Working predominantly with business-to-business (B2B) professional services firms, there is little opportunity to do much advertising. Most of the firms I work with focus on generating online interest through content management and search strategies although social media advertising is becoming increasingly popular with some law, accountancy and property firms. I’m Read More
At the recent Persuasive writing course in London I was asked to provide more information on crafting great titles for article and blogs. I also discovered that at a previous session I’d been asked to provide more guidance on writing effective tweets. The two topics are similar – so here Read More
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
Here's the latest legal marketing case study. I admit that I’ve admired the marketing communications of Fisher Meredith for some time – particularly the series of small transport posters that appeared regularly at my local train station for many years that seemed to embed their presence in the community and Read More
At a recent MBL “Developing more work from referrers and intermediaries” training workshop in Bristol (see https://www.mblseminars.com/outline?progid=5770 for future dates and locations), the delegates identified two themes that would shape their future strategy. Referrer management - Back to basics The first part of the session focussed on “Thinking and Planning”. Read More
