Marketing for lawyers, accountants and professional services
As a marketing or practice manager, you’re placed in a difficult position every single day. Asking your busy professionals to write quality content so you can post it on your firm’s blog, add it to your newsletter or place it in an industry publication. While it’s an important part of marketing, it’s a big ask for your fee earners to find a few hours to…
I speak to a lot of law firms, talking about their marketing and helping them to create content that suits their brand, clients and budget. One thing that I hear often is that content is very costly and time-consuming for them to produce their law firm’s blog because their senior partners are heavily involved in its production and often become a bottleneck. This always amazes…
Inbound marketing is the art of attracting prospects before they’re ready to buy your services. You may have heard this oft-quoted statistic from SiriusDecisions: 70% of the buyer’s journey is done before they reach out. Inbound marketing focuses on creating quality content that aligns with the interests of your desired customers. They’ll find your content organically, which means you’ll already be established in their…
What gets measured gets done, but how do you measure the impact of your firm’s inbound marketing efforts? According to HubSpot’s State of Inbound 2017 report 46% of businesses said that inbound marketing (that’s content marketing, email marketing and even social media promotion) generated more return per $ invested than other marketing activities. This isn’t that surprising when you consider how expensive traditional business development activities…
It’s not that you don’t want to hire a content marketer. It’s that you’re a specialist, and your content needs to reflect that. Unfortunately, most technical specialists aren’t great writers, and most great writers aren’t technical specialists. So what’s a professional services firm to do? If you’ve experienced this frustration, you’re not alone. Too often, law firms end up having to edit their outsourced…
Whether you’re planning on revamping your firm’s website or trying to maintain a blog to attract new clients, one of the first questions you’ll need to consider is what you’re going to write. As a professional you know just how important every single word is, so it’s understandable that you want to write every word in-house. Just like writing for legal accuracy is a highly…
Designing a content marketing strategy for your law firm? Don’t overlook the power of great SEO to attract new clients. What is SEO? SEO, or Search Engine Optimisation, has gone through quite an evolution since its inception. Gone are the days when online content was littered with keywords that did nothing to improve the quality of the prose. Today’s SEO content is dynamic and seamlessly…
Creating content to market your firm should be easy. You pick a relevant topic and write away, right? Actually, there’s a lot more science behind content marketing and what it should contain in order to attract a potential client, and then help them decide that you’re the best firm for them. This process is called the sales funnel and it’s based on your buyer’s journey….
So reluctantly you’ve decided to take the plunge and set your firm up on social media as part of your accounting or law firm marketing strategy. You’re excited at the promise of opening your firm up to a range of new clients and networks, but nothing is happening. It’s frustrating but before you decide to close down your account consider whether you’ve made any of these common…
If the events of the last couple of months have shown us anything, it’s the power of social media. One day tweeting your mind can help you become President and the next it can land you in a boiling soup of constitutional and ethical dilemmas. So when it comes to your own reputation and that of your firm’s is social media for lawyers just…