Monthly Archives: April 2016

10 tips on price communications for professionals

When I talk to professionals about price communications there appears to be some confusion between two separate activities. First, there needs to be a pricing strategy – I’ve addressed this in various blogs (see, for example, http://kimtasso.com/the-pricing-and-value-of-legal-services/) - which might include premium pricing for a skimming strategy or a lower price Read More

2016-04-28T11:56:04+01:00April 28, 2016|Kim's Blog, Marketing, Selling, Strategy|

Legal market research – Perceptions and needs of consumers and small businesses

I regularly facilitate a public training session for CLT on “Client care, service excellence and retention” http://www.clt.co.uk/course/Client-Care-Service-Excellence-and-Retention/. During the workshop we spend time considering various legal market research reports. I have blogged a lot about commercial client research and the needs of general counsel in the past (see the related Read More

2016-04-24T12:37:49+01:00April 24, 2016|Kim's Blog, Lawyers, Marketing, Statistics and trends|

Achieving buy-in – Oranges, elephants and dancing

I recently visited Nottingham to lead a session for the East Midlands branch of the Professional Marketing Forum http://www.pmforum.co.uk/locations/eastmidlands.aspx called “Achieving buy-in – getting it past the partners”. It was hosted in the fabulous offices of Browne Jacobson (loved their open plan staff café and the “News in the loos” Read More

2016-04-24T11:50:00+01:00April 24, 2016|Kim's Blog, Management Skills, Marketing, Relationship Management|

Top ten tips on referrer management (2016 Birmingham)

I recently presented the MBL course “Winning more work from referrers and intermediaries” in Birmingham. Below are the top tips on referrer management discussed by the delegates. Details of future courses are here: https://www.mblseminars.com/outline?progid=5770. 1.The importance of the broader marketing context At the session we considered research that demonstrated how important Read More

2016-04-04T12:05:56+01:00April 4, 2016|Accountants, Kim's Blog, Lawyers, Marketing, Relationship Management|

Law Society legal market research 2016 – The future of legal services

This legal market research report was published in January and is a cracking example of comprehensive SLEPT (or PEST) and market attractiveness analyses that will be valuable to any law firm strategic planning process. It’s a whopping 64 pages and it’s worth its weight in gold. It identifies five clusters Read More

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