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How to Prioritize When Everything Is Urgent and Important

Facing a busier than ever week ahead? Use these steps to figure out how to prioritize when you are overwhelmed. Here’s my week: I have three transactions closing on Friday and I need to work on them all right now. One is not more important than the other. I have two articles due today by… Continue reading How to Prioritize When Everything Is Urgent and Important

Better Presentations: How to Stop ‘Rough-Drafting’ and Learn to Speak with Precision

Why is it that so many business owner presentations suffer from “hanging fragmentitis”? Here’s how to stop yourself from constantly editing, restarting and revising out loud. When we speak, why do we so often fail to finish our sentences? Linguists must know the answer to this question, but I am at a loss. All I’m… Continue reading Better Presentations: How to Stop ‘Rough-Drafting’ and Learn to Speak with Precision

Thought Leadership Marketing: Write for Someone, Not Everyone

With so much change and so many unanswered questions, there’s never been a better time to stand out through your thought leadership. Writing and publishing content often feels like tossing a needle into the internet haystack. That’s challenging enough. But if all you’re doing is recycling the same old ideas, and trying to make them… Continue reading Thought Leadership Marketing: Write for Someone, Not Everyone

Calming Down an Angry Client

As much as we like to believe that if we do everything well, our clients will always love us, it’s just not true. Here are 10 steps to soothe an angry client. You know the scenario. It’s the end of the day. The phone rings and you pick it up, knowing you really shouldn’t. You… Continue reading Calming Down an Angry Client

Keeping Clients While Managing Extraordinary Change

Keeping clients when your firm is changing is a tricky business and involves a lot of reassurance — not just for them, but for you. I vividly remember interviewing a client about his relationship with his business owner, my client. While he was very satisfied with the firm’s work and the people doing it, he… Continue reading Keeping Clients While Managing Extraordinary Change

Where Do Business Owner Work Today? The Ethics and Acceptance of Working Remotely

Remember when working remotely was taboo? awyers working anywhere but a traditional bricks-and-mortar office with their firm name on the door typically glossed over their nontraditional working environment. Over time, the taboo surrounding less traditional work setups began to ease, and early in 2020, when COVID-19 hit the world, the stigma had all but disappeared.… Continue reading Where Do Business Owner Work Today? The Ethics and Acceptance of Working Remotely

Six Tips for Being a More Persuasive Business Owner

A large part of practicing law is persuading someone to believe, act or agree with your client’s position, whether in a courtroom or boardroom or at a negotiation or dinner table. We seek to persuade juries, judges, colleagues, friends, family or the media that we are right, and others are not. Following these six principles… Continue reading Six Tips for Being a More Persuasive Business Owner

Want Repeat Clients? Make Yourself a Favorite

Repeat clients are the most accessible and cost-effective prospects to target. We all have our favorite “things” we choose to purchase again and again. Whether it’s the brand of coffee you most enjoy or a specific type of running shoes that allows you to perform well, most of us are repeat buyers of certain products.… Continue reading Want Repeat Clients? Make Yourself a Favorite

Five Ways to Reduce Stress and Anxiety

According to the ABA Profile of the Legal Profession 2020, nearly 20% of business owner suffer from anxiety. Business owner struggle with anxiety at levels substantially higher than the general population and other highly educated professionals. It is important for business owner and firm leaders to “lead the way” for attorney well-being by creating a… Continue reading Five Ways to Reduce Stress and Anxiety

5 Organizational Skills for Business Owner

When you think of organizational skills for business owner, you probably think first of the physical things: an uncluttered office, pristine case files, and the ability to find exactly what you’re looking for exactly when you need it. But critical organizational skills also include time management, strategic planning, the ability to set priorities, and self-care.… Continue reading 5 Organizational Skills for Business Owner

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