When it comes to securing leads, the follow-up email is hard to beat. One study found that a 12% response rate from two emails increases to 15%–16% with a third email. If you play your cards right, the success of your email marketing could, in large part, depend on your follow-up emails. So, how do
Business Development
The Biggest Flaw in Your Marketing Might Surprise You
A few weeks ago at a company meeting, one of our employees shared a story with the team. They told us they had gotten two speeding tickets within the last year. After each ticket, our employee opened their mailbox to find dozens of mailers from different local attorneys. These attorneys were on the ball, and…
How You Can Use Customer Stories to Make a Killer Marketing Campaign
Stories are one of the oldest forms of communication. For as long as there has been language, people have used words to spin yarns and convey ideas. Today, when it comes to marketing your products, stories emotionally impact your customers in a way that mere facts never could.
How do stories do this? According to…
Don’t Sleep on the LinkedIn Boom! 3 Ways to Increase Your Firm’s Presence and Get Results
Millions of people lost their jobs in 2020, and in their search for new positions, they discovered a new-to-them social network: LinkedIn. Yes, you read that right — LinkedIn is having a moment. According to a Q3 2020 Performance Report from Microsoft, the platform grew 26% in that quarter alone, adding a whopping 15 million…
A Closer Look at the Great News
I am honored to announce that I am the winner of the Daily Business Review—Best of Awards for Legal Business Development Coach. I’m thrilled! Why this year? Let’s take a closer look.
Sometimes it’s hard to see the impact of our business development initiatives. It took some refocusing and connecting the dots.
For the…
The Laws of Content Marketing Part 3: Shared Success
In this post, we’re covering the third of the four laws of content marketing. (If you missed the first and second laws, go back and check those out!)
The third law is “Shared Success,” and what this primarily means is that there is a relationship between all of your marketing activities and your content. But…
The Laws of Content Marketing Part 2: People, Not Search Engines
In our last post, we shared the first of four laws of content marketing, which is that Content is King. This post will cover the second law of content marketing, which is to focus on people, not search engines. What that means is this idea that we’re so overly focused on search engines, and not…
Lawyer Marketing: It Pays to be the Expert
It pays to be the expert. This is true in just about every field – and it’s certainly true in law.
Most consumers looking for a lawyer are facing significant issues – divorce, bankruptcy, defending their business in a lawsuit, helping a loved one immigrate, planning for the future of their estate, and so on.…
3 Reasons Why Repetition Makes Your Content Stronger
One of the concerns we hear most often from clients is that they fear their content is becoming repetitive, boring, or monotonous. They’ll come to us wondering if it’s okay, for example, that the same blog appeared twice on their website, or that we linked the same video several times on their Facebook page. They’ll…
An Interview With Attorney Danielle R. Browne—A Former Columbia University Varsity Women’s Basketball Player
Having coached hundreds of lawyers, I have observed that when the lawyer has been involved in sports of any kind they have valuable sportsmanship experiences that can set the foundation for a successful legal career and we can learn from them.
Meet Danielle R. Browne, a former Columbia University four-year member of the varsity…