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Book review: Reinforcements: How to get people to help you by Heidi Grant

The original (shorter) review of Reinforcements: How to get people to help you by Heidi Grant was published in the October edition of Professional Marketing magazine http://www.pmforum.co.uk/pm-magazine/pm-magazine.aspx Reinforcement can mean a) enlisting extra help and b) a process to establish a particular behaviour using reward. Cleverly, this short book addresses Read More

2018-10-03T12:34:31+01:00October 3, 2018|Kim's Blog, Management Skills, Relationship Management|

Thought leadership campaigns and project management: Eight Essentials

At a recent thought leadership campaign and project management workshop (http://www.pmforum.co.uk/training.aspx) we spent a while considering the strategic context for identifying, gaining support for, developing and executing thought leadership campaigns. These eight essentials emerged from our discussion:  1. Entrepreneurship Marketing is about anticipating client needs and fulfilling them profitably. Thought Read More

2018-09-21T17:24:37+01:00September 21, 2018|Kim's Blog|

10 takeaways from a workshop on buy-in (Guildford, 2018)

Thanks to Stevens Bolton https://www.stevens-bolton.com/ for hosting a Professional Marketing Forum workshop on buy-in Guildford http://www.pmforum.co.uk/locations/guildford.aspx After a lively session including exercises, discussions and sharing ideas, the delegates selected the following top 10 takeaways: 1. Face-to-face contact A recent HBR report suggested that face-to-face requests were 34 times more likely to Read More

2018-09-13T09:22:32+01:00September 13, 2018|Kim's Blog, Management Skills, Marketing, Relationship Management|

Book review: Endorsements for Better Business Relationships

My new book “Better Business Relationships – Insights from psychology and management for working in the digital world” (further details at http://kimtasso.com/publications/better-business-relationships/) will be published on 20th September. I’m humbled and deeply grateful for the following endorsements of the book: “Occasionally you come across books that are timely, utterly important Read More

Introducing the marketing planning process into a professional service firm

At the recent “Marketing planning in a nutshell” training workshop http://www.pmforum.co.uk/training.aspx, the focus was on the best way to introduce a marketing planning process into a professional service firm. While many of the larger professional service firms have sophisticated marketing and business development planning processes, some smaller firms are still Read More

2018-03-20T13:45:26+00:00March 20, 2018|Accountants, Kim's Blog, Lawyers, Marketing, Property, Strategy|
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