Lawyers

Legal market research – The 2016 NatWest Financial Benchmarking Report

This continues the series of blogs reviewing legal market research. For the fourth year, the NatWest Professional Services team has worked with accountant Robert Mowbray to produce a report looking at 390 law firms (employing 17,200 people and with a combined income of £1.43bn) in the SME sector (revenues below Read More

2016-05-13T17:20:34+01:00May 13, 2016|Accountants, Kim's Blog, Lawyers, Statistics and trends|

Legal market research – Perceptions and needs of consumers and small businesses

I regularly facilitate a public training session for CLT on “Client care, service excellence and retention” http://www.clt.co.uk/course/Client-Care-Service-Excellence-and-Retention/. During the workshop we spend time considering various legal market research reports. I have blogged a lot about commercial client research and the needs of general counsel in the past (see the related Read More

2016-04-24T12:37:49+01:00April 24, 2016|Kim's Blog, Lawyers, Marketing, Statistics and trends|

Top ten tips on referrer management (2016 Birmingham)

I recently presented the MBL course “Winning more work from referrers and intermediaries” in Birmingham. Below are the top tips on referrer management discussed by the delegates. Details of future courses are here: https://www.mblseminars.com/outline?progid=5770. 1.The importance of the broader marketing context At the session we considered research that demonstrated how important Read More

2016-04-04T12:05:56+01:00April 4, 2016|Accountants, Kim's Blog, Lawyers, Marketing, Relationship Management|

Law Society legal market research 2016 – The future of legal services

This legal market research report was published in January and is a cracking example of comprehensive SLEPT (or PEST) and market attractiveness analyses that will be valuable to any law firm strategic planning process. It’s a whopping 64 pages and it’s worth its weight in gold. It identifies five clusters Read More

Ten tips on cross-selling – Boosting internal networks

At a recent seminar on referrer and intermediary management, we turned our attention to the importance of internal referrals - What is commonly known as cross-selling. Here are the top ten tips on cross-selling picked by the delegates 1. Provide interesting internal talks (and follow up) Some firms organise “Brown Bag Read More

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