Education marketing is about showing your market what they need to know about their legal issues and the available solutions. It’s about teaching them the benefits of taking action and the risks of delay.
That’s why you create content and deliver it to your target market. But if that’s all you do, you’re not doing enough.
Effective content isn’t about showing people how much you know. It’s not about showing them how good you are at what you do. It’s not about those things because effective marketing isn’t about you, it’s about your audience.
Your articles, posts, and presentations need to map what you know and what you do to the fears and desires, wants and needs of the people consuming your content.
Think about your ideal client. What keeps them up at night? What are they worried about? What do they fear might happen?
What keeps them going during the day? What are they working to achieve? What makes their sacrifices worthwhile?
Once you know what makes them tick, show them how you can help them get what they want.
You do that by speaking to them, not at them.
Engage them. Show them that you truly understand their situation–their problems, their pain, their desires–either because you’ve been in their shoes before or because you’ve worked with and helped people in that situation.
Tell stories about your clients and former clients who are like them. Describe their background, occupation, and legal situation. Use the terminology common to their industry or market. Use quotes from people they recognize.
Turn up the heat and acknowledge your reader’s pain. Dramatize their problems and warn them, in no uncertain terms, of what might happen if they don’t take action or they make the wrong decision.
Wake them up and shake them up and tell them what to do to get relief.
Don’t deliver a white paper, sell them on taking the next step. Because you can’t help anyone until they do.
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