“Good” Ads and Websites Don’t Work. [2016 update] More creative is cheaper. Stronger visuals cost less. Here’s why: See this ad? It’s one previously used by a client, Lorne MacLean, a small firm in Vancouver, BC. Nice guy, great lawyer, handsome…
The Top 25 Law Firm Website Clichés to Avoid. (2016 Update. PART 2.) Part 1 is available here. 11. [The Image:] Scales of justice (Similar scales are also used by drug dealers) [What it means:] “Still just lawyers.” 12. Dart boards…
The Top 25 Law Firm Website Clichés to Avoid. (2016 Update. PART 2.) Part 1 is available here. 11. [The Image:] Scales of justice (Similar scales are also used by drug dealers) [What it means:] “Still just lawyers.” 12. Dart boards…
Can you claim to be a creative firm if your home page shows a skyline? As a group, lawyers are quite literal, often too literal for good marketing. As a result, more than half of law firms simply illustrate their website home…
Let’s put an end to the “Three one-word sentence” taglines. Particularly alliterative ones, like “Expertise. Excellence. Efficiency.” For law and accounting firms, the most-overused three words in this category seem to be “Experience. Creativity. Results.” (A few actual examples of…
I often get asked whether firm holiday cards are effective. The answer? I think that they can be considered one more nice way to stay in touch, to send a friendly communication to a large number of clients and prospects…
Need a law firm tag line? Try one of these. Describe your entire firm in just a few words. No generalities that apply to every other firm like “Our Business is Business,” or “When Success Matters.” No three one-word alliterative…
Ho Ho-Hum. Pretend your law firm or accounting didn’t send out this year’s holiday card. Now imagine that you received the IDENTICAL card from… say… your banker. How would you react? For many law firms, you’d probably think, at least…
The legal profession’s BEST 2010 ad. We won! Just back from the Legal Marketing Association (LMA) annual conference at the Disney Yacht & Beach Club in Orlando, along with over 1,100 attendees, speakers, and vendors. As always, the LMA’s annual Your Honor Awards included hundreds of high-quality…
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