A law firm marketing director we know wryly refers to her department’s role being viewed 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 […]
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 […]
We often see counterproductive things happen when lawfirms and accountancy firms do website refreshes, some of which we’ve written about in “7 key things that go wrong with professional services firms’ website redesigns“. One of the less common but still significant mistakes we see made by web developers is the creation of […]
If you’re redoing the website for your professional services firm how should you go about choosing your developer and content management system? Our suggestion is always that you do it in this order: Which CMS platform? Does your prospective developer have significant experience with the CMS platform you’ve chosen? If cost is […]
In providing analytics for 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 aren’t always pretty. For example, the majority of firms see net […]