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Bare Essentials: Marketing as a Necessary Evil

Marketing Craftmanship

Avoid being overly self-promotional. Not require a user name and password to gain access to white papers or other content that showcases your firm’s intellectual capital. will be ready to make decisions, your firm must create an internal discipline and content to remind them of: Your existence. Your intellectual capital.

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Why Your Company’s Blog Doesn’t Make the Phone Ring

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All of the hours devoted to blogging, at some of the nation’s largest and smartest companies, does not appear to be time well spent…if the goal of a blog and other forms of content marketing is to generate new business. You don’t merchandize your blog content. You don’t drive traffic to your blog. Your posts are too long.

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An End to B2B Social Media Madness

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Every company needed desktop publishing; corporate bean counters promoted the cost savings; anyone who learned how to use the software claimed to be a graphic designer, and the trend resulted in the most unprofessional and ineffective marketing & sales collateral every produced. Build Your LinkedIn Presence.

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

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According to the State of Digital & Content Marketing Survey – produced by the management consulting firm, Zeughauser Group – in-house legal counsel are reading blogs less frequently, and valuing blog content less highly than they did 3 years ago. Your blog content is not optimized. You don’t merchandize your blog content.

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Is Your B2B Firm REALLY Marketing…Or Simply Making Tactical Soup?

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Exposure that’s largely based on a firm’s achievements delivers little practical benefit to existing clients and may leave them wondering if such self-promotion will result in higher client rates and fees. Blogs and newsletters demand original, timely content; not canned information. Schedule ongoing maintenance of the activity.

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