The COVID-19 pandemic flipped traditional office dynamics on their heads. For many companies, particularly professional service firms, a fully virtual or hybrid work model is no longer a temporary fix but the new standard. While this shift has opened the door to...
Maximizing Client Retention: Marketing Strategies for Professional Service Firms
Client retention is the lifeblood of professional service firms. While attracting new clients is important, keeping the ones you already have is crucial for long-term success. In fact, studies show that retaining a client can be five times cheaper than acquiring a new...
10 Summer Marketing Ideas for Professional Services Firms
Summer is a vibrant time of the year, perfect for professional services firms to implement fresh and innovative marketing strategies. Here are ten best practices to help your firm generate new business and expand name recognition this summer. 1. Host Outdoor...
Maximizing Email Deliverability and Open Rates: Best Practices for Mailchimp and Constant Contact Users
In the world of email marketing, success hinges on two crucial factors: deliverability and open rates. If your emails don't reach the inbox or fail to capture attention, your message falls on deaf ears. This is where services like Mailchimp and Constant Contact come...
The Power of Google Reviews
Clients often ask us: “What’s one thing I can do right now to help improve my search engine optimization?” Our answer? Google Reviews. Google Reviews are a wonderful way to establish trust with potential clients/customers and improve your visibility online. Let’s take...
The Difference Between Sales and Marketing
According to HubSpot, only 31% of marketers in 2022 could confirm their sales and marketing teams were "strongly aligned." So, what is sales and what is marketing? And why should they be aligned? Broadly put, marketing is work done to build awareness and attract new...
7 Best Practices for Marketing on LinkedIn
LinkedIn now hosts a whopping 810 million members. Not bad for a 19-year-old business social platform. And despite social giant Facebook hosting 2.91 billion members, businesses who do their marketing on LinkedIn increased their lead generation by 277% more than...
Public Relations 101 for Law Firms
The purpose of this brief article is to convey PSM LLC’s approach to public and media relations for lawyers and law firms. Getting Started with Public Relations for Attorneys Before a public and media relations strategy can be implemented there are a number precursors...
6 Tips to Help You Stay in Touch with Contacts During Quarantine
During these challenging times many of us are literally wringing our hands wondering how we can maintain our professional relationships while being under a quarantine. And if you’re a person that provides a service, then you are used to being able to meet with your...
Don’t Let Your Content + Blogs Succumb to COVID-19
With so many business and personal challenges brought on by the COVID-19 pandemic, it’s easy to forget three things: First, your clients are looking for help and advice as they confront the same challenges you and your firm are coping with today. Second, search engine...
How to Proactively Communicate with Clients During COVID-19
[vc_row][vc_column][vc_column_text]We have all been receiving a barrage of emails from companies small and large about how they are handling the COVID-19 Pandemic. In our opinion, most of them are WAY too long and provide details that customers and employees simply...
Virtual Marketing Model Leads to Work-Life Balance
PSM Marketing: Thought Leaders on Work-Life Balance in Minnesota Since the 90s Since its inception over 20 years ago, PSM Marketing has been a virtual marketing firm. Early on, PSM allowed for flexible work hours, remote working, video conferencing, and overall...
Content Marketing and Blog Trends for 2020
Like almost everything else in business, there are cycles of what clients and customers want to read in blogs and in articles. In 2020, the most important development in content marketing trends is that the preferences of clients and customers are changing again. As a...
6 Ways to Manage Email During The Busy Time of Year
During the busy time of year - or tax season - many firms find themselves buried under mountains of email. And once email hits a critical mass, it can be nearly impossible to get organized again. When looking at productivity in firms, we have found that busy legal and...
Is Your Website Working FOR You?
Read Terrie’s article here > The website has long been a necessity for attorneys. At the advent of the Internet it may have been seen as a passing trend, but websites are now the number one marketing tool for any law firm or solo practitioner. If you created your...
Putting the Social Back into Social Networking
Read Terrie’s full article here > Spring has sprung! And with the warm weather comes more opportunities for us to get out and get together. The great weather and plethora of outdoor activities in the spring and summer makes them prime seasons for more networking...
3 Reasons to Care About Video in Digital Marketing
You’ve likely heard the news, read an article or have even seen PSM talk about it on our blog: Video is king for digital marketing! But as a firm, hearing “you must use video” can be annoying and frustrating. Why should you use video and what benefit will it have?...
Top Social Media Trends to Watch in 2019
The social media world saw many changes in 2018. From data breaches to algorithm changes, social media struggled with growing pains. Now that 2018 has ended and 2019 is in full force, there’s one question on the mind of every marketer and firm: What will the year...
Like, Share, Follow: Marketing Tactics for Lawyers
Social Media 101 for Lawyers Leveraging social media platforms is essential for law firms aiming to enhance their visibility, engage with clients, and establish thought leadership. Building upon the insights from the "Like, Share, Follow: Marketing Tactics for...
New Lawyers: Your Marketing Toolkit!
The Ultimate Marketing Toolkit for New Lawyers Starting a legal career is exciting, but establishing yourself in a competitive industry can be challenging. A solid marketing strategy is essential for new lawyers to build a personal brand, attract clients, and grow...
Laser-Focused Targeting: The Key to Your Success
In previous decades, attorneys like you may have been able to generate buzz for your practice through print ads, newsletters, and traditional marketing strategies; that’s simply not the case in 2019. With so many firms in competition for the same cases, you have to...
Want to Blog but Don’t Know How? Use a Ghostwriter
You know you need a blog on your website. You've heard all of the statistics on how it will drive traffic to your website and increase SEO and make you a thought leader, and, heck, you even have things you want to write about. But every time you open Microsoft Word to...
The New Landscape of Social Media and What it Means for You
2018 has been a year of changes for digital marketing. The only constant has been never-ending change in everything from algorithms to privacy regulations. It is easy to ignore such rapid-fire changes or to dismiss them as not applying to your firm. After all, you...
Low-Cost, High-Impact Strategies to Increase Your Name Recognition
Against their best interest, some lawyers and professional service providers would prefer to avoid marketing altogether. Unfortunately for these individuals, marketing is key to sustaining a practice or a small business. In an article for The American Bar Association,...