SEO – Search Engine Optimization The term “SEO” is a very popular term and the process of it tends to be quite confusing. SEO is basically what happens on and behind your website to ensure that it is visible to your audience online. For example, if you are trying to...
Capture Your Team’s Brand Like It’s Your Personal Brand
There’s a lot published about personal brand and its importance. It’s essential that you take the time to hone in on your personal brand - especially if you are looking to make a career change or launch a business or consulting practice. When your Brand is your Team’s...
If Websites Were First Dates
If websites were first dates, many of you would be in trouble. Between grungy appearances, poor planning skills, and shallow talking points, many websites share the undesirable traits of first-date horror stories. Is it possible your website fits that description?...
The Four Pillars of Marketing™: Use Them to Grow your Practice!
So what are The Four Pillars of Marketing? The Four Pillars provide the construct for lawyers to use as they seek to develop and implement a marketing plan that will cover all the most important elements and best practices for lawyers. It’s not enough to just write...
Auditing Your Current Brand: Three Important Questions To Ask
Have you been asking yourself, “How can I tell if my current brand needs to be updated?” Or maybe, “Where do I start if I think my brand needs to be updated?” Thankfully, auditing your brand while it requires work, is fairly straight forward and DEFINITELY worth the...
Why Google Reviews Matter and How to Ask your Clients For One
You may not realize this, but as many as 10% of your overall website visitors may have clicked on your website because of the Google Reviews posted on you and your company. So what do you need to know about Google reviews, and how can you ask your clients to provide...
3 Steps to Creating a Strong Brand Message
Looking to continue to strengthen your firm’s brand? In last week’s blog we focused on the steps to create a unique brand for your service firm. Now that you have written out your message, composed your elevator speech, and developed a tagline, what steps are left to...
3 Steps to Creating a Unique Brand for Your Professional Services Firm
Has your firm been looking into improving or creating your own unique brand? An important question to ask yourself when critiquing your brand is whether your firm delivers a product, or whether your firm delivers a service because the strategies are a little...
The Four Pillars of Marketing ™: How to Use Them in YOUR Marketing Efforts
Sign up for our webinar on The Four Pillars of Marketing on April 20, 2017 > Many years ago when I was a law firm marketing director, I realized the need to summarize and synthesize best marketing practices for lawyers. Thus, The Four Pillars of Marketing ™...
An 8-Step Process to Develop Your Marketing Plan In 2017
Believe it or not, you learned the process of how to develop a marketing plan in law school. Let me explain. Developing a marketing plan is just like conducting the discovery upon which you create the case strategy, or pursuing due diligence before you create “deal...
Are You Engaging? How to Drive Results on LinkedIn
By Terrie S. Wheeler, MBC I can finally report that nearly every lawyer I talk to today has a LinkedIn profile. This is great news considering most lawyers fell squarely into the “late adopter” category when LinkedIn reared its head in 2007. After seeing it wasn’t a...
Content is King
Your Path to Increased Name Recognition and New Business By Terrie S. Wheeler, MBC With the proliferation of LinkedIn, Facebook, Twitter, Instagram, Pinterest, Snapchat, YouTube, podcasts, blogging, list servs, RSS feeds, email marketing, video blogging, webinars, and...