INTRODUCTION
Globally, high performing and reputable services organizations rely increasingly on people not product for their success, and pay unprecedented attention to marketing. This unique, specialized Sales & Marketing training seminar on Achieving Marketing Excellence in Service Organizations presents participants with a first-hand opportunity to gain robust, in-depth skills and insights specific to the marketing of a professional service. Professional service organizations are different to other organizations. Nowhere is this more evident than in marketing. What are the aspects of marketing that professional service staff, managers and operators need to know to build an organization wide market orientation, and engage successfully with customers and other stakeholders? What are the specific marketing approaches that work in a professional services environment to build its most valuable asset-reputation? This Sales & Marketing training seminar on Achieving Marketing Excellence in Service Organizations draws on a range of fields to provide a holistic approach including tools and sector best practices that drive successful marketing in professional service organizations – including strategy, reputation management, and organizational culture. This training seminar enables participants to get to the heart of marketing as it should be applied to professional service organizations. Delegates will take away from this training the most effective ways to market the people centric professional services sector, a significant void when it comes to general marketing seminars.
This training seminar will highlight:
- Professional services marketing approaches for reputational and performance success
- Informed insights, concepts, strategies and tools to achieve market excellence
- Practical frameworks to design, implement and evaluate marketing specific to a professional service organization
- Provide leadership skills to build a whole organization marketing culture
- Techniques to build reputation, word of mouth and referral
- A comprehensive understanding of people centric marketing concepts and tactics
- Best practice metrics and benchmarks for professional services marketing
PROGRAM OBJECTIVES
- Informed strategies and tools to achieve market excellence
- Practical frameworks to design, implement and evaluate marketing in a service context
- Provide leadership skills to build a whole of organization market orientation (buy in and culture)
- Specific techniques to build word of mouth and referral
- A comprehensive understanding of professional marketing concepts and tactics in an age of consumerism
- Best practice benchmarks in professional services marketing
- Professional services marketing that creates a strong organisation wide impact
WHO SHOULD ATTEND?
- Government Ministries
- Education Sector - government systems, universities, colleges and schools
- Lawyers
- Hospitality
- Tourism and Leisure
- Medical and Health
- Logistics
- Insurance
- Finance
PROGRAM OUTLINE
Marketing in a Professional Services Context
- How is marketing in a professional services different and why?
- Key Features of Good Practice in Marketing Professional Services
- The Modern Consumer – implications for professional service organizations
- Where to start? - developing a market proposition that is valued
- Setting Marketing Objectives and Key Performance Indicators in Professional Services
- A Framework to Develop Marketing Practices in Professional Services:
- Recruitment
- Retention
- Referral
- Relationships
- Reputation
- Recruitment
- Retention
- Referral
- Relationships
- Reputation
