At the recent Professional Marketing Forum conference, Ian Pearson (BT’s lead futurologist for 16 years) provided some provocative food for thought to add into our environmental (SLEPT or PEST) analyses and scenario planning with his views on the future trends in technology. He drew a broad landscape by charting how Read More
Back in April I summarised Hubspot’s “Practical Guide to Killer Marketing Content” - http://kimtasso.com/hubspots-a-practical-guide-to-killer-marketing-content. There’s a new version out now called “A practical guide to building a killer content strategy” which you can download for free http://offers.hubspot.com/a-practical-guide-to-building-a-killer-content-strategy Here’s a summary of the key points on content strategy: 1. Create buyer personas Who Read More
A while back I blogged about some of the best books on account management http://kimtasso.com/getting-to-grips-with-key-account-management-kam but I omitted to mention this book (Seven keys to managing strategic accounts) which was published in 2003. It’s important because it is a joint effort with Miller Heiman – the creators of strategic selling® - Read More
I don’t often share my coaching success stories – but recent results have been astonishing. I’ve had to change the details a little to protect confidentiality, but here are a selection: Property director back in the game An MBA qualified director in the property sector had a serious illness which Read More
I’ve written a fair amount about strategy (see the links below) but I thought it might be worth going back to some basics. So here's some strategy basics -Mintzberg (who I often talk about in training sessions in the context of emergent strategy). In 1987, he provided five Ps for Read More
