Kim TassoTechnology and psychology skills needed
Posted on: July 15, 2019This 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 information from within the firm […]
Pitching and Tenders – Nine top tips and client feedback (June 2019)
Posted on: July 5, 2019
I’ve led several public courses on tendering and pitches recently (e.g. through Professional Marketing Forum https://www.pmforum.co.uk/training.aspx) and for professional service firm clients on an in-house basis. Here’s a round-up of the points that had most resonance on pitching and tenders – Nine top tips and client feedback: 1. Have a pitch process You can spend […]
Client Feedback – From the horse’s mouth: The Crown Estate, Surrey County Cricket Club and JUUL Laboratories (2018)
Posted on: November 8, 2018At the 2018 Professional Marketing Conference (see http://kimtasso1.wpengine.com/professional-marketing-forum-conference-report-2018-the-bare-necessities/), there was the usual client panel where clients of legal, accountancy and property professional services firms gave their views on marketing and client service. Continuing the series of Client Feedback – From the horse’s mouth: The Crown Estate, Surrey County Cricket Club and JUUL Laboratories provide their […]
Professional Marketing Forum conference report 2018: The Bare Necessities
Posted on: November 8, 2018This article was published in Professional Marketing magazine http://www.pmforum.co.uk/pm-magazine/pm-magazine.aspx I have written many Professional Marketing Forum Conference reports over the past decade. A list is shown towards the end. It was a pleasant change to have Lucy Canning, newly appointed to the Board of Grant Thornton UK, as chair in the familiar hall at the […]
Client Experience Management (CEM) – Research into the client journey at law firms
Posted on: July 20, 2018
Whilst presenting a paper on strategic marketing at a recent professional services marketing conference in Sussex http://kimtasso1.wpengine.com/strategy-silos-is-marketing-guilty-too-align-integrate-focus-educate-and-champion/, one of my fellow presenters was Jonathan Winchester, chief executive of insight6 Limited https://insight6.com/ (which some of you may know as Shoppers Anonymous). He gave a fascinating talk about Client Experience Management (CEM which some refer to as […]