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How to attract high-value clients
High-value clients gravitate toward firms that are intentional about how they present themselves, what they do, who they serve and what value they are delivering to their clients.
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10 ways AI will change your firm’s pricing
Fundamentally, AI will bring discipline to pricing by offering firms real-time insights, automating routine processes, and revealing patterns that help partners and pricing teams make better decisions.
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Receiver pricing: a procurement-led perspective
Receiver pricing is a relatively new concept to professional service suppliers. In short, it is structured from the perspective of the purchaser/buyer of your service, not the more traditional model o
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Are discounts negatively impacting your profit margins?
Discounting is addictive and can easily become your default pricing strategy, rather than a strategic choice. Once discounting becomes your default pricing strategy, you’ll notice that they can quickly eat away at your profit margins, undermine your brand value and set damaging expectations with clients.
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Your hourly rate is set by the market, not your finance team!
Hourly rates are meaningless: The market decides what you are worth! Finance can give you a compass, but it’s the client, the competition and your own positioning that ultimately sets the price you can charge.
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A guide to moving from discounts to fixed fees
If you’re offering strategic discounts to all your clients, then they are no longer strategic: you’re simply giving money away. Worse, you’re undermining your brand, both personal and firm.
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Subscription based legal services; a modern approach to pricing
An overview of the subscription-based model for the provision of legal services. While accepting that not every legal matter is suited to a subscription model, many essential services can be bundled into ongoing, value-driven subscription packages.
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Business development: the skill AI can’t replace
As artificial intelligence (AI) transforms the way in which professional services are provided – from automating tasks to enhancing efficiencies - roles will undoubtably be redefined. Included in this will be a significant shift in the value professionals offer their clients.
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How do you attract more clients like your most profitable clients?
Knowing the 80/20 Rule applies to most professional services firms, why aren’t you doing more work for the 20% over the 80%? In this article, we look at five key strategies to do just that.
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Why you should niche: the power of specialising
While it is always nice to hang out with the high rolling “full service” firms; today, if you want a chance of maximizing your profit opportunities, it is a far better strategy to market yourself as a niche practice.
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Blended rates and how they can help with your pricing strategy
Adopting and implementing the right pricing strategy is critical for any business looking to balance profitability, competitiveness, and stay in business. A pricing approach that often gets overlooked in this discussion is blended rates.
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Benefits of staying in your lane to be successful with your business development
Staying in your lane isn’t about stifling growth opportunities; it’s about understanding your strengths, focusing your efforts, and maximising your business development impact.
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