Professional Services Marketing: How the Best Firms Build Premier Brands, Thriving Lead Generation Engines, and Cultures of Business Development Success - Hardcover

"This book is that rare thing: simutaneously wise, practical, readily accessible, and data driven. A necessary addition to your reading."

—David Maister, author of Managing the Professional Service Firm

Praise for Professional Services Marketing

"Professional Services Marketing will certainly become the bible of the field in short order! Without a doubt, the most useful compendium of marketing insight for the practicing professional services firm executive . . . BRAVO!"

—Leonard A. Schlesinger, President, Babson College, and coauthor of The Service Profit Chain

"It's no longer sufficient to be a good 'expert for hire'—you need a brand and a powerful marketing engine behind you. Professional Services Marketing is a gold mine of research- based strategies, best practices, and specific techniques that will help you consistently win in the client marketplace and outshine your competition. It's thoughtful, funny, and filled with the how-to so often missing in business books."

—Andrew Sobel, coauthor of Clients for Life

"Schultz and Doerr offer tactics and information in an easy-to-read, concise, and enjoyable format. Professional Services Marketing should be a required resource in every professional marketer's tool box!"

—R. Granville Loar, Executive Director, Association for Accounting Marketing

"This book is an excellent resource for anyone involved in professional services. It is especially timely in our current challenging economic conditions, and the ideas and guidance are relevant for the better times to come as well."

—Josh Lee, Partner, Monitor Deloitte

"Smart. Practical. Comprehensive. This is the one book that won't collect dust on my shelf."

—Kevin McMurdo, Chief Marketing Officer, Perkins Coie

"Professional Services Marketing is the first book to directly address the challenges of the professional services marketer. This book is filled with practical wisdom and research on best practices and processes specifically for this industry. A must-read for anyone in a professional services firm!"

—Paul Dunay, Global Vice President of Marketing, Maxymiser

In the old days, professional services firms could survive without much marketing effort. Put together a team of good people, deliver strong service to clients, and you might get by just fine on repeat business and client referrals. Well, those days are gone. While repeat business and referrals are still necessary, today you also need smart, effective marketing and a culture of business development success to attract a steady stream of clients and grow your business in an increasingly competitive world.

Now in its second edition, Professional Services Marketing gives you the field-tested, research-based marketing and sales approach your organization needs to succeed. Updated with new chapters on social media and online marketing, this book helps you select the marketing strategies and tactics used by thriving, high-growth firms.

The book covers five key areas your firm can't grow without:

• Creating a marketing and growth strategy for today's marketplace
• Establishing the reputation and visibility required to become a market leader
• Implementing a proven marketing communications program that works in any economy
• Developing a lead generation strategy that attracts a strong, steady flow of new clients
• Creating rainmakers and a culture of business-development hustle, passion, intensity, and success

Professional Services Marketing, Second Edition includes new case studies that illustrate what works in today's marketplace, as well as firsthand stories from well-respected industry professionals. This is the ideal guide to growing your business, whether you are in consulting, law, technology, accounting, or any other professional service industry.