Not exact matches
The over the shoulder stuff he does — where he brings on some of his rock star
clients like Betty Rocker — it's just fabulous, and just having that kind of insight and seeing how you can take advantage of some of the free tools out there to make your posts, and to make your lead magnets and tracking pixels just
really explode into
getting more leads down your pipeline.»
I just
really want to
get this, completely, with such clarity that I can communicate it
more effectively to my
clients, and use if myself.
Betty: «When I think of spending even the next five years volunteering'til I'm blue in the face, entertaining Dan's
clients, bridge club and church things (she scowls)... I've
got to find something that uses
more of me, I guess... not necessarily a job... but something I
really want to do with me.
Hunter: I
get truly inspired by seeing my
clients finding
more peace in their lives - and when they start to «
get it» that this whole mindfulness thing is
really a life - long, daily practice.
There is not one training that I would recommend
more if you
really want to evolve personally and
get results for your
clients so they go through life as the fullest versions of themselves.
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There's some, I know Legal Zoom has some data that if I'm recalling it correctly says that law firms actually don't actually
get more efficient until between 10 and 15 people and that there's sort of a jump in efficiency at two or three people and then they
get less efficient until you
get to 10 or 15 and then you can start taking advantage of some scale, which is interesting and you're sitting right in the middle of there where you can decide do you
really want to move it forward and have a business or do you want to keep going and just serving
clients without a bigger strategy in mind.
People have been talking about the demise of the hourly rate for twenty years, but I think now with it being a buyer's market,
clients are
really pushing for their law firms to
get off hourly rates and move to other types of fee arrangements that give them
more predictability and forces the firms to be
more efficient.
Obviously, it's
really hard to quantify a lot of things and I think that one of the reasons we went 50/50 was we heard so many stories of partnerships that went sideways because there was an argument of sort of who did
more this month or who brought in
more clients or I brought this
client but you closed it so who
gets what.
Here, employees
get more than just a paycheck, they
get the chance to do vital work that
really makes an impact, both in the lives of our
clients and on society as a whole.
What it
really means is that the
client is
getting less value (if the same services cost
more).
If the old model was, a lawyer comes out of law school and joins a firm, does a lot of grunt work in the first few years to not only sort of learn how to research, but learn how to think like a lawyer and learn how to
really work for that firm and for a
client; that model may be shifting
more and
more to lawyers going straight to in - house counsel, where they don't
get the first couple of years of law firm training.
Sometimes it seems the only business problem you
really have is knowing how to
get more clients.
I know that lawyers think, «Well, I can be
more efficient while I bill by the hour», but, A, you don't have any incentive to because fewer hours means less money, but also I think when you commit to a fixed fee it rewires your brain to look for other ways to
get to the same outcome, and it
really does change the way you run your business and serve your
clients.
I mean, professional, sure, I even tend to think a good production quality of the photos, absolutely, good lighting, sure but I think some of the candid photos, some of just the around the office photos, some of the
more effective ones, if you
got clients who are willing to do it that show you interacting with
clients, showing some emotion even because
clients are dealing with some
really emotional life issues when dealing with a lawyer and so letting some of that show through in the imagery and the pictures and the videos that you use is extremely powerful and Google My Business is definitely a place to be doing that.
But we also work proactively with our in - house legal teams, identifying portfolios of work they want to migrate to a law firm that
really gets it, and is
more likely to excel on
client service delivery and results.
«The real import of this decision — not to my
client, who is obviously very disappointed — but to the profession is, we have
got to
get people access to justice, and we've
got to do a better job, and so we
really need to make this
more accessible.»
In many cases the root of this is: these are the
clients that pay us the most fees, so (a) we'd better look after them so they don't go elsewhere; and (b) if we are nice to them we might be able to cross-sell them
more services; and (c) we still don't
really like «selling» to
get new
clients, so we'll concentrate on farming our existing
clients.
«We've
got the right partner in a market we
really wanted to be in both for our Canadian
clients and for our global platform,» he says, noting that Bull Housser is a well - established firm with
more than 125 years in the market.
But as a broker, we prefer face - to - face because we believe it gives us a chance to
really understand our
clients and
get more thorough in our information gathering.
I
really didn't know what I was doing and a handful of my
clients let me know that in no uncertain terms, demanding back their money because they didn't like how they looked, or because they felt they deserved
more than what they
got.
