Re: Marketing/ Sales to lawyers and law firms

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I am a young lawyer and I am one of the ones who will hang up
on the 1,000,000 people working out of their mom's basement
with a "million dollar opportunity." Put it in writing and
then maybe I will call you.

On 11/02/07, Al wrote:
> Good Advice. Those old dinosaurs are slowly dying off due to
> not being able to conform to new media practices that are
> needed for any law firm to continue to have success. It's a
> competitve market place, I have to laugh at these high brow
> jerks that make comments like, " if the caller mis-
> pronounces my name, I hang up." That's the dumbest comment
> I've heard to date... How full of yourself can you be? It
> takes 2-3 minutes to listen to what a marketer has to say..
> If intersted, request info, if not, ask to be removed from
> the call list.. it's that simple....
> On 11/01/07, Kurt wrote:
>> Dave,
>> If you are trying to market your product to lawyers the
>> most important thing is to be confident in what you have,
>> and even more importantly you have to be persistent. My
>> advice to you is to focus on younger lawyers that are more
>> perceptive to new ideas. Lawyers like "Ozark man" are like
>> dinosaurs and they will never accept the product that you
>> are offering them. I have seen my product double the
>> client inquiries of every Law Firm that I have sold to,
>> but even with that track record old lawyers are not
>> willing to change... find the young ones and help them
>> grow and eventually surpass the "old school" lawyers.