For those of you on Twitter, here are a few ideas to help boost your followers and engagement on the platform. The best part? None of these take a long time to do. They just require a little bit of time each day.
Why should you be on Twitter? Decision makers, reporters, recruits, referral sources,
Every few years I get the opportunity to speak with my friend and industry leader Adrian Dayton on a social media panel. This is the year!
Join me and Adrian later this month for a virtual panel at the LMA Midwest Region Tech Conference on 10 pandemic friendly LinkedIn tips your lawyers need to know
Do you have a social media strategy? Do you have a social media editorial calendar? Do you plan out your posts in advance?
Most importantly, do you know WHY you’re posting something to social media?
I feel like so many of us go through the motions of posting a piece of content to social media,
Clients come to law firms because they need help finding and implementing solutions – each employee is in essence a legal solution provider and a problem solver. And in a crowded and the unpredictable business climate of today, it is more important than ever to embrace and anticipate changes to meet the shifting needs of clients. Most importantly, we always need to put our clients first and ensure that every employee embraces a client-centric mindset.
Being a great lawyer doesn’t guarantee you a solid book of business anymore. Neither does having a law degree from one of the top schools in the country. None of these fancy credentials matter if you don’t have the right people skills (or emotional intelligence) to connect with clients on a personal level, especially now.
Because clients regularly hire outside counsel who they’ve known for many years – from law school, a prior firm, a friend of a friend or a past matter – cultivating relationships should be at the heart of everything you do – especially now. It’s important to treat everyone with whom you come into contact as if they could be a future client or referral source, which is a helpful guiding principle in how to interact with your professional network.
Here’s how to develop a more client-centric mindset and build stronger relationships despite the barriers we are facing today during this worldwide pandemic.
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It’s really important to know what your competition is doing in today’s crowded market. They can help you enhance your marketing and business development efforts. Your competitors give you inside information that can help you do your job better, stay relevant, refine strategy, innovate and lead the market. Some call this competitive intelligence – I
It’s so easy to be forgotten today when we are not seeing each other in person on a regular basis. That means the onus is on you to maintain relationships with your professional network with the tools you have – and right now that’s virtually.
The most compelling reason to contact someone in your professional
One of my clients asked me to try out a Google Ads campaign to help him bring in new clients. It’s been successful so far in terms of leading to new client matters. It’s a great example of the new ways in which we can generate leads. More than 3.5 billion Google searches are made
What if I told you that there was a cool visual way to view and then request new connections to your LinkedIn network and it was so easy that all you had to do was to hold up your smartphone and scan a QR code?
Well, it exists – pretty exciting, right? (it’s a relatively new feature that was introduced in June 2018) and many people don’t know about it, because LinkedIn doesn’t always do a great job of letting its users know when it makes enhancements to its platform. Take full advantage of this nifty tool and impress the lawyers with whom you work and your colleagues. Also – add this to every presentation you give from now on.
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Use the summer and this time working remotely to make enhancements to your LinkedIn profile and your LinkedIn branding and marketing plan.
LinkedIn is the most important social media channel for professionals in any field. LinkedIn enables you to nurture relationships or build your brand more easily and efficiently than ever before.
A robust and
While quality is always better than quantity when it comes to the number of LinkedIn connections you have, most business professionals who use LinkedIn can increase the number of connections they have on the platform.
LinkedIn is a great place to network with other professionals who could become business partners, referral sources, clients or even