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Client Newsletters for B2B Firms Is Content that’s Dead on Arrival

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Client newsletters are one of the most widely used, and often abused marketing tactic for B2B firms of any size. Here are three myths and realities to help your firm determine whether it’s a worthwhile tool, or how to improve your current newsletter. MYTH #1: Your B2B Firm Needs a Client Newsletter Marketers want you to believe that your firm needs a newsletter.

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Why Most B2B Firm PR Strategies Fail to Deliver Tangible Results

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PR (or “earned media”) is the most powerful form of content marketing, because of its potential market reach, online visibility, and inherent 3rd party endorsement. Unfortunately, most B2B firms fail to achieve a return on their PR investment, for 3 reasons: Most B2B firms are focused on the quantity, rather than the quality, of their media placements.

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To Win New Clients, Your B2B Firm Needs to Understand “Career Risk”

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In a perfect world, the most experienced and qualified B2B firms always win the business. But in our real world, prospects apply a very different selection factor. Prospects will always be more concerned with the career-related risks involved in hiring any outside resource. Bluntly, they fear that if the firm they select fails, then they will pay a price.

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B2B Blogging 101 – What You Need to Know About Effective B2B Blogging

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Many B2B blogs lack strategic focus; wasting time, money, and opportunities to engage with target audiences. Is it time to rethink your blog? Let us know if you’d like us to help.

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Why Most B2B Companies Don’t Use Earned Media (Public Relations)

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Most B2B company websites, across all industries, contain some combination of self-produced “owned media” content, including blog posts, case studies, white papers, podcasts, archived webinars, and event calendars. A significantly smaller number of those websites, however, contain any publicity (earned media) that showcase the company’s intellectual capital, success stories, products and services, or people.

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Why Marketing Content Will Continue to Suck in the Age of Artificial Intelligence (A.I.)

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In the mid 1980s, with introduction of the Mac computer, PageMaker software, and the LaserWriter printer, the DeskTop Publishing system was born; for the first time allowing anyone to create print and online marketing materials that did not require a bona fide graphic designer or any elaborate printing hardware to produce physical documents. This was a major technological advancement in the world of marketing communications.

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Three Law Firm Marketing Shortcomings…and How to Avoid Them

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The generation of attorneys who still consider any type of “marketing” to be unprofessional is diminishing, concurrent with the increase of “Emeritus” partners listed on law firm websites. That evolution notwithstanding, most law firms and younger practitioners remain stuck in neutral, in terms of marketing sophistication. Hard-wired to follow apparent industry “best practices” (mostly based on mimicking competitors), law firms of all sizes continue to miss opportunities to increase clients and