A short while ago, I travelled to Birmingham for a West Midlands Professional Marketing Forum meeting to talk about “Towards strategic marketing”. Yesterday, I presented at a professional services conference in Sussex (organised by Consortium and supported by CIM) and presented on a similar topic. Whereas we often consider our lawyers, accountants and surveyors Read More
I’m delighted to say that there were lots of delegates from law firms, accountancy firms, structural engineers, insolvency practitioners, banks and insurers at the recent referrer and intermediary management workshop in London http://www.mblseminars.com/Outline/Developing-More-Work-from-Referrers-_-Intermediaries/5770/ At the end of the day, after considering how to generate better and more recommendations from internal sources, Read More
At recent referrer management and client relationship management training sessions, we talked about NPS (Net Promoter Score) which measures the propensity or likelihood of recommendation and how it is rapidly becoming the standard measurement of client satisfaction in professional service firms. Several people have asked about client satisfaction benchmarks – Read More
It’s about time that there was a new book on strategic tendering for professional services. It’s too long – 1993 - since John de Forte and Guy Jones wrote their ground breaking “Proposals, pitches and beauty parades”. Whilst I valued Basil Sawczuk’s “Creating winning bids” in 2013 it is focused Read More
Here are the key thoughts from the delegates on a recent PM Forum training course on “Practical and professional skills for marketing and business development assistants” http://www.pmforum.co.uk/training/ Goals – Without goals, it is impossible to measure contribution, effectiveness and success. Goals are also important personally in terms of understanding where Read More
