Indeed, clients regularly ask us, «What's a good open rate for a law
firm email newsletter?»
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When clients click a link in a «teaser» in a law
firm email newsletter to read a full article, those clients are demonstrating interest in the subject of the article.
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Note: you can easily run the same test on your own law
firm email newsletters or alerts if you are using email marketing software that allows multivariate testing where you split your lists into random «nth name» segments and distribute different versions of the relevant newsletter or alert to each segment.
The bottom line is that targeted law
firm email newsletters and alerts remain a low cost marketing tool that resonates well with existing clients and will regularly remind them of the firm's expertise so they think of your firm first when an opportunity for new business arises.
Not exact matches
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A few simple but smart moves later (registering a domain, starting an
email newsletter and eventually a blog) and Greg's immigration
firm is one of the best - known in the country.
Law
firms and other clients using our
email marketing software know that we stress deliverability, and to that end offer a host of advanced tools to maximize the deliverability of our law
firms»
email newsletters, alerts and invitations to their subscribers» inboxes.
This suggests that law
firms should continue to view
email marketing as a viable channel to «promote» their «expertise» to clients and other contacts via alerts and
newsletters.
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To maximize deliverability of your law
firm email alerts and
newsletters, consider setting up a custom domain for your
email campaigns that will ensure a match between the domain of the IP address of the server sending your
email and the domain names in your
email headers.
Of course, your law
firm's
email alerts and
email newsletters must remain RELEVANT - don't blast out an
email about the Supreme Court's latest tax ruling to ALL the
firm's clients.
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Similarly, many
email service providers (including yours truly) now offer a feature called social forwarding that allows recipients of law
firm email alerts and
newsletters to easily forward the content in those
emails to their social networks on LinkedIn, Twitter and Facebook.
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We've seen many law
firm email alerts and
newsletters written in paragraph style.
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So the lesson to take away is that as your competitors cut back on branding initiatives,
email alerts and
newsletters remain the perfect mechanism to cost - effectively reinforce your
firm's expertise with clients on an ongoing basis.
And if there happen to be periodic complaints about the domain used in the
email newsletter headers, at least the reputation of the
firm's core day - to - day domain will not be affected.
For example, on our own
email marketing platform, we recently rolled out the ability to insert social sharing icons, as well as a Facebook «Like» button, so that readers can easily share a law
firm's
email alert,
newsletter or invite content with their social network and / or on their Facebook wall.
Services include law
firm website design,
email newsletter management, social media marketing and more, all designed to make your law practice more profitable.
Not surprisingly, Friday and the weekend are really BAD times for law
firms to send
email newsletters and alerts to business clients.
Many law
firms engage in
email marketing - primarily by sending periodic
email newsletters and alerts to clients covering emerging legal trends and developments, or
email invitations for upcoming seminars and other events.
Still, for legal marketers, Zuckerberg's Law merits consideration - does your
firm's website, and its blogs and
email newsletters, include a social sharing tool?
The solution to avoid this risk is to work with an
email services provider that can provide the law
firm with a custom domain for its
email newsletters and alerts such as"mylawfirmnews.com» tied to a unique IP address so that the domain used in the
email headers matches the domain associated with the IP address of the mail server.
From layout to banner sizes to subject lines, learn about the «best practices» that will help maximize readership of your
firm's
email alerts and
newsletter, and facilitate conversion of readership into leads.
When the law
firm distributes its latest
email newsletter to, say, 2,500 clients, they'll use the reply
email address
newsletter@mylawfirm.com - the same domain as was used by Mr. Doe to communicate with his client.
The problem is that it is conceivable at some point that one of the recipients of the
firm's
email newsletter — for example, a prospect who forgets that he once met a lawyer from the
firm at a tradeshow over a year ago (which lawyer then added this contact's name to the
firm's CRM system)-- might complain about the
firm's domain to an anti-spam organization.
But most
firms use their «core» domain in the reply
email address in the header of their
email newsletter or alert.
Legal marketers should keep this insight in mind when adding «sharing» functions to law
firm email alerts and
newsletters such as «forward to a friend» (which employs
email as the sharing mechanism) and social sharing icons.
Strategies to consider include: social sharing buttons in
email campaigns to facilitate and encourage distribution of
email content to broader audiences (a service we recently rolled out to our clients), and distributing
emails highlighting top blog posts as a method for building awareness of, and traffic to
firm blogs (a strategy we successfully implemented for the national labor & employment law
firm of Carlton DiSante & Freudenberger LLP - see sample
email newsletter issue with blog content generated automatically using the blog's RSS feed.
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What this test involves is looking at the domain name used in the «header» of your law
firm's
email alert or
newsletter (e.g., the domain of the reply
email address, the bounce address, etc.), and then comparing that domain to the domain associated with the IP address of the mail server that sent the
email.
Learn what tools are available to maximize deliverability of
firm email alerts and
newsletter past filters and into client inboxes.
In this way, the
firm does not put its core"mylawfirm.com» domain at risk, but is still able to use a domain with its
email newsletter that matches the law
firm's brand.
As yours truly blogged last week, law
firms may want to follow the lead of other marketers and more fully embrace
email newsletters and alerts as a low cost, targeted and measurable method for reinforcing expertise with existing clients (who expect to continue hearing from their lawyers about breaking legal trends relevant to their businesses).
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As ISP's and corporate IT departments employ more sophisticated filtering tools to block spam and other unwanted
email from reaching the inboxes of their employees, the risk increases that your law
firm's own legitimate
email alerts and
newsletters will be blocked and won't reach your clients.
In the past, we've explained why it's important for law
firms that distribute
email alerts,
newsletters and invitations to start employing authentication as a tool to maximize their deliverability.
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Firm newsletters,
emails, internal communications, mentoring relationships, practice group meetings, executive committee meetings and staff meetings should all communicate a dedication to efficiency.
Rather than look at the Internet as law
firm websites, alerts, and
email newsletters, look at the Internet as an opportunity to accelerate relationships and grow your word of mouth reputation as a good lawyer.
It is inexpensive, blogs are easy to use, presumably law
firms are producing the content so it can be seen by more people and
email newsletters can still be distributed.
It's a no brainer for law
firms to get their
email newsletter content onto Blogs as soon as possible, says Kevin O'Keefe, one of the more visible and vocal advocates for law
firm blogging: