#LetsAskNancy is where I answer questions others have about legal and lawyer marketing and business development, including content, social and digital marketing. You have a choice…either listen to this post in the podcast player below, read it below that, or both! My short answer? Why would you not? The news this week about Facebook adding a new feature called …
Lawyers, Are You Guilty of Committing Random Acts of Content?
There is more to content marketing than meets the keyboard. Content marketing, which includes strategy, creation, and distribution, is part of carefully thought out marketing and business development strategy. You need to take the time to decide who all of your target audiences are, including all of the people, positions and roles within each targeted client organization, or you will …
Don’t Buy LinkedIn Connections
I’m not naive. I’ve seen my share of rotten business practices, along with many good ones, some even great. I’ve witnessed people who try to do good, and plenty who seem to specialize in doing the opposite. Teaching marketing, and social and digital media for the past umpteen years, I’ve seen plenty of people try to find the easiest and …
Lawyers: One Of The Most Important Questions You Can Ask Your Clients
I was just reading an email from WordPress expert Chris Lema about his recent search for a new job. He was discussing what made him choose one employer over another. Something he said stuck with me because it could help you as you begin working with your clients. Chris shared: “Karim’s [Chris’s new employer] focus, however, wasn’t on title or …
Competition Watching? Who Cares!?
During a MarketingProfs PRO webinar with Mack Collier just now, an attendee expressed concern in the chat room about not blogging because it will show competition what she is up to. She asked: “What about any concerns about blogging about topics/issues that may give competitors info about your services that you may not want them to know? My client may …
Bloggers: Let Your Content and Your Readers Breathe
Everyone Is Becoming A Publisher We don’t have much time to grab our readers’ attention these days. They have so much on their plates, and more messages are being thrown their direction than at any time in history. More people are becoming content publishers by the minute, whether that be: Blog posts like this one Posts on LinkedIn Updates on …
Who Said That? How To Live Tweet A Conference.
I received a blog post titled Stealing Ideas and Social Media via email this morning from Randall Craig, one of our presenters last week at the LMA, or Legal Marketing Association, annual conference. Randall spoke on Social Media, a topic very much on the minds of marketers and communicators everywhere. Randall started a good discussion when he expressed a …
Make Fun Of #Hashtags All You Want, But Google Just Got Serious
Yesterday, Kevin Mullett, Online Visibility Expert (and really smart guy), shared the news on LinkedIn that Google is now making hashtags searchable. I know. I know. You’re thinking…. “Yawn, Yawn, they’ve been searchable, Nancy.” Not so fast. Stick with me here for a minute. This is different. Zaheed Sabur, Software Engineer with Google in Zurich, Switzerland, announced the change on Google+ …
Get Them Talking, Then Get Called To The Table
I just finished listening to a Legal Lunch and Learn webinar about Content Marketing and LinkedIn, featuring one of my favorite people of all time, Adrian Lurssen, Co-Founder of JD Supra, along with Peggy Heffner of Dechert LLP, and Patrick Baynes of PeopleLinx. I will listen to anything and everything Adrian has to say, not only because I like him, but …
Marketing Revolution or Evolution?
Marketing: Past, Present & Future I just read an article on LinkedIn Today from Brian Solis, Principal Analyst, Altimeter Group, and author of What’s the Future of Business. The article, The Future of Marketing is not about Marketing…It’s about YOU!, is about the state of marketing and communications in the past, present, and future. What really caught my attention is Brian’s …