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Context and curiosity drive commerciality and pricing

Red Star Kim

This week’s PM Forum training workshop “Commerciality: Finance, Pricing, Innovation and Research” was attended by delegates from law, accountancy and insolvency firms. The crux of marketing is to anticipate (and meet) client needs whilst maximising profit. Price is a major driver of profit. Books on pricing?

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28th PM Forum Conference: Organisational culture, mentoring, digital distraction, ESG and client experience (2023)

Red Star Kim

ESG targets and work is under-communicated and clients will be increasingly interested in purpose versus profit”. Francesca Lagerberg, CEO of Baker Tilly accountants and regular host of the Managing Partners’ Forum “Retuning your firm” shows chaired discussion with Kate Cooper, Director of Finance at the Institute of Directors and Alain Thys.

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Sales Targeting Toolbox for Professional Services Firms

Red Star Kim

Our target markets span large and small businesses; private, public sector and not for profit sectors; centralised and decentralised buying processes; procurement and user-led purchasing behaviour. Essentially a focus on the most profitable clients. So targeting is often more important and more challenging.

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Artificial Intelligence Example to Rock Sales Controlling in B2B

QYMATIX

Of course, not every B2B organisation employs a sales controller, but yes, most of them should have sales controlling activities covered, in some cases by the general management, finance management or the sales manager herself. Machine learning application example: how do Sales Controllers profit from it? Chandra, V and Hareendran, A.

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Book review – Managing Brands

Red Star Kim

There’s consideration of corporate and brand purpose beyond growth and profits to sustainability, ethical practice and improving society whilst maintaining consistency and emotional impact (especially the desire to belong and be part of a social group). In professional services there is only Accenture at 31 (which has grown 15%).

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Cultivate a cross-selling culture

Red Star Kim

For example, some partnerships have a single profit pool and partners are rewarded on a lock-step basis (broadly this means that their rewards are linked to their length of time as a partner). A delegate raised an interesting question about whether the partnership structure and culture supports or thwarts cross-selling.

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Recycling Paint To Help Those In Need

Pinnacle View

He is the founder of Global Paint for Charity, a non-profit organization that takes unwanted paint from businesses and individuals, and provides it to those in need. After coming to the United States from Haiti, Rony founded the organization in 2010 and built it into an entity with a truly global impact.