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What it means to be "stuck"
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Why Do You Suppose so many lawyers are in all these videos I keep sharing and why do you suppose they're all saying it's been such an invaluable experience for them when they decided to plant a tree today so they can enjoy a life in the shade not a life being stuck? (Rhetorical question, obviously)
Financial Control 4 Lawyers
Unfortunately too-few law schools and too-few CLE programs seek to equip us as law students and later as practicing lawyers, with the business management skills needed to manage the finances of our own law firms. Certainly not to attend to this critical law firm management task objectively.
So instead of feeling the same sense of self-confidence and control we enjoy when dealing with our clients’ legal matters, when it comes to the financial management of our own law firms, too-many otherwise smart & sophisticated lawyers end-up making important law practice management decisions based on incomplete information and fear.
Why in the world would a multi-million dollar company ever want to hire a solo?
This week for our monthly Gold Call I interviewed the president of a $3mm company that manages over $30mm of its clients' money. The question I posed to him was "Why in the world would a muti-million dollar company ever want to hire a solo lawyer?"
To: Brian Sajdak
given your past failure at running a law firm, why should anyone hire you to advise them how to do it?
Please excuse this “soap box moment” :-)
Please excuse this “soap box moment” :-) The essence of an effective law firm marketing strategy is as follows. Everything else (websites, social media, etc. are merely the tactics used to deploy this 1,000 year old law firm marketing strategy:
Don't Be Fooled. EVERY Successful Rainmaker Is Out Here Marketing Our Law Firms!
One of the biggest problems that holds alot of lawyers back from effectively marketing their law firms is this notion that "if you're a good enough lawyer the clients will find you". Of course this little ditty doesn't hold up to even the slightest scrutiny does it?
"The Competition Myth"
Stephen & I argue all the time about all things law firm marketing. And I absolutely LOVE it whenever he breaks the tension by saying "Well, you know if we never disagreed then one of us would be redundant in this relationship" Right-on Stephen!
Million Dollar Law Firm Marketing Lesson
Alright in this short video below I'm going to teach you a very important law firm marketing lesson. This is a million-dollar law firm marketing lesson. I've use this lesson to help sell tens of millions of dollars of legal services. So pay attention.
It's ok if you don't know how to make alot of money as a lawyer.
It's ok if you don't know how to make alot of money as a lawyer. After all, what did they teach any of us in law school about how to market a law practice or how to manage a law firm?
