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How Can I Run A Small Law Firm Efficiently?

There are many questions that go into running a small law firm or breaking out to starting your own firm for the first time. You still need to have clients and bring in the money. If you’re starting out, forget about a paycheck for a while and start working to make the company sustainable. If you are already running a small law practice and are looking to make it more viable, there are ways you can help yourself. Here are some ideas for the small law firm, new and old, that will help things run a little more efficiently and cost-effective.

  • Focus on the quality of your work instead of running as many cases as possible. You have to know that your clients can be your best marketers after you’ve completed their case. If you do two amazing projects, you’re left with two paychecks and two clients who think you’re the best lawyer since Atticus Finch. If you do three mediocre cases, you have three paychecks but three former clients who will probably forget your name when a friend asks them who helped them with their legal problems recently. Be remembered for your great work.
  • Keep in touch with former clients. Keep a database of all your clients’ information and keep them up to date with what’s new in the community—and what’s going on in your office, too. A good law firm newsletter with relevant information will keep your name fresh in their minds. Satisfied former clients will be ready to refer their friends to you, and you can benefit from positive word-of-mouth advertising.
  • Promote your law firm intelligently. By that, we mean to spend your legal marketing budget wisely, Plastering your name on billboards, buses, and the Yellow Pages isn’t the most cost-effective way to market when the Internet is available for all the good stuff. Cut costs in your marketing budget by posting informative articles on a website—your own law firm website, or anywhere people might notice your byline. Let your clients find you because they want your expertise.

There are many ways to keep your law firm running at a cost-effective machine, no matter how small the business is. Make time for marketing and focus on doing great work, and the people will be impressed.

Starting over can be scary, but it can also be exciting, revitalizing, and motivating. That’s why many people daydream about what they would do if they could “start over.”

In fact, that’s one of the (few) things I enjoyed about golf! You start from zero at each hole and have a fresh opportunity to excel.

This was my mindset when I wrote the report, 10-Step Program for Marketing Success. I set out to answer the question, “what are the steps I would take if I were rebuilding my practice from the ground up.

Inside this report, you will discover everything I’ve learned since opening the doors to my law firm and all the big-picture tactics I teach the attorney members at Great Legal Marketing.

YOU can get this special report FREE just by clicking the button below and requesting your copy. This is the “gateway” report to Great Legal Marketing, where you will learn our marketing philosophy. You will probably find the information in this report refreshing compared to all the junk information about marketing supplied by marketing vultures who want to sell you a new social media campaign.

Ben is a nationally recognized expert in attorney marketing and the owner of Great Legal Marketing.

Most attorneys start their firms assuming that being a really, really good attorney should, in and of itself, be a marketing advantage. Those attorneys believe that joining a whole bunch of committees and putting their name in lawyer directories is “marketing,” and they never bother to ask if there is a better way.

Attorneys are catching on, however, and those who succeed learn to leverage their current resources to create effective (and ethical) marketing. What they discover isn’t a magic pill or silver bullet but a different approach to marketing that your competitors haven’t considered.

If you want a peek at what successful attorneys use to market their practice, the HERO Starter Kit is your logical next step.

We’ve put together a FREE (and potentially life-changing) kit for solo and small firm attorneys that will show you a better way to reach potential clients and get them excited to call your firm. Request your HERO Starter Kit from Great Legal Marketing!

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by Ben Glass

Ben is a nationally recognized expert in attorney marketing and the owner of Great Legal Marketing.

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