Red Star Kim

DECEMBER 18, 2023

The workshop covered strategic thinking, business strategy and marketing and business development (MBD) strategy. From the animated discussions I selected a few topics of focus – Be more strategic: Top-down or bottom-up, marketing and sales integration and property marketing. Top-down or Bottom-Up Strategy?

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Red Star Kim

FEBRUARY 8, 2024

At the recent Business Development for Professionals – 2024 Virtual Conference – MBL Seminars I presented a session entitled “Supporting Fee-Earners in Sales Targeting”. Here is a summary of the sales targeting toolbox for professional services firms.

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Red Star Kim

SEPTEMBER 26, 2023

I presented a methodology to design marketing and BD team structures in November 2015. Some of the points raised then remain the same, whilst new market conditions bring additional components into the equation. They learn about their markets and clients, help formulate strategy and develop plans.

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Nutshell

FEBRUARY 20, 2024

That’s the idea behind inbound marketing—an essential marketing strategy for today’s businesses. In this guide, we cover everything you need to get started with inbound marketing. Table of Contents What is inbound marketing? Table of Contents What is inbound marketing? How does inbound marketing work?

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PandaDoc

SEPTEMBER 2, 2020

Although 71% of companies say closing more deals is their top sales priority, further data from Forrester suggests that only 0.75% of leads generated become closed revenue. Want free access to 9 in-depth interviews from industry experts and data from 3,400 global marketers? Adaptive Business Blog.

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SBI Growth

OCTOBER 22, 2020

At this point in 2020, all your competitors have undergone some variation of a “digital transformation” to supplement an end-to-end data-driven, Customer Experience (CX) focused digital sales strategy. A recent study conducted by KPMG found that over 90% of companies.

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CMOE

JUNE 12, 2023

There is no shortage of small business blogs out there. In fact, in today’s digital world, we can be inundated with business advice—it can be challenging to find the ones that provide quality resources and value among the many. We encourage you to carve out time to gain valuable insights from these blogs: 1.

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Upland

JUNE 14, 2023

What are the top challenges facing chief revenue officers and sales leaders in 2023? These include an uncertain economic landscape, attracting and retaining top-notch talent, crossing the digital divide, and staying relevant even as the competition grows fiercer. And how can account planning help? But also, a lot of opportunity.

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Customer Think

SEPTEMBER 27, 2021

It feels like we just started planning our marketing strategy for 2021, but here we are, getting ready for 2022. If you’re like most people, your goal is to start the new year strong with robust marketing strategies designed to help you secure more leads, sales, and engagement.

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Customer Think

DECEMBER 16, 2021

I wonder if we need to rethink our concepts of sales and marketing and how we organize to provide those functions within the organization. Marketing was primarily focused on creating visibility and awareness. It typically dealt with markets and industries, not customers. It’s [.].

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Showpad

NOVEMBER 28, 2021

Meet Leea Huffine, Creative Marketing and Communications Manager at Atlas Copco. In this interview, Leea shares with us how she’s implemented marketing automation, digital deal rooms, and digital media content to support the sales team in a hybrid sales environment. . “We

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Showpad

JUNE 22, 2020

It might come across as a bold statement — sales enablement is your engine to drive digital transformation. . In this blog post, I will show you why sales enablement should be set up in a way that it becomes the engine and the driving force for your digital transformation efforts in sales. .

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Red Star Kim

AUGUST 30, 2022

Once a year I have to produce four reflective learning statements for the Chartered Institute of Marketing (CIM) in order to maintain my Chartered Marketer status as a Fellow of CIM. Marketing Continuing Professional Development (CPD) – The power of reflection? Digital integration. Integrated marketing communications.

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Customer Think

MAY 16, 2023

Have you heard of digital marketing’s best kept secret, brand-to-brand partnerships? Their goals are to collectively engage new audiences, incentivize customer loyalty and increase sales. A brand partnership is a mutually-beneficial relationship between non-competitive retailers.

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Red Star Kim

SEPTEMBER 29, 2023

The September PM Forum workshop on “ Professional and Practical Skills for Marketing and Business Development (M&BD) Assistants” was attended by 18 delegates from legal, accountancy, consultancy and actuarial firms. Differentiation is a critical aspect of professional services marketing and is no different in personal brands.

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Nutshell

APRIL 26, 2023

What is a CRM system in marketing? But with the right Customer Relationship Management (CRM) solution, you can optimize your marketing to suit the unique needs of every customer, just like you might in a small independent business. What is a CRM system in marketing? What are some CRM marketing examples? What is CRM?

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Red Star Kim

MARCH 17, 2023

A fellow tutor at Cambridge Marketing College – Neil Wilkins – has completed significant research into marketing in the metaverse. I’ve tried to summarise his key points here: Marketing in the Metaverse – An opportunity for professional services firms? He shared his views at a webinar earlier today. The Metaverse opportunity?

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Red Star Kim

MARCH 24, 2023

It was a full house at the March workshop on “Practical and Professional Skills for Marketing and Business Development (M&BD) Assistants” although almost all delegates were from law firms across the UK. Roles, satisfaction and aspirations of Marketing and Business Development (M&BD) Assistants.

