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Fighting Online Brand Sabotage 101

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Thanks to search engines and social media, anyone with a computer and a personal agenda can now inflict substantial, long-term damage to the reputations of institutions that may or may not be deserving of their viral sabotage. Here’s a list of them.

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Three Law Firm Marketing Shortcomings…and How to Avoid Them

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Adoption of a few simple marketing principles applied by successful professional services firms in other disciplines – including financial services, accounting, architecture, engineering, and management consulting – can drive consistent engagement with existing and new clients for any law firm or practitioner.

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

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Website effectiveness requires ongoing attention to visitor traffic analytics and search engine optimization. Blogs and newsletters demand original, timely content; not canned information. White papers and case studies become quickly outdated. Webinars and public forums entail lead qualification and follow-up with prospects.

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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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Avoid the Carnival Barker Approach to Publicity

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To maintain top-of-mind awareness with your target audiences, and to benefit from the media’s 3 rd party endorsement of your business, you must take steps (in a manner that’s not overly self-serving) to see that whatever publicity you generate is directly applied to remind people of who you are and why they should do business with you.

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5 Ways You Can Merchandise the “Masthead Value” of Publicity

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By limiting your publicity efforts to media placements with high masthead value, and by ensuring that those placements are effectively merchandised through direct communication, social media tools and proper website visibility, PR practitioners will spend far less time worry about the ROI of public relations.