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Selling challenges in professional services: Sales processes and skills

Red Star Kim

Protectionism – Some fee-earners could be insecure and defensive about sharing client information and relationships. The culture and rewards systems sometimes worked against integrated client teams. Data – CRM (Client Relationship Management) and CDP (Client Data Platforms) are often lacking.

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7 Reasons Why Clients Ghost You (and What to Do About It)

Account Manager Tips

They don't need anything As a key account manager, if you've done your job right, there's no reason for them to keep in touch. When everything runs smoothly, your client can concentrate on things that aren't working. Rebalance your communication expectations to align with your value as a supplier.

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

Red Star Kim

Four themes in the art of selling – Integrating marketing and sales (kimtasso.com) A creative exercise on engagement generated some interesting metaphors – for example, a brick wall suggesting a lack of communication, a carrot considering motivation and a Leonardo di Caprio shrug suggesting indifference.

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Referrer Management – Capacity and Capability

Red Star Kim

There was advice for pragmatic solutions: from starting small (focus on a few key relationships, concentrate on “field of play”, Key Account Management (KAM) programmes), preparing relationship maps, scraping data from email threads and reverse engineering successful relationships.

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How to use the Seven Universal Trust Behaviours

Jermaine Edwards

The old connotations of the word have preserved to the present day, where trust as we know it is an essential ingredient for thriving interpersonal relationships – from families, to friends, to organizations. How does trust show up in our everyday communication and engagement? TWO: Competence demonstrate value Here’s the truth.

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Book review: Neuroscience for learning and development by Stella Collins

Red Star Kim

There’s information about Howard Gardener’ multiple intelligences and emotional intelligence. Topics include: Professional and Practical skills for Marketing & BD Assistants, The Proactive Marketing Executive and Future Marketing Manager. So I’m confident you could skip some of this material if necessary.