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Proactive marketing and business development executives – CRM, internal engagement and career insights

Red Star Kim

The firm’s culture, business development processes, adoption by fee-earners and support staff and the quality of the data are key success factors. The pros and cons of standalone vs integrated (with the firm’s overall data architecture) was considered – especially with regards to user adoption and data duplication.

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Telephone call challenges: Emotions, data, selling and follow up

Red Star Kim

Accountants, lawyers, paralegals, patent attorneys and financial advisers (both professional advisors and dedicated business development professionals) joined me at an MBL workshop on telephone skills for client service and selling. Telephone call challenges: Emotions, data, selling and follow up.

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Coaching and Consulting – People and Problem-Solving skills

Red Star Kim

MBD executives, advisors, managers, client services executives and BDMs from law firms, economics and management consultancies joined a PM Forum workshop on “Coaching and Consulting Skills for Marketing and Business Development”. An emerging theme was the combination of people and problem-solving skills. The terms (e.g.

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Top sales blogs all sales managers need to follow

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Although 71% of companies say closing more deals is their top sales priority, further data from Forrester suggests that only 0.75% of leads generated become closed revenue. Want free access to 9 in-depth interviews from industry experts and data from 3,400 global marketers? Adaptive Business Blog.

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Sales Coaching Techniques to Boost Revenue

Brooks Group

Why Is Sales Coaching Important for Revenue Growth? Sales coaching gives sales professionals the mentoring they need to resolve critical skills competency gaps and be more productive. 3 Types Of Sales Coaching Sales coaching generally falls into one of three main categories: tactical, strategic, and personal.

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Be more strategic: Top-down or bottom-up, marketing and sales integration and property marketing

Red Star Kim

From the animated discussions I selected a few topics of focus – Be more strategic: Top-down or bottom-up, marketing and sales integration and property marketing. The processes to obtain and analyse data, engage all stakeholders, consider the options and implications, make choices and be pragmatic about implementation.

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Update on marketing and business development (M&BD) team structures

Red Star Kim

Process integration – Some firms separate out marketing, communications and sales functions – usually the larger firms where more specialisation is required. Some firms have created marketing hubs where support requests are sent to a central point and allocated out to those with the relevant skills and capacity.

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