{"id":78375,"date":"2020-09-17t12:00:04","date_gmt":"2020-09-17t16:00:04","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/48e130086c.nxcli.net\/?p=78375"},"modified":"2020-09-21t20:22:32","modified_gmt":"2020-09-22t00:22:32","slug":"how-and-why-to-hire-a-marketing-director","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"\/\/www.g005e.com\/2020\/09\/17\/how-and-why-to-hire-a-marketing-director\/","title":{"rendered":"how and why to hire a marketing director"},"content":{"rendered":"
<\/a>11 reasons why and 4 ways to make sure they fail. by marc rosenberg<\/i> cpas are generally not comfortable with business development and are rarely skilled in implementing marketing plans.<\/p>\n more: <\/b>marketing plans and why you need one<\/a> | how to manage the practice development function<\/a> | 14 marketing activities needed now more than ever<\/a> | now is the time to activate your referral network<\/a> | the 4 marketing disciplines<\/a> as a result, many firms go through a phase where the partners say to each other: \u201cwe all agree that the firm needs more revenue. we all agree that our partner group sucks at marketing. doing nothing is unacceptable, so let\u2019s get someone to bring in business for <\/em>us.\u201d<\/p>\n options include:<\/p>\n let\u2019s address the hiring of a marketing director.<\/strong><\/p>\n why hire a marketing director?<\/p>\n marketing makes selling easier, helping to identify and create selling opportunities. selling is making sales pitches at face-to-face meetings with prospects, asking for the order, and bringing in new clients. the marketing director focuses on … marketing.<\/p>\n the main reason that firms hire marketing directors is so that at least one person in the firm is 100 percent devoted to revenue growth and not distracted by clients, staff, and other pursuits. here are key components of a marketing director\u2019s job:<\/p>\n our experience has been that marketing directors are mostly ineffective at firms under $10 million in annual revenue. these firms are better off hiring a marketing consultant. a good marketing director at a firm over $10 million should be able to generate enough activity to justify the investment.<\/p>\n marketing directors do not sell.<\/p>\n let us repeat: marketing directors do not sell.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n selling is not their job.<\/p>\n yet too many firms hire marketing directors expecting them to sell. believe it or not, even partners who understand that marketing directors do not sell have a subconscious notion \u2013 or hope \u2013 that their newly hired marketing director will bring in business.<\/p>\n a few years ago, we created a roundtable of cpa firm marketing directors. we had 12 members and met quarterly for almost two years. the genesis for convening the roundtable came from research done by aam (association for accounting marketing): the average tenure of a cpa firm marketing director was 19 months. what an awful, disturbing statistic!<\/p>\n so i convened the roundtable to learn what these marketing directors do at their firms, why they<\/em> think the average tenure is so short and what they could do to avoid being casualties themselves.\u00a0here is what i learned about why the tenure is so short.<\/p>\n 4 mistakes firms make with marketing directors<\/strong><\/p>\n 10 good ways to manage a marketing director<\/strong><\/p>\n 11 ways marketing directors create value for their firms<\/strong><\/p>\n
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