Q: Should our law firm pay our associates to market? A: Uh… No. I answered this question on a listserv recently, posed by a legal marketer whose firm was revamping its bonus schedule. The bonus was intended to motivate…
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Ross’s Top 10 Law Firm Domain Name Mistakes (Part I) What’s Your Law Firm’s Domain Name? YourName.com Back in the mid-90s, we were just starting to develop the first law firm websites. As Marketing Partner of Ungaretti & Harris in the…
Little Orphan Annie’s Commentary on Law Firm Client Service. I came upon this “Annie” comic strip somewhere decades ago and have discussed it ever since in my Client-Service training classes for lawyers. If even Daddy Warbucks can’t get lawyers to return his…
Free Sample of our Most-Popular Marketing Checklist Attached below is a free sample of our “The Ultimate Law Firm Associate’s Marketing Checklist (The Renowned Step-By-Step, Year-By-Year Process For Lawyers Who Want To Develop Clients)” book. This 2016 edition is a significantly updated…
Crazy Holiday Cards from two ERISA law firms! Yeah, I said ERISA firms. I like ERISA lawyers. I find them to be smart, sincere, and hard working. But their reputation isn’t generally as the life of the party. You wouldn’t ordinarily…
I’m looking forward to addressing the HLAI (Hispanic Lawyers Association of Illinois) again. This marketing presentation will be for the HLAI and the HLAI Business-Development and Practice-Development Committees. This follow-up presentation will be entitled “50 Marketing Ideas in 50 Minutes,” on…
“Have Yourself an Unindicted Christmas” Law Firm Holiday Card I always enjoy the style and sense of humor of Waco, Texas criminal and civil lawyers Will Hutson and Chris Harris at full-service Hutson & Harris. My previous favorite ditty was the practical advice…
Check out Fisher Phillips’s holiday e-card I LOVE this card. As you might know from my historic blog posts, I’m often very critical of law firm e-cards — there are so many ways firms can get them wrong. They’re too…
How NASA Used Marketing to Sell Us John Glenn. Does Marketing work? Ask NASA. John Glenn, one of the heroic “Mercury Seven” military test pilots selected by NASA to become America’s first astronauts, passed away last week at 95. “John…
Outstanding Review of “The Ultimate Law Firm Associate’s Marketing Checklist!” We just received our first official book review, and it’s a doozy! The review, entitled “Smart, New, Lean Marketing Book: A Gift That Will Keep on Giving,” is by Steve Taylor, the renowned…
