At last week’s “Marketing planning in a nutshell” workshop by Professional Marketing Forum http://www.pmforum.co.uk/training/ the delegates requested that I write a blog on selecting strategies. The first part of the session focused on the marketing audit – analysing internal and external sources of information in order to identify strengths, weakness, Read More
At a recent Proactive Marketing Executive course (see http://www.pmforum.co.uk/training/) we spent a fair amount of time talking about marketing/business development initiatives where the focus is on managing a few major clients - a Key Account Management KAM programme. I was asked to summarise the key reasons why firms should concentrate Read More
I review lots of books on persuasive writing (see the list below) to identify those that will prove useful to the lawyers, accountants, surveyors and marketers who attend my writing courses. As the importance of good quality content increases, there is continuing demand for those who can write persuasive copy Read More
I was delighted to be invited by the Yorkshire Committee of the PM Forum (http://www.pmforum.co.uk/) to lead a lunchtime session (hosted by DLA Piper in Leeds and organised by Amit Champaneri) on planning and campaign management. I was even more delighted to find that over 50 folk turned up to hear Read More
You would expect a book coming from the folk at Cambridge Marketing College to be good. And it is. Unusually, it’s not a text book – there’s little theory within it. But it’s a fabulous collection of case studies, best practice and insight from a glittering array of the great Read More
