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Is Your Firm a “Safe Choice”? for Prospective Clients?

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Are there tangible signs that employees are valued, have a unified vision and enjoy working together? But as decision-making regarding selection of outside resources is increasingly based on a Google search, your firm can greatly improve its chances of making the short list by managing its online visibility in a more strategic manner.

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Social Distancing: Marketing’s New Strategic Mandate

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Rather than posting a self-serving white paper, work with a vertical trade or professional publication to produce an objective bylined article on the topic. Then, promote that content, which is far more likely to be read and to deliver higher online visibility and sustained Google search ranking compared to any blog or social media post.

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Bare Essentials: Marketing as a Necessary Evil

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Even though your website will be “brochure ware” with little or no functionality, it’s important that it be properly wired into Google Analytics or clicky.com, so that you know who is visiting your site, where that traffic is coming from, what information they are looking at, and how long they are staying.

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Glassdoor.com: Social Media Tool or PR Nightmare?

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For example, Texas-based Beryl Health (formerly Beryl Companies) is well-known for its employee-focused culture, and is a “Best Place to Work in Healthcare” according to Modern Healthcare magazine. For many of the 65,000 companies it currently covers, Glassdoor.com can be a PR nightmare waiting to happen.

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Using Negative Publicity as Negotiating Leverage

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Andrew, I’ve worked at this dealership for 7 years, and no one from BMW of North America has ever been here for any reason. I asked the service manager (who was also wearing a blazer with a BMW logo on the pocket) why everyone was dressed so formally. He pulled me aside, and whispered, “Mr.

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5 Secrets to Ray Dalio’s Hedge Fund Success

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Last year, Bridgewater’s profits were larger than those of Google, eBay and Amazon combined. He works ON his business, not AT his business – Dalio understands that intellectual capital, enterprise experience and operational systems & processes must be captured, documented and integrated into the day-to-day decision-making of a firm.

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Will Internet Transparency Devalue Craftsmanship?

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Google, Twitter and TurboTax notwithstanding, as a knowledge worker, I take some solace in having seen that information and tools are often no substitute for experience. Two months later, the CEO engaged me again, to help his marketing director make the plan actually work. Maybe that’s why you’ve already replaced him withTurboTax.