How can smaller law firms market themselves? We recently wrote about Hawley Troxell, Idaho’s largest law firm, and the split-image campaign that showed that not only were they big, they were also fast and flexible. All true. But what if…
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Let’s look at intellectual property (TM) cases for law firm brands, names, taglines, and phone numbers In the late 1980s, when most commercial law firms considered marketing to be either unprofessional or unethical, Joe Flom saw the opportunity to develop…
Your law firm’s use-it-or-lose-it marketing budget Professional firm marketing budgets are like The Pentagon’s defense budget — every year you get a budget which you must spend down to zero or you lose those dollars entirely at the end of…
Tag lines are hard. Really hard. They’re a small handful of strategically selected words that encapsulate everything you stand for and want your target audience to know about you. In this 3-part post, we detail some of our favorite tag…
Slogans/Tag lines are 5-word novels. (2021 update. Blog post 2 of 3) Tag lines are hard – a small handful of strategically selected words that encapsulate everything you stand for and want your target audience to know about…
Tag lines are trickier than you might expect. (First of 3 posts) Taglines are hard – a small handful of strategically selected words that encapsulate everything you stand for and want your target audience to know about you. It’s the…
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…
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…
Let’s look at the data. Where do your eyes go? 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…
