve been remiss in collating recent marketing and business development case studies. The last batch I published was Marketing and BD case studies in legal, accountancy, consultancy (April 2024) and Marketing case studies – Digital thought leadership campaigns (February 2025). So here is a bumper edition which serves as a Read More
This article "30th PM Forum Conference – Beyond Boundaries and Breaking the Mould" was published in the November/December edition of PM Magazine - PM Forum - Thanks to editor Matt Baldwin. To mark the 30th Annual PM Forum Conference we shifted venues to the bright, modern Minster Building in the Read More
A recent MBL workshop on referrer management was attended by fee-earners and business development professionals from law and accountancy firms. The over-arching theme to emerge was to improve the knowledge we have about our referrer relationships. Considering the data, research, systems and habits we need for referrer relationships prompted one Read More
