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13 July 2017 / James Noble
Issue: 7754 / Categories: Features , Profession , Marketing
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Ten common legal marketing pitfalls & how to avoid them. A masterclass by James Noble

  • Seventy per cent of today’s legal firms aren’t happy with the quantity, quality (or both) of the new business enquiries they’re generating. This begs the question: where are they going wrong.

Getting caught up in marketing trends is all too easy, especially with the flood of mixed messages designed to confuse the B2B decision maker. Avoiding these 10 common digital marketing mistakes will help to increase desirable results for firms looking to grow their business.

Neglecting databases

Do you have contact details from lost leads or old clients? Have you collected email addresses from an event? There’s no point in gathering audience data if you’re not doing anything with it. To prevent potential business from falling through the cracks, legal firms should be taking advantage of email marketing and automated email sequences to ensure prospects receive frequent updates on new content—keeping the firm at the forefront of potential clients’ minds.

Ineffective websites

Even the most beautiful website

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NEWS
The government’s plan to introduce a Single Professional Services Supervisor could erode vital legal-sector expertise, warns Mark Evans, president of the Law Society of England and Wales, in NLJ this week
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Professor Graham Zellick KC argues in NLJ this week that, despite Buckingham Palace’s statement stripping Andrew Mountbatten Windsor of his styles, titles and honours, he remains legally a duke
Writing in NLJ this week, Sophie Ashcroft and Miranda Joseph of Stevens & Bolton dissect the Privy Council’s landmark ruling in Jardine Strategic Ltd v Oasis Investments II Master Fund Ltd (No 2), which abolishes the long-standing 'shareholder rule'
In NLJ this week, Sailesh Mehta and Theo Burges of Red Lion Chambers examine the government’s first-ever 'Afghan leak' super-injunction—used to block reporting of data exposing Afghans who aided UK forces and over 100 British officials. Unlike celebrity privacy cases, this injunction centred on national security. Its use, the authors argue, signals the rise of a vast new body of national security law spanning civil, criminal, and media domains
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