Welcome to PM Forum Scotland

The PM Forum is a 4,000 strong, regionally-based members' association, dedicated to raising the standards of professional services marketing and to enhancing the credibility of marketers working in professional service firms worldwide.

Meetings

The Scotland regional events take place in either Edinburgh or Glasgow city centres. Venues always vary so please contact your committee if you are interested in hosting an event.

We attract a diverse audience covering marketers in professional services firms, partners and senior fee-earners with a marketing remit and agencies or suppliers to the sector. We are actively seeking to grow and further diversify our membership.

Six seminar-style meetings are planned per year. Seminar topics are chosen as a result of detailed research undertaken with members - after all it is your forum!

Details and a booking form for our next event can be found below, along with links to reports on previous events.

Attendees

As a membership organisation, only members of the Forum, or regional employees of firms that are members nationally are eligible to attend our events and benefit from other features such as the monthly magazine professional marketing, the online Article Bank and Job Bank. However, those interested in joining are welcome to attend one event as our guest in order to get a feel for the Forum. For more information on membership download 7 reasons to belong to the PM Forum and a registration form.

Membership Benefits
  • All employees can sign up as members and receive their own copy of Professional Marketing magazine, voted the number one benefit by members last year.
  • Access on-line to over 3,000 articles previously published in the magazine.
  • Over 60 free member-only meetings across the UK and Ireland - no attendee fee.
  • Free entry of your marketing vacancies on the Forum's on-line Job Bank, accessed by over 2,000 marketers each week.
  • Small firms (less than 100 employees) get a 50% discount on their membership fee.
  • Annual member-only conference, web seminars and training workshops on over 20 topics annually.
  • Events recognised by the CIM for CPD purposes.

Please contact your Regional Director if you wish to hear more about events and membership benefits.

Regional Director: Martin Street, Ramsay Consulting
0141 954 2270

Committee:

Joanna Clark, Marketing Manager, Savills
Louise Freedman, Communications Manager, Scott Moncrieff.
Emma McGown , Marketing Manager, Gillespie Macandrew LLP.
Sorcha O’Connor, Markting Manager, McGrigors LLP


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Details of our next event:

Advanced business development

Edinburgh - Wednesday 4 February 2009

In our current economic climate it has never been more important to focus on developing business opportunities than it is today. So, how can we go about doing this in a way that is both professional and more likely to lead to the outcome we want? The purpose of this seminar is for you to leave with some proven practical ideas and techniques to help you grow business through developing professional relationships with existing clients and prospective ones.

Delegates will leave this seminar with:

  • Proven business development ideas to help increase turnover and profits
  • The ability to deliver bigger value winning pitches by saying less
  • Understanding what to say to your clients in order that they buy off you, not what you think they want to hear in order to sell to them
  • How to stand out from your competition by making sure your selling points work

We cannot guarantee that you will win every pitch or opportunity you go for, although you will be surprised at the amount that you can win after applying the points from this seminar. Using the full system one bank won 18 out of 18 pitches. The content of this seminar is proven to get results with every organisation it has been delivered to including solicitors, accountants and banks. These results have run into millions of pounds for some clients.

Stuart Powell from The Hughes Company is an accomplished business trainer and sales coach working throughout the UK with clients both within and outside of professional services. He has delivered workshops and seminars for Blue Chip companies such as BT, Camelot, Corus and Yorkshire Water to name but a few. Specialising in sales and communication skills, personal effectiveness and team development, Stuart is passionate about helping individuals and companies to optimise their individual performance whilst helping people to grow their existing business, whether he is working 1:1, delivering training workshops or presenting dynamic seminars.

Booking form

If you would like to receive regular invites to events, please register online.