The brainchild of attorney, Ken Hardison, PILMMA will help you scale your law firm for greater growth and success through membership-based opportunities.
The brainchild of attorney, Ken Hardison, PILMMA will help you scale your law firm for greater growth and success through membership-based opportunities.
The brainchild of attorney, Ken Hardison, PILMMA will help you scale your law firm for greater growth and success through membership-based opportunities.
One of the biggest things that sets highly successful entrepreneurs apart from most business owners is that they are continual learners. They are never satisfied with the status quo. They are always asking “What if?” They are striving to know more, so they can do more and become more. They are not resting on yesterday’s success, but are striving to achieve greater success today and tomorrow. They understand the importance of acquiring fresh ideas and new insights. With that in mind, here are ten books that every law firm owner should make time to read.
What Got You Here Won’t Get You There, by Marshall Goldsmith. This book gives you a deep dive into the 20 Workplace habits business owners need to break, written by one of the world’s top Leadership thinkers.
What Got You Here Won't Get You There: How Successful People Become Even More Successful by [Marshall Goldsmith, Mark Reiter]
Ogilvy On Advertising, by David Ogilvy. Creator of some of the most famous advertising campaigns in history, Ogilvy’s book is an advertising classic, with principles still highly applicable today.
How to Create a Million Dollar Unique Selling Proposition, by Bill Bodri. How you craft a message for your law firm that helps you stand apart from all the other law firms flooding the market is critical. In this book, Bodri breaks the process down with ten proven ways to craft your own Unique Selling Proposition, that instantly taps into prospective clients’ core desires.
Atomic Habits: An Easy & Proven Way to Build Good Habits & Break Bad Ones, by James Clear. Every once in a while a book comes along that is a true game-changer, and this is one of those treasures. Clear’s book takes the mystery out of habit formation and shows you how you can accomplish more by focusing on less.
Crucial Conversations, by Patterson, Grenny, McMillan, and Switzler. This book gives the reader a clear roadmap for talking when the stakes are high and will change the way you communicate in your own crucial conversations.
We’ve long known the benefits of affirmation and appreciation. Who doesn’t like hearing that they’ve done a good job or that the work they are doing matters? The more we feel appreciated, acknowledged, and affirmed, the happier we are and the harder most of us work to do a good job. It’s human nature. It starts when we can barely walk, proceeds through our school-age years, and continues throughout our adult life. In our personal lives, we readily recognize how...
Richard Cadbury had a brilliant idea- to create a heart-shaped box, embellished with images of Cupid and filled with his company’s new eating chocolates. He even marketed these boxes as having a dual purpose; Eat the delicious chocolates and reuse the beautifully embellished boxes to hold momentous and such.
The Valentines Chocolate Box was born.
There is no question that Richard Cadbury was an amazing entrepreneur and marketer. He leveraged what he had (an overabundance of cocoa) and turned it...
JOHNNY, AMBER & ME: Law Firm Marketing to Build your Fan Base-https://www.pilmma.org/blog/johnny-amber-me-law-firm-marketing-to-build-your-fan-base/
Unless you’ve been hiding under the proverbial rock, then you are aware of the bitter court battle unfolding between Johnny Depp, and his x-wife, Amber Heard. If you’ve been following the sordid trial, you now likely know more about their marriage than you do those of your family or friends. And even if you aren’t personally interested in this current courtroom spare, loads of your potential clients are. All around the world, viewers are glued to their flat screens or mobile screens, checking out the unfolding Depp/Heard saga.
Yes, you read it correctly. Google Searches for Businesses “Near Me” rose 500% in the last several years, according to recent stats. And the stats keep going up. This isn’t just huge for restaurants and retail stores. It’s big news for any business, including law firms. If you are a law firm owner and want to dominate your market, this latest data is almost – and in some cases, MORE important than amassing Online Reviews. In fact, I’d say this...
We all have unique abilities, including both strengths as well as weaknesses. One of the biggest keys to success is learning to focus your time, energy, and efforts on developing and using your strengths.
Stop trying to focus on developing your weaknesses. Now I’m all about self-improvement, don’t get me wrong. But, when it comes to growing your law firm, you need to shift your mindset. Spend more of your precious time leveraging your strengths than trying to improve your weaknesses....
And law firm owners – like business owners all across the globe, have become forcibly versed in the “Pandemic Pivot.” Never before has the sink-or-swim mentality been more relevant or necessary for law firm viability. For almost two years, it has been “Pivot, or Perish,” in steroid mode.
A few weeks ago, I attended the PILMMA Super Summit in Washington DC. The Summit was originally slated for the Ritz Carlton Hotel in...
