Differentiation is a question that is raised in many of my strategy and business development workshops for professional service firms. Differentiation is the process of identifying a difference between your own and competing products or services that has some value to clients. Differentiation provides sustainable competitive advantage. So this article Read More
Integrated marketing can be a challenge. It can be especially difficult trying to integrate and co-ordinate various strategic marketing and business development initiatives in a professional services firm. Particularly as fee-earners can have short attention spans and quickly grow weary when presented with another new marketing programme. Typically in a Read More
While it is easy to get wrapped up in all the amazing digital technologies that are available to marketers (I recently read a report that said, on average, even a junior marketer will use up to 100 different technologies in a day without even noticing) sometimes it is important to Read More
Almost two years ago, haysmacintyre (a 24 partner accountancy practice providing audit, tax, corporate finance and other services from central London offices) embarked upon integrating social media into its corporate marketing campaign. A case study: haysmacintyre accountants and social media. The challenge The firm was (and remains) a leader in Read More
