Below you'll find a list of all posts that have been categorized as “Law Firm Marketing”
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? …
On the way to our hotel from Orlando International Airport for the 2014 Legal Marketing Association Annual Conference, a colleague of mine and our driver, a hospitable immigrant from London, tried to decipher the skywriting that appeared in the sky before us. Seems that skywriting as a marketing message is quite popular in these warmer climes. In the past, my …
Anecdotal evidence says that professional services firms – notably law firms – are not setting the standard when it comes to using social media. For professionals whose jobs are to reduce risk, embracing what is perceived as “risky” Social Business doesn’t come naturally. And yet now we have some comprehensive data to back up this notion. Good2BSocial, a social enterprise …
“Social Media – why should I bother?” In other words: What will I get out of it? What’s my return on investment (ROI)? It’s a good question that is often asked by those many professionals who so easily and blithely dismiss the need to even create an accurate and updated LinkedIn profile for themselves. So, what’s the answer? Strictly speaking, the …
On January 6, social media consultant Mark Schaefer published a fascinating article titled “Why Content Marketing Is Not a Sustainable Strategy” in which he stated that the supply of content marketing is outstripping the demand for that product. With the ever-increasing numbers of blogs, videos, and social media content being produced, his point is that content marketers are having to …
