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Testimonials

I really enjoy what I do. Nothing gives me greater pleasure than seeing my clients' profits increasing as they are introduced to new and more efficient and effective marketing methods. Here are what some of my clients have said about my service.

Nick Jervis, Solicitor (non practising), Samson Consulting.

Helen Rowett

"Your Marketing4Solicitors has been very helpful and informative and I would certainly recommend it to other solicitors.

Michael Crilly, Bulldog Law

"I visited Nick because I wanted to know how and which resources to apply to an effective marketing strategy appropriate to my practice.

Nick was very focussed, asked very astute questions and knew what I needed I felt. This was crystallised in the excellent report he generated and I now am confident in my planned approach to marketing.

The Hidden Profits Discovery Meeting was well worth the trip to Bristol from London! Nick really took on board my concerns in this area and I felt he was very caring, enthusiastic and confident about the track I should be on marketing-wise. As a result I now have a plan I am confident about which means I will not waste time or money on an inappropriate strategy so it has abeen a very valuable exercise for my practice: Bravo!"

Mr R McKenzie

"The m4s subscription service was worth much more than the price I paid. There is a lot of information on the internet about marketing but a lot of the methods are incredibly expensive. Nick's ideas are superior for one main reason, they are done from a business perspective, everything is done with a return on investment in mind and none of the methods are financial black holes.

I would recommend this service to anyone looking to grow their business."

Duncan McFadzean

"I have been enjoying learning from your insights over the past while since joining Marketing4Solicitors. I have been impressed by your service and wanted to thank you for all of your help to date."

Manoj - Athi Law LLP

I knew that marketing would become extremely important for solicitor firms and the old mentality of "the work will come to you" would be long gone, however I did not know where to start with my marketing plan.

So I joined Marketing4Solicitors and found the marketing templates and documents are very detailed and make you think about what you will be doing, which makes a huge difference.

The benefits for me are a better understanding of marketing solicitor firms, the importance of keeping in touch with your current client database and if you put the effort into marketing you do see the rewards!

I think the service is excellent!

David Edwards, Managing Partner, Burt Brill & Cardens

1. What made you decide to attend a Steady Stream Of New Clients Meeting?

Always happy to find out if someone else has a fresh view on the age-old problems of proffessional firm management.

2. Are you glad you attended? If yes, please explain why.

Yes, good meeting, firmly grounded in 'do-able' actions rather than the creation of some grand - and unfeasible - masterplan.

3. Any other comments?

Very worthwhile meeting. Nick was enthusiastic, fast paced and set-out a clear series of steps to be taken and a sensible plan to achieve them. Nick is refreshingly free of management-speak, invigorating and reassuringly demanding.

Hidden Profits Discovery Meeting Client Who Became A Regular Consultancy Client - Anyonymous

"Up to 2009, our marketing strategy amounted to little more than a brass plaque and an advert in Yellow Pages. Whilst this had been perfectly adequate in the 1990s and before, we were beginning to notice that it was no longer paying dividends. Our fee income was starting to dwindle. We contacted a friend of ours who had already used Marketing4solicitors, and were introduced to Nick Jervis. For the next three years we received invaluable advice from Nick. We totally revamped our website and started a Google Pay Per Click campaign. We revised our office and reception area and joined networking groups. We started a regular campaign of e-flyering our clients, and built up a substantial database. We contributed articles to magazines all over the internet, began an active blog page, got onto Facebook and Twitter, and improved our customer capture procedures. Within a few months our fee income had begun to rise sharply, and we began to see a substantial increase in new enquiries. After a few years we merged with a larger firm, but there is no doubt that we would have been of little interest had we tried to continue without the benefit of Nick's advice."

Martin Wyatt, Director, face2face Solicitors.

"Nick has a wealth of practical experience in helping solicitors to generate the kind of business they seek.

In the increasingly competitive post-ABS world, marketing is becoming a vital issue not just for growth but the very survival of many law firms.

Nick is a really cost-effective resource to help guide law firms through the coming business environment. "

Patrick O'Hare - Paschal O'Hare Solicitors

1. What made you decide to attend a Steady Stream Of New Clients Meeting?

I was suitably impressed with the various emails that I received giving Solicitors marketing advice. In addition once i became a member of Marketing4Solicitors i found a wealth of marketing information from someone with enough experience to know what works and what does not work when marketing a Solicitors Practice.

2. Are you glad you attended? If yes, please explain why.

I am delighted I attended the meeting. I found the advice both relevant and practical in relation to my goals for the business.

3. Any other comments?

I am delighted with the expert guidance and advice which Nick has provided ranging from advice on the proper format of print advertising, cross selling of services to the many other services he provides. His enthusiasm for marketing is infectious and his ideas and advice are well thought out and relevant. I have no doubt that his advice and guidance will prove beneficial to my business going forward..

