Three years ago this week, I started Muse Communications. Although it was prompted more by personal considerations than professional (I needed more flexibility to juggle issues related to aging parents), it has turned out to be a professional revelation, helping me find my voice and discover new skills I didn’t know I had.
Opening a new law firm is, admittedly, overwhelming. You have to find office space, establish a secure computer network, hire the right employees, buy office equipment, and accomplish a million other tasks.
If you want to make sure your new firm has plenty of business, we’d like to add one more bucket of tasks: how you will market your new firm. In this post, I look at several areas that every new firm should consider prior to launch.
I’ll be candid: Search engine optimization, or SEO, isn’t a cornerstone of what we do for our clients, simply because most of our clients get their work through referrals and not Google searches. As a result, SEO is secondary in the hierarchy of our clients’ content marketing activities.
However, the work that we do makes a positive impact on their SEO, even though that’s not our primary goal. By planning and helping our clients create content that reflects their clients’ and prospective clients’ concerns, we help our clients improve their SEO by ensuring their websites present fresh and relevant information.
When our clients have more technical optimization needs (such as a practice that relies heavily on clients finding them through online search engines), we work with Sarah Hadden of Words and Pictures Marketing.
The list of 2019 Texas Rising Stars honorees was just announced, the 2019 Texas Super Lawyers list is set for later this year, and the deadline for The Best Lawyers in America voting is only a few weeks away. That means it is once again time for Texas attorneys to think about the best ways to highlight these and other worthwhile professional honors.
The internet has given law firms a vast array of new ways to raise their profile and market their services, including search engine optimization, pay-per-click, retargeting and digital ads. But many law firms still make little, if any, use out of one of the most effective and inexpensive ways to stay in touch with clients, prospective clients and referral sources: email.
There are many available tools for effectively marketing a law firm but one resource that’s all the rage but not might not immediately jump to mind is the popular KonMari lifestyle.
