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Is Your Firm GPS-Less?

Kimberly Alford Rice

To avoid random acts of marketing and senseless spending, law firms, large and small, should develop and implement a solid marketing plan and budget as essential business planning tools -- a map to assure they arrive at their desired destination of profitable clients and a healthy practice.

Is Your Firm GPS-Less? Image

Is Your Firm GPS-Less?

Kimberly Alford Rice

To avoid random acts of marketing and senseless spending, law firms, large and small, should develop and implement a solid marketing plan and budget as essential business planning tools -- a map to assure they arrive at their desired destination of profitable clients and a healthy practice.

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STONE COLD DEAD IN THE MARKET

Bruce Marcus

Ok, everybody talks about marketing, and markets, and how to reach them ' but has anyone stopped to define what a market really is?We all tend to take…

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There's A Leak in My Firm

Bruce Marcus

OK, somebody talked to the press, and leaked information that shouldn't have been leaked. That's three problems, not one. Primary, of course, is how we control the damage caused by the leak. Then we worry about who did it.

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Take One Survey'

Bruce W. Marcus

Professional survey and market research companies are generally pretty good. They use sophisticated modeling techniques and computerized formulae to tell us (with a margin of error of four or five points either way) who's going to win the next election and how high skirts are going to be next year. Highly scientific stuff ' but, unfortunately not always right. Which is why you have to take those surveys with a grain of salt.

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DO YOU GIVE SAMPLES?

Bruce W. Marcus

Every so often, in a particular area of a professional practice, somebody gets the bright idea to give samples ' to give a half hour of free advice as a way to entice a prospective client to ask for more. Two questions arise. Is it ethical? Is it good marketing?

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OGLETREE DEAKINS GETS IT RIGHT<b><i>Doing the Perfect Ad</b></i>

Bruce W. Marcus

At last, the perfect law firm ad campaign. Well, pretty much perfect. Ogletree Deakins, a 39-office, Atlanta-based law firm has been running an ad campaign that embodies every principle of good law firm advertising.

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THE LAST DAYS OF THE LAST DAYS

Bruce W. Marcus

Big companies, including law firms, sometimes go into bankruptcy. It happens a lot. But when it's a major law firm, like Dewey LeBoeuf, the reasons for its demise can give us some clues about the future of all law firms.

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CONVENTIONAL WISDOM MAY BE CONVENTIONAL, BUT IT AIN'T WISDOM

Bruce W. Marcus

The most corrosive concept in marketing is conventional wisdom. Why?

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SING ME A SONNET

Bruce Marcus

When everybody who holds any kind of a responsible job there is making more money than any of them ever dreamed they would, and when they're in an industry in which every competitor would pay anything to hire them away, how do you motivate people? How do you get them to stay, and to produce at the high levels demanded by high tech companies?

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