stephen fairley
The Rainmaker Institute is the nation's largest law firm marketing company that specializes in helping small law firms and solo practitioners generate more and better referrals and fill their practice. Over 6,000 attorneys have benefited from applying our proven Rainmaker Marketing System. Stephen Fairley founded the company in 1998. For more information visit www.toplawfirmmarketingtips.com
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Law Firm Marketing Tip: Why Personal Injury Attorneys Need to Market on the Internet
- By stephen fairley
- Published 09/19/2008
- Marketing
- Unrated
With the astounding growth of the online world, it has become absolutely necessary for every personal injury attorney to have an internet marketing strategy.
Law Firm Marketing Tip: How to Make More Money Than Other Estate Planning Attorneys
- By stephen fairley
- Published 09/19/2008
- Marketing
- Unrated
As an Estate Planning attorney, you are doomed to fail if you compete on price.
Law Firm Marketing Tip: How Personal Injury Attorneys Can Optimize Their Websites For Results
- By stephen fairley
- Published 09/19/2008
- Marketing
- Unrated
As a personal injury attorney, marketing your law firm's website is the most important part of your online business. Not only is it meant to provide prospects with information about you and your services, but it is also intended to turn them into clients.
How to Significantly Increase Referrals to Your Personal Injury Law Firm
- By stephen fairley
- Published 09/19/2008
- Marketing
- Unrated
One of the biggest challenges personal injury lawyers face in marketing their law firm is finding new clients without spending a lot of time or money.
Attention Personal Injury Attorneys: Have You Planned For Marketing Success?
- By stephen fairley
- Published 09/19/2008
- Marketing
- Unrated
The best personal injury attorneys have achieved their success because they started with a law firm marketing plan. No matter how big you dream or how much effort you put into your practice, you will constantly lose your way on the path to success unless you create and follow a well-defined plan.
Law Firm Marketing Tip: Why Every Personal Injury Attorney Should Blog
- By stephen fairley
- Published 09/19/2008
- Marketing
- Unrated
If you are a personal injury lawyer who wants a free way to connect with your prospects and demonstrate your expertise while also improving your website's traffic, you need to create a blog.
Law Firm Marketing 101
- By stephen fairley
- Published 09/19/2008
- Marketing
- Unrated
Before you can effectively employ the strategies of law firm marketing, you will need to clearly understand precisely what "legal marketing" is. Many attorneys confuse "marketing" with "advertising"; in fact, the two terms are often used interchangeably. That is a mistake because they don't mean the same thing, not at all.
Law Firm Marketing: Who is Your Ideal Target Market?
- By stephen fairley
- Published 09/19/2008
- Marketing
- Unrated
Law firm marketing can seem overwhelming at first glance. If, however, it is broken down into clear, manageable steps, it is actually quite simple. The starting point for most attorneys is to identify the people who make up their ideal target market (ITM).
Law Firm Marketing Action Steps to Identify your Ideal Target Audience
- By stephen fairley
- Published 09/19/2008
- Marketing
- Unrated
As a lawyer in small or solo law practice, you face many marketing challenges, no doubt. Over and over again, small firms say their biggest obstacle is finding their real target audience. By setting goals and following a few guidelines you will be able to overcome that obstacle and begin to see immediate results; increasing the quality and quantity of clients and building a continual revenue stream.
Overview of the Ten Principles for Successful Law Firm Marketing
- By stephen fairley
- Published 09/19/2008
- Marketing
- Unrated
Success can be measured in a variety of ways-- accumulation of wealth, recognition by one's peers, a lifestyle of luxury, etc. When it comes to defining the success of a law firm marketing strategy, it can best be summed up like this: "The ability to find and retain more and better clients".
Successful Law Firm Marketing Requires Knowing and Understanding Your Competition
- By stephen fairley
- Published 09/18/2008
- Marketing
- Unrated
Despite your very best legal marketing efforts, your firm may fail to reach its potential if you forget one important principle: POSITIONING (Communicating Your Benefits). This principle deserves a prominent place in any law firm marketing plan.
