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Doing a Raindance: The Legal Sales and Service Organization Conference 2010

If you’re responsible for business development in your law firm or your own practice, whether a lawyer, managing partner, marketing or business development professional, attending the Raindance Conference should be on your to do list, in my opinion. What is Raindance? It is an annual educational conference presented by the Legal Sales and Service Organization. [...]

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Stay Tuned…Marketing Partners Forum (#MPF)

Just a quick note before I leave Miami this morning and take the long trip north to Palm Beach Florida for the Marketing Partner’s Forum. I’ll be covering the event here on the VMO and on Twitter #MPF. I hope you’ll subscribe to VMO via email, grab the feed, or follow #MPF on Twitter—@melaniegreen (Baker [...]

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LMA Quick Start Social Media Reading List

I’m presenting a session on social computing tomorrow during the Quick Start program at the Legal Marketing Association’s Annual Conference in National Harbor, Maryland. I’m really excited. I’m also very humbled by the prospect. There are a number of rock star names in the legal marketing industry casting a longer shadow than mine in this [...]

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The Disconnect Between Approved Budgets and Spent Dollars

Why do law firms complicate this process? For example, the plan, the budget number, and tactical resources required for realizing plan objectives are approved at the beginning of the fiscal year. Outlined in budget are, among other items, 20 client interviews, key partner sales training, search engine optimization, and a nationally recognized speaker for a partner retreat. Then when these items are initiated and the management committee is presented with the program for the interviews or the speaker for the retreat, they immediately ask for “further information.” Translate -how much are we paying – we want to approve this expenditure…. I just don’t get it.

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Land the Position You WANT

The panel brought perspectives from their experiences in firms sized from 50 attorneys to 3,000 attorneys. Together they’ve logged thousands and thousands of hours in-house at law firms and cover ground from JD to MBA, and from law firm administration to Global CMO.

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