6 Reasons Why Professional Services Brands Underperform

I have yet to meet a managing partner, practice leader, CMO, or sales guy in a professional services firm that has been satisfied with their firm’s brand performance. When I ask...

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This Blog is NOT Working for Me

This Blog is NOT Working for Me

After 6 ½ years of writing the Prudent Thinking blog, I’ve reached a point that the blog no longer works for me. I need a change and because I’m the boss changes are coming. That may sound selfish. After all, I write to you, my reader.  You’ve faithfully stuck around...

How to Write a Brochure, If You Must

How to Write a Brochure, If You Must

I lament the overuse of marketing brochures as crutches in lieu of purposeful discussions and meaningful client interactions. I simply try to avoid spending marketing time and resources on perfunctory, haughty, worthless marketing collateral.

HOWEVER, if Marketing is going to produce a “brochure,” here is how to write a brochure correctly.

What is Marketing?

What is Marketing?

My wife says that I tilt at windmills when I try to convince the professional services world that Marketing is strategic and more than making things pretty. Alliance partners and business leaders say they have the “strategic stuff” covered. My marketing peers wonder why I expend so much energy and political capital fighting an undefeatable foe.  After all, it’s easier to just ride a horse in the direction it is going.

In the immortal words of John McClane in the movie Die Hard, “Yipee ki yay,…!”

12 Steps to Transform Professional Services Marketing

12 Steps to Transform Professional Services Marketing

Professional services marketing is like no other.

Professionals services firms market complex, intangible solutions to what are big, public, and potentially embarrassing problems. The solutions are bought by the most sophisticated c-level buyers at top companies around the globe.  And, professionals must operate from Byzantine, matrixed systems in one of the most political and contentious ownerships structures, a partnership. 

Don’t Beg, Don’t Babysit

Don’t Beg, Don’t Babysit

By the end of my first decade in professional services, I had reached a point where I was able to delineate between serious business people and time wasters. As a result, I had developed a mantra when working with practice leaders, partners, and peers, “I don’t beg; I...

Buyer Persona Shortcomings

Buyer Persona Shortcomings

Has your firm’s marketing team developed “personas” yet? If you haven’t, please don’t. If you have, please throw them out. I have always had a distaste for the “persona” craze that has gripped marketing during the “content marketing” fad. Sure, I get that writing a...

8 Prudent Questions to Ask Your Intern

8 Prudent Questions to Ask Your Intern

Emily’s summer internship at Prudent Pedal ended last week. Before she left she wrote two blog posts,  In her first, she shared her learning about Marketing and offered a little advice to future interns. In this post, she answers 8 prudent questions about being a part...

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