No Quarter: Do You Need to Backfill Your Referral Marketing Pipeline?

Law firms have traditionally been built on the back of referral marketing.  You know, lawyers going to events, meeting other attorneys and business owners, and thus generating inbound leads to their firms.  That’s pretty much how it’s always been.  And that focus exists for a number of reasons: First, it’s a free (mostly) form of marketing – talk is cheap, right?  Second, lawyers are effectively limited in direct client outreach models due to non-solicitation rules.  Third, attorneys are never actually ever taught any marketing tactics so they gravitate to the easiest and simplest option.

But a funny thing happened on the way to 2024.  The pandemic had everybody locked in their homes, which meant that lawyers retreated to web marketing tactics in the absence of in-person events and gathering.  Also, more and more digital natives are entering the legal space, including as law firm owners. And those folks may be more likely to lean on web marketing pathways rather than traditional referral marketing.  So it may be that, for the first time in . . . forever, some lawyers may need to get back to good old-fashioned referral marketing.

So, if you feel as though your referral marketing has been lacking of late, you can start to pick that up in the near-term.  Just carve out a three-pronged marketing plan that you can roll out in the next quarter.  Maybe you’ll start regularly attending meetings through an organization you belong to.  Or perhaps you could schedule an in-person presentation through a local stakeholder organization.  Or you can attend a community event and talk about what you do for work.

It’s time to open up again.

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If you want to talk over your marketing strategy, just reach out.

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