We discussed strategic thinking – audits, assumptions and alignment at the recent “Being more strategic” training workshop at the Professional Marketing Forum http://www.pmforum.co.uk/training.aspx Fee-earners and strategy There was a discussion about why some fee-earners in professional service firms found strategic discussions and decisions difficult, for example: There are multiple Read More
At the recent “Marketing planning in a nutshell” training workshop http://www.pmforum.co.uk/training.aspx, the focus was on the best way to introduce a marketing planning process into a professional service firm. While many of the larger professional service firms have sophisticated marketing and business development planning processes, some smaller firms are still Read More
Recently, I facilitated a workshop on thought leadership, campaigns and project management with delegates from legal, accountancy and consultancy firms for the Professional Marketing Forum http://www.pmforum.co.uk/training.aspx The key insights from the delegates’ perspective were as follows: 1. Objectives enable measurement In order to measure the effectiveness of a campaign it Read More
I was delighted to address the Professional Marketing Forum Scotland members last week in Edinburgh. The topic they choose was Key Account Management KAM in a nutshell – so I presented information on “text book” theories as well as lots of stories from my experiences on the “front line” of Read More
This article on "Private client marketing - competing in the digital era" was published in the November 2017 edition of The Law Society’s PS magazine for private client lawyers http://communities.lawsociety.org.uk/private-client/ps-magazine/ Whilst we should be excited about the potential of digital technologies to help busy private client lawyers with their business Read More
