Your firm’s best marketing investment could be a CBO. [This is the second half of a blog post arguing that law firms that want to charge higher rates, enhance their business development, and improve their lateral hiring should hire a…
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Tom Cruise doesn’t stop in the middle of a movie to poll the audience. Good material that’s well presented doesn’t need gimmicks to keep attendees from leaving. If they need to keep viewers paying attention with surveys or other artificial…
100 Tips to Help Attorneys Develop Clients During COVID and Beyond. Buy these two powerful new e-books–they’re brand-new 2020 “Working-From-Home” editions of the best-selling Ultimate Law Firm Associate Marketing Checklist, including a new book just for Partners! MARKETERS! Want to help…
Law firms need Chief Branding Officers. In Law, and every other profession, the firms with the strongest brands charge higher rates and generate greater profits. If you want to credibly charge more per hour, you must convince the market that…
The Top 10 Rules for Client Endorsements. Here’s my latest “Marketing Matters” column in the ALA’s Legal Management magazine, “The Top 10 Rules for Client Endorsements.” Click this link for the pdf: ALA Ross Fishman article – The Top 10…
What’s the MOST-important info to add to your marketing? We all notice effective marketing. It commands your attention and makes it impossible to miss. We don’t even notice that we’ve noticed; we just subconsciously read or remember it. As a branding consultant, I…
How to Collect Ongoing Marketing Info Inside Your Firm [A sample memo you may circulate is below.] It can be pretty tough to collect information inside a law or accounting firm. People are busy; they’re often billing hourly, and when…
Education is the best approach. Let’s say you want to buy new technology, or launch a social media initiative, or overhaul your compensation system. Or maybe you want to rebrand your firm or upgrade your website. Perhaps you’d like to…
Use your brand and website to tell your firm’s unique story. On the surface, all five litigation boutiques seemed relatively similar — dynamic firms led by tough, trial-oriented fighters. But each was much more than that. Each firm’s brand needed to…
