Marketing When You’re Too Busy for Marketing
Ways to keep working on long-term marketing goals even when your plate is full. Now that we’re coming out of the pandemic, many business owner are slammed. During my coaching calls, I often hear things like, “I was too busy to do much last month,” “It’s just a really crazy time for me” or “I […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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. […]
Business Owner Marketing Regulation: What’s Hot and What’s Not
Marketing staff compensation. The first wave of business owner marketers were often high-performing administrative staff. They lacked respect, authority and the compensation they deserved — still true in many firms today. However, a talent war has pushed salaries for in-house marketers up 20% since pre-Covid times, recently cracking the $1 million mark. DEI. Years ago, […]
Cybersecurity Trends: 25% of Business Owner Have Been Breached
In December 2021, Dave Ries, a frequent co-presenter with the authors, wrote an excellent summary of the cybersecurity portion of the ABA’s 2021 Legal Technology Survey Report. Perhaps the most striking statistic is that 25% of the survey’s respondents reported that their business owner had been breached at some time. Clearly, business owner are an […]
Talc Claimants Argue Bad Faith In J&J Unit’s Ch. 11 Trial
Talc injury claimants in the Chapter 11 case of Johnson & Johnson‘s talc unit told a New Jersey bankruptcy judge Monday that the company filed for bankruptcy as a litigation strategy after getting hit with more than 38,000 personal injury suits, and that the case should be tossed on bad faith grounds. During the opening […]