Analysis

6 trends for marketers to watch – Compliance, video, creativity, social business, crowdsourcing and big data

As always, marketers are battling to keep up with all the changes driven by international, technological and economic upheaval. But here are six trends for marketers that caught my eye:  1.     Monitor UGC (User Generated Content) The Committee of Advertising Practice (CAP) indicated that organisations MUST monitor comments, posts, videos and Read More

2014-02-17T09:52:14+00:00February 17, 2014|Kim's Blog, Management Skills, Marketing, Statistics and trends|

6 counter-intuitive market trends – Books, luxury goods, universities, small businesses, feminisation and older women

Having just surfaced from a mountain of research, I’ve plucked these gems out as counter-intuitive market trends that could have an impact on your business or marketing strategy  1.     Book publishing growth  Whilst we may think that electronic books have taken over, there were 530,000 new books published in 2011 Read More

2014-02-14T12:15:23+00:00February 14, 2014|Kim's Blog, Marketing, Statistics and trends, Strategy|

Half year review of law firm strategy and finance

In August 2013, I wrote a review of law firm strategy and finance http://kimtasso.com/half-year-review-of-law-firm-strategy-and-finance/.  As it was so popular with clients, students and colleagues I have repeated the process concentrating – using The Lawyer magazine - on developments in the latter half of 2013. Many of the themes and trends Read More

2014-02-03T09:16:01+00:00February 3, 2014|Kim's Blog, Lawyers, Management Skills, Statistics and trends, Strategy|

UK accountancy market trends

There was an interesting piece on growth and UK accountancy market trends in Accountancy Age on 13 January looking at the trends within top 100 accountancy practices (http://www.accountancyage.com/aa/analysis/2322595/full-top50-50-analysis-mixed-bag-of-success?utm_term=&utm_content=headline_title&utm_campaign=AA.Best_Practice_RL.EU.A.U&utm_medium=Email&utm_source=AA.DCM.Editors_Updates) The main points were: There were 12 new entrants into the market – in some ways this is encouraging as it shows Read More

2014-01-24T09:52:10+00:00January 24, 2014|Accountants, Kim's Blog, Management Skills, Statistics and trends, Strategy|

Legal marketing case study: Irwin Mitchell combines DR advertising, online promotion and brand building

The following legal marketing case study appeared as part of the Marvellous Marketing series I write for Legal Technology Insider: I first became involved in the personal injury market in the 1990s through working with APIL. Since then this market – perhaps more than any other area of law – Read More

2013-12-20T10:54:36+00:00December 20, 2013|Kim's Blog, Lawyers, Marketing, Social Media, Strategy, Web Sites|
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