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Starting a Law Firm - Marketing by Corey Hickman
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Wasted time is usually wasted money, and when you find ways to complete tasks more quickly you create new profit streams for any company.
Technology is a good boon to efficiency. Legal billing software and other specialized legal applications took labor-intensive tasks such as case management or filing and made them better. If your firm nevertheless maintains large files of paper contracts and other documents, you are losing time and money completing, retrieving and searching for documents. Although the really paperless office may for no reason be realized, the modern law practice will need to have more electronic data as compared to inefficient paper files.
If your primary firm is not using legal billing software together with law practice management applications, it is time to start. Make a full commitments to embracing the new technology and you will be surprised at how even more efficiently your practice runs, and how quickly sales rise.
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When starting a lawyers, you are going to have Lots of things to consider - malpractice insurance coverage, office location, phones, computers, location, employees, business charge cards, paper, the list moves on and on. The list of things can sound endless and become deflating. But, you can do all this. Of course, you already knew you could do it - that is why you are starting a law practice.
If you ask me as a young lawyer starting a practice, I realized all of these things can be done - but not without clients to pay for it. To get clients you have got to market your new company. I'll say it again: in starting my own personal law practice, the most important thing that i had to remember was that i had to market the firm all the time. Getting clients from day one is that absolute most important course of action when starting a company. Do it and undertake it well, or your new firm do not survive.
To help get you jump started on considering marketing when starting a practice, I have developed a Law Firm Marketing Top ten List that I used when starting my own firm. I have also created a sub-list below for ideas on what you accomplish these marketing and advertising lists. In the conclusion, read the list, but when starting your law firm, BE CREATIVE!
Recommendations (you earn this over time);
a. Created by doing excellent work over a long time frame;
b. Your clients and your clients' friends
j. Networking, networking, networking with other professionals and attorneys locally;
d. did I say networking?
Print & Electronic Media
some sort of. The standby, the telephone book,
m. Internet Marketing (this is a subset all to a unique and takes diligent study of terms like SEARCH ENGINE RANKING OPTIMIZATION and market penetration)
j. Newspapers
debbie. Blogging
orite. Social networking
f ree p. Article writing & seminar/public conversing
Volunteer work (you would be surprised at how properly this works for networking and having your name out there)
some sort of. Social Services Organization & Not-For-Profit
b. Being a member of local boards in your community
Public Speaking/CLE Speaking
some sort of. There are many, many potential speaking opportunities. Pick a speaking opportunity in your practice area and go talk about it. And then repeat.
Deal Groups and Associations
a. Bar Association
b. Young Lawyer Network
c. Chamber of Commerce
Printing
some sort of. Law Firm Business Cards & Swag
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