I’ve just reviewed this book on "Managing online reputation" for Professional Marketing magazine http://www.pmforum.co.uk/magazine/ It’s a timely book considering the increasing use of social media in professional service firms and the underlying fear that problems in this arena – whether of internal or external origin – could have a catastrophic Read More
Earlier this week, Norton Rose kindly hosted another presentation of the PM Forum’s “Being more strategic” training session where 18 delegates from solicitors, barristers, accountancy, actuarial and property firms attended. As always, at the end I asked which topics resonated most with the delegates and these were the main insights: Read More
At a recent MBL “Developing more work from referrers and intermediaries” training workshop in Bristol (see https://www.mblseminars.com/outline?progid=5770 for future dates and locations), the delegates identified two themes that would shape their future strategy. Referrer management - Back to basics The first part of the session focussed on “Thinking and Planning”. Read More
At last week’s “Marketing planning in a nutshell” workshop by Professional Marketing Forum http://www.pmforum.co.uk/training/ the delegates requested that I write a blog on selecting strategies. The first part of the session focused on the marketing audit – analysing internal and external sources of information in order to identify strengths, weakness, Read More
At last week’s “Managing and marketing a profitable surveyors’ practice” workshop in Glasgow, where the focus was on how to achieve profitable growth, the delegates identified six insights into managing a surveyors’ practice 1. Produce a (short) strategic business plan Some firms had a business plan that needed to be Read More
