At a “Business development for lawyers” course a while back the topic that the delegates asked me to write about was that of converting telephone enquiries. More recently, at a practice development course for private client solicitors, the same issue arose and other insights were shared at a recent in-house Read More
At a recent referrer management course we talked about categorising and prioritising referrers and intermediaries according to the strength and value of the relationship. Marketing and business development teams might develop indicative programmes to show the appropriate relationship management and collaborative marketing activities depending on the stage of the relationship. Read More
Whilst this is not a new book (it was published in 2006), I thought it was worth including as a review as it is one of the few books on key account management that focuses on the professional services sector. Managing key clients is also produced by the PACE partnership Read More
In April, the delegates at the Client Experience Management (CEM) workshop at Professional Marketing Forum https://www.pmforum.co.uk/training.aspx identified the following nine takeaways: 1. Adopt the client’s perspective Whilst it is easy to see the business benefits of a Client Experience Management programme in terms of consistency of quality and care, it Read More
In May I went along to the Intapp conference in London. I’ve written about the Intapp Professional Services Cloud before - it spans intelligent client development, unified business acceptance (conflict checking during client on-boarding) and client delivery (especially its support for pricing). But what struck me most at the recent conference was the Read More
