Management Skills

Marketing expertise – recruit an in-house person or commission an external agency?

I have just published a short article on this topic for Delia Venables’ Internet Newsletter for Lawyers. They key points covered include: Recruiting your own marketing person Existing active programme of activities? Level of involvement of partners/lawyers? Generalist or specialist? Tactical or strategist? Detailed job description? How will you measure Read More

2013-08-07T18:13:35+01:00May 12, 2012|Kim's Blog, Lawyers, Management Skills, Marketing|

Adaptation and reinvention – Taking my own medicine

Branding is tricky at the best of times. But when you have to apply the process to yourself or your own business it becomes almost impossible. When I established my first company - Practical Marketing Consultancy Ltd - way back in 1994 the world was a very different place. Almost Read More

Feedback from the PM Forum Marketing and Business Development Effective Writing Workshop

Earlier this week saw the first presentation of a half day training session on effective writing for marketing and business development (all PM Forum training courses are listed here: http://www.pmforum.co.uk/training/index.aspx#KT18Apr12). It was an ambitious agenda (and much of the feedback suggested that we should have devoted a whole day to Read More

2015-12-11T17:51:52+00:00April 21, 2012|Accountants, Kim's Blog, Lawyers, Management Skills, Marketing, Selling, Web Sites|

Do you fear the future? Futurologists speak out at LawTech Futures 2012

One of the most thought provoking questions I think I was ever asked was “Do you fear the future?”. And it must have been running through the minds of the 530 or so delegates at the LawTech Futures conference in Victoria yesterday as we listened to two leading futurologists. Charles Read More

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