The Legal Marketing Center Blog

Successful Rainmakers and legal marketers are not born, they are taught.  That’s why you are reading this - to learn how you can develop the characteristics and traits that are necessary to turn a you as a lawyer into a marketing maven who will earn more money, with better clients.
The characteristics that […]

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Lawyer Marketing - isn’t that an oxymoron? What does that mean, anyway? Lawyer marketing is nothing more than finding ways to tell other people, either potential clients or potential referral sources, about you and your law practice so that someday either they, or someone they know, will need your legal […]

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There is an interesting post today from Ben Glass entitled “Warning: Blogging Doesn’t Work”. I have to say, I completely agree with Ben’s sentiment that lots of attorneys are complaining that “Blogging doesn’t work,” although the complaints I hear most frequently are:

I don’t have enough time to blog
I’m too old to figure out that […]

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I pride myself in being a great legal marketer, but if there is one thing that I have been bad at over the years, it’s becoming involved in my local bar associations. In my heart, I’ve always felt that getting involved with the bar association wasn’t a waste of time, but it […]

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I had lunch today with a partner at Zimmerman, Kiser & Sutcliffe in Orlando.  She asked me a simple question that intrigued me - “What one thing could I do NOW to really help my marketing?”
After thinking about the question for a moment, and asking her a little more about her practice (she does primarily […]

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I Recently came across a post to Solosez.org from a new solo practitioner who needs legal marketing advice regarding her website:
Maybe some of you with solo marketing experience under your belt can help with this dilemma.
My solo general practice is brand spanking new and I’d like to develop a website to help get some clients […]

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I recently came across an interesting post on the Solosez listserv. Here it is:
I am trying to think of a few good ideas to generate more work for my small business practice. I have created a website that ranks very high for terms such as Massachusetts business formation and other like terms, however, outside […]

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Has the Legal Market finally tumbled into a recession? Larry Bodine thinks so. In this recent blog post, Larry examines consumer spending as well as rising unemployment for examples of why the legal market may have already tumbled into a recession. He also cites a big drop in new home sales, the […]

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