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You don’t have to build a referral base through a Bar Association only. Look around your everyday life and make networking fit in.

This week we asked: Where have your best referrals come from?

1) Professional Organizations (Bar Associations, ect…) – 19%

2) Personal Causes – 26%

3) Community Organizations/ Schools – 13%

4) Neither…

You don’t have to build a referral base through a Bar Association only. Look around your everyday life and make networking fit in.

This week we asked: Where have your best referrals come from?

1) Professional Organizations (Bar Associations, ect…) – 19%

2) Personal Causes – 26%

3) Community Organizations/ Schools – 13%

4) Neither…

There could be a number of reasons that clients might bad mouth your firm. As the saying goes, an unhappy client/customer will tell up to 10 people how dissatisfied they are with a product or service. For a lawyer, that can be the kiss of death, since anywhere from 71% to 80% of new matters…

I often find myself counseling clients who have trouble committing to organizations. In fact, if I had a dollar for every client who joined the local Bar Association and then called it a day I would be…well, I’d be a wealthy consultant. One of my main goals in working with a new client is to…

Usually, I don’t post about articles that are only available by subscription, since most readers are not going to sign up and pay to see the article. However, a recent one on LawyersUSA Online gave some pretty simple steps to increase referrals, and I thought they were worth mentioning.

The five pretty basic tips include:…

Your friends and family can be an incredible source of referrals… as long as they know just what it is that you do.

This week we asked: What percentage of your friends and family truly know what you do?

1. Less than 25% – 35%

2. 25-50% – 40%

3. 51-75% – 17%

4. 76-100%…

Many realtors (who happen to be masters of marketing!) I know have a name for the people around them…their “sphere of influence.” These are the people—the family, friends, former clients and close acquaintances—whom they count on to help them bring in business. And you can bet EVERY SINGLE ONE OF THEM knows exactly what…