I recently attended a short PSMG session led by Paul Denvir of The Pace Partners on the psychology of price. He started with an exercise where we were all to noted down what we would consider the values of expensive cars and houses and cheap holidays and we quickly saw Read More
I really shouldn’t have to talk about the importance of face to face contact on tenders – I thought it was perfectly obvious. But I was so shocked by a recent event that I simply had to put pen to paper (well, fingers to keyboard). A lot of my time is spent Read More
My favourite session at each year’s PM Forum Annual Conference is the final plenary session where a panel of professional service clients are invited to give their view on the marketing and sales approaches that they receive and to answer questions from the floor. This year the panel comprised: - Read More
I had just a few minutes to help prepare a young professional for his first short (5 minutes) presentation at a competitive tender meeting. These were the key points discussed: 1. Prepare and rehearse – The more time and effort you invest in preparing and rehearsing your presentation, the more Read More
I have just written a review of this book on marketing and selling architecture and construction professional services by Basil Sawczuk (an architect turned business development director) which will appear in a forthcoming issue of Professional Marketing magazine. The book provides a really good basic introduction with lots of examples, Read More