Jerome Dodge, Blanchards Bailey Solicitors

"Not only is Nick Jervis a marketing expert, but as a former practising solicitor, he is someone who understands how solicitors work and through Marketing4Solicitors offers practical marketing advice that the average solicitor has a realistic chance of implementing. He has played a significant part in setting our firm on the path to creating and implementing a successful marketing strategy.

Denis Stevenson, Rowlinsons Solicitors.

"Nick, I have already provided you with a testimonial about your excellent Marketing4Solicitors service, but I had to write to you again to say that I really appreciate the time you have taken to provide your “marketing critique” to make very important amendments to our marketing letter. We have already had an excellent response to our offering."

Udu Emmanuel Edada, Emmanuel & Co Solicitors

"My concerns before joing M4S was that it was a 'con' at worst or at best a waste of money. The impression was due in part to hearing of you on LinkedIn, and I am just suspicious of any business advertised on there (but that is just irrational prejudice on my part). My view has changed due to the following-

1. The free information you gave was very detailed;
2. Your regular emails kept your company in my mind;
3. Since joining your site the information was been good and well structured; and
4. Your marketing critique of my website today was brilliant, better than I could hope for.

I have already told other solicitors about M4S and I am sure I will more than recover my investment in the service."

A Satisfied Marketing4Solicitors Member

"Thanks, Nick, for constantly reminding us to send emailing to our clients and contacts. I recently sent one about the need to have a Will, popped out for an hour and returned to 5 emails from people wanting updated or new Wills. It made my day! We will now be sending regular emails to all our clients, prospects and contacts as we now realise this really is a great way to ‘increase solicitors’ profits’! Thanks again.

Rob Ashton, Personal Injury Litigation Consultant

"My chosen field of Personal Injury, has for many years been fiercely competitive, against a backdrop of intense Defendant lobbying, bringing downward pressure on costs. Changes in the regulatory framework herald further pressures on time, and the advent of Alternative Business Structures is an unknown quantity, but will surely bring the risk of Big Business with its big budgets and slick advertising, to a place near me, trying to sweep up my potential clients. I have been in business 38 years and the challenges are greater than ever, but as I could not even sell a refrigerator to an Eskimo, even if I had the time, I decided help was needed.

On approaching Samson Consulting, I was struck by Nick's energy in presenting his ideas in a readable, matter-of-fact format, in which he displays on one hand, an uncanny knack of fingering the obvious (to a 5 year old, but not to a practising Solicitor) marketing opportunities that are there for the asking, but at the same time displaying a depth of proven experience and originality of approach in real-world or Internet marketing, with an enthusiasm that is both infectious and confidence-inspiring in these most challenging times.

Bonallack And Bishop Solicitors

"When I started receiving Nick’s advice on pay per click advertising, I followed some of it [with a considerable degree of success] but really didn't think it was necessary to follow it all. Well, not for the 1st time, I have had to eat my words. In the last year or so I have mended my ways and now follow Nick’s advice to the letter. The statistics speak for themselves.

In the period 19/6/10 to 18/7/10 my monthly pay per click campaign cost me £1,831.58 [that’s 735 clicks at an average of £2.49 each]. I thought that was pretty good. However, since taking on all of Nick's advice, the identical period this year saw a massive improvement in broadly identical campaigns – 1,078 clicks at an average of just £1.64 each, totalling £1,764.77.

So not only have I saved myself over £50 every month, but I also get almost 50% more clicks! That's what I call a result – well done Nick!"

Tim Bishop, Managing Director, Bonallack And Bishop Solicitors Salisbury

Glynns Solicitors

We have never once regretted having Nick as our marketing consultant. He is just brilliant at thinking out of the box and making us do the same. We decided very early on that we just had to trust him because we are lawyers and not so good at selling things!

Nick is enthusiastic and extremely pro active which is infectious and makes us want to excel at attracting the clients we really want.

He is now an integral and indispensable part of our team.

Julie Glynn, Partner, Glynns Solicitors Bristol & Bath.

Marie Huntley, Huntley Legal

"I find the M4S, materials and toolkits very practical and useful and a month after signing up I have made significant progress: written up some case studies, requested some new testimonials and drafted the core of what will be my new website. I am now contacting web designers armed with the confidence that I know what I want to achieve and what functions the site will need. This is a break through, as I have for the past 2 years planned and researched sporadically but always got stuck before getting anything done. Many thanks."

N A Commercial Solicitors

Dear Nick,

Before I joined Marketing4Solicitors I had concerns because of people I have hired in the past (at some expense) for marketing advice whose advice and material I found ineffective. I was also concerned that by subscribing there would then be pressure to purchase other services and material and without spending additional money the M4S membership would not be that useful.