Resolving Prospects' Pain is Crucial to Law Firm Marketing Success
- By stephen fairley
- Published 09/18/2008
- Marketing
- Unrated
Law firms who do not focus on explain how you help resolve prospective clients' pain have little chance of success. In the tremendously competitive business environment in which you work, no attorney can afford to ignore the importance of this critically important component of law firm marketing.
Attorneys Find Information about Competitors and Gain an Edge in Your Law Firm Marketing
- By stephen fairley
- Published 09/18/2008
- Internet Marketing
- Unrated
If you were a competitive athlete, you would want to know everything you possibly could about your competitor. Make no mistake about it, legal marketing is as competitive as any sport. A well-prepared prize fighter will know the facts about his opponents' height, weight, reach, wins, losses, training schedule, etc.
Law Firm Marketing: How to Identify Prospects "Point of Pain"
- By stephen fairley
- Published 09/18/2008
- Marketing
- Unrated
As a member of a small or solo law firm you are certainly faced with many challenges daily. If your firm is not growing as you had envisioned, it may be largely due to the fact that you are not utilizing effective law firm marketing strategies to get more.
How to Succeed in Law Firm Marketing by Overcoming Prospects' Objections
- By stephen fairley
- Published 09/18/2008
- Marketing
- Unrated
As an attorney in a competitive practice area, if you are not fully prepared to meet prospects' objections to using your services, you stand to lose an enormous amount in terms of money, time, energy and new clients. Learning how to overcome your prospective clients' objections is critical to the success of your legal marketing plan.
Law Firm Marketing Strategies: Crossing the Language Barrier to Market Your Services
- By stephen fairley
- Published 09/18/2008
- Marketing
- Unrated
If your law firm is not growing (or worse yet, shrinking) and your revenue stream is down to a trickle, it's high time to start being proactive with your marketing.
Five Common Internet Legal Marketing Mistakes of Personal Injury Lawyers
- By stephen fairley
- Published 08/26/2008
- Internet Marketing
- Unrated
For a personal injury attorney, having a legal website and being actively involved in internet marketing can either be an exciting opportunity or an extremely frustrating ordeal. Unless you are doing things right, you are probably working way too hard without seeing the results you deserve.
3 Reasons Traditional Advertising Fails for Law Firm Marketing
- By stephen fairley
- Published 08/25/2008
- Marketing
- Unrated
If there's one truth in operating a successful, profitable law firm, it's this: you have to make more than you spend. In order to achieve this, you need clients cycling through your practice on a continuous basis; both new and repeat alike. While that's obvious enough to see, making it happen is often another story.
4 Myths That Keep Attorneys From Building a Referral Based Practice
- By stephen fairley
- Published 08/25/2008
- Marketing
- Unrated
Law firm marketing is all about receiving highly qualified referrals. Every attorney seeks to have a referral based practice. However, many attorneys seem to spend their entire professional career trying to create the perfect practice with little results to show for it.
Law Firm Marketing Tip: Search Engine Optimization Strategies for Personal Injury Lawyers
- By stephen fairley
- Published 08/24/2008
- Marketing
- Unrated
Search Engine Optimization (SEO) has become a necessary part of any personal injury lawyer's internet marketing plan as it has been proven to help websites rank higher on search engines and make businesses more visible.
Law Firm Marketing Tip: How Personal Injury Lawyers Can Use Press Releases to Attract New Clients
- By stephen fairley
- Published 08/22/2008
- Internet Marketing
- Unrated
Press releases were originally used by public relations staff as a method of communicating with the media. However, with the growth of online news syndication websites, such as Google News or Yahoo News, and the typical internet user's reliance on RSS feeds and search engines, press releases can now be used by personal injury lawyers as a direct-to-prospect marketing tool.
Law Firm Marketing Tip: 3 Powerful Ways Article Marketing Can Benefit Personal Injury Attorneys
- By stephen fairley
- Published 08/20/2008
- Marketing
- Unrated
Article marketing is a powerful tool that provides personal injury attorneys with the opportunity to market their law firm in a cost effective manner.



