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
I have been helping law firms for almost two decades with their major informal pitches and formal tenders. I’m pleased to report that my success rate is almost 100%. I train both marketing/business development people and lawyers themselves in effective sales and pitch techniques. So I was interested to hear Read More
At the Estates Gazette (EG) inaugural Property Marketing Summit conference on Thursday 26th June 2014 there were three presentations that focused on brands, rebrands and value propositions. Marc McConnell – Cluttons http://www.cluttons.com/gb The Cluttons brand – predominantly red visually – was established 250 years ago Amazon says “Brand is what 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
At last week’s half day “Up to speed in digital marketing and social media course” http://www.pmforum.co.uk/training/ several delegates asked for my opinion on the various digital marketing qualifications available. Back in 2012, I wrote the following blog about the main digital marketing qualifications: http://kimtasso.com/old-and-new-digital-marketing-qualifications/ Here is some recent feedback from Read More
