Professional Services Marketing: An Oxymoron and an Irony
Laurie YoungMarketing and Professional Services Firm
The professional services industry is vast and varied. One estimate puts its revenues at $700 billion worldwide and another suggests that it employs up to one in five workers in the developed world. It encompasses a wide variety of businesses whose offer is based around specialist skills or knowledge.
They range from the marketing services industry, in all its forms, through executive search firms, recruitment agencies, education, training and coaching providers to consultancies with various specialties (some of which now form the growing services arms...