I honestly think joining M4S has been the best thing I've done in terms of investment in marketing. I find all of your material very thought provoking. You provide us with templates and very specific tips but in addition if someone fully absorbs what you have to say then it changes the way we think about our practice specifically and marketing generally. I found your recommendation of Michael Gerber, whose books I've since read, particularly instructive and any solicitor (or any business person) would gain a lot from his books about how to organise a business.

The biggest benefits of membership of Marketing4Solicitors are:

• The information provided is very focused and very well explained - its practical and can be put into practice by any solicitor immediately;
• The interaction between you and your members is very good and I like the way I can contact you with questions;
• I find that your regular blogs and updates keep me motivated; and
• What you present us with gives us all we need to put together a complete marketing strategy, rather than just get a couple of techniques for increasing business.

It is impossible to quantify the likely return on investment because I don't think there's any limit to the extra income which can be produced from a strategy inspired by your recommendations. I'll be disappointed not to have doubled my turnover in the next twelve months.

Especially with your recommendations on writing (client guides, articles, blogs etc) there's no limit to the depth of what you can do to market and improve your practice. It’s something that will grow organically (and at little expense) over time. I particularly like the way that your strategies are not based on 'selling' as such but by lead generation and 'serving' prospective and current clients.

Regards, Simon

Simon Newman

NA Commercial Solicitors

Rowlinsons Solicitors

"I have over the years dealt with many people who profess to understand how to market legal services without really understanding how the profession works. I found it very refreshing not only being a solicitor and knowing how a legal practice operates but also you have a very sound grasp of the various marketing strategies which work within our profession. You came very highly recommended by, a friend of mine, Tim Bishop who to put it bluntly does not suffer fools and he speaks very highly of you. It was as a result of that that I contacted you and I have been similarly impressed by firstly the wealth of information which is on your Marketing4Solicitors website and the numerous downloads which will provide me with invaluable tools to market my practice.

Your one hour telephone consultancy was very informative. In a space of an hour you gave us a very good grasp on search engine optimisation and removed a lot of mystique around the same. We now feel confident that we can implement a lot of the strategies ourselves as a result of your advice. I would not hesitate in recommending you to other solicitors although unfortunately it will not be to my competitors."

Denis Stevenson, Managing Director, Rowlinsons Solicitors Cheshire

David Madams Solicitors

Before I joined Marketing4Solicitors I thought it would be really expensive and that I would be tied into something long term, oh and that it would be geared towards the big firms.

It is a very reasonable cost for what is offered and provided, plus the help has been very much tailored towards the set up that I have here, ie one man and his old english sheepdog.

The three biggest benefits are that:

• The real impression that someone was on board to provide me with a much needed 'outside looking in' perspective on what I was doing and how to change that for the better
• the precedents, which I can adapt if needed
• the knowledge of how to maximise internet potential eg writing articles, add pages of information.

I would tell any solicitor considering joining to join without hesitation! I fully expect to make a return on investment although I have no idea as to how much at this time.

David Madams - David Madams Solicitor

Bakers Solicitors

"We were unsure of the benefits that might accrue from the Hidden Profits Discovery Day and concerned that the day would peter out. We were also suspicious that we might find that we would not be able to take advantage of what might be on offer. However, the day was pretty much full-on and we had all of our preconceptions overturned.

The three biggest benefits of the Hidden Profits Discovery Day were that:

1. We are now putting more concentrated effort into marketing
2. We are producing much improved decision-making on our marketing ideas
3. Our business plan has more focussed marketing objectives than previously

It is a worthwhile investment if you are serious about improving the marketing of your business.

We particularly liked Nick’s honest and open approach to the whole subject and the fact that he is prepared to 'tell it like it is'. Nick’s experience with this area of the law was invaluable and saved a lot of time. He provides a refreshing way to look at marketing and a practical way of doing things better.

Our investment has already been repaid and we fully expect to cover the cost many times over."

Roger Faulkes, Practice Manager, Bakers Solicitors.

APP Wine Law

Nick Jervis’s Golden Rules of Marketing4Solicitors Webinar is interesting, entertaining and motivational. It has spurred me to action, and I’m excited about putting it into practice.

Andrew Park - APP Wine Law

Pearson Rowe Solicitors

"The decision to involve an "outsider" in the running of our firm was a big step for us to take. The thought of giving someone the opportunity to potentially criticise your efforts is never easy. We are however delighted to say that working with Nick has been refreshing and enlightening.

His knowledge and understanding of the nuances of a legal firm has enabled us to work in partnership to improve the marketing of our practice to both new and existing clients alike. Many of his ideas have been simple and relatively inexpensive to incorporate.

We have no doubt that our partnership with Nick has improved the profile of our firm."

Gary Storer, Practice Manager, Pearson Rowe Solicitors.

