Professional Services Marketing

Dear fee-earner, Love from Leeds: Why you should allow your marketing and business development team to help you to develop campaigns

I was delighted to be invited by the Yorkshire Committee of the PM Forum (http://www.pmforum.co.uk/)  to lead a lunchtime session (hosted by DLA Piper in Leeds and organised by Amit Champaneri) on planning and campaign management. I was even more delighted to find that over 50 folk turned up to hear Read More

2015-12-05T13:29:33+00:00December 5, 2015|Accountants, Kim's Blog, Lawyers, Marketing, Property, Selling, Strategy|

Book Review: Professional Services Marketing Handbook (Edited by Nigel Clark with Charles Nixon)

You would expect a book coming from the folk at Cambridge Marketing College to be good. And it is. Unusually, it’s not a text book – there’s little theory within it. But it’s a fabulous collection of case studies, best practice and insight from a glittering array of the great Read More

2015-10-09T12:01:53+01:00October 9, 2015|Accountants, Kim's Blog, Lawyers, Marketing, Selling|

“Mavericks, measurement and impatience” Campaign management in the professions – highlights from the West Midlands Professional Marketing Forum

Yesterday, I was delighted that the West Midlands branch of Professional Marketing Forum invited me to run a condensed “Campaign management in the professions” session. It was a great turnout with over 30 folk from legal, accountancy, actuarial, property and patent attorney firms. We enjoyed sunshine and the wonderful hospitality Read More

2015-06-12T13:19:42+01:00June 12, 2015|Accountants, Kim's Blog, Lawyers, Marketing, Property, Strategy|

Future Marketing Managers need some Finnish “Sisu” or Japanese “Ganbaru” for success

At the Professional Marketing Forum training session for Future Marketing Managers  last week I talked about the Finnish quality of “Sisu”. Future Marketing Managers need some Finnish “Sisu” or Japanese “Ganbaru” for success. There isn’t a direct translation in English of this special quality which is part of the Finnish Read More

2024-06-07T09:39:47+01:00April 20, 2015|Kim's Blog, Marketing|

Professional Service Firms: Reflections on 2014 – Actions for 2015

I produced an overview of my work during the year (see http://kimtasso.com/whats-new/work-update/) but have summarised below three key reflections on the year and thus the main focus for action in 2015 for professional service firms: 1. Lead with strategy – Some have it. Many don’t. Everyone talks about it. Industries Read More

2014-12-23T09:45:05+00:00December 23, 2014|Accountants, Kim's Blog, Lawyers, Management Skills, Marketing, Strategy|
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