Maintaining a blog on your firm's website is a great way to showcase your expertise. But if no one knows about your blog post, all of the blood, sweat, and tears you pour into it could be in vain. Don't let this happen! By actively promoting your blog posts, you can...
The New Landscape of Social Media and What it Means for You
2018 has been a year of changes for digital marketing. The only constant has been never-ending change in everything from algorithms to privacy regulations. It is easy to ignore such rapid-fire changes or to dismiss them as not applying to your firm. After all, you...
Low-Cost, High-Impact Strategies to Increase Your Name Recognition
Against their best interest, some lawyers and professional service providers would prefer to avoid marketing altogether. Unfortunately for these individuals, marketing is key to sustaining a practice or a small business. In an article for The American Bar Association,...
8 Website Maintenance Tips for Professional Service Firms
Websites are essential for professional service firms because they act as a central hub for building credibility, showcasing expertise, and engaging with clients. For many potential clients, a website serves as their first impression of your firm, and a professional,...
How to Use Your Website to Qualify Leads
In today’s marketplace, the consumer is more in charge of the online search process than ever before. Because of this, a fabulous website is an absolute must. But when it comes to designing your website, it's not all about looks. It's also about whom it will attract....
How Narrowing Your Niche Focus Can Expand Your Bottom Line
In a culture that celebrates doing all the things, the idea of focusing on a niche might seem counterintuitive or even a little crazy. I mean, won't limiting your client base squash your firm's growth potential? The truth is, concentrating on a specific niche, or...
Six Reasons Why Content Is Too Important for Lawyers to Write
Content is about the music, not the words. That’s why it is too important to be written by lawyers and other professionals. It’s not that you don’t know your stuff; rather, it’s that you know it too well. As a result, few attorneys understand how to explain something...
How Smart Marketing Will Make Your Sales Efforts Easier
When you are trying to maintain and even increase your success as a lawyer, word-of-mouth referrals are unquestionably important. While you may interact with your referrals directly through your sales efforts, marketing is also extremely important in the referral...
Right Marketing Coaching Can Guide You Towards Success
Marketing is an aptitude they seldom teach in school. This is unfortunate because, especially from the perspective of a business, marketing is a necessary skill. Even if you're doing the job right, if you’re not marketing your services well enough your business will...
The Genesis Framework: Why It Rocks
Developers build websites using intricate code structures called frameworks. I know what you’re thinking…green code cascading down your screen Matrix-style. Unfortunately, it’s not that cool. A framework is just a bunch of code that looks something like this: Once a...
So Busy You Can’t See Straight? How to Cope
As a lawyer, when you feel overwhelmed with your practice, you may want to fully immerse yourself in your clients’ needs. It can seem like you never have enough time to finish everything on your to-do list. At the peak of your career, you might even feel forced to put...
The Evolution of Marketing for Solos and Small Firms
With the growing use of technology and mobile devices, marketing has changed forever. Most Americans spend hours on their computers and other electronic devices every single day. Our technology-centric society means there is more opportunity to reach potential clients...