Back in April 2010, I was rather complimentary about Basil’s book which provided an overall model of business development for those in smaller consultancies in the architecture and construction industry http://kimtasso.com/architecture-and-construction-marketing-and-selling-professional-services His latest book “Creating winning bids” is a quick and easy read over 110 pages and covers the following: Read More
For lawyers, accountants and surveyors in a network of offices, the challenge of generating referrals (cross-selling) will be all too familiar. Extend the network into strategic alliances and across other firms and the problem is compounded. Referrer management is an important but tricky activity. It’s a multi-faceted issue, and there is Read More
At a recent workshop for “Practical and professional skills for marketing and business development assistants” I asked the participants for their views on the most important practical tips that they were taking away. They picked two – one might argue obvious - techniques to help them improve their communications with partners Read More
A week ago, we ran another of the PM Forum’s “Helping fee-earners prepare the perfect pitch” sessions which was hosted by reputation management consultants Regester Larkin. Here are some of the main issues arising. Pitch challenges The delegates had a variety of challenges that they wanted to address but the Read More
Last night I was invited by around 30 agency and professional folk from one of my property clients to deliver a short training session on “Perfect Pitches”. Whilst I was nervous about the snow and trains to Sussex, they were fine and turns out I should have been more worried Read More
