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….
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…
A great logo is extraordinarily difficult to design. A logo is fundamentally a tiny piece of art. Simultaneously beautiful and persuasive, logos (sometimes called “brands”) can convey a sense of strength or creativity. They can reinforce a firm’s name or…
Let’s make our attorneys’ headshots look their best. Website updates are the ideal time to evaluate whether the firm’s current headshots still convey the firm’s message appropriately. (First a few paragraphs of theory and branding strategy, then I’ve pasted a…
You can do serious work, but not take yourself too seriously. April Fool’s Day can be fun, and we occasionally design ads for clients who want to show that they do serious work but don’t take themselves too seriously. Our…
“Happy Halloween!” from Your Romanian Law Firm Speaking to 50 lawyers from 40 countries at the Legal Network International (LNI) conference last week, I suggested that law firms from smaller jurisdictions could build their brands and seek referrals by connecting…
There are four critical steps to overhauling your website: Strategy and messaging Design Coding Maintenance That is, first conceive the brand message. That’s the winning strategy, the competitive advantage that can lead to increased revenue and profitability. That’s what turns a new website…
This is how to handle the death of a lawyer or employee. Obituaries are difficult. I think the true character of a law firm can be judged by how it responds to the death of its people. A few years…
Trust your sushi chef – and your marketers. [2017 update] I was in beautiful Vancouver, BC speaking to the Managing Partners’ Dinner of the BC Legal Management Association. After the program, one of the managing partners came up to…
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…
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