The Phones Aren’t Ringing, Business is Down, It Must be the Economy
Effective law firm internet marketing has become increasingly critical for revenue and new client development. As an attorney-led law firm internet marketing agency, we know what works. We understand the practice of law and can help you create a cost-effective plan to get your firm new clients.
You May Not Know Where to Start. We Do.
We’re not going to tell you how you’re going t0 7X your revenue in the next 30 days, or that we have the Ultra Secret law firm marketing program.
We’re old-school. We work hard, and over the course of the past 15 years we’ve helped hundreds of attorneys throughout the US.
We know what works (and what doesn’t work), which helps in creating effective law firm marketing plans at the outset.
We develop and implement marketing plans around the budgets and objectives of our clients. We’re not to tell you that you need to be a Tik Tok star as part of your marketing, unless that’s something you want to do).
We count ourselves as privileged: nearly all of the attorneys with whom we’ve worked continue to work with us.
A Little Street Cred About Us
If you retain us, you’re going to be working directly with our principles. You won’t be placed on some team that is constantly changing, and who will not know you or your practice.
So, we thought it might be helpful if you’re considering us to learn about who we are and our experience.
Jeff Lantz
Firm founder Jeff Lantz has been an attorney since 1991. He was a corporate and securities attorney at Snell & Wilmer, where he did IPO’s secondary public offerings, and private placements for 5 years. He subsequently was a Senior Attorney for Australian-based BHP Billiton, where he worked in international joint ventures and copper operations in Chile, Argentina, Peru, and the US for 7 years. He then served as the Vice President, Corporate Secretary, and General Counsel for Westar Aerospace and Defense Group (now part of QinetiQ).
Subsequently, Jeff founded and sold 3 Internet companies focused on the 55+ market. He was also the CEO of War Eagle Mining, a publicly-traded Canadian junior mining company, and the CEO of Lone Star Uranium. In addition to being the CEO of Esquire Interactive, Jeff wrote the ABA Book Internet Branding for Lawyers: Building the Client-Centered Website. He has also given dozens of presentations for the ABA (Including ABA TechShow) and state and other bar associations, as well as having authored countless articles for such organizations.
Jeff graduated from Indiana University with an MBA in Finance and a JD (cum laude), where he was a member of Law Journal and President of the MBA/JD Association.
Desire’e Martinelli
Desire’e Martinelli received her law degree summa cum laude from the University of Mississippi. Desire’e started college at age 14, and had a twelve-year business career in a number of areas before starting law school. Desire’e is also a long-time entrepreneur and business firm owner, and in addition to being a phenomenal marketing wizard and CRM specialist, knows business inside and out.
Kelly Lantz
With undergrad and graduate degrees in Education, Kelly Lantz was an elementary school teacher and P.E. teacher for 10 years before joining Esquire Interactive as President and our Chief Graphic Designer. Over 15 years Kelly has designed more than 100 law firm websites (no templates) for firms ranging from solo attorneys to firms having more than 50 attorneys. In addition to website design, she also designs collateral and printed advertisements for law firms.
In addition to being an expert in wireframing and website design, she knows how to create websites that convert.
Common Law Firm Marketing Mistakes
Attorneys spend years in education to earn their degrees, followed by additional years developing experience.
- Choosing the Cheapest Provider. You probably wouldn’t hire the least expensive doctor
- Focusing on Cost, Not Return.
- Falling for Marketing “Secrets.” Law Firms don’t market themselves as being the only ones that know the “secrets” to winning cases because there aren’t any such secrets. Apart from the facts of a case, cases are won through experience, hard work, and tenacity. Marketing works the same way.
- Using the Wrong Marketing Techniques. E-commerce strategies typically aren’t successful for law firm marketing. Strategies that work for personal injury firms don’t work for larger corporate firms.
- Using Template “One-Size-Fits-All” Marketing Programs. These are the programs often used by large law and general marketing companies. These formula programs don’t work and are expensive.
Customized Marketing Programs that Meet Your Firm’s Budget and Objectives
Non-Boilerplate Plans for Non-Boilerplate Firms
Unlike most of our competitors, we don’t create boilerplate marketing strategies.
- Creating and maintaining an effective website that will resonate with prospective clients
- Engaging in search engine optimization that results in high website rankings in response to prospective client searches
- Developing pay-per-click marketing (also called search engine marketing) programs
- Blogging
- Social Media
- Law Firm Video
- Press Releases
- E-newsletters
- Google Analytics.
Increase Revenue. Cut Costs. Get More Clients.
Often, these seven words constitute a law firm’s entire marketing strategy.
Unfortunately, these goals are unlikely to be achieved unless a strategy is developed.
We Can Take On the Strategic Marketing Function for Your Law Firm
We recognize that attorneys don’t have the time to learn, develop, and implement the comprehensive internet programs increasingly required to maintain a competitive law practice. No need to hire expensive full-time in-house expertise for website development and maintenance, branding, Internet marketing campaigns, and social media. We take on all these functions for your firm so you can focus on the practice of law.
We create targeted, cost-effective, high ROI programs upon a law firm’s budget and goals. Once we learn about your practice and needs, we can develop a targeted program that will work for you.
Looking for More Information On Internet Marketing for Law Firms & Attorneys?
Click on one of the links below for more information about how we help law firms and attorneys with their marketing needs.
- Fractional Marketing
- Office 365
- Press Releases
- E-newsletters
- Domain Names
- Law Firm Websites
- Social Media Marketing
- SEO
- Video for Law Firms & Attorneys