Strategy

BDO strategy, Price Bailey time sheets, knowledge management and client expectations:Accountancy Age Best Practice Conference 2012

This year, the conference took place at the lovely St Ermin’s hotel in Victoria on one of those rare days of sunshine. I was surprised that the numbers appeared considerably down from last year http://kimtasso.com/accountancy-age-best-practice-conference-june-2011 Creating an award winning firm – Jeremy Newman, BDO After a brief introduction by Peter Read More

Business development for lawyers – five key insights

Recently, I ran another of the successful Business development for lawyers full day training sessions in London. Unusually, the delegates were predominantly from commercial areas including corporate, property and employment representing a range of small and larger firms from across the UK. Some of their target markets were interesting: aviation, Read More

2014-12-22T16:29:35+00:00June 21, 2012|Kim's Blog, Lawyers, Marketing, Selling, Social Media, Strategy|

Leadership: Lessons from Star Trek and Neuroscience

Two recent but very different articles on leadership attracted my attention. Star Trek Forbes published “Five leadership lessons from James T Kirk” in May http://www.forbes.com/sites/alexknapp/2012/03/05/five-leadership-lessons-from-james-t-kirk/. It’s a neat way to get across some key messages – with evidence from the Enterprise’s caption: Never stop learning Be a “walking stack of Read More

2015-01-22T15:13:37+00:00June 20, 2012|Accountants, Kim's Blog, Lawyers, Management Skills, Property, Strategy|

Lessons from recent inbound marketing and social media course

This week I lead another of the successful inbound marketing and social media courses for professional services marketers for PM Forum http://www.pmforum.co.uk/training/index.aspx. I was glad that there were delegates from all the professions – lawyers, accountants and surveyors – although having a range of 3 to 9.5 (out of ten) Read More

White Paper: Apps by UK law, accountancy and property firms – Are we missing the mobile revolution?

Are you App-Aware, App-Agnostic or App-Happy? I have monitored the introduction of Apps by professional service firms (PSFs) in the legal, accountancy and property markets over the past few years and even built a spread sheet analysing their key features and relative strengths and weaknesses. I intended to write a Read More

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