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Digital, Social Media and Ethics with Ethan Wall

Digital marketing is no longer an also ran in marketing discussions. In many ways, digital is front and center. Within the digital realm, engaging social media is becoming a necessity. This creates a number of challenges, both practical and ethical. Ethan Wall joins me on this episode of the Legal Marketing Studio Podcast to discuss the state of digital marketing in 2018, engaging in social media strategically, planning content production and staying within the ethics rules. He shared so much good content I had to break it out into three separate episodes.

Ethan walks the walk. You can find him on Twitter (@SMLawandOrder), Facebook, LinkedIn, Youtube and Instagram (@socialmedialawandorder). Oh, and he blogs about social media marketing for law firms, too.

And he wrote a book on social media for lawyers.

Recorded January 26, 2018 via Uber Conference.

Interviews at the Legal Marketing Association Northeast Regional Conference #LMANE17

It’s been one week since the Legal Marketing Association Northeast Regional Conference in Philadelphia. The conference was centered on instigating, shaping, and directing the changes that are coming to legal marketing and the legal industry more broadly. I had the opportunity to sit down with a number of the presenters and attendees; below are the half dozen I recorded for the podcast.

Jeff Leitner, Founder of Greenhouse, The Center for Social Innovation, on changing social norms:

Jennifer Manton, CMO of Kramer Levin, on giving partners voice and gaining power in the process:

Terri Hartwell Easter, of T.H. Easter Consulting, on the visual and the authentic in diversity initiatives:

Bill Schroeder, principal at Clarity Group Consulting, on the process of building a brand strategy:

Michael Rynowecer, Founder of BTI Consulting, on basing marketing and business decisions on data:

Lauren Cohen, Director Strategic Marketing Lundy Law, on bringing consumer marketing to a plaintiff firm:

It was a great conference. Thanks to everyone who took the time to sit down with me.

Building a Personal Brand with Jasmine Sandler

A strong personal brand can help an attorney or executive to develop new business for his or her firm or company. Jasmine Sandler, keynote speaker, trainer, author and consultant in digital marketing and social selling for global organizations, joins me on the latest podcast to discuss her process for helping attorneys, executives and entrepreneurs build, grow and protect this kind of personal brand. Our conversation touches on the kinds of goals and initiatives served by building these kinds of personal brands, the interaction between this personal branding and firm branding, and the buy-in and commitment required to succeed.

Download Jasmine’s Personal Branding Checklist from her website (will open as a PDF).

Recorded June 15, 2017 at the offices of Jasmine Sandler.

Good Photography is Vital in Effective Legal Marketing with Michael N Meyer

Good photography echoes and amplifies your marketing messages while effectively boosting engagement with written content. In this episode, I encourage attorneys (and marketers working with attorneys) to expand their concept of how they can and should use photographs or other visual content in their marketing. It is no longer enough to have a mediocre attorney portrait; nor is it enough to have only one’s attorney portrait. At the very least that portrait should be built around the firm brand; ideally it will be built around the firm brand, support its marketing strategies and exist within a library of like images that can be repurposed across the full range of communications that an individual attorney or larger firm is making use of.

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