GUEST BLOGGER: Amanda Acevedo, Director of Marketing and Business Development - Niles Barton

Over six months ago, I moved from a global law firm with a marketing department of 20+ professionals to a midsized regional firm with a marketing department of just one: me.

MRI Starch, the venerable market research company that has been measuring the effectiveness of advertising for more than four decades, recently completed a survey to find out what makes a print ad sell. The findings include a number of valuable take-aways professional services marketers can use to improve our own positioning and branding efforts. Here’s what Starch learned: