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.
For targeted strategies, local search optimization toolkits, and curated expert columns, browse our deep-dive archives directly below.
It’s nearly June. Time to update your LinkedIn profile again! After the inevitable January “fresh start” updates, many people leave their LinkedIn profile alone the rest of the year. If you’re a savvy social media user, you update it every ...
Susan Kostal - May 20, 2016
Using social media incorrectly or ineffectively can be damaging to your professional reputation. It comes down to one thing: expectations.
Dan Lear - May 13, 2016
Lawyers have been conditioned, from time immemorial, to believe that successful marketing means broadcasting superiority. You must have won more false awards, and higher verdicts, and would have established further contrived rankings. To a ...
Jared Correia - May 12, 2016
For lawyers, web marketing is what the French call a devoir — a “have to.” But most of us would rather wash our hands of it. We didn't go to school for an MBA or marketing degree. We have a whole desk full of case files demanding our time and ...
John Tucker - May 6, 2016
Information sitting in your law firm's case management software can help you make better-informed marketing decisions — including where and when to advertise. Most firms have the information they need. It's just a matter of making a priority of ...
Steve Di Pietro - May 3, 2016Email marketing should be part of your internet marketing plan. (See "The Big Three Internet Marketing Activities for Lawyers.") Emailing new posts from your blog to a list of clients and prospects increases the return on your blogging time (and ...
Theda C. Snyder - May 2, 2016
Question: Are there tools available to help me see how many people are reading my blog? Are there standards to judge its success? In this month's "Ask the Experts from the Legal Marketing Association," ...
The Editors - April 28, 2016Recently I read an article on content marketing that promised to tell, in so many words, “how to market yourself without extra work.” It then presented an app, showing "how easy it is to automate repurposing your content.” “Once you have your ...
Susan Kostal - April 26, 2016Let’s say you just found out you have a rare illness. Suddenly, you are in the market for a specialty physician. You do some research, get some names and make an appointment with one or two doctors. What kind of conversation would you have? My ...
Sally J. Schmidt - April 25, 2016
Traditional TV audiences are shrinking as more of us choose instead to view videos on mobile devices. We stream video on Netflix and Hulu and rely on sites like YouTube and Daily Motion to watch short clips, too. And, with so many people posting ...
Dan Steiner - April 21, 2016