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Feb

Why B2B marketers can’t afford to ignore email marketing

February 19, 2019

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If you’re a B2B marketer and not taking advantage of email, you’ve missed the effective-marketing boat (sounds like a fun party, doesn’t it?).

To put it in a way your CEO will understand, if your B2B company is not engaging in email marketing — including email newsletters, drip campaigns, lead nurturing emails, prospecting and promotional emails — your client acquisition and retention will suffer.

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Feb

How to get your employees to share your content (and why it’s so important)

February 5, 2019

by: Michelle Calcote King in B2B , Marketing strategy , Content marketing , Architecture, Engineering and Construction

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You’ve written thought-leadership blog posts. Designed beautiful infographics. Developed engaging videos. Created valuable e-books and white papers.

You’ve then shared the content on your company’s social media accounts, sent it to industry influencers, promoted it on your email newsletter, sent out a press release and more.

Now, wouldn’t it be fantastic if all of your employees shared the content to their social media networks? “Yeah, right, like that will happen,” you’re thinking. But it’s not a pipe dream. In fact, it’s one of the biggest trends in B2B and professional services marketing.

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Jan

6 questions to ask before you hire a professional content writer

January 21, 2019

by: Michelle Calcote King in B2B , Content marketing , Architecture, Engineering and Construction

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High-quality content is rocket fuel for today’s marketing strategies. But the difficult task of finding great writers who can create that content often stalls the marketing rocket before it ever takes off.

Great writers help you effectively communicate your message, drive sales leads and save you the time and frustration that comes with a writer who doesn’t understand your business, strategic goals, voice and tone.

Beyond looking at writing samples, how can you assess whether a professional writer has what it takes to produce engaging, clear and effective content? Ask these six questions to see if a potential writer can deliver the goods:

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Jan

8 common mistakes lawyers make on their blogs [updated]

January 15, 2019

by: Michelle Calcote King in Law , Content marketing

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(This post has been updated from our original 2014 post.)

The legal industry has embraced blogging like no other. Blogging and lawyers are a natural fit — lawyers love to write, have niche expertise and need to demonstrate that expertise in a non-salesy way.

However, succeeding at blogging isn’t as simple as putting pen to paper (or fingers to keyboard). And unfortunately, many lawyers are failing.

Below are eight of the most common mistakes we see lawyers making on their blogs.

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Jan

We boosted email click-through rate by 60 percent with this one simple tweak

January 8, 2019

by: Steven Gallo in B2B , Content marketing , Architecture, Engineering and Construction

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Email remains one of the most reliable and consistent vehicles for B2B marketers today. In fact, people sent more of it in 2018 than ever before, and statistics continue to show that email marketing delivers excellent ROI.

I don’t care what the haters say. When done right, email marketing works.

If you’re among the many marketers who leverage email, you’re familiar with the never-ending quest to streamline your contact lists, draft the perfect subject lines and increase your click-through rate (CTR). We can often be slaves to these analytics, looking for any little way we can move the needle. (After all, these numbers are a direct and unapologetic reflection of our efforts, right?)

When it comes to optimizing your email marketing, there are countless variables in play. I get that. I want to share one little success we had, with the hope that perhaps it can help you, too.

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Nov

Marketers: It’s time to push back on your bosses’ bad ideas

November 20, 2018

by: Michelle Calcote King in B2B , Marketing strategy , Architecture, Engineering and Construction

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“Behind every bad idea is an executive who asked for it.”

I can feel all the marketers internally shouting “YAAAASSSSS.” I hear you, friend, I hear you.

The above quote — from a recent MarketingProfs webinar by Michael Brenner (best-selling author of The Content Formula and CEO of Marketing Insider Group) — made me stop in my tracks. I thought of the numerous times I’ve witnessed a C-suite executive ask a marketer to do something that I knew wasn’t the right course of action, yet the marketer did it anyway. Heck, I’ve been the one who did it anyway. I’ve always thought, “That’s just the way it is.”

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Jun

Need to persuade an audience? Use these 5 powerful messaging techniques

June 21, 2018

by: Michelle Calcote King in B2B , Content marketing , Architecture, Engineering and Construction

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If you’ve watched the show “Mad Men,” you may have thought that you, too, could be an advertising executive, drink old fashioneds during the day, chain smoke cigarettes and come up with cool campaigns that persuade the American public to choose one brand over another with a snappy slogan.

Well slow your roll, Nancy.

Mad Men made advertising look easy because it was easier back then.

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May

4 reasons marketers must shift toward a ‘knowledge extraction’ mindset

May 2, 2018

by: Michelle Calcote King in B2B , Marketing strategy , Content marketing , Architecture, Engineering and Construction

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Marketers… if you had to describe your most important role in one or two words, what would you say? My gut tells me that many would say “promotion,” “brand building” or “thought leadership.” I doubt many would say “knowledge extraction.” And that must change.

Knowledge extraction is basically that — extracting knowledge from your subject-matter experts (SMEs). It’s a specialized skill when done right, and it’s imperative for effective business-to-business and professional services marketing. Here’s why:

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Apr

7 ways to overcome content marketing’s biggest challenge: just getting it done

April 24, 2018

by: Michelle Calcote King in B2B , Content marketing , Architecture, Engineering and Construction

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We’ve all heard it before:

“I just can’t get my subject-matter experts to give me the information I need.”

“We would do content marketing, but we can never find the time — we’re too busy focused on billable work.”

I get it. Content marketing takes time. It’s the reason I have a viable business, after all.

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Apr

Legal marketers: Here’s how to get general counsel’s attention, straight from the horse’s mouth

April 17, 2018

by: Michelle Calcote King in Law , Marketing strategy

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Four marketing strategies are particularly effective, says panel of GCs at Legal Marketing Association conference

Law firm marketers: Want to know what works to get the attention of general counsel (GC)?

Here’s the short answer: high-quality, relevant and timely thought leadership content, in the form of client alerts, helpful articles vendita piscina gonfiabile con scivolo and speeches. In addition, well-written case studies help GCs understand your firm’s experience in solving specific problems (that they may be facing themselves).

Five GCs sat down for a panel discussion at last week’s Legal Marketing Association national conference and laid bare how they choose outside counsel, what gets their attention and how to cut through the clutter in today’s information-saturated environment.

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6 questions to ask before you hire a professional content writer

8 common mistakes lawyers make on their blogs [updated]

Marketers: It’s time to push back on your bosses’ bad ideas

Need to persuade an audience? Use these 5 powerful messaging techniques

4 reasons marketers must shift toward a ‘knowledge extraction’ mindset

7 ways to overcome content marketing’s biggest challenge: just getting it done

Legal marketers: Here’s how to get general counsel’s attention, straight from the horse’s mouth

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