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Marketing accountability and creativity, crisis management pragmatism, social media success and new banking brands at AMBA

I travelled into the depths of leafy Kent yesterday to attend the Association of MBAs (AMBA) http://www.mbaworld.com/ spring refresher day at Kent Business School. It looked like a balanced programme – two academics in the morning and two practitioners in the afternoon. Accountability vs. courage in marketing After luring the Read More

Property marketing case study: Adam Tinworth on the challenges of on-line communities and content management

As part of my research into what’s happening (and, more importantly, what’s likely to be happening) in the fast moving world of property and real estate marketing, I spoke to Adam Tinworth, a former features editor at Estates Gazette and now a lecturer in digital journalism and a digital strategist Read More

Book review – Rainmakers and Trailblazers (Business development for lawyers) by DWF

Delighted to see that the May 2014 edition of Professional Marketing magazine http://www.pmforum.co.uk/magazine/index.aspx carried the following review of my fourth book "Rainmakers and Trailblazers - a step by step guide to business development for lawyers" http://kimtasso.com/publications/rainmakers-trailblazers-business-development-lawyers/ "Law firms continually battle with educating their people in the essentials of business development. Attempting Read More

2014-05-08T11:08:16+01:00May 8, 2014|Kim's Blog, Lawyers, Marketing, Relationship Management, Selling|

Like transplanting a tree – moving lawyers and accountants overseas

When providing business development coaching to lawyers and accountants, one of the metaphors I use is that it is like growing a tree. It’s not an overnight process. It takes time for a young sapling to find the right location, acquire the necessary resources and grow steadily each year until Read More

Grown-up corporate social responsibility and the regulatory environment – Strategy book on “Aligning for advantage” by Professor Thomas Lawton

I’ve always been a bit dubious about the role of Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR) in the business world and the professions and, at an event at the Open Business School in London last night to launch a new strategy book Professor Lawton reminded us of the quote by Milton Friedman Read More

2014-03-07T10:44:17+00:00March 7, 2014|Kim's Blog, Lawyers, Management Skills, Statistics and trends, Strategy|
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