PM Forum - Membership

What does PM Forum do for its members?

Learning - Improving knowledge, experience and understanding.

Sharing - What's best practice, common problems and issues.

Supporting - A network you can call on to ask for help and guidance.

Credibility - Raising the status of marketers by working closely with the Managing Partners' Forum.

What do members think?

"An invaluable forum for networking, sharing ideas and learning. Essential for every professional marketer. Use it!"
Sue Murdoch, Pinsent Mason

"Membership of the PM Forum is a pre-requisite for anyone serious about their career"
Tim Percival, Nabarro LLP

"PM Forum provides a high quality service to marketing professionals. The training workshops and webinars have been particularly valuable Š Great networking opportunities too"
Katie Hart, Hogan & Hartson LLP

"An important organisation for marketing professionals in a sector which is still developing a business development culture."
John Duns
Business Development Director
Watson Burton

"PM Forum has vastly improved the confidence of professional marketers that they are adding value."
Jonathan Preston
Marketing & BD Director
Martineau

"The PM Forum is an excellent opportunity for professional marketers to get together and share experiences. I would highly recommend it to anyone in professional marketing."
David Standard
Head of Communications
Irwin Mitchell

Join the PM Forum

To join the PM Forum, download a registration form for your location:

How do you and your firm benefit?

National corporate membership means all employees of a member firm are eligible to member benefits including their own copy of professional marketing magazine, voted the number one benefit by members each year.
- pm is the only quality publication that genuinely serves the needs of marketers in legal, accountancy and other professional firms. Its contributors include the very best practitioners and advisers in the sector and it is the benchmark for other aspirants."
  David Rough, Head of Business Development,
  Berwin Leighton Paisner
- "I enjoy professional marketing magazine and find value in each issue."
  Philip Kotler, SC Johnson & Son Distinguished Professor of International Marketing,
  Kellogg School of Management
All members can access some 3,000 articles previously published in pm magazine and the directory of members both on-line.
Free member-only meetings across the UK- no attendee fee. Over 60 held annually on topics such as: 'Pro-active and creative marketing campaigns', 'Measuring marketing effectiveness', 'Client care and satisfaction', 'CRM', 'Dealing with the media', 'Effective networking'.
Lower membership rate for small professional services firms (less than 100 employees).
Free advertising of your marketing vacancies on the Forum's on-line Job Bank accessed regularly by professional services marketers - normal price to recruitment consultants: £250.
Annual member-only conference, web seminars and dinners plus training workshops on over 30 topics annually.
Events recognised by CIM for CPD purposes.

PM Forum UK membership is corporate with dues based on the number of UK-based employees. A sliding scale of dues applies in the first year, together with a one-off joining fee. All memberships renew on 1 January.

Price table (to October 2009)

Size of professional services firm (UK headcount including partners)

	Under 100	100-500*	500-1,000	1,000-2,000	2,000-4,000	Over 4,000
Nov 08 - Jan 09	£250	£500	£900	£1,300	£1,700	£2,800
Feb/Mar	£210	£420	£770	£1,120	£1,460	£2,380
Apr/May	£170	£340	£640	£940	£1,220	£2,030
Jun/Jul	£130	£260	£510	£760	£980	£1,610
Aug/Sep	£90	£180	£380	£580	£740	£1,260
Oct/Nov	£60	£120	£250	£400	£500	£840
Plus
Joining fee	-	£50	£100	£150	£200	£250

PLUS VAT

Note
* Marketing consultants, vendors or non-PSF organisations are charged a flat rate equivalent to a firm with 100 to 500 employees.