Communication Strategy: January 2011 Archives

January 13, 2011

Law Firm Marketing: Keep it Simple

If you want to attract more clients as a lawyer you need to keep you communications messages simple. Do not try to dazzle people with your brilliant command of big words. Make sure you are easy to understand.

This video explains the concept:


Really intelligent people can break difficult concepts down into easy to understand messages. You should strive to master that skill.

If you make things easy to understand, you will get hired more often.

January 12, 2011

Legal Marketing Strategy: Listen and Be In The Room

Have you ever had a conversation with someone who was more focused on their Blackberry or iPhone than they were on you?

Your clients have had this experience...with you!

If someone has taken the time to come to a meeting with you alone or with you and a group of people, you owe it to them to "be in the room" which means, well, watch this video:

Being in the room means paying full attention to the people with whom you are meeting. It means leave your Blackberry or other electronic device in the car. It means focusing on the client and the matter at hand.

One of the most important aspects of legal marketing is listening. You must listen first and emotionally engage the client second.

January 5, 2011

Law Firm Marketing Means Change

If you want to be great at law firm marketing you must embrace change. There are three ways to make positive changes in your law firm marketing.

This video details the three ways to create positive change quickly.



As is outlined in this law firm marketing video, you can:

  • Sell Different Services
  • Sell To Someone Different
  • Sell Your Services Differently

Those are the tree ways to implement positive change in your law firm marketing. Which of them will you employ?