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Showpad

DECEMBER 5, 2021

Meet Tom Carter , National Vice President, Business Marketing at Kaiser Permanente. In this interview, Tom shares how the partnership between marketing and sales made all the difference in rolling out a new digit al sales strategy. . “If How do you think about sales and marketing today? .

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PandaDoc

MAY 13, 2024

Sales and marketing are two terms that are often used interchangeably. In this guide, we’ll cover the basics of sales vs marketing and how you can better align and use them in your business. Key takeaways Sales and marketing are separate domains that work together to grow revenue.

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DemandFarm

AUGUST 11, 2023

In traditional sales operations, we have primarily focused on maintaining a healthy sales funnel, achieving high average win rates, and maintaining deal sizes. In this context, Revenue Operations (RevOps) has emerged as a pivotal strategy that aims to align sales, marketing, and customer success throughout the customer journey.

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SBI Growth

JULY 2, 2020

There has been exponential growth in the amount of data generated since the start of the digital age. This has enabled almost every industry and business to become more productive, but a function like sales that is largely relationship-based (especially.

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DemandFarm

AUGUST 31, 2023

Yes, sales, as we knew it, is history! Welcome to the digital age of sales! We’re here to ease some of that anxiety about going digital – needing to dominate the online landscape. We’re here to ease some of that anxiety about going digital – needing to dominate the online landscape. Sounds intimidating?

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Red Star Kim

NOVEMBER 1, 2023

At the recent PM Forum workshop on “Selling processes and sales skills for marketing and business development professionals” we focused on sales and selling challenges in professional services. Selling challenges in professional services: Sales processes and skills. Their fee-earners are often in the same boat.

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Red Star Kim

JANUARY 16, 2023

On 12 th January Keith Hardie at the PM Forum hosted a presentation by Alastair Beddow of Meridian West on the 11 th Annual International Marketing Benchmark. The benchmark provided a snapshot of the views of 112 marketing and business development (M&BD) leaders at professional service firms (PSF). increase in marketing budget.

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Insightly

DECEMBER 2, 2021

Sales and marketing teams have the same ultimate goal: revenue generation and growth. Despite this, marketing and sales do not always spend enough time aligning on goals. This misalignment has led to tension between sales and marketing teams. Why marketing and sales alignment matters.

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Red Star Kim

DECEMBER 14, 2022

for a day workshop on “Future Marketing/BD Manager” with PM Forum. Future Marketing/BD Manager – Build your personal brand and increase your strategic contribution. Complete my CIM qualifications (alternatively: Marketing Manager Apprenticeship – a Level 6 Qualification (kimtasso.com) ). Increase my strategic contribution.

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SBI Growth

SEPTEMBER 10, 2020

If you are reading this article and you work in the B2B space, you have most likely been inundated with buzzwords surrounding Digital and how it is disrupting your industry: Digital strategy, digital transformation, eCommerce, big data, IoT, AI, and.

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Strategic Communications

OCTOBER 3, 2023

When it comes to trend spotting in the marketing space, there’s a bright, shiny thing in the room: artificial intelligence. AI is clearly top of mind for marketers. When it comes to AI, the generative variety (like ChatGPT) is by far the leading trend impacting marketing.

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Insightly

DECEMBER 2, 2021

Sales and marketing teams have the same ultimate goal: revenue generation and growth. Despite this, marketing and sales do not always spend enough time aligning on goals. This misalignment has led to tension between sales and marketing teams. Why marketing and sales alignment matters.

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PandaDoc

MARCH 1, 2019

One of the biggest challenges digital marketing agencies face is both generating leads, and then turning prospects into customers. In the State of Digital Agency Report carried out by Databox and HubSpot, 60% of digital agencies named “finding new clients” as their top pain point. Well, the answer in many cases, nothing.

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Customer Think

OCTOBER 31, 2023

In a world driven by digital transformation, understanding various online sales channels’ intricacies becomes imperative for businesses aiming for comprehensive growth and customer reach.

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Zendesk

JULY 26, 2022

As technology rapidly changes and expands, keeping up with the best business practices in the digital world can feel overwhelming. More and more, however, the digital world is influencing consumer purchases. If you want to win the sales game, you need a keen understanding of the digital marketplace—and fast.

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DemandFarm

AUGUST 11, 2023

The B2B landscape is undergoing a dynamic transformation, propelled by the forces of digitization, technological breakthroughs, and evolving workstyles. Account-based marketing or ABM is one such strategy that is aligned with account-based sales to target high-value accounts with personalized and targeted campaigns.

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DemandFarm

MAY 25, 2023

For those of you who haven’t guessed, the right answer is digital transformation. Building a Digital Mindset Digital transformation is the integration of digital technology into various aspects of an organization. We’ve all been Brendon or Sarah or any of the others to some degree or another. Before and after what??

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Showpad

JANUARY 12, 2023

Meet Ljiljana Budimir Vukicevic , Sales Enablement Digital Capability Lead at Schneider Electric. In her 20+ year tenure with the global energy management and automation company, Ljiljana has seen and led major technological evolutions across the business — from customer care to IT support and, most recently, sales enablement. .

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Nutshell

FEBRUARY 22, 2023

At the moment, though, we’re a long way from that future—most tasks still require a human touch, particularly when it comes to sales. Even so, there’s still such a thing as sales automation, where you use digital tools to automatically perform routine sales tasks for you so you can spend your time working on other things.

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