As a psychologist and a salesperson I was blown away when I first read Cialdini’s great book on the psychology of persuasion (was that really over 10 years ago?). There’s a summary of the six principles below. His work features in many of my influence, persuasive writing and buy-in training Read More
Here are the key points from a presentation titled “Cross selling – the dream versus the reality” I made yesterday at The Law Society Law Management Section Annual Conference 2014. Thanks to all those folk who took the time to give me some positive feedback afterwards – it was much Read More
To support the training in the “Helping fee-earners prepare the perfect pitch” session I present for PM Forum http://www.pmforum.co.uk/training/ (the next scheduled session is on 6th Feb), I regularly review trends and developments in pitching in the professions. Using information reported The Lawyer magazine, here are my observations on the Read More
A while back I blogged about some of the best books on account management http://kimtasso.com/getting-to-grips-with-key-account-management-kam but I omitted to mention this book (Seven keys to managing strategic accounts) which was published in 2003. It’s important because it is a joint effort with Miller Heiman – the creators of strategic selling® - Read More
Huthwaite International is acknowledged as some of the leading experts on selling (based on psychologist Neil Rackham’s work on SPIN selling) so it was with interest that I watched a video recently with highlights of their recent conference on “Winning tenders with procurement” where there is a high involvement from Read More
