Client relationship management (CRM) remains topical. At a recent MBL course on “Getting more work from referrers and intermediaries” I was asked about the number of relationships that any one professional could expect to manage successfully. Relationship marketing is the primary method of business development in many professional service firms Read More
I interviewed Sam Davies, Group Head of Marketing at Haines Watts (HWCA), to obtain an accountancy marketing case study on the firm’s thought leadership campaign “For Love or Money – the secret life of the business owner”. About Sam and Haines Watts Sam has worked at Haines Watts for over Read More
Health warning: This book "The Analytical Marketer – How to transform your marketing organization" by Adele Sweetwood is for serious marketers who are faced with adapting their marketing organisations to embrace the exciting (albeit a little bit scary) transformation being driven by the advances in marketing technology and automation. This is an Read More
Recently in Manchester, I was joined by accountants, lawyers and insolvency practitioners for the MBL referrer management training workshop on “Developing more work from referrers and intermediaries”. Here are the delegates’ views of the highlights. Plan – Back to basics Most firms have referrer management programmes and activities – but Read More
This leader article: "There's a real person behind that Persona" was originally published in the Summer 2016 edition of Professional Marketing magazine for PM Forum members. Don’t get me wrong. I’m delighted to see the professionalization of marketing and business development supported by sophisticated software. There are amazing analytics programmes Read More
