Long ago, before the digital revolution, I wrote a book on media relations and how leading experts in professional services could build their media profile to become the “rock star” of a niche. Since then, the digitisation of communications and understanding of thought leadership have made this strategy commonplace – Read More
Earlier this year, Draw Group released its third Legal Sector Digital Benchmark study into the web sites of 30 law firms – analysing 55 touchpoints on the “path to purchase” model (awareness, engagement, conversion and loyalty). Of the 30 websites the report examined: Website design Conventions are changing. Designs that Read More
Academic writing. Technical writing. Professional writing. Lawyers are generally good writers. But business development writing by lawyers? That’s a different can of worms. I recently ran some workshops on business development writing for lawyers – providing guidance and coaching on how to achieve impact and response. We considered a variety Read More
I’ve just submitted a review of this book to Professional Marketing magazine - http://www.pmforum.co.uk/magazine/ which will be published in early 2016. I reviewed the original version of "Understanding digital marketing" in June 2011 (see http://kimtasso.com/book-review-understanding-digital-marketing-marketing-strategies-for-engaging-the-digital-generation-damian-ryan-and-calvin-jones/). This third edition, written at the start of 2014 and published in 2015, is a 100 pages Read More
I recently ran one of the regular “Introduction to marketing and business development for secretaries and assistants” sessions for PM Forum (see http://www.pmforum.co.uk/training/) The delegates were split equally between those who worked within marketing and BD teams and those who supported a legal or accounting fee-earner. At the end of Read More
