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

Red Star Kim

Integrating marketing and sales strategies There were several occasions where the need for better integration between marketing (driven by campaigns from the marketing and digital marketing teams) and selling (supported by business developers but often led by fee-earners) was mentioned.

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Referrer Management – Capacity and Capability

Red Star Kim

While the delegates had some exciting mountain climbing, sailing and diving adventures to report – they observed that often their people focused on digital events and tended to be “chained to desk ”. This had been exacerbated by Covid and working from home practices. Referrer management activities were varied and sometimes creative.

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The Proactive M&BD Executive – Culture shock, marketing models, fee-earner engagement, qualifications and social media

Red Star Kim

However, the digital revolution reduced the distinction between B2C (Business to Consumer) and B2B marketing with increasing use of digital marketing throughout the professional services client journey. Would you recommend doing a professional marketing diploma as it incorporates digital marketing?

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

Red Star Kim

Geographical and psychological distance can seem larger when in a digital space. Ideas to enhance engagement To reduce “us and them” (fee earners and marketing) feelings we can try to invoke a sense of ingroup and a shared social identity. Finding ways to meet with people in real time (such as at social events) can help.

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Key takeaways from SAMA’s Annual Conference

Arpedio

McKinsey (see graphic below) investigated thirty go-to-market channels (e.g., digital advertising, social media, email, phone, in-person) and found that a multi-channel approach increased sales effectiveness by 10% from 2020 to 2021. Marketing supports messaging, digital advertising, and critical signals that informs the SAM.

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Hooks, Headlines and Hard-Wired Words: 11 ideas for better writing

Red Star Kim

Digital marketers will tell you that the first two words are the most important. In an article from Harvard Business Review in Summer 2021 on Science of great writing The Science of Strong Business Writing (hbr.org) there was significant neuroscience evidence of the impact of writing on the reader’s brain. Video) (kimtasso.com).

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Key Account Management (KAM) – Research companies, use KAM technology and maintain momentum

Red Star Kim

Sendoso and Reachdesk technology platforms to help provide offline care packages and gifts Smartology’s SmartMatch Saas platform for contextual advertising Third party data providers (see above) such as Demandbase, 6Sense and Terminus for overall campaign orchestration and analytics GoodData and Tableau to enhance account dashboards (Datorama for aggregation) (..)