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Marketing Professional Services

Leading global consultant, business author, A-list blogger and podcaster David Maister presents a podcast of highlights from his speaking engagements covering his four main topic areas: Strategy, Management, Client Relations, and Careers.

Marketing Professional Services

This series of podcasts entitled 'Marketing Professional Services' explores how to better build your business through marketing, client services, client relations, and selling.

As a new feature to my podcast, I will be including a link to the executive summary of each chapter of my book as a pdf. I encourage you to forward these to friends and colleagues who may be interested in the materials covered in this series.

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14. Doing It for the Money

(17:11)

Effectively motivating a firm’s employees in generating marketing and business development.

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13. Measuring Your Marketing Success

(22:52)

Effectively motivating a firm’s employees to participate in marketing and business development.

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12. Satisfaction Guaranteed

(19:22)

How to effectively nurture client relationships by guaranteeing satisfaction in work provided.

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11. Attracting New Clients

(20:58)

Evaluation and ranking of common individual marketing tactics for generating enquiries from new clients.

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10. How Clients Choose

(22:21)

Understanding the purchasing process from the new client’s perspective.

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9. Growing a Relationship

(20:04)

How to nurture and grow a long-term relationship. How to get hired without actually selling.

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8. The Rules of Romance: Building Relationships

(20:06)

The interpersonal qualities and tactics needed to build successful relationships – in personal life and at work.

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7. How to Give Advice

(21:44)

How to ensure your advice is accepted and acted upon; understanding peoples’ feelings when giving and receiving advice.

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6. The Trusted Advisor

(17:16)

What it takes for professionals to become trusted advisors for their clients.

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5. Negotiating the Definition of Success

(17:09)

Understanding up-front what clients really want to achieve and how they will assess your work. The need to define ‘success’ between client and professional.

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4. Great Service

(17:36)

The tools, tips and tactics that create excellent client service and will lead to return business and new clients.

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3. Listening to Clients

(18:20)

How you can gain a sharper competitive edge by being better at understanding how clients think – simply by asking them to talk to you.

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2. Business Development

(14:23)

The five groups of activities needed for a balanced approach to building a business.

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1. Understanding Relationships and Transactions

(24:47)

The rewards of building trusting relationships with clients as opposed to taking a transactional view of marketing.

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