I’ve read numerous books on strategy since before my MBA in 1996 and ever since. There were some good and some poor. As part of preparing for the forthcoming course on “Being more strategic” for PM Forum http://www.pmforum.co.uk/training/ I needed to select a couple of books to recommend to delegates. Read More
I was interested to see the Econsultancy research infographic on the essential skills for modern marketers back in May https://econsultancy.com/blog/64903-what-are-the-essential-skills-for-modern-marketers-infographic#i.1id4kau1ds2dmr – especially when compared to the recently launched new Chartered Institute of Marketing (CIM) standards: http://kimtasso.com/views-new-marketing-standards-cim/ which is summarised as follows: Core Technical Behaviours Insights Reputation, risk and compliance Commercially Read More
Despite over two decades of successful sales experience, I am not a fan of telephone cold calling (my reasons are shown below if you are interested). However, whenever I provide a marketing, sales or business development training course (as I was doing yesterday morning), people ask me how to be Read More
At the Estates Gazette (EG) inaugural Property Marketing Summit conference on Thursday 26th June 2014 (#marketingsummit) I gave a presentation entitled “Challenging convention: prioritising investment – from traditional to sophisticated marketing in the new property world”. This is a summary of the key points from my presentation – please email Read More
Most people know that I have been a staunch supporter of the Chartered Institute of Marketing (CIM) in the past. Call me a Luddite but I really liked the old CIM marketing standards (see above). They gave a clear picture of what marketers were expected to know and be able Read More
