The new year has set in with full vigor — make sure you don't get lethargic with marketing just yet. Marketing is an integral part of businesses as that is how your potential customers know about your existence. With a plan and the right strategy, you can make 2018...
The 2018 Law Firm Outlook: Hot Practices and Marketing Trends
A retired management consultant has been tracking emerging trends in the legal profession for more than 25 years. The fact that he wound down his practice has not dimmed his enthusiasm for checking in with law firms and networks, non-traditional providers of legal...
A Time For Reflection: Why What You Want Matters Most
As you look at the time between now and the end of the year, you have a unique opportunity, available to you only once per year. You can take the time during what remains of December to look back before you launch forward into 2018! Reflection is Good for the Soul So...
Lawyers In Smaller-Midsized Firms: Clients Want Your Blogs To Be Longer
Before I began working with law firms, I was an assistant editor of a Very Serious Business Newsmagazine where there was constant debate about the best length for a story. Other than the breaking news section, where articles were relatively short so all the week’s...
Why Video Makes Sense For Financial And Professional Service Firms
Television elbowed its way into our homes in the 1950s and by the 1960s ‘most every North American home had at least one set. Since then, video has become part of nearly everyone’s life. Early TV was primitive. The first network news anchors sat at a desk reporting...
6 Ways For Midsized Firms To Land Larger Clients
This news ought to be deeply disturbing to managing partners and lawyers everywhere, regardless of the size of their firm: Attorneys in larger firms are losing their once-revered position as a business’ most-trusted advisor. Other professionals are edging them out,...
5 Steps to Executing Exceptional Client Service
This past summer, an elderly uncle passed away, leaving my sister and me with both the burden and honor of settling his affairs as co-executors. Our already busy lives were rocked with this out-of-left-field assignment as we began making what felt like mile-long...
Access to a Marketing Department Can be Cost Effective
A solution to what is becoming a fairly widespread law firm management dilemma is taking hold. It seems to be increasingly popular with midsized and smaller firms that understand a structured, disciplined marketing and business development effort is a key to not just...
For Smaller And Midsized Firms, Consistency As Important As Quality And Service In Retaining Clients
Clients have become as concerned about the consistency of work produced by law firms they use as any other quality issue. And consistency involves more than the work product produced by attorneys; it also includes a consistent effort on client service, marketing, and...
Making Sense of SEO- Tricks, Tips, and Lingo to Know
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...
Irreverent Toni Halleen Turned Up the Spunk on the Studio Floor
When is the last time you’ve heard of a lawyer who is determined to put fun first? Enter Toni Halleen, an attorney and co-founder at Schaefer Halleen law firm and professional speaker living the goal of infusing amusement into everything she does. Toni even put her...
How Marketing Coaching Can Put You On The Fast Track To Growth
What? You didn’t learn about marketing and business development in law school? Well, you’re not alone. Aside from a few progressive law schools offering accredited classes that touch on marketing, sales, and the business of law, it’s likely you didn’t learn these...