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Social Distancing: Marketing’s New Strategic Mandate

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With the exception of sophisticated e-commerce businesses, I’ve noticed that most companies maintain a “brochureware” website that’s rarely refreshed. Very few companies seem to monitor website analytics, and even fewer understand the complex world of SEO. Industry Events.

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Bare Essentials: Marketing as a Necessary Evil

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A Website that’s Worth Reading: Your website must provide visitors with a clear understanding of who you are, what you do, how you do it, why you are doing it, and who would benefit most from what you do. Your website should also: Use plainspoken, simple language. Take advantage of Search Engine Optimization (SEO) tactics.

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Time to Kill Your Company’s Zombie Blog?

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Unfortunately, the typical blog development strategy consists of these 3 steps: The IT Department will add a new “blog” page to the website. Three months later, the Marketing Department grows tired of hounding would-be content contributors, and management is not seeing the expected increase in lead generation or even website traffic.

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Three Law Firm Marketing Shortcomings…and How to Avoid Them

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The generation of attorneys who still consider any type of “marketing” to be unprofessional is diminishing, concurrent with the increase of “Emeritus” partners listed on law firm websites. That evolution notwithstanding, most law firms and younger practitioners remain stuck in neutral, in terms of marketing sophistication.

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Fighting Online Brand Sabotage 101

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Complaint websites such as Yelp , Glassdoor and Ripoff Report – that empower actual and imaginary customers or employees to anonymously post their accurate or bogus comments online – have created new brand-related challenges and opportunities for their corporate targets. Brand Sabotage May Warrant Ninja Tactics.

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

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Unless your firm has accomplished something truly noteworthy—like discovering your profession’s equivalent of cold fusion—then the likelihood of your clients, prospects and referral sources actually noticing the media exposure and doing something about it, such as visiting your firm’s website or requesting an introductory meeting, is probably low.

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The Death of Rolodex Marketing

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New clients don’t find us by searching online.”. Surprisingly, a significant number of professional services firms continue to resist building online brand visibility as a business development strategy. The excuses we hear from them most often include: “We’re in a relationship business.”. Our business is driven exclusively by referrals.”.