Kingsley Smith Solicitors

"Before the Hidden Profits Discovery Meeting I thought the fee was too expensive but was persuaded to go ahead by the no quibble money back guarantee. In my book that shows someone who has confidence in his own service. And I was not disappointed! Within 15 minutes of meeting Nick I realized his fee was real value for money. He opened my eyes to the steps I could take that would make a difference. If you want to spend a day at the end of which you'll have an action plan with the tools and precedents to kick start you into activity, then Nick is the man for you. If you want to spend a day achieving nothing then he's not!" Elizabeth Kingsley-Smith.

Gray Hooper Holt Solicitors

"I have met various consultants over the years and have always been cautious when engaging their services. However, the difference with Nick is that as a solicitor he really understands my business so that saves a lot of time. When you add to that his proven marketing experience and the fact that he consistently provides a high return on investment for my practice (ie wins me new instructions and new clients every single month) I have no hesitation in recommending him or his Hidden Profits Discovery Meeting". Robert Gray, Gray Hooper Holt Solicitors.

MASS Training

"The service MASS training receives from Nick at Samson Consulting is hard to measure as it is invaluable to us. We have increased our turnover by 200% and are looking at increasing this again this year. We would not have been able to achieve this without Nick's knowledge and skills. Not only has he helped us with our marketing generally, but also the rebranding of MASS Training, the launch of our website and an overall holistic marketing approach to everything we do now."

"Nick is always upbeat, positive and has a 'can do' attitude about everything he does. It really does help to have someone who believes in the product you are trying to sell, but also being a non practising solicitor, her has insider knowledge of the legal world and understands how it operates."

"If you are considering using his service you need to speak to Nick sooner rather than later as he has so much knowledge about the area in which you operate and understands the marketplace in a way that someone who had not practiced as a solicitor would not. Therefore he is ideally placed to be able to increase your turnover almost instantly."

"I would strongly recommend using Nick Jervis: in fact I would suggest you are losing money by not using Samson Consulting."

Sue Richardson. MASS Legal Training.

George Ide Phillips Solicitors, Chichester

"I felt it appropriate to drop you a line just to confirm how are are doing with the new Website. As you will recall I initially indicated to you that we were very pleased with the same.

We were very impressed by the attention to detail shown by Samson Consulting and were really very surprised that, even before any formal search engine optimisation had taken place, we began to attract a steady stream of enquiries from new clients. The site is well on course to pay for itself in the first year.

Thank you once again." Ian Oliver, Partner.

Batchelor Myddelton Solicitors, Potters Bar, Hertfordshire.

"Since we have involved Nick in marketing there has been a transformation in our practice. Whilst previously we had plodded along for 10 years picking up all sorts of work via word of mouth and local networking , thanks to Nick we now have focus and are attracting the sort of work and clients that we want on a daily basis. Nick is innovative and proactive. He doesn't believe in putting off until tomorrow anything that can be done today. He is results oriented and we can already - after a relatively short period of time see results". Jenny Batchelor, Partner.

Carter and Carter Solicitors, Manchester.

"Nick Jervis was recommended to me from a well respected colleague who had also received advice and assistance in relation to the development of her practice. Her words to me were something like; "Use Nick he will get you results."

As a new practice specialising in an extremely competitive area of the law I was eager to give ourselves the very best chance of growing the business. It seemed to me that as Nick was a former solicitor who had years of practising experience he would already know the marketplace.

Unlike other marketeers, he would also have a real appreciation of what my job entails on a day-to-day basis giving him a very good head start. Nick's initial "health check" was certainly a worthwhile exercise.

In the first instance I found Nick very personable and easy to get along with. After asking me a series of questions about our practice he produced suggestions in relation to how we should go about growing the business.

What I liked about Nick's approach was that he came up with a number of practical suggestions that we could start working on straight away and these did not necessarily involve any expense. He kept things simple and did not overload me with too many ideas and unrealistic targets.

I have no hesitation in recommending Nick Jervis and his company enthusiastically and wholeheartedly (my only reservation is that if too many other people get to know about him it may make life more difficult for us!)." Chris Carter, Partner.

DeSpeville French Property Solutions, Sunningdale, Berkshire.

" I have no doubt that my practice has benefited hugely from the very cost effective advice provided to me by Nick Jervis of Samson Consulting. Thanks to his advice I am in the unusual position, for me, of actually being able to directly attribute financial benefit for advice received from a marketing professional. His advice ranges from the basic "why didn't I think of this before" to more sophisticated but still very beneficial advice. It helps that all this advice is delivered in a clear and friendly manner from someone I feel I can trust. " Noel De Speville,

Clutton Cox Solicitors

"Nick Jervis at Samson Consulting a non practicing solicitor has a straight forward and pragmatic approach to marketing which is fresh and easily absorbed. Again if you don’t sign up (for my 8 Ways To Increase Your Profits Guide) it’s your loss. "

Paul Hajek

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