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20 ideas to improve impact, assertiveness and effectiveness for marketing and BD assistants and executives

It was a full house at the recent impact, assertiveness and effectiveness workshop at Professional Marketing Forum (https://www.pmforum.co.uk/training/). Here are the top 20 takeaways from the delegates: Increase self-confidence We considered the difference between self-esteem and internal self-confidence and the external portrayal of confidence http://kimtasso.com/be-more-confident-and-convey-confidence/ Use empathy Empathy is needed Read More

2019-08-27T09:38:35+01:00August 27, 2019|Kim's Blog, Management Skills, Marketing, Relationship Management|

Technology and psychology skills needed

This leader article appeared in the summer 2019 edition of Professional Marketing magazine A view on the future of the marketing profession – Technology and psychology skills needed. The marketing profession is at an interesting crossroads. In one direction is technology nirvana – where systems automatically scrape and mine valuable Read More

Top 10 takeaways – Proactive Marketing Executive (Feb 2019)

These are the top 10 takeaways from the delegates at the February 2019 Professional Marketing Forum’s Proactive Marketing Executive workshop selected as being most valuable. This post also includes some of the other marketing communication topics that emerged during exercises and discussions. McDonald’s Marketing plan outline (see http://kimtasso.com/marketing-planning-nutshell/) and the Read More

2019-06-13T17:18:00+01:00June 13, 2019|Kim's Blog, Marketing|

Book review – Advanced Marketing Management: Principles, skills and tools by Nikolaos Dimitriadis, Neda Jovanovic Dimitriadis and Jillian Ney

I read and review a lot of books but this was one - Advanced Marketing Management: Principles, skills and tools by Nikolaos Dimitriadis, Neda Jovanovic Dimitriadis and Jillian Ney – is one of the best I have come across for a while. I have sung its praises to many people Read More

2019-05-29T12:46:27+01:00May 29, 2019|Kim's Blog, Marketing, Statistics and trends|

Future Marketing Manager – A checklist for success and how to get promoted

At the January 2019 presentation of the popular Future Marketing Manager course at Professional Marketing Forum, one of the group exercises was to write a checklist of what marketing and business development executives needed to do to be promoted to and successful as managers. So here is a checklist for Read More

2019-05-21T09:58:07+01:00May 21, 2019|Kim's Blog, Management Skills, Marketing|
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