Kim TassoStrategic thinking – It’s a jungle out there
Posted on: February 23, 2021
On 17 February I had the pleasure of facilitating a sold-out workshop on “Being more strategic” for the PM Forum. There were delegates from large and small law firms, patent attorneys, accountants, actuaries and management consultants. This is a summary of the session which I promised I’d share with the delegates to add to their […]
Driving successful marketing programs for professional services
Posted on: April 1, 2019
This article “Driving successful marketing programs for professional services” was published by Intapp on March 29th 2019 https://www.intapp.com/blog_posts/successful-marketing-for-professional-services/ We recently connected with professional services expert and influencer, Kim Tasso to talk about marketing. Tasso, the managing director of RedStarKim Ltd, is an independent management consultant specializing in the professional services sector. In this conversation, Tasso […]
Key Account Management (KAM) – Top 10 tips for designing and implementing a KAM programme
Posted on: August 25, 2018
Delegates (representing experts and beginners from law firms, accountancy practices, technology consultants and actuaries) at a recent training session by http://www.pmforum.co.uk/training.aspx on Key Account Management (KAM) selected the following top 10 tips for designing and implementing a KAM programme in a professional services firm. Designing the Key Account Management (KAM) programme 1. Adopt a long […]
Strategy silos – is marketing guilty too? Align, integrate, focus, educate and champion
Posted on: July 18, 2018
A short while ago, I travelled to Birmingham for a West Midlands Professional Marketing Forum meeting to talk about “Towards strategic marketing”. Yesterday, I presented at a professional services conference in Sussex (organised by Consortium and supported by CIM) and presented on a similar topic. Whereas we often consider our lawyers, accountants and surveyors to work in silos I […]
Legal case study – Anatomy of a law firm merger (Ross & Craig and DMH Stallard)
Posted on: September 27, 2017
In 2015 I interviewed David Leadercramer, the former managing partner and senior partner of Ross & Craig solicitors http://www.rosscraig.com/ about his firm’s decision to merge with DML Stallard http://www.dmhstallard.com/ to gain insight into the merger decision and process. The original interview is below. David was kind enough to reflect recently on what he said at […]