How to find the time for marketing your legal services

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You’ll often hear me say that you can get appreciable results in marketing in just 15 minutes a day. Why is this so? Because marketing is doing a lot of little things, like taking a few extra minutes to make a new client feel welcome, writing the first draft of an article or blog post, or calling a fellow professional to invite him for coffee.

You can do a lot in 15 minutes. The key is to do something every day. An apple a day keeps the doctor away; seven apples on Sunday will give you a stomach ache.

But marketing is also doing bigger things, like joining a new networking group. You’ll spend a couple of hours a week at the meeting, plus additional time on committees, special events, and meeting with new contacts. This is a commitment of several hours a week. Where do you find the time?

The key to bigger marketing activities is being selective. You don’t join four networking groups, you join one. If it’s the right group for you, the extra time you spend will be well worth it.

When it comes to marketing, attorneys are often “a mile wide and an inch deep”. They try to do too many things and get poor results at most of them. Choose one or two marketing techniques or platforms and get good at them. Learn everything you can about LinkedIn, for example, and master it. Put your time and energy into it and don’t worry about Facebook or Twitter or anything else you could be doing.

When you approach the big things in marketing this way, you’ll find that not only do you have the time to do it, you get much better results.

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