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

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Each issue involves a frustrating hunt for timely information of genuine interest. But traditional newsletters – containing commentary ranging from client alerts on tax legislation, to “best of” awards, or who’s joined the firm – are not a marketing necessity.

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Social Distancing: Marketing’s New Strategic Mandate

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Many companies have abused email to such a great extent — bombarding clients, prospects and referral sources with email blasts, self-serving newsletters and other useless information — that it’s now extremely difficult to get noticed or gain meaningful traction. Many have blogs featuring content that most visitors neither read nor comment on.

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The Attention Web: What B2B Marketers Need to Know

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In their 2001 book, The Attention Economy , social scholars Thomas Davenport and John Beck proposed that in today’s information-flooded world, the most scarce resource does not involve ideas, money or talent.

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Is Your Client Newsletter a Marketing Albatross?

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Each issue involves a frustrating hunt for timely information of genuine interest. But traditional newsletters – containing commentary ranging from tax legislation to new technology, or who’s joined the firm – are not a marketing necessity. In fact, at many firms their client newsletter is a marketing albatross.

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Three Myths and Realities of Client Newsletters

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Each issue involves a frustrating hunt for timely information of genuine interest. But traditional newsletters – containing commentary ranging from tax legislation to new technology, or who’s joined the firm – are not a marketing necessity. In fact, at many firms their client newsletter is a marketing albatross.

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Should Marketing Automation Customers be Pre-Qualified?

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For decades, the ONLY way to produce any type of printed material – ranging from sales & marketing brochures, to annual reports and informational flyers – involved a multi-step, time / people-intensive, costly process requiring a copywriter, graphic designer, a typesetter and a printing press.

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Bare Essentials: Marketing as a Necessary Evil

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Include contact information; not a generic response form. Not require a user name and password to gain access to white papers or other content that showcases your firm’s intellectual capital.