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Gain Without Pain: How to Maximize Marketing Vendor Relationships
If you are currently working with marketing vendors or are in the process of retaining one in the areas of branding/advertising, public relations, business development, social media, blogs, website/graphic design, SEO, events or any number of other functions, it is critical you understand how to maximize this invaluable resource.
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<b><I>Marketing Tech</I></b>: Using LinkedIn As a Powerful Business Development Tool
While many legal professionals have joined LinkedIn, few use it to its maximum benefit. In this article, the authors provides some tips that will help lawyers transform LinkedIn into the powerful business networking tool it was built to be.
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<b><I>Media & Communications</I></b>: How to Network with Reporters and Potential Referral Sources at an Industry Conference
Here is how to effectively network with the reporters who will be serving as moderators at an industry group conference, as well as the panelists and leaders of the industry membership organization sponsoring the programs.
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Personal Branding for Business Development
Which approach to business development — the old-fashioned personal touch or the electronically connected — is more effective at capturing the attention and legal business of potential clients? The answer is both.
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<b><i>Law Firm CI:</i></b> More Data, Less Action?
<b><I>How to Close the 'Knowing-Doing Gap'</I></b><p>While many lawyers have well-honed analytical capabilities, these capabilities are most frequently used to interpret law — <I>e.g.</I>, how a particular fact fits into the context of a precedent, statute or contract term — rather than to drive a business forward. Here are five tips to help solve the problem.
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<b><i>Leadership:</i></b> Why Are So Many Law Firm Videos So Bad?
Here are a few of the issues faced by many of the current batch of bad law firm videos--and how to solve them.
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<b><i>Business Development:</i></b> Making a Bus Dev Coaching Program Stick
<b><I>Five EssentialTips</I></b><p>This article provides five tips to consider for an impactful, productive and successful business development coaching program for lawyers.
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<b><i>Marketing Tech:</i></b> The Evolution of the Legal Profession and Artificial Intelligence
Getting down to business with AI means answering some basic questions and offering some suggestions about the pros and cons of incorporating AI into our businesses, and the impact it will have on our work lives and the future of our legal professions.
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Don't Be United in Facing Your Next Crisis
Even if you follow the law and all the internal protocols your firm has in place, you may still find that clients and the public view your actions negatively. In situations where you believe you are in the right, the instinct is not to apologize. Here is how to correctly handle a high-profile PR crisis.
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<b><i>Media & Communication:</i></b> Getting Busy Lawyers to Market
When lawyers are "too busy with work" to spend their time marketing, that is usually when they are most worthwhile to market. When lawyers are without work and banging down your door for help, that is when they are the least marketable and most challenging.
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