Context and curiosity drive commerciality and pricing

This week’s PM Forum training workshop “Commerciality: Finance, Pricing, Innovation and Research” was attended by delegates from law, accountancy and insolvency firms. As well as marketing and business development executives and managers there were also those in specialist pricing and bid roles.  Thanks to Simmons & Simmons for hosting the Read More

22 tips on being a persuasive writer in professional services

Lawyers (compliance, anti-trust, commercial litigation, personal injury) and marketing professionals joined me at a recent MBL workshop on writing . They engaged in writing exercises. And reviewed the copy of professional services firms. They created their own writing checklist – how to plan, write and review. Persuasive writing convinces the Read More

2023-08-14T10:07:26+01:00August 14, 2023|Accountants, Kim's Blog, Lawyers, Marketing, Selling|

Pitching, differentiation and competitor analysis

In May we welcomed delegates from legal, accounting and consulting firms at manager and executive levels to a PM Forum workshop on pitching. Some delegates were highly experienced in pitching (and their roles focused on pitching and tenders), whereas others were at the start of their journey and/or had only Read More

2023-06-01T11:28:30+01:00June 1, 2023|Accountants, Kim's Blog, Lawyers, Marketing, Selling, Strategy|

Pitching and tendering – Focus, differentiation and less is more (April 2022)

There were delegates from law, construction and surveying firms at MBL’s recent “How to prepare and present winning pitches and tenders” . Three key themes emerged on pitching and tendering – Focus, differentiation and less is more. Focus on the client One of the key themes was the need to Read More

2022-04-07T11:17:05+01:00April 4, 2022|Kim's Blog, Lawyers, Property, Relationship Management, Selling|

Four themes in the art of selling – Integrating marketing and sales, sales process, first contact and selling in a digital world

Earlier this week I ran a full day workshop on selling for MBL  (“The art of selling professional services and winning business”). The day was organised into six modules: the sales process, sales planning, integration with marketing, psychological selling, selling skills and measuring sales success. I selected four themes in Read More

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