“GNGF has a gift of marketing and advertising for law firms and utilizing and monetizing the web to benefit the bottom line. They’ve substantially reduced the costs of doing in-person seminars and they’ve gotten us business through the web. I’m very happy that we’re working with them.”
— Cheryl David
Founder of Law Offices of Cheryl David
Before
After
Challenges
Finding professional marketing support that was customized and effective.
When estate planning attorney Cheryl David was first introduced to GNGF back in 2017, she was in desperate need of new marketing support for her law firm.
An attorney for over 30 years, David had spent the vast majority of them following a marketing system provided through a membership for estate planning attorneys.
But following that system had required too much of David for too little results.
She’d spent a lot of her own time working on — and worrying about — marketing, and never felt confident that their SEO and website were working as they should.
She’d spent thousands of dollars marketing and hosting in-person dinner seminars for not enough new client conversions to truly make it worth the outlay.
And she’d also carried the cost and stress of having an additional employee who could carry out the marketing tasks.
So when her daughter, who is also an attorney at David’s firm, encouraged her to look into GNGF, she did.
Solution
Legal marketing experts that provide customized strategies to market your law firm from the ground up.
“My daughter had met GNGF at The Lawyernomics Conference and was really impressed with them,” David said. “She gave me their book to read, which I did, and when we went to the conference together the next year I spoke with them myself.”
David said GNGF’s professionalism, expert legal marketing knowledge, and personal nature helped her see that it was the right move to partner up with them.
“After reading their book, speaking with them at Lawyernomics, meeting with them in my office, and speaking with other attorneys who were already working with them — all of whom said wonderful things — I decided to take a leap of faith and have them take over our marketing,” David said.
“At the time I partnered with GNGF, we had lost yet another employee who was handling our marketing, and we were in a lot of pain. It was definitely time to try a new strategy and it made sense to start having our marketing professionally handled.”
With their partnership finalized, GNGF got to work. They started by building David’s firm a new website.
She said when GNGF took over her website she quickly saw one of the biggest drawbacks of the marketing system she’d been using.
“When GNGF started digging into our website they told me that I didn’t own it,” David said. “We had all of this content that we had built up over 20 years, but I didn’t own any of it. So, we had to start from scratch.”
GNGF worked with David to write content that was rich with targeted SEO, as well as create a new website that was fully optimized for conversions from her ideal clients.
David said throughout the creation of their new website, she loved GNGF’s ideas and how open the team was to her input — and how prompt and organized they were at initiating the tasks and getting them done.
“I know the power of good marketing. It thrills me, and GNGF has always been very receptive to my ideas,” David said. “When I asked about incorporating videos onto the website, they thought that would be a great idea. So, they created the script and worked with another company to film a video for our homepage. Later, they sent a videographer to the office and they created 170 videos for our Video FAQs Library. They orchestrated all of this work and got our new videos on our site.”
When the website was complete, GNGF fleshed out — and automated — David’s online strategy with email marketing and paid advertising.
The Results
Reduced costs, increased efficiency, and full calendars of clients.
David said the paid ads have helped her dramatically reduce the cost of the biggest marketing strategy she had been using prior to GNGF, which was hosting in-person dinner seminars, and they were also crucial to helping the firm get through COVID.
“We used to do direct mail pieces to promote our dinner seminars that would cost $7,500 – $10,000 a campaign,” David said. “We might get two or three new clients out of those but it could end up costing us several thousand to acquire a new client.”
“Then the pandemic hit and hosting in-person seminars wasn’t an option anymore. Because we were working with GNGF, we were able to pivot very quickly to do online webinars, and they got that all set up for us. Now instead of spending up to $7,000 on direct mail we’re spending roughly $2,000 on online ads. The first year of the pandemic was a very scary time for everybody, but we were able to help our clients and keep the business alive, thanks in large part to the efforts of GNGF.”
Running the online webinars continues to be the firm’s biggest marketing strategy — and GNGF continues to refine and perfect the process for them.
“We have a rhythm now and we conduct seminars two times a month,” David said. “Even though we could go back to in-person seminars, we haven’t yet, because doing online webinars is much more efficient, effective, and a big timesaver.”
David said the firm has been working with GNGF for many years now, and she’s been thrilled with the results she’s seen because of their work.
“GNGF has definitely helped us grow,” David said. “They’ve reduced the cost of our seminars substantially. They’ve gotten us business through our website and our website is performing well.”
David said that any law firm who’s ready to become more strategic, proactive, and professional with their online marketing would benefit from a partnership with GNGF — not only because of the results they produce but also because of their kind and caring approach.
“They’re really nice and they care about my business,” David said. “They are not only smart about technology and online marketing, but they’re also receptive and caring and will meet you right where you’re at.”
“After twenty years of trying to do my own marketing, working with GNGF has been like finding a missing puzzle piece. Their efforts have enabled me to work on my practice without shouldering all of the stress of acquisition myself. It’s been a great working relationship.”
Summary
Law Offices of Cheryl David is a law firm that specializes in estate planning, and assists clients with planning, elder law, nursing home protection, and probate. They are located in Greensboro, North Carolina.
Challenges
- Needed marketing support that was customized to their needs and target markets, and also provided a higher ROI than the marketing system they’d been using
- Needed marketing professionals who were familiar with the legal industry and were knowledgeable about a variety of marketing strategies
Solution
- A full-service digital marketing agency that focuses exclusively on law firms and provides website creation, SEO, paid advertising, content creation, branding, and more
Results
- New and improved website with content that has targeted SEO to attract and convert ideal clients
- Website traffic has increased by 325% since 2020
- Increased leads coming through the website that have kept the firm’s three attorneys’ calendars full with clients
- Tracked leads have increased by 112% since 2020
- Online webinars that have not only been effective at gaining new clients, but have helped the firm save time, money, and increase efficiency
- The average monthly event registrations have increased by 230% since switching to webinars instead of in-person dinner seminars
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