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Why Your Law Firm Blog Doesn’t Make the Phone Ring

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You can gain reliable insight into the current state of law firm blogging from two recent market research studies: According to the ABA’s Legal Technology Report, less than 1/3 of all law firms have a blog, and most of those are large firms. And nearly 1/3 of CLOs do not read blogs at all. You have no blogging strategy.

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Should I Rekindle My Blog Love Affair…Or End It?

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Can This Blog Affair Be Saved? Here’s a sad letter from the Marketing Craftsmanship mailbag: Dear Marketing Guy, I’ve fallen out of love with my Blog and I need your advice. A company Blog had everything I was looking for in social media. It would drive SEO. My competitors all had Blogs, and I needed one.

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Social Distancing: Marketing’s New Strategic Mandate

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Many have blogs featuring content that most visitors neither read nor comment on. Very few companies seem to monitor website analytics, and even fewer understand the complex world of SEO. Industry Events.

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Thought Leadership Merchandising: Rising Above the Noise

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Researching the term “Thought Leadership” yields everything from a sterile Wikipedia definition, to blog posts featuring marketing insights similar to this online gem: “It doesn’t matter if you’re an entrepreneur, an employee, or a student – your ability to become a thought leader will catapult your success.

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3 Ways Social Media Will Fail Marketers

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Marketers are best served by focusing on improvement of their SEO capabilities. Establishing a Facebook page, Twitter account or company blog represents an obligation to dedicate the financial resources, appropriate skills and senior level attention necessary to make social media a strategic marketing asset.

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Bare Essentials: Marketing as a Necessary Evil

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To make matters worse, business owners often engage ad agencies, PR firms and outside (and internal) marketing “experts” who are always ready to prescribe a long list of tactical solutions (white papers, blogs, newsletters, publicity, social media, direct mail, conferences, advertising, etc.)…all Avoid being overly self-promotional.

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Brochureware Is Not a Dirty Word

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Although they understand the potential marketing and SEO value of those website functions, companies often lack the motivation, resources or raw material to supply them with new, relevant, engaging content on a consistent basis.