The final Q & A covering aspects of social media management for professionals Q1. What do you do if staff have a personal twitter account, the content of which is at odds with the business or could bring it into disrepute?
Social Media Management for Professionals Part 3
Q1. How do you keep a level of consistency in your message and retain engagement on a long-term basis? A. Be clear about your target audience and ensure your network includes a healthy proportion of those key individuals and organisations. Listen,
Social Media Management for Professional Firms – Part 2
Here is the 2nd part of my review of social media management for professional service businesses, derived from typical questions posed over the past few months. Q. How do you inject personality into a firm’s twitter account to encourage engagement? A.
Social Media Management for Professional Firms – Q&A Part 1
Social Media Management for Professional Firms – Q&A The following series of questions and answers were sourced from meetings recently attended, in particular a panel appearance organised by Infinite Global in London. Q. Who within the firm should own the
Bad Connections – Social Media Rules of Engagement
Recently we witnessed the media storm related to an exchange between two “professional” individuals on LinkedIn. By professional I’m talking about a barrister and a senior solicitor. No lightweights in the legal world. An associate tenant barrister working toward a
Business Development – Why You Need to be Thinking LinkedIn
There are no shortage of “top tip” type posts extolling the virtues of marketing you or your business on social media platforms. Many offer useful practical advice and are indeed helpful whilst others appear to offer nothing other than the
Knowing the Price of Everything and Value of Nothing
Oscar Wilde’s famous quote from his only published novel, The Picture of Dorian Gray, is one that intrigues me. It can have a number of subtle meanings but within the novel it is specifically relating to the bartering of an
The Generations Game
A short while ago I was asked to present at a Practice Management Conference to owners and senior managers of law firms in the UK. The brief for this event was to present on the challenge of engaging with younger
Is the Marketing Plan a Dead Doc?
I sense that the traditional marketing planning process has taken something of a back seat in recent years. I don’t have definitive proof just anecdotal comment from fellow marketers and business owners but I suspect there’s a trend developing. The
Law Firm Management – Survival of the Fittest
Charles Darwin knew a thing or two about evolution. If I can cast my mind back to my human biology lessons, the term coined by the great naturalist was “Natural Selection”. It took a little while for this radical theory
