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October 31, 2017

Is Your Brand Synonymous (to Google) with Personal Injury?

Google AdWords broadmatch is very broad. In fact it's broader than I had thought. Essentially, AdWords knows that "attorney" means "lawyer" "law firm" and lots…

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October 30, 2017

Mockingbird Mission

Just got back from a recruiting trip to my old MBA haunts - the illustrious University of Michigan Business School - now known as "Ross"…

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chain linked together
October 24, 2017

Know What your Agency is Doing: Buying Links

New client just forwarded me the breakup email exchange from her previous agency. We pay for links monthly. Know what your agency is doing. The…

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October 23, 2017

Next Level Marketing…. Local Legal Spam across NY and NJ

About a month ago I wrote about the strange case of the solo practitioner, Andrew Calcagano who staffed 66 offices across the tri-state area.  Here's…

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Mockingbird Marketing Bird Droppings
October 20, 2017

Bird Droppings: The first of a (mostly) weekly Legal Marketing/SEO links post series

There's a lot of SEO news out there. The Legal Marketing landscape is constantly changing and the industry is talking about it. At Mockingbird, we…

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October 19, 2017

It May Not Be Our Fault, But It’s Still Our Problem

In our lobby, we've recently installed The Mockingbird 10 Commandments - a list of simple principals through which we operate our business.  Every time anyone…

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Stock Photos on Webpage
September 29, 2017

Authentic Images Are Worth It

We have all seen one of these photos. The man in a suit with the perfect smile doing "business things" in front of a blurry…

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Content is like water
September 27, 2017

Blogging for the Sake of Blogging

[caption id="attachment_4999" align="aligncenter" width="1980"] ...You put content onto a blog it becomes the blog.[/caption] Sometimes you need to write a blog post. You might not…

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Calagno Map
September 18, 2017

Local Spam: The Solo with 60 Offices

[caption id="attachment_4797" align="alignleft" width="264"] Spamming the Garden State[/caption] Let me start by saying that I'm calling out a single lawyer here, simply as an example.…

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