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Be more strategic: Top-down or bottom-up, marketing and sales integration and property marketing

Red Star Kim

See also integrated-business-planning-oct12.pdf 46% Yes 8% No – but marketing part of degree 46% No Have you completed a marketing audit for your firm/team? The processes to obtain and analyse data, engage all stakeholders, consider the options and implications, make choices and be pragmatic about implementation.

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Future Marketing/BD Manager – Build resilience to avoid being overwhelmed

Red Star Kim

Look to the business plan and departmental plans. Prepare a strategic M&BD plan. You might consider: What’s important to your senior management team? What’s important to your fee-earners? What’s important to your clients? Where can I have the biggest impact? What are our goals? Strategy forces us to make choices.

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Key Account Management: The Ultimate Guide

Hubspot Sales

You can tailor an existing framework to your own needs or create a customized plan. Whatever option you take, your account plan should include: Your relationships within the account. The customer's current business plan, objectives, and financial health. Your targets for the account. Relationships.

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Coaching and Consulting skills – Limiting beliefs, approaches to helping and marketing consultancy

Red Star Kim

There is some useful information in the Level 6 Marketing Manager Apprenticeship on marketing consultancy skills including: The consultancy proposition Scoping the offering/Benefits/Messaging/STP/Communication Engaging with clients and building networking opportunities Skills and competencies Project management Clients/Stakeholder management/mapping/communications (..)

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Referrer Management – Capacity and Capability

Red Star Kim

And co-create a plan. Why do you need a business plan? 10 reasons why (kimtasso.com) Marketing planning in a nutshell – simple and complex plans (kimtasso.com) Data and systems It was good to have a sprinkling of IT geeks (their label not mine!)

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Be more strategic – A metaphor: Analyse, join and align the dots

Red Star Kim

Black Swan thinking (unknown unknowns) may help here: Be more strategic – Strategy in a post-Covid19 world (kimtasso.com) All strategies and plans should contain a risk analysis and the most common risks to consider were thought to be: Internal Financial risks Cybersecurity (technology risks) Loss of key people (directors/staff and clients) Innovation (..)

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Proactive marketing and business development executives – CRM, internal engagement and career insights

Red Star Kim

Ideas on how to spend any “free” time ranged from competitor and analytics analysis to business plans for teams although some mentioned getting up to date on admin. Key insights raised by delegates included View marketing qualifications from a professional services perspective – Half the delegates had marketing qualifications.

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