As I am always encouraging my clients and colleagues to enter into awards (both to have their achievements recognised and for the positive PR), I was somewhat surprised (and absolutely delighted) to hear today that I have been shortlisted in the Chartered Institute of Marketing’s Women in Marketing Greater London Read More
Yesterday I attended the annual Professional Marketing Forum Conference: “Live your brand values and enhance the client experience”. As always, there were many excellent speakers and lots of food for thought – detailed comments will appear in my article in the next edition of Professional Marketing magazine. http://www.pmforum.co.uk/magazine/current_issue.aspx But for me, Read More
In many marketing and BD teams, the focus is on managing large, central client or CRM databases into which everyone enters their clients, referrers, contacts and activities so that some sort of co-ordination, planning and tracking can take place. But many lawyers, accountants and surveyors continue to resist using such Read More
The Managing Partners’ Forum http://www.mpfglobal.com/ in conjunction with The Thriving Company http://www.thrivingcompany.co.uk/ has adopted the annual research programme into CRM, formerly produced by the Professional Marketing Forum http://www.pmforum.co.uk/. Last year’s survey (published in March 2010) revealed the following: Four drivers for success stand out: Vision, Client Input, Programme Management and Measurement 94% of firms report Read More
This report by the Managing Partners Forum http://www.mpfglobal.com/ and the Financial Times was published in June – and was then the subject of a national roadshow - and you can download it here: http://ftcorporate.ft.com/resources/ The purpose of the on-line research into the views of 433 people (17% CEO/chairs of companies and 10% Managing/Senior Read More
