Law firm marketing: Making the most of what you’ve got!
If the legal marketing strategy for your law company revolves around online marketing, niche marketing to particular industries, traditional advertising, or just retaining and growing wallet share of a solid growth of clients, you’ll need to create content.
Content is an essential dynamic of legal marketing, without it you may as well not bother with a law firm marketing plan. However, producing content is hard work, and you must make the best of the material that you can produce. Here are just a few suggestions to help you use two of the most popularly produced types of legal marketing content as best you can.
Law Firm Marketing – Written material (blogs, email alerts, brochures, guides, information sheets)
If you’ve produced any worthwhile, interesting material in any of the types above, you don’t need to just send it off once or print it and let it stagnate in your reception area. You ought to distribute the content as broadly as possible. For every item of writing you produce, consider:
- Have I sent it to as many, relevant, clients as possible?
- Has it been loaded onto our website?
- Have I sent it directly to referrers, associates and other professionals?
- Have I linked it with a post on Facebook and a tweet on Twitter?
- Has it been sent to media contacts?
- Is everyone in my company aware of it and can they explain it in detail if a client asks about it?
- Can I turn it into a different type of content and distribute in a different format?
Law Firm Marketing – Presentations
Presentations are usually prepared with a specific audience in mind, or because of a particular request. As a result they tend to be presented only once and then left to stagnate. The large amount of effort and time involved in preparing them gets only a one time presentation. If you want to get much more benefit from your presentation consider:
- Who else can I show it to?
- How can I let the most people know about it?
- Have I mentioned it on my website, Facebook, Twitter, and suggested that I present it to others?
- Is it relevant to send the presentation in hard copy to those who couldn’t attend the seminar?
- Can I record an audio or video of the presentation and distribute it electronically online or directly?
- Is it viable to write an article or blog to discuss questions that arose from the presentation?
- Have I sent additional content to all the people who attended the presentation?
Although a lot of these ideas may seem like additional work just when you’ve probably damaged your monthly billings with the amount of time you spent preparing the first lot of material, it’s important to remember that it is far easier to use a tiny amount of time at the end to really impact on what you’ve already produced than it is to produced a whole new piece of legal marketing material.
Maximise the benefits of the time and effort you put into law firm marketing and you’ll find that the next time you need to create content you will feel more confident about how effective the results will be.
John Gray is a practising lawyer and the Senior Marketer at John Gray Marketing, an Australian specialist law firm and legal marketing consultancy. If you are interested in law marketing, legal marketing and marketing for lawyers, contact John Gray today.