You’ve seen it yourself on many accountant and law firm websites and it may be on your own website too. Right at the bottom of the page, usually in small unobtrusive lettering, your website designer places an innocuous piece of text saying something like ‘Website designed and built by Acme Developers‘. […]
Although it’s a question usually left unspoken, staff in professional services firms often assume article writing is just part of their training to write readable advice, learn more about their practice area, or is a more productive use of time when there’s no matter to work on. However there are […]
What happens when a law firm or accountancy firm does a website revamp? As part of our work building and maintaining website reporting for large numbers of law firms and accountancy firms, we see a distinct pattern when firms re-launch or revamp their website. Visitors to the site fall 20-50% […]
A law firm marketing director we know wryly refers to her department’s role as ‘sprinkling magic pixie dust’ to make an initiative really take off. The magic pixie dust bag is not really the place for long term marketing initiatives or developing staff skills. It’s more about finding something that […]
When one of your partners leaves your law firm in a lateral hire there are some standard procedures firms typically follow, for example joint communication with clients (after the lawyer has announced their departure to your firm). But what’s the best way to handle departing partners or lawyers from a […]
There are a number of often-touted advantages of law firm mergers, amongst which are a reduction in back office costs, cross-selling opportunities, and a bigger brand to go to market with. Yet if it’s about building a bigger brand why is it merging firms too often destroy the digital footprint […]
In providing website analytics to professional services firms over the last few years we refer internally at Magnifirm to the Rule of Revamps – surprisingly website visitors often decline after you re-launch a shiny, new, mobile-friendly website. There are a number of reasons for this visitor decline which we’ve covered before but […]
Things have changed on the web since the mid 1990s. Swirly Flash-based introductions to websites have gone because website owners realized that avoiding delays and giving the user the ability to control their experience on your site is very important if you want them to keep coming back. PDFs however […]
In presenting seminars on article writing for digital audiences to professional services firms over the last 10 years we know there are some partners who are either publicly or privately sceptical about the value of search engine optimisation for their law or accountancy firm, and rightfully so in some respects. Boiled […]
In providing website analytics for large numbers of legal and accounting firms we get a birds-eye view of what happens after website revamps. And revamps are common: about every 5 years as web technologies, brand refreshes, and new marketing directors come and go. The results are often surprising. For example, the […]