Marketing Craftmanship

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Social Distancing: Marketing’s New Strategic Mandate

Marketing Craftmanship

Allow attendees to draw their own conclusions regarding your company’s value proposition, based solely on the quality of the intellectual capital that’s displayed during the discussion. Make sure your agenda is 100% educational and devoid of self-serving slide presentations.

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

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The iconic print display ad featured an executive in a bow tie hunched forward in a swivel chair, scowling into the camera. (In In 1958, Gilbert Morris – an account executive at the Fuller Smith & Ross ad agency – created the, “I don’t know who you are,” business-to-business advertisement for McGraw-Hill Publishing Co.

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Make Your Corporate Anniversary Worth Celebrating

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History Wall – This multi-media display, consisting of photographs and historical artifacts, displayed in the firm’s lobby or a conference room, can serve as a permanent and updatable validation of the company’s milestones and achievements.

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Solace for Rejected College Applicants

Marketing Craftmanship

Scientific achievements aside, here’s a fun fact about Dr. Eisner that should be taken to heart by college applicants who’ve been rejected by their school of choice…in his office the professor displayed the rejection letter Cornell had sent many years earlier, denying him admission as an undergraduate student.

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Marketing Your Fund to Zombie Investors

Marketing Craftmanship

The content you send to those audiences – by email or direct mail – should display your fund’s intellectual capital and institutional values without being self-promotional or self-serving.

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Tennyson Delivers Skyfall’s British Bulldog Moment

Marketing Craftmanship

Although it has been the subject of sniping since the film’s release, the Skyfall screenwriters’ rationale to interrupt their action movie with a brief poetry reading was very clear, and in my view, displayed noteworthy cinematic craftsmanship by providing the “British Bulldog Moment” that’s an essential element in every James Bond installment. (For

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

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Everyone knows you’re a lawyer, and a blog is not the proper platform to display your brief writing expertise. Invest the time necessary to write a snappy headline that addresses the “What’s in this for me?” There’s too much legal-speak. In fact, legalese is probably the #1 reason why people are not reading your blog posts.