Our
clients tell us they
get faster interviews and
more offers for the jobs they
really want.
Sometimes, and
more often in the
clients I see in couple therapy, both partners are close to the extreme of the lecturer, waiting only to
get their own opinion across to the other, never
really checking whether any part of their opinion has
really been of interest or has even been understood by the listener.
It is often quite frustrating for
clients (and professionals) to sign up to participate in a Collaborative Divorce only to find once the case takes off that one or
more of the professionals
really does not «
get» what Collaborative Divorce means, trying to merge two inconsistent processes (litigation and collaboration) into one confusing, contradictory, and internally inconsistent process that misses out on the benefits of both collaboration and litigation.
I find that sometimes with self - awareness,
clients can illuminate the issue, and feel better about it, and have
really great epiphanies about how to move forward in their lives and even develop
more compassion for ourselves about how we
got here.
And in a global recession that has changed the entire economic landscape FOREVER, you seem to care
more about
getting yours than what is
really best for your
client.
That being said, most trusted advisors
get to those positions of trust with their
clients precisely because they have successfully guided said
clients throught the morass of legal / ethical / moral / financial minefields repeatedly over time... these
clients don't
really care any
more about the nuts and bolts of the transactions, just so long as things go their ways.
Negotiators often
get caught up in
getting more and use tactics like splitting differences down the middle that may not
really benefit their
clients, he says.
«Before these sessions I
really didn't know how to generate my clientele but through ICIWorld I was able to
get more clients as well as
more business opportunities in general.»
It went something like this: hotel check - in, locate room, locate wifi service, attempt connection to wifi, wonder why the connection is taking so long, try again, locate phone, call front desk,
get told «the internet is broken for a while», decide to hot - spot the mobile phone because some emails
really needed to be sent, go «la la la» about the roaming costs, locate iron, wonder why iron temperature dial just spins around and around, swear as iron spews water instead of steam, find reading glasses, curse middle - aged need for reading glasses, realise iron temperature dial is indecipherably in Chinese, decide ironing front of shirt is good enough when wearing jacket, order room service lunch, start shower, realise can't read impossible small toiletry bottle labels, damply retrieve glasses from near iron and successfully avoid shampooing hair with body lotion, change (into slightly damp shirt), retrieve glasses from shower, start teleconference, eat lunch, remember to mute phone, meet colleague in lobby at 1 pm, continue teleconference,
get in taxi, endure 75 stop - start minutes to a inconveniently located
client, watch unread emails climb over 150, continue to ignore roaming costs, regret tuna panini lunch choice as taxi warmth, stop - start juddering, jet - lag, guilt about unread emails and traffic fumes combine in a very unpleasant way, stumble out of over-warm taxi and almost catch hypothermia while trying to locate a very small
client office in a very large anonymous business park, almost hug
client with relief when they appear to escort us the last 50 metres, surprisingly have very positive
client meeting (i.e. didn't throw up in the meeting), almost catch hypothermia again waiting for taxi which despite having two functioning GPS devices can't locate us on a main road, understand why as within 30 seconds we are almost rendered unconscious by the in - car exhaust fumes, discover that the taxi ride back to the CBD is even slower and
more juddering at peak hour (and no, that was not a carbon monoxide induced hallucination), rescheduled the second
client from 5 pm to 5.30, to 6 pm and finally 6.30 pm, killed time by drafting this guest blog (possibly carbon monoxide induced), watch unread emails climb higher, exit taxi and inhale relatively fresher air from kamikaze motor scooters, enter office and grumpily work with
client until 9 pm, decline
client's gracious offer of expensive dinner, noting it is already midnight my time, observe
client fail to correctly set office alarm and endure high decibel «warning, warning» sounds that are clearly designed to send security rushing... soon... any second now... develop new form of nausea and headache from piercing, screeching, sounds - like - a-wailing-baby-please-please-make-it-stop-alarm, note the
client is relishing the extra (free) time with us and is still talking about work, admire the
client's ability to focus under extreme aural pressure, decide the
client may be a little too work focussed, realise that I probably am too given I have just finished work at 9 pm... but then remember the 200 unread emails in my inbox and decide I can resolve that incongruency later (in a quieter space), become sure that there are only two possibilities — there are no security staff or they are deaf — while my colleague frantically tries to call someone who knows what to do, conclude after three calls that no - one does, and then finally someone finally does and... it stops.