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The Story of a Blog Refresh in Professional Services
Tale of a Blog Overhaul
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Once upon a time in 2002…
The Professional Services Marketing Blog was born.
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The baby blog’s mission:
To provide quality educational material to help professional services firms increase growth and profitability.
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• Increase online visibility via search engines and social networks
• Earn the trust of its audience by sharing useful and relevant knowledge
With a post or two every week, a trio of writers, and an attractive yet simple design, the baby blog was able to…
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The Professional Services Marketing Blog had grown into a teenager, finding its identity and learning from growing pains.
Childhood flew by, and soon it was 2010…
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There were a handful of people writing articles and publishing three posts per week, not to mention a more visual and easy-to-navigate design.
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• Boosted lead generation via email and content offers
• Increased engagement (indicated by page views and bounce rate)
• Attracted new visitors via social media sharing
Learning from the results of Hinge research, Google Analytics data, subscriptions, and client conversations, the teenage blog:
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The Professional Services Marketing Blog has matured into an adult, evolving into taking the knowledge gained during its youth to evolve into…
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Now in 2014…
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Professional Services Marketing Today, the go-to resource for professional services executives and marketers.
Our mission: To give professional services executives and marketers advice and information they can’t get anywhere else — in a knowledgeable and approachable way.
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Now with more staff members — and guest authors — publishing five posts a week.
An updated design and layout enables readers to quickly scan topics and select the articles that matter to them.
And expanded the use of data-rich, informative images and video, all shareable via social media.
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Professional Services Marketing Today increases reader interaction through:
• Topic suggestions
• Polls
• SlideShare presentations
• Comments
• Industry-specific articles to readers across professional services sectors
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Even though it’s all grown up, the refreshed Professional Services Marketing Today still achieves a primary goal it did as a baby:
To provide quality educational material to help professional services firms increase growth and profitability.
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By continuing to optimize and enhance Professional Services Marketing Today it will live happily ever after — at least, until it’s time for another refresh...
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...but that’s another story.
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