{"id":30826,"date":"2013-11-06t14:58:39","date_gmt":"2013-11-06t19:58:39","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/48e130086c.nxcli.net\/?p=30826"},"modified":"2024-09-01t14:48:58","modified_gmt":"2024-09-01t18:48:58","slug":"ultimately-professional-services-marketing-3-0-is-a-new-kind-of-partnership","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"\/\/www.g005e.com\/2013\/11\/06\/ultimately-professional-services-marketing-3-0-is-a-new-kind-of-partnership\/","title":{"rendered":"ultimately, professional services marketing 3.0 is a new kind of partnership"},"content":{"rendered":"
what accountants are learning about marketing.<\/strong><\/p>\n <\/a><\/p>\n by bruce w. marcus<\/em> today\u2019s accountants understand that, unlike most other occupations, they must be active participants in the marketing process, at least as suppliers of grist for the marketing mills, and certainly as part of the ultimate selling process.<\/p>\n what\u2019s more significant is that they begin to see the professionalism in marketing, and particularly the selling aspect of it.<\/p>\n with the new configurations of firms evolving, accountants and the marketers who serve them have greater reason to work more closely.<\/p>\n today\u2019s marketers and accountants are each beginning to have a better understanding of the markets themselves, and the industries in which clients function.<\/p>\n under professional services marketing 3.0, more and more marketers will participate in designing new services for clients, as well as the programs to market those services. in fact, marketers are increasingly responsible for understanding the market and feeding market information back to the firm.<\/p>\n this new generation of accountants better understands their clients\u2019 businesses and industries. this results in improved client service and relationships, and therefore better practice of accounting.<\/p>\n an increased focus on selling, both by the professionals and the marketers, has produced a new generation of specialists. while selling has always been part of the marketing process, competition has bred a new focus on its importance and skills, to the point that the specialists are trained practitioners of what is now called, appropriately, practice development<\/em>.\u00a0the thoughtful marketing consultant, suzanne lowe, made extensive inroads into the art and craft of the process in her recent book, the integration imperative: erasing marketing business development silos \u2013<\/em>\u00a0once and for all \u2013 in professional service firms.<\/em><\/p>\n marketing 3.0 is emerging. it is evolving \u2013 and it gives us a better clue to the future of the profession than all the prognostication of the self-proclaimed seers. if the accountants of marketing 2.0 misconceived marketing and marketers, the accountants of marketing 3.0 now begin to see themselves as partners with marketers \u2013 active, contributing partners. what had been an us-them relationship is becoming an accountant-marketer partnership.<\/p>\n <\/a><\/p>\n <\/p>\n bruce w. marcus is a pioneer in professional services marketing and coauthor of \u201cclient at the core.\u201d this is adapted from his new book, \u201cprofessional services marketing 3.0,\u201d\u00a0available for purchase here<\/a>. <\/em><\/p>\n copyright 2011. used by permission.<\/em><\/p>\n related: click here for more about bruce w. marcus and \u201cprofessional services marketing 3.0.\u201d<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n
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