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Listening to the Client: Where Do We Stand?
If you listen to the marketplace, you will know what to do in connection with client growth and client retention. Are firms listening to this advice?
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How to Leverage Media Relations Throughout an Attorney's Career
A lawyer can utilize the platform of media outlets to share insights that will develop business by attracting the attention of potential clients and referral sources.
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Using Financial Metrics to Drive Business Development
Growing the top line requires a systematic approach that maximizes your available time and focuses you on the best opportunities. With greater clarity, you can be assertive in the pursuit of your financial objectives. With sustained focus on financial metrics, you stay in control of your book of business.
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Breakthrough Thinking: How to Discover and Drive Motivation in Business Development and Lead Attorneys to Greater Prosperity
Despite all the strategic planning CMOs may devote to individual attorney coaching and training, it is often not enough to support the lawyer client in connecting the dots of relationship building, reputation enhancing and contact management over the course of a career to make a remarkable difference.
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'Media & Communication:' Is Your Firm Ready for PR?
A good PR strategy might involve working on content creation, managing social media accounts, interacting with customers online and offline, and talking to the press.
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'Marketing Tech:' Harnessing the Hot Trend In Voice Search to Generate New Business
Voice search is the hot new trend in technology and CMOs can harness it to generate more calls online and leads from their websites.
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'Professional Development:' Owning Your Business: Using Financial Metrics to Drive Business Development
Growing the top line requires a systematic approach that maximizes your available time and focuses you on the best opportunities.
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Focusing on Client Retention May Mean Restructuring the Firm
<b><i>Law Firms Should Double Down on Their Existing Clients By Focusing on Client Satisfaction and Retention Rates Rather Than Billable Hours and Origination Credits</b></i><p>New client acquisition can cost 15 times more than retaining an existing client, and yet most lawyers spend their limited and valuable time chasing new clients.
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The Topography of a Strong Attorney Biography
<b><i>Part One of a Two-Part Article</b></i><p>Attorneys are generally not great salespeople (caveat: some are <i>great</i> salespeople, aka rainmakers) and they are often introverts. While lawyers may like to speak about themselves, many are not effective in <i>how</i> to speak about themselves and their work in a way that is appealing to clients.
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'Competitive Intelligence:' CI Is Another Tool in Marketing's Arsenal for Practice Group Planning
It's the budgeting and planning time of year. And, if the legal industry literature is anything to go by, strategies are in for law firms. A well-defined and well-communicated strategy provides a tangible way for law firms to identify their strengths and differentiators.
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