An 8-Part, 1-Year Associate Marketing-Training Curriculum I get asked regularly by marketers what I think associates need to learn about marketing. So here’s a simple list of eight associate-marketing programs that provide a comprehensive marketing and business-development education designed to…
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…
Great Website Design Isn’t Pretty. It’s Effective. What’s nice about eye-track testing is that it shows precisely what grabs your viewers’ attention, what they see, in what order, and how long they linger at each point. That’s incredibly powerful data….
My popular book “The Ultimate Law Firm Associate’s Marketing Checklist” book was translated into Mandarin by Economic Science Press (China Finance & Economy Media Group), a prominent Chinese government education-publishing house, and is now for sale in China! Fortunately, I…
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…
Donating toiletries to poor schools or women’s shelters. [2018 update] Leaving a three-day conference at a 5-star resort, I bagged two nights’ worth of quality hotel soap, shampoo, conditioner, lotion, shower gel, shower caps, sewing kits, and pocket combs to bring home…
Offering Joint Networking Training to Your Firm AND Clients A friend asked how she could encourage her firm to market more closely and effectively with their financial-institution clients. My favorite way is offering joint marketing training. Banks like giving their…
Why your law firm’s blog probably stinks. Can we get real here for a minute? Most law firm blogs stink. They really, really suck. And yours is likely to stink too. Here’s why. I responded to a question on an…
The law firm race to get “Big” is a race to the middle. So much consolidation has already occurred that in many markets the only remaining standalone law firms are either: (1) fiercely independent, or (2) mediocre. That is, in…
Announcing Ross Fishman’s New Law Firm Marketing and Branding book! “We’re smart. We’re old. And we’re the best at everything.” [The World’s First No-BS Guide to Legal Marketing and Branding.] Does it drive you crazy that big-firm lawyers can charge…
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