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08 July 2010 / Joe Reevy
Issue: 7425 / Categories: Features , Profession
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Time to deliver

Joe Reevy explains how to knock spots off the online competition

According to our clients who use them, e-newsletters are the most efficient (in terms of £ worth of instructions per £ worth of cost) marketing activity they undertake. Our own experience is the same: at Words4Business we spend 40 times as much on print ads, mail campaigns and inserts as we do on our free monthly law marketing and management e-newsletter—and the latter generates more than 80% of our enquiries.

For most types of work, a good e-newsletter (which should carry a total cost of well under £200 per issue) will knock spots off conventional (such as on the page or radio) or web-based marketing activities such as search engine optimisation (which to do well is expensive) as a source of new instructions: if you do it right!

Think about the reader

This is the critical requirement. What interests a legal professional may not be what interests a client or potential client. A good e-newsletter is one that the reader sees as valuable

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MOVERS & SHAKERS

Jurit LLP—Caroline Williams

Jurit LLP—Caroline Williams

Private wealth and tax team welcomes cross-border specialist as consultant

HFW—Simon Petch

HFW—Simon Petch

Global shipping practice expands with experienced ship finance partner hire

Freeths—Richard Lockhart

Freeths—Richard Lockhart

Infrastructure specialist joins as partner in Glasgow office

NEWS
Talk of a reserved ‘Welsh seat’ on the Supreme Court is misplaced. In NLJ this week, Professor Graham Zellick KC explains that the Constitutional Reform Act treats ‘England and Wales’ as one jurisdiction, with no statutory Welsh slot
The government’s plan to curb jury trials has sparked ‘jury furore’. Writing in NLJ this week, David Locke, partner at Hill Dickinson, says the rationale is ‘grossly inadequate’
A year after the $1.5bn Bybit heist, crypto fraud is booming—but so is recovery. Writing in NLJ this week, Neil Holloway, founder and CEO of M2 Recovery, warns that scams hit at least $14bn in 2025, fuelled by ‘pig butchering’ cons and AI deepfakes
After Woodcock confirmed no general duty to warn, debate turns to the criminal law. Writing in NLJ this week, Charles Davey of The Barrister Group urges revival of misprision or a modern equivalent
Family courts are tightening control of expert evidence. Writing in NLJ this week, Dr Chris Pamplin says there is ‘no automatic right’ to call experts; attendance must be ‘necessary in the interests of justice’ under FPR Pt 25
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