During the recession, many firms reluctantly dispensed with their marketing and business development staff which meant that the day to day burden of marketing fell onto the shoulders of secretarial and administrative staff. Many smaller firms cannot afford to hire full time marketing qualified staff and instead look to promoting Read More
Long ago a senior management consultant for whom I had great respect admonished me for working long hours and stressed the importance of focusing on the outputs rather than the inputs. At the time I was rather indignant – he was advocating that we should not be hung up about Read More
Last week I presented a session on marketing family law practices at CLT’s annual conference on “Management challenges facing family law practitioners”. At the session I promised the delegates two things – first, a simple introduction to Twitter (please see the earlier blog posts) and second, a commentary on some Read More
In my previous blog post I provided some of the reasons WHY even small firms of lawyers, accountants and surveyors should consider using Twitter. In this post I aim to provide a simple “getting started” guide. Create an account The first thing is to go to the Twitter site www.twitter.com and watch Read More
I am often asked to run short training sessions at legal, accountancy and surveying practices with the aim of helping young professionals start their business development activities in support of the firm’s marketing and business development programmes. Here is a summary of some of the ideas provided: Be a good Read More