What does REALLY productive mean to you? For me it is a FEELING of being in the zone of productive. I’m knocking things off my TO DO list (yes, I am one of those obsessive list keepers and I sometimes write something on my list just so I get the satisfaction of crossing it
Marketing Time Commitment
Legal Business Development: Time is Money
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“I don’t have time!” I hear that over and over again. Often times, after lawyers complain about not having time we go on to discuss their business development initiatives and almost each and every time they divulge to me little and big things they are doing that don’t make sense that he or she is…
Legal Business Development: What Are You Hiding From?
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"I’m not procrastinating… I’m really busy! No! Really!"
How many times have you said THAT! I know I have. We create this feverish pitch of activity trying to get everything done… but we know full well that there are things on that list we will NEVER get to… right? Some of those things don’t warrant…
Legal Business Development: Find FOCUS in 18 Minutes a Day!
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Peter Bregman writes for the Harvard Business Review and last week he was interviewed on ABC News where he shared his strategy for prioritizing and getting the right things done.
Peter has written the book 18 Minutes: Find focus, Master Distraction, and Get The Right Things Done. OK… 18 minutes, how could a measly…
Legal Business Development: Negotiate Time… On Your Terms
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When you look back on the year, do you find that you OVER PROGRAMED yourself? OR did others over program your time by asking you to do things you felt compelled to do? Have you ever thought about saying NO? Well maybe it would be more like, NO THANK YOU, in a very diplomatic way…
Legal Business Development: Perfection or Progress?
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If you are a regular reader you are well aware that I have been writing and working with clients for the past two and a half months on business development planning for 2012. Part of the process is to look back onto 2011 and examine what went well and what could be improved upon. There…
Legal Business Development: Who Says You Work Too Much?
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Do you enjoy your work? Can you get lost in the process of preparing for trial or analyzing a transaction? Are you energized by the interaction you experience with clients? Do you find it inspiring to discuss the law with colleagues? If the answer is YES… you my friend are very lucky. But sometimes the…
Law Firm Marketing: Non-Billable Marketing Hours
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Welcome back! On Tuesday we kicked off our weekly poll with the question: How much time do you actually spend marketing each week?
Results
- More than 120 minutes – 32%
- 60-120 minutes – 27%
- 15-60 minutes – 21%
- Less than 15 minutes – 8%
- None – 11%
Thanks to everyone who participated in this week’s…
Law Firm Marketing: Make Your Commitment Absolute
By Paula Black on
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Welcome! Today I start my first blog… it reminds me a little bit of the first day of school… I hope all my friends are here and am looking forward to meeting new ones.
With this new forum I would like to open a conversation on… you guessed it… marketing, branding and business development, as…