Law Firm Marketing
In a crowded legal marketplace, simply being an excellent lawyer is no longer a viable client acquisition model. Word-of-mouth will always be a cornerstone of our profession, but relying on it exclusively creates a feast-or-famine revenue cycle that forces equity partners onto a stressful business development treadmill.
If you are ready to transition away from passive visibility and start building an intentional, scalable client acquisition engine completely on your own terms, explore our complete, interactive master handbook: Marketing for Law Firms: The Modern Partner’s Blueprint.
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Google uses "citations" — also known as “business listings” or “linktations” — on sites such as Yelp, Facebook, Avvo and Justia to confirm that you are who you say you are. Building these citation sources at scale won't take you to the top of ...
Mike Ramsey - June 26, 2018
In an issue of Strategy+Business, management guru Tom Peters suggests a number of books he considers valuable to read. In the interview, he quotes a respected business leader friend who argues that the No. 1 problem with big company CEOs is ...
Mike O'Horo - June 25, 2018I participate in a lot of law firm retreats and meetings, but one will always stand out. I was talking with representatives of the firm before the retreat kicked off when one of the partners pulled me aside, pointed out another firm partner and ...
Sally J. Schmidt - June 21, 2018
According to the projections in a VoiceLabs report, about 33 million voice-first devices were in circulation at the start of the year. By voice-first, we mean devices like the Amazon Echo and Google Home that sit on your counter and only ...
Mark Homer - June 15, 2018
The mother lode of content creation is unique content that can be branded as solely belonging to the lawyer or firm. This can be produced and updated quarterly, annually or as news and events require. It establishes the publisher as an authority ...
Susan Kostal - June 4, 2018
In the legal industry, knowledge is power. In its traditional sense, that phrase may conjure notions of a zero-sum game: I win, you lose. In recent years, however, the business world has begun recognizing a new key to success: emotional ...
Rich Bracken - May 31, 2018You undoubtedly have heard how important follow-up is to marketing and business development. Clients and referral sources are most likely to refer business to people they have heard from or seen in the prior three months, which means a sustained ...
Sally J. Schmidt - May 23, 2018
There are countless offsite SEO tactics you can use to promote your website. But what about onsite tactics? Have you thought through your strategy for earning more relevant web traffic, identifying the tactics that are within your control? Have ...
Mike Ramsey - May 22, 2018
Novelists such as John Grisham and Meg Gardiner, to name two, are certainly at the top of the publishing heap when it comes to lawyers who have garnered international fame as authors. And let’s not forget those who have devoted their careers to ...
Tatia Gordon-Troy - May 16, 2018
Lawyernomics is one of the tentpole legal technology conferences every year. There are only a few other events at the intersection of law and technology that bring you a comparable combination of content, attendees, vendors and, of course, ...
Avvo - May 5, 2018