Below you'll find a list of all posts that have been categorized as “Law Firm Marketing”
Earlier this year I was in Verona, Italy, with its imposing statue of Dante Alighieri. Having recently read Dante’s Inferno in an impromptu book club, it got me thinking: if Dante lived today and was a digital marketer, what would he have to say about, well, Digital Worst Practices? Which would he consign to the Inferno? Before we dive into …
Last month I was pleased to see the advent of a new digital ranking of law firm websites: The Digital 100, based in the UK and managed by marketing agency TBD. The Digital 100 is “a subscription service which ranks law firms for their digital marketing performance. A bit like The Lawyer 200 or the Legal Business 100 do for …
“I want to blog, but don’t have the time.” That’s one of the many reasons we give as to why we don’t blog (more often). Believe me, I have the same problem. I have some suggestions on how business owners, artists (of all types), consultants and others can blog more regularly. But first, we should address the main question: Why …
By Nicholas Kosar and Stacey Piper of Piper Strategies Every business has a website. Sadly, however, most websites perform merely as fancy “e-brochures” – not as true marketing tools that nurture and develop a growing client base. So how do you take your website and digital assets to the next level? In our work with businesses large and small, we’ve …
Having managed marketing and business development in the legal field for over a dozen years, I have a good idea of how hard lawyers work. So it’s disappointing to see that many lawyers’ websites aren’t working hard for them. What do I mean by that? Well, let’s say that a lawyer wrote an article or blog post about a new …
Struggling to spread the brand promise? Here are three mistakes to avoid, and some encouragement from Benjamin Franklin. As we know, corporate brand names are always aware of the need to get in front of new eyeballs. It’s one of the first assumptions of the brand marketing challenge. However, marketers in the professional services sector are often faced with intelligent …
Like a lot of people, I’ll use hashtags to accent a social media post, notably among friends on Facebook. The hashtag serves as sort of a tongue-in-cheek addition to my main message. Yet while the hashtag has been around for a while, I still see people misusing it, notably on Twitter. Well, maybe “misuse” is too strong a word, but …
Itamar Simonson, professor of marketing at Stanford, tells the American Marketing Association that, in a world full of online reviews and “experience-based information,” the value of branding has been eroded: “Consumers rely increasingly on information sources like reviews by consumers and by experts…. They’re less dependent on … cues such as brand names.” This may be true in the B2C …
As Joe Pulizzi puts it, the opportunity to earn new business through “epic” content marketing is there for those who see it. This is certainly true in professional services marketing – notably in the legal field. While businesses and law firms can publish online with the push of a button, traditional content publishers are struggling to produce quality content and …
Anyone remember Super Bowl XXXIV in January 2000? While it featured an exciting game between the St Loius Rams and Tennessee Titans that came down to the wire, you might better remember it as the “Dot-Com Super Bowl.” The game featured commercial after commercial by companies that had business models built on commerce generated through their websites. Remember pets.com or lifeminders.com? …
