From $500k Debt to a 7-figure Law Firm - How I Reinvented Myself in Business
I’m Caralee Fontenele and I adore speaking all things business.
During a podcast guesting with Emily Osmond of the Emily Osmond Show entitled Reinventing Yourself in Business I had the pleasure and a fantastic time talking about my humble beginnings and some pretty intimate details about my journe...
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Before You Do Your Law Firm Marketing Plan, Do This
Your goals drive your law firm marketing plan.
Marketing needs to be goal driven. Being clear on what you want to achieve for the year will help you determine how much marketing you need each month and what activities you should be doing during the year.
Let's say you want to make a revenue of 1 m...
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Law Firm Marketing In 2023
The experts predict a turbulent 2023 for people with the economy being so fragile and interest rates on the rise. This means that law firms either struggle or thrive depending on the area of law you practice.
There is so much uncertainty right now, and the impacts are unknown.
So how do you prot...
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How to Attract the Right Employees for Your Law Firm
Attracting the right team to work in your law firm is more difficult now than ever. Since the great resignation, lawyers demanding a better work-life balance and lawyers going out into solo firms and opening micro firms, it is more challenging than ever for law firm owners.
There are incredible tea...
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What Are Online Legal Business Directories?
There are general business directories and industry-specific directories for legal services and law firms, right down to directories for niche practice areas.
Often business directories are free for businesses to list their details. However, on occasion, there will be a fee or a fee to upgrade th...
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A Roundup of the Best Legal Conferences for Law Firm Owners for 2023
Growing and scaling your law firm is not something that lawyers are taught how to do at law school. Often lawyers start their law firms because they are excellent practitioners but then they find themself floundering when it comes to marketing, systemising, using data to grow, building a team and be...
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Quit Being a Lawyer!
Be the CEO and visionary of your business instead when it comes to running your law firm!
If you are still pondering on the “Hows” of achieving your law firm’s success even years after you started your law firm, or maybe you’ve managed to take more clients and work by adding more services just to ...
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It Is Never To Late To Up Level Your Law Firm with Kelly Stanford (EP 104)
In this episode, we have a special guest, Kelly Stanford from Stanford's Solicitors and Mediators.
Kelly is also a student in the Scalable Business Lounge, learning how to leverage her firm for more time and freedom.
Being in business for over twenty years, Kelly has many experiences that she gene...
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Should You Be Running Google Ads In Your Law Firm? (EP 103)
In this episode, Caralee talks about Google ads and if you should be running them in your law practice. Many law firm owners rely on referrals and are worried about throwing money away on Google Ads.
Google has recently changed the layout of the front page of Google, and it is becoming more diffic...
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Are You Heading for Law Firm Burnout? (EP 102)
Today on the podcast, we are talking about law firm burnout and how to recognise if you are doing too much! It can be stressful running your law firm.
Not only are you a lawyer, helping clients and meeting the demands that lawyers face, but you are also running a business. There are only so many ho...
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