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Managing Partners’ Forum – Highlights from the Advisory Board Meeting September 2023

Red Star Kim

The Managing Partners’ Forum (mpfglobal.com) holds quarterly meetings of its Advisory Board where senior leaders discuss issues pertinent to the professional services sector. for the financial services sector and 10% for manufacturing. The true number is greater – probably 15%. This compares to 8.3%

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10 Trends – Annual International Marketing Benchmark by PM Forum and Meridian West

Red Star Kim

The benchmark provided a snapshot of the views of 112 marketing and business development (M&BD) leaders at professional service firms (PSF). 56% represented law firms, 18% accountancy firms, 9% property and construction firms, 5% management consultancy, 5% intellectual property and 8% other. Develop people’s commerciality.

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Preparing M&BD professionals for the future – learning, skills and knowledge transfer

Red Star Kim

At the 28 th PM Forum Annual Conference in September I (in my capacity as Head of Training and Learning Transfer of the Managing Partners’ Forum and PM Forum), co-presented breakout sessions with Julie McConnell of international law firm White & Case. Although it does provide indepth knowledge of legal services.

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Top sales blogs all sales managers need to follow

PandaDoc

This is understandable when you consider that data shared in the Harvard Business Review suggests that 90% of decision makers won’t respond to cold calls, according to Sales Leadership Forum. Adaptive Business Blog. Sales Management Blog. So what’s the motivated B2B seller to do? Connect2Sell. Sales Gravy.

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Avoid the revolving door – Recruiting and retaining marketing and business development professionals in PSFs

Red Star Kim

Business development can be defined in a number of ways. Some see it as the overall process covering marketing, selling and relationship management. Others see it as focused on selling – particularly the generation of new business. Strategy or service? Although there is value is having experience from a range of sectors.

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B2B Revenue and the (Ir)relevance of the Funnel

DemandFarm

An ideal revenue platform enables a business to efficiently and effectively manage its revenue streams. Such a platform should have several key features that make it the go-to solution for businesses looking to optimize their revenue streams. Which revenue stream is dominant in your industry?

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The CX Factor

Deep Insight

CX is Different to Service Quality. The concept of ‘quality’ emerged from the total quality management (TQM) movement of the 1950s. Focus was initially on product quality, its emphasis moved in the 70s and 80s to service quality as economies in the western world became more services-based economies. erently for each.