With the end of year fast approaching, when the whole world, or at least half of it, will be away, when should you restart your marketing in 2017? Someone asked me this. Needless to say, it wasn’t a Marketing4Solicitors’ member. But it made me think that as is always the case with questions, if one … Read more
The old saying goes that you don’t know what you don’t know. It is true isn’t it? It was brought home to me recently when I finally hit the wall with my hopeless wireless internet at home. Whilst it is advertised as up to 50mbps meaning that it should be very fast, my Virgin Broadband … Read more
It genuinely upsets me that often a solicitor who has worked so hard all of their life to build a practice, suddenly finds when trying to sell it that the multiple they are likely to receive when they sell their law firm is nowhere near as much as they had hoped. Why does this happen … Read more
The Law Firm Marketing Book For Solicitors Who is this book for? This book, and the formula contained within it, will work for anyone involved in the marketing of legal services. The marketing strategies and tactics I talk about have been used for all sized law firms, from sole practitioners to mid-tier and top tier … Read more
When I was a solicitor, my secretary (who was much more of an assistant really) used to like to test me. (I have to be careful in typing this as some 25 years later she works with me again now and I have to say is doing a fantastic job; so if you are reading … Read more
Which type of solicitor are you? Which type of solicitor are you in this scenario: Are you the standard solicitor who worked at a law firm for 20 years before eventually being handed your own law firm to play with or did you go it alone and bravely set up your own firm – the … Read more
My daughter is learning to drive; I have the grey hairs to prove it. She has had some paid for driving lessons and so I felt sufficiently confident to take her out with me in the passenger seat. We had three perfect driving lessons. I revelled in her getting better at each junction and was … Read more
Where are you now with your practice? Is it hugely successful and producing the income level that you want and crave, or could it do with a little extra help? I have worked with hundreds of solicitors over the years, and I have met solicitors operating at each end of the spectrum, from the strugglers … Read more
I have one client at the moment who is just making me smile more and more every single time I speak with him because his firm just keeps going from strength to strength. After I spoke with him recently, I was thinking about his success and what he is doing differently to many other solicitors … Read more
When you have a plan and you believe in it completely and utterly you see it through. When you don’t have a plan, or don’t believe in a plan, you continually struggle. You see when you have a plan and start on your journey towards it, you will meet obstacles and challenges – guaranteed. If … Read more