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Using Print; Balancing Marketing, Business Development and Business Process Improvement: a Conversation with Mark Messing

Mark Messing, the CMO of Duane Morris, kindly joined me on the Legal Marketing Studio’s last episode of 2016. What was originally intended to be a conversation focused on the way Duane Morris uses print publications within (and throughout) its marketing ended up covering quite a bit more ground. Mark generously shared his thoughts on the relationships between marketing, business development and business process; forging strong client relationships; building engaging pitch teams (and the need for them to rehearse!); the perception gap between a given marketing tool’s aesthetic value vs functional value; and where Mark sees the legal industry and legal marketing moving over the next few years. All in all, lots of really interesting insights in this fascinating podcast.

The print publications discussed in the episode can be seen on the firm’s website here.

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Recorded October 11, 2016 @ the offices of Duane Morris in Philadelphia.

Writing Well and Writing Effectively for Legal Marketing; a discussion with Edie Reinhardt

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At the heart of nearly all marketing materials are words. How well those words are written will determine how effectively they reach the intended audience. Edie Reinhardt and I sat down to discuss writing well, writing with purpose and writing to strategic effect. With a background in both the law and publishing, Edie has a unique perspective on how to tailor one’s writing for a particular audience in a consistent, personal voice and maintain that writing over the long time span required of content marketing. Whether you’re writing for a legal audience composed of other lawyers or seeking to reach potential clients who are not legal experts, you’ll find plenty of insight in this conversation.

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Recorded September 23, 2016 @ Michiko Studios.

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Edie’s company, RDT Content Marketing helps professional services firms use content strategically to distinguish their brand and build their business.

Good Photography Boosts Legal Marketing; a discussion with David Lubarsky

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Photography is a powerful medium that fuels the web. I believe that there is so much potential for law firms to better use photography in amplifying their marketing messages that I invited one of my competitors, David Lubarsky, onto the podcast to discuss how firms can help us to conceive and create powerful images that integrate into their marketing materials and drive their business objectives. My conversation with David covers conceptualization, pre-production, post-production and, inevitably, our personal projects.

Recorded September 12, 2016 @ David Lubarsky’s studio.

Additional Links:

David’s In Transit
David’s From My Studio Window (Instagram)

My own personal work.

Valeria Paik of TAG Online Talks About Web Hosting Considerations for Law Firms

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Valeria Paik, the VP of Business Development at TAG Online, joins me on this episode of the Legal Marketing Studio to go over the ins and outs of website hosting for law firms. We discuss the importance of reliable, fast and secure web hosting in this age of interconnectedness where one’s website is the hub for social media feeds, rich content channels and back office systems. She gives a range of questions that law firms should be asking of their web host or of their design, marketing or branding agencies who are hiring the hosts.

Recorded August 24, 2016 @ the Picture More Business studio.

Links to the resources discussed in this episode:

• TAG Online
• WhoIs (via ICANN)
• Website Speed Test (via Google)
• Security Score Card