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There has been further evidence recently to suggest that the legal profession needs to be engaged...
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Time is money - it's a great saying - which can be cross referenced anywhere from fee-earning to marketing. It may even have been muted a few times in some firms' financial assessments for 2009-2010 when deciding their marketing budgets. So why is it then...
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I've just received the email below from Google. Interesting new development for their PPC services, which makes complete sense when you think about the takeup of smart phones. Dear AdWords Advertiser, We’re pleased to announce that...
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We had a GREAT end to the week today. We've just heard that (subject to contract) we've been awarded a fantastic new web design project for a 19 partner law firm. We often get asked by our law firm clients "how long does marketing take"? ...
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Today is going to be a busy day, it's going to see a lot of connections made with new and current contacts. Here's the run down in numbers :- 23 - potential hours worth of networking 7 - o'clock in the morning at Bristol Bridge Breakfast Club 60 - calls...
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Yet another brilliant cartoon from Tom Fishburne. Anyone who has grown a business from start-up to any size will recognise the "growing pains" of how your style of communication has to change as your business gets bigger. ...
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I was talking with a client today and we were discussing the comparitive return on investment (ROI) of their Yellow Pages/Yell spend and their Google PPC campaigns. Here are the headline numbers :- Total...
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I have just spoken to a Client who is a Sole Practitioner. Last year for his DX renewal he negotiated a 50% reduction in his subs. (Sounds good doesn't it). For his renewal for this year they have (of course) doubled it from last year i.e. taken it...
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Now we have all seen (or should have seen) and harnessed the power of Google Adwords marketing and use it as one of the most effective ways of implementing Search Engine Marketing (SEM) to drive traffic to your website. Hopefully you have also seen an...
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Are these the next "big thing" in legal services? Sites such as :- http://www.comparelegalsolutions.com http://www.lawyerscompare.com these are the two new kids of the block that I'm away of, and these two have been around a...
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There's a great discussion going on over on LinkedIn about whether the Law Society are going to ban referral fees (again). Go take a look and participate, there are some great comments from practitioners and consultants. Here's a repost of my...
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Saw a great Tweet just now about a conference call being run by Martindale Hubbell Connected on how lawyers in the UK are using Twitter. Full details on Adrian Dayton's blog . Credit to Brian Inkster ( http://twitter.com/BrianInkster ) for the...
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Are you into chickens? Like to go and collect the eggs for your breakfast? Well, it's not my cup-of-tea being an out and out townie with only a backyard for a garden, but some people love them...chickens I mean. Turns out that one of my Account...
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So, how is your day going? Lack of staff? A number of our clients used the Staff Extranet module that they have on their website in anger for the first time today. Really easy way to keep staff up to date with the travel problems in your...
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Whilst out getting some lunch today I came across this sign in the window of a takeway food shop in central Bristol call The Red Mullet. Just in case you wanted one last blow out over Christmas before your New Year's (health kick) resolution kicks in!! ...
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Which are: The Newbie, The Brand, The Smore,The Bitch, The Maven, The Mensch.
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It’s 8.30pm on a standard weeknight and the wife is just about to settle down to watch the second part of the twice nightly episode of Corrie and her husband, who it is fair to say couldn’t care less who Norris
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I'm spending Christmas this year with my wife's family in Troon on the Ayrshire coast in Scotland. We decided to leg it all the way up in one day today (Sat 19th) rather than break the journey in the Lake District. All was well until we got just...
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So, picture the scene. It’s a ‘school night’ but I’ve got a sitter, taken half a day’s holiday and have made my way to London for a big night out. I have tickets to see Pink at a great venue and I’m really looking...
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Our most recent email newsletter talked about iPhone apps and nFlow were kind enough to email me with details of their iPhone app. As well as their other mobile solutions nFlow have also just launched their nFlowLive.com hosted Digital Dictation solution,...
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I'm in Edinburgh today. I came up on Monday to spend three days working with our SugarCRM partners The Sugar Refinery. We're building a "law firm framework" to sit on top of the Community Edition of SugarCRM. Anyway, on Monday...
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It's a been a long week in our small business. It started with a law firm client of ours went into administration owing us over £1,500, then the Marketing Manager at another client resigned and then the same thing with a Marketing Exec at another...
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A few weeks ago my 11 year old daughters’ hamster, imaginatively named Hammy, died peacefully in the night and it was as you can imagine a very sad day. Now children as we all know bounce back remarkably quickly and in no time at all I found myself...
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So, what will it say? Has the debate raged in your office yet about how you are going to address the e-card you are going to send out at this time of year? Notice that I went to great lengths not to say your "Christmas e-card" as of...
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Be warned, there is some pseudo bad language further down this page, but someone sent me this GREAT email joke yesterday and I thought, bearing in mind the time of year that I'd share it on our blog. Feel free to copy & paste it into an email and...
