6. Why This Is Important To Legal Marketers
• 70 percent of law firms maintain
blogs.
• Nearly 50 percent of firms report that
blogging and social networking had
helped produce leads for new
clients.
• Around 40 percent said those same
efforts had actually helped them land
new work.
• More than half of respondents said
that their firms plan to increase their
budget for social media initiatives.
SOURCE:
http://insidecounselsurvey.com/2013/08/08/this-social-media-thing-might-not-be-a-fad-law-firms-acknowledge/
7. Value Seen by B2B Marketers
SOURCE
http://blog.marketo.com/blog/2012/06/how-b2b-marketers-are-scoring-big-with-social-media-infographic.html
8. Tools Used by B2B Marketers
SOURCE
http://blog.marketo.com/blog/2012/06/how-b2b-marketers-are-scoring-big-with-social-media-infographic.html
11. A Way To Structure Your Efforts
Engage
Actively interact in one-to-one, one-to-many
or many-to-many conversation with social
media in order to freely exchange
information and advance a discuss
• Groups
• Campaigns
• Initiate
Listen
Actively monitor and capture conversations
to analyze and understand the meaning of
what is being said is it relates to the firm, the
industry, an attorney or a client
• Google Alerts
• Newsle
• Tweetdeck
Participate
Proactively post and publish content on
social media-enabled platforms to
communicate a message to an audience, but
not necessarily engage them in a
conversation
• Tweeting
• Posting
• Curating
37. Assets You Can Use To Participate
AttorneysAttorneys
Referral
Networks
Referral
Networks
ContentContent ActivitiesActivities
• Publications
• Press Coverage
• Media Coverage
• Experience
• New wins
• Client success
• Education
• Associations
• Surveys
• Articles
• Media coverage
• Video
• Case studies
• Interviews
• Alerts
• Press Releases
• Events
• CSR
• Webinars
• Newsletters
• Tradeshows
• Partner retreats
• Connections
• Introductions
• Webinars
• Events
• Associations
38. 6 Things You Can Do Now
1. Update your LinkedIn company page
2. Expand who you “follow”
3. Analyze your traffic reports. Update attorney LinkedIn
profiles of most trafficked attorneys
4. Assess your content and determine how you can re-use
5. Ask “connected” firm members to share links/tweets
6. Make content available “socially”
40. The Art of Social Media – 4 Main Objectives
GENERATE AWARENESS:
• Promote news, content & culture
» Ex – One North launch & LinkedIn
MAKE CONNECTIONS:
• Grow your network
» Followers, connections, contacts, etc. on both an
agency and individual employee level
ENCOURAGE ENGAGEMENT…AND BE ENGAGED:
• Regularly provide quality content, and your users will
always come back for more.
» They’ll also like, retweet, share with their own networks.
• Remember: It’s important to return the favor!
LISTEN TO:
• Your followers – What do they want to hear, see & read?
• Those you follow – What are the latest trends?
Generate
Awareness
Make
Connections
Engage
Listen
41. Top 5 Best Practices/Lessons Learned
Designate a ‘Hub’ for All of Your Content
Go Where Your Followers Are
Use Different Channels for Different Audiences
Aspire to Keep Followers, Not Just Gain Them
Use Tools to Help You Listen
42. At One North = #Latitude41 Blog
Designate a Hub for All of Your Content
43. • Devote the most time, effort and
resources to the channel with the
most followers.
– Take an audit of your profiles.
You might be missing out on an
opportunity to connect.
Go Where Your Followers Are
» However, there’s ONE exception to this
rule:
There may be times
when your followers
are low, but overall
engagement is high.
5 followers;
1500+ Weekly Views
270
Followers
257
Followers
109
Likes
40
Followers
45. Aspire to Keep Followers, Not Just Gain Them
Amazing tweet & follow…
…But, we didn’t stop there
• Assigned one of our strategist
a blog post on the topic.
• Posted the entry to the blog.
• Mentioned Peter in the
promotion tweet.
46. Use Tools to Help You Listen
TweetDeck
• Tweets
• Interactions
• Hashtags