Ric Willmot’s Law Firm Marketing Interview Podcast The Law Firm Marketing Masters Blog has rated me one of the “Top 10 Law Firm Marketing Experts in the World” and “Australia’s leading law firm management and marketing consultant”. It doesn’t matter if you’re an accountant, lawyer, recruiter, financial planner, consultant, coach, professional speaker … the rules [...]
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Workshops for Professional Services Firms – April 2012
The $90 Workshop for Professionals: Business Builder Series An almost-free day for people in the accounting, law, recruiting, HR, business consulting & coaching, speaking, and related professions to help them dramatically accelerate business and find new markets. It’s my way of “giving back” and providing a high-content day. The registration fee is only $90 + [...]
Is your business performance achieving, growing, improving?
Is your business performance achieving, growing, improving? Are you achieving your financial targets so far this year? Are you growing? Or, are you declining? Are you winning major customers? Or, have you already lost some key business? Are you developing new products/services for the future? Or, are you simply relying on what you’ve had for [...]
Weekly Wisdom No.103: What are you doing? What should you be doing?
You create an idea for your business. You get everyone together to discuss it. You wrangle over the merits or otherwise of pushing forward with this new idea. The idea has its supporters and it has detractors, as well, of course. (There’s always somebody who thinks it’s their role to say no to a new [...]
Podcast: How Accounting Professionals become more creative
Institute of Chartered Accountants Interview Ric Willmot Mediocrity is a curse that accountants can become comfortable with, live with, but which will limit their growth. And, if their comfort with mediocrity continues for long enough it can deteriorate into paralysis and business failure. Before anyone thinks it can happen to them, ask yourself where Arthur [...]
25 ways to turbocharge your brain power
25 ways to turbocharge your brain power Improve your vocabulary. Take a different route home from work, regularly. Do crosswords, solve puzzles and brainteasers. Become comfortable with ambiguity. Reverse your assumptions. Look further than the first, correct answer. Be curious. Have your own mental sanctuary. Debate (not argue) and defend your position on matters, intellectually. [...]
Mix and match ideas to serve your clients
Creativity choked? Mix and match ideas to serve your clients. “The time has come,” the walrus said, “to talk of many things: of shoes and ships and sealing wax of cabbages & kings.” In the 4th Millennium BC, hard bronze was invented in Susa (Iran) by mixing soft copper with small amounts of an [...]
Weekly Wisdom No.102: Nobody will ever notice the effort
An easy excuse for not trying that little bit harder is that nobody will ever notice that last 5% of effort you put in to making your products/services the highest quality. It’s a terrible amount of work that goes unrecognised by everyone but you. Answering the telephone within three rings costs many times more than [...]
How can we attract immigrants like Mia Love’s parents?
I’d be pleased to see people like Mia Love running for election here in Australia rather than Kevin Rudd, Julia Gillard and Peter Slipper. And instead of continuing to allow illegal immigrants (pretending to be asylum seekers) into our country, our immigration officials could look to have our immigration quota filled by people like Mia Love’s parents. Take [...]
It’s never too late to trust yourself
It’s never too late to trust yourself to confidently head in the direction of your dreams. Never. It matters not why you’ve waited until now. It matters not that you may have got it wrong previously. It matters not that you’ve never been lucky when less others seem to have been over-rewarded for under-performing. It’s [...]
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