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…
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Lawyers crave marketing training―even while working from home during COVID. Here’s how to help. Numerous studies have shown that offering professional development opportunities to law firm associates (1) enhances their job satisfaction, and (2) increases retention. And in a hot…
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…
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…
Are you getting pressured to cut expenses? When business is declining or the marketplace is starting to panic, firms start making decisions they hope will protect them. Months or years later, some analyze the efficacy of these choices to see…
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…
Marketer: “When I want to get the lawyers on board, I always make it their idea.” I’ve never cared for that approach — that’s not respecting the lawyers as intelligent adults. That’s infantilizing them; it’s treating them like children whose…
An 8-Part, One-Year Law Firm 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…
Do you know any Law Students? My new book is out! “The Ultimate Law Student Get-A-Job Checklist: A step-by-step guide to help every student land a great job.” It’s designed to help ALL law students use personal-branding techniques to get…
