There are several advantages to starting and running your own solo attorney practice or small law firm. As a small business owner, you are able to build your law practice according to your vision. Additionally, you can offer your clients a boutique, customer-centered experience, as your clients can trust that you will work directly with them to address and resolve their legal issues. In contrast, larger law firms often assign multiple legal professionals to each case, which means that a client cannot always expect that one attorney will oversee their legal matter from beginning to end. When it comes to marketing efforts, however, larger firms tend to have larger budgets or even an in-house marketing team that handles this critical aspect of their livelihood. After all, every law firm needs a steady stream of incoming clients in order to remain operational.
As a solo attorney or a member of a small law firm, it can be difficult to devote the necessary time, effort, and financial resources to crafting and implementing a successful digital marketing strategy. However, establishing an effective legal marketing strategy doesn’t have to involve the resources of a larger law firm. When you work with a digital marketing firm that specializes in serving the needs of smaller law practices, you can trust that the customized content marketing strategies you create will maximize your chances of attracting more clients and growing your practice according to your vision. Let’s take a look at some of the digital marketing strategies that your small law firm can explore in order to take your law practice to the next level.
Building Brand Awareness
Large law firms in your community often have an easier time building awareness of their legal services. Their considerable marketing budget allows them to advertise their services on local billboards, bus stops, and even on the sides of buses or public transportation. These firms may also purchase advertising space in local newspapers or create a television commercial to run during nightly news segments. As a smaller law firm, it’s natural to wonder how you can keep up with such costly marketing strategies. However, you can reconsider the options for building brand awareness—in today’s ever-increasingly online world, you can harness the power of social media to reach new clients.
With the average person spending approximately two hours a day on social media platforms, why not reach potential clients where they already are? Whether you invest in a paid social media campaign or create a targeted posting schedule for your law firm’s social media profiles, these efforts will start to build public awareness of your law firm and legal services every time a social media user in your area visits these platforms. What’s more, working with a digital marketing firm that specializes in serving small law firms ensures that the social media marketing plan you create will target your firm’s unique needs and goals.
Offering an Exceptional User Experience
Anyone who is looking for information about a legal topic wants to locate reliable, accurate, and trustworthy content from a reputable site as quickly as possible. So, how can your small law firm boost its authority and become more visible to search engine algorithms, thereby increasing the likelihood that Google will include your firm’s website at the top of the search results page? It all begins with reconfiguring your law firm’s website to offer an unparalleled user experience. While it is still essential to use SEO (search engine optimization) best practices to remain visible to search engines, it’s important to understand that these algorithms are increasingly prioritizing and favoring websites that put “human” consumers first.
In other words, websites that are overly cluttered, dense, or too full of keywords and other forms of jargon come off as stilted and robotic (perhaps because many such sites contain content that has been generated by artificial intelligence (AI) tools, and search engines like Google are increasing their efforts to crack down on AI-generated content that is prone to factual inaccuracies and misleading information. Instead, taking the time to compose thoughtful content for your law firm’s website that anticipates and addresses common client concerns and questions is the most effective way to remain visible to search engine algorithms and connect with potential clients when they click through to your website.
Play Up Your Small Law Firm’s Personal Touches
As a smaller law firm, it may seem daunting to compete with larger law firms for clients. However, rather than focusing on how you can compare with their resources and reputation, why not play up the critical differences between these larger (i.e., more impersonal) firms and your customized, personalized approach? Many clients want to know that their attorney cares about them as individuals and views them as more than a case number. As a small law firm, you can highlight your commitment to delivering exceptional service to every client you serve.
You can use positive reviews from former clients to attest to your ability to deliver high-quality services to those you serve. By making it a practice to ask your clients to write reviews and then monitoring these reviews to address any less-than-stellar feedback with grace (and, just as importantly, thanking those who write favorable reviews for doing so), you can begin to grow your law firm’s reputation over time. A successful content marketing strategy is one that sets you apart from other firms that offer similar services in your area. What distinguishes you from other law firms? What can clients expect to receive when they enlist your services? Highlighting these unique offerings is a great way to reach and connect with potential clients as you continue to build brand awareness and grow your law firm steadily and sustainably.
Small law firms have unique needs, which is why it’s important to work with a digital marketing firm that understands how to adapt your marketing strategy to target your specific goals. Give LegalRev a call today at (800) 893-2590 to explore your options with a highly knowledgeable and friendly content marketing professional so you can take your law firm to the next level.