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Book review – Managing Brands

Red Star Kim

This post reviews the core material covered in Managing Brands Chartered Institute of Marketing (CIM) professional qualification (Level 6 elective New CIM professional marketing qualifications – 2020 (kimtasso.com) ) and the Cambridge Marketing College’s Marketing Manager Apprenticeship – a Level 6 Qualification (kimtasso.com).

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Context and curiosity drive commerciality and pricing

Red Star Kim

This week’s PM Forum training workshop “Commerciality: Finance, Pricing, Innovation and Research” was attended by delegates from law, accountancy and insolvency firms. As well as marketing and business development executives and managers there were also those in specialist pricing and bid roles.

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28th PM Forum Conference: Organisational culture, mentoring, digital distraction, ESG and client experience (2023)

Red Star Kim

Transforming your firm’s culture – Professor Vlatka Hlupic Self-effacing Vlatka described the “quiet quitting” disengagement that needs a “purpose and people-led” management revolution to overcome toxic cultures. There was support for a dedicated relationship manager as teams of specialists expand and staff churn continues.

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The Sales Leader's Guide to Performance Management

Hubspot Sales

years , down by half from 2010. You can achieve it with a structured sales performance management process. Now that you're clear on what sales performance management entails, let's talk about why it is so important to implement it into your standard operating rhythm. Why Sales Performance Management Matters.

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Sales Targeting Toolbox for Professional Services Firms

Red Star Kim

But when we look at business development, sales and relationship management competency frameworks for fee-earners (as opposed to professional sales people) there is less clarity. Capacity planning – Research suggests that humans can probably manage a maximum 150 to 250 close relationships. Some automated systems (e.g.

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Cultivate a cross-selling culture

Red Star Kim

We were joined by delegates from legal, accountancy and consultancy firms for PM Forum’s “Cross-selling and referrer management accelerator” workshop earlier in March. While we discussed various tools and methods to promote cross-selling and referral management, a key theme emerged around changing culture. Another cultural shift.

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Artificial Intelligence Example to Rock Sales Controlling in B2B

QYMATIX

Their job is to manage and watch sales processes across their company. They routinely confront increasing amounts of sales data; they need to set and measure critical key performance indicators, find and suggest improvements and regularly report to management. Sales Controlling in B2B: From data to wisdom.