I saw a demonstration of PitchPoint software - a new pitch development system - by Andy Driskell of Iphelion. Module to make pitch data capture easy The demonstration started with the administration part of the system where fee-earners or business development team are tasked with a “to do” list to go Read More
At a recent CLT course on “Business Development for Lawyers” I asked delegates (many of whom where insolvency experts) what they would most like as a follow up blog post. They asked for something that pulled everything together to make it easy for them to create a business development campaign. This is Read More
I was struck at a recent PM training course “Towards KAM – helping fee-earners with client relationship management” that there were a number of business development professionals in professional service firms who were in dedicated key account management roles. So books on Key Account Management (KAM) are topical and I reviewed Read More
I’ve just finished reading and reviewing this 340 page book ("Effective client management in professional services - How to build successful client relationships" by Jack Berkovi) for Professional Marketing magazine and you should be able to read the article shortly http://www.pmforum.co.uk/magazine/ . I thought I’d share some of the material Read More
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
