Selling skills

Pitch Points – Five thoughts from a pitching and tendering workshop (January 2021)

I facilitated a full day online pitching and tendering workshop for MBL covering: policies, processes, research, sales strategy, selling skills, documents, presentation (content and delivery), post pitch actions and tendering metrics. Delegates were from legal and insolvency firms. There was a huge amount discussed during the lectures, exercises and polls Read More

2025-04-18T10:22:44+01:00January 22, 2021|Accountants, Kim's Blog, Lawyers, Marketing, Relationship Management, Selling|

Active Listening (Video)

This 10 minute video looks at why active listening is so important – yet difficult. It provides seven tips to help you improve your active listening skills. Video script Hi I’m Kim Tasso. Today – as you can see from my ears – I’ll be talking about active listening. Read More

2025-11-05T09:37:58+00:00November 27, 2020|Kim's Blog, Management Skills, Relationship Management|

Selling Basics – Detectives and DMUs (Video) and recommended books on selling

Todays' short (eight minute) video covers some core ideas in business-to-business (B2B) sales. It considers the need to undertake research before approaching a prospective client and how the research continues when you first make contact. The idea is to "be more detective" to learn about your prospect. It then explores Read More

2025-04-22T09:04:14+01:00October 30, 2020|Accountants, Kim's Blog, Lawyers, Marketing, Relationship Management, Selling|

Six themes on cross-selling and referrer management workshop highlights (2020)

Yesterday I facilitated an interactive workshop through the Professional Marketing Forum  on cross-selling and referrer management. I promised the delegates – representing a range of legal and accountancy practices – that I would summarise and share the key points arising from the session and the six themes to supplement their Read More

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