Business Development

The Welcome Mat
Instilling Client Confidence in Your Practice

In this series, Oklahoma attorney Noble McIntyre has been offering tips on rolling out the welcome mat for clients and prospective clients. His first two posts provided pointers on phone etiquette and office appearance — but it's the people ...

Noble McIntyre - April 14, 2014
iPhone Apps
Is Your Next Client in Your Pocket? Three Business Development Apps

Don't you wish you had a superpower, or at least some handy mobile tools, that would help you get, keep and cross-sell more clients? Well, wish no more. Law firm business development experts are producing apps that can help with motivation, ...

Deborah McMurray - March 24, 2014
Eight Tips for Making the Legal Rankings Lists

Research-based legal rankings have become annual fixtures in law firm marketing calendars, especially as the main directories' cachet increases. Listings can be a great opportunity to publicize and enhance the reputation of individual lawyers as ...

Elizabeth Lampert and Nigel Savage - March 17, 2014
Get Feedback from Your Clients

In the legal industry, there is much discussion but scant implementation on the issue of client feedback. Research shows that few firms make the attempt to gather client feedback in any meaningful or systematic way. Should law firms be ...

Sally J. Schmidt - February 20, 2014
ABC Blocks
Get Back to Basics for Better Business Development

The practice of law is stressful. And complicated. And, at times, frustrating. Legal marketing and business development need not be. Here are a few back-to-basics tips designed to improve your relationships with clients and colleagues.

Jay Harrington - February 19, 2014
Phone calls
Listening In: The Client Prevention Department

During a recent intake call training session, the COO of a large PI firm in New England bragged, “We convert 90 percent of the cases we want." An hour later, after we played four actual intake call recordings from their office ... nobody was ...

Ryan Pitz - February 6, 2014
data redundancy
Magic Bullet Theory: The Social Media Problem

When stalking canonical monsters, you get to pack light. For the most part, there’s only the one item you’ll need to finish the job, assuming you can get close enough, and can maintain your nerve. If you’re going to do a werewolf, you need a ...

Jared Correia - January 30, 2014
look them in the eye
How to Look Them in the Eye

There's no getting around it. As a lawyer, you must be able to meet the gaze of everyone you speak to, and you should always make eye contact when addressing an audience. Easy to say, of course, but somewhat harder to execute. I’ve heard lots ...

Marsha Hunter - January 23, 2014
Play to Win
Meeting With a Purpose

I will never forget the time an executive with a large international company told of his meeting with a law firm. He and a member of the in-house legal department had agreed to get together with three firm partners, at their request. After the ...

Sally J. Schmidt - January 20, 2014
Women looking at laptop screen Optimize
Searching for Law Firm Website Search Traffic

In the quest to drive traffic to their law firm website, many regard search traffic as the Holy Grail. While both direct traffic and referral traffic can be highly valuable to business development efforts, there can be little question that, in ...

Gyi Tsakalakis - January 6, 2014
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