Commerciality

Chartered Institute of Marketing (CIM) updates standard and qualifications (2024)

Marketing moves at a very fast pace – and professional marketing standards and qualifications need to keep up. The Chartered Institute of Marketing (CIM) has revised its professional qualifications. The last major revision was in 2020. CIM qualifications provide guidance on what knowledge, skills and behaviours are needed throughout a Read More

2024-09-03T10:54:19+01:00September 3, 2024|Kim's Blog, Management Skills, Marketing, Social Media|

Private client commercial conversations

At a recent business conversation skills session, private client and family lawyers asked about the nature of commercial conversations with individual clients (as opposed to business clients). These private clients are often high net worth (or ultra high net worth). So here are some thoughts on private client commercial conversations. Read More

2024-03-27T10:19:03+00:00March 27, 2024|Kim's Blog, Lawyers, Relationship Management, Statistics and trends|

Managing Partners’ Forum – Highlights from the Advisory Board Meeting September 2023

The Managing Partners' Forum (mpfglobal.com) holds quarterly meetings of its Advisory Board where senior leaders discuss issues pertinent to the professional services sector. Updates are provided by Richard Chaplin, Jon Geldart and John Rowland together with the chairs of the Forum’s specialist groups: Management Teams Together; Finance & Operations; Strategy Read More

2023-09-29T10:00:34+01:00September 29, 2023|Accountants, Kim's Blog, Lawyers, Management Skills, Statistics and trends|

Context and curiosity drive commerciality and pricing

This week’s PM Forum training workshop “Commerciality: Finance, Pricing, Innovation and Research” was attended by delegates from law, accountancy and insolvency firms. As well as marketing and business development executives and managers there were also those in specialist pricing and bid roles.  Thanks to Simmons & Simmons for hosting the Read More

Market research: Professional services benchmark and accountancy profession statistics

I regularly scan the media for information relevant to professional services benchmarks and market updates. I share some of my findings to support marketers who are conducting PESTLE, competitor and commercial analyses. Here is a professional services benchmark from Unit4 and some data on the accountancy profession. Professional Services – Read More

2023-09-07T16:25:52+01:00September 7, 2023|Accountants, Kim's Blog, Statistics and trends|
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