The classic urgent AND important dilemma: your best client is on the phone talking to you. An incoming call from your top Centre-of-Influence comes in while talking to your best client. Do you “end and…
Advisers underestimate the importance of frequent client contact and “frequent contact” is in itself a phrase that is interpreted differently amongst advisers. So how often is “frequent”? How often is often enough? For a long…
Everyone has heard of the Pareto Principle by now, but are you actually using it to improve profit…or improve service….or should we saying it actually “improves service which improves profit”? It is the latter. Undoubtedly.…
Often advisers forget how valuable the service bit is in their “professional service” business. Everyone has heard some story about how a business did well from going the extra mile for a customer…but rarely do…
ok…maybe it isn’t appropriate for professionals to actually send virtual hug memes. But then, maybe it is. It all depends on the relationship you have with the client doesn’t it? For some it might indeed…
“How often should I send emails?” is the perpetual question asked by advisers who are beginning to build an engagement marketing system or lifting their client communications and services standards. There is not a magic…
An ongoing challenge for advice firms is balancing client time with all the practice development work necessary to have a better business. There are after all only so many hours in a day, but then…
The standout burning issue for most professional services firms remains attracting and developing new business, and advisers have a lot of distractions. The thing that is often compromised is existing client service as advisers deal…