Continuing the blog series on "Legal client feedback" Robin Saphra, Group General Counsel of Colt (telecommunications, IT and data centres with 65 lawyers in his team and a £12m legal budget) shared his views on relationships with professional service firms at the September 2014 Professional Marketing Forum Conference: Three years Read More
At the end of November 2013, I submitted the 65,000 word manuscript to Legal Monitor for my fourth book. Whilst there are a number of existing books on business development for lawyers this one is different for a number of reasons: For all shapes and sizes of lawyers – whether 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
I really shouldn’t have to talk about the importance of face to face contact on tenders – I thought it was perfectly obvious. But I was so shocked by a recent event that I simply had to put pen to paper (well, fingers to keyboard). A lot of my time is spent Read More
I have just written a review of this book on marketing and selling architecture and construction professional services by Basil Sawczuk (an architect turned business development director) which will appear in a forthcoming issue of Professional Marketing magazine. The book provides a really good basic introduction with lots of examples, Read More