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Professional Services Marketing: How the Best Firms Build Premier Brands, Thriving Lead Generation Engines, and Cultures of Business Development Success
- 2-1-2012
- Categorized in: Management, Marketing, Sales
Professional Services Marketing
How the Best Firms Build Premier Brands, Thriving Lead Generation Engines and Cultures of Business Development Success
Key Points:
- Professional services firms ignore brand building at their own peril.
- Substantive networking involves putting effort into real relationships.
- Most value props for professional service firm are hollow and boring.
- The focus on "benefits" language in professional service firms marketing has derailied the real details about *exactly* how a firm is going to help you.
- Plan on generating and nurturing both short term and long term leads - not everyone is sales ready and your marcomm and sales efforts need to reflect this reality.
- Become a rainmaker with original research, a personal brand supporting your firm's brand, and by understanding that sales is about HPI: Hustle, Passion and Intsenity