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

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DeskTop Publishing did not make people with no design talent or writing skills into graphic designers or copywriters. And based on the way content has been created and applied by most firms over the past decade, the availability of Artificial Intelligence will not make people more effective content marketers.

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

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Some firms avoid this pain by slapping their logo on boilerplate content purchased from a 3rd party, but those firms can pay a bigger price, in terms of brand damage. If it’s created in-house, few firms actually track the hours required to research, write, edit, approve and publish their newsletter.

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Is Your Client Newsletter a Marketing Albatross?

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Some firms avoid this pain by slapping their logo on boilerplate content purchased from a 3rd party, but those firms can pay a bigger price, in terms of brand damage. If it’s created in-house, few firms actually track the hours required to write, edit, approve and publish their newsletter.

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Social Distancing: Marketing’s New Strategic Mandate

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But marketers who know how to craft an enticing subject line, and who can write effective copy, can break through the clutter. Many have blogs featuring content that most visitors neither read nor comment on. factor in your webinar content. More importantly, remember that long, rambling messages rarely get read. Industry Events.

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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. Write in clear, simple prose that can be understood by people without a law degree.

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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. Invest the time necessary to write a snappy headline that addresses the “What’s in this for me?”

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Re-Thinking the “Best B2B Advertisement of the 20th Century”

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But if Gilbert Morris were writing ad copy in 2014, his advertisement would likely reflect very different marketing obstacles for B2B companies. Sales and marketing must be integrated. We’ve got all that.