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The top ten posts:

  1. 34 questions for clients and prospects
  2. Do you want to learn how to close faster?
  3. The first thing lawyers should do in a recession
  4. Six facts every lawyer must know to develop new business
  5. Cross-selling
  6. What's different for women rainmakers?
  7. Business development for associates - Eight steps to make the most of your limited time
  8. The top 16 ways to increase client satisfaction
  9. If you can't be optimistic, pretend
  10. How to conduct client satisfaction interviews

Recommended books

See Jim Hassett's list on Amazon of the top sales and marketing books for lawyers (a list that has been consulted by over 1,500 people)

From Legal Business Development: A Step by Step Guide by Jim Hassett

Table of Contents

Selection from Chapter 1 - Three steps to new business

Chapter 3 – Six facts about new business

From The LegalBizDev Desk Reference

Table of contents

Brochure and order form

Six steps to create or improve your elevator speech

Associates - Eight steps to keep business development on track

Can coaching help you?

The top two web pages for legal marketing

Law Marketing Portal

Legal Marketing Reader

Articles

Of Counsel, the Legal Practice and Management Report

Women rainmakers, what's different, what isn't (August 2008)

From Law Firm Inc.

Helping lawyers to focus on client needs (Chadbourne & Parke, April 2008)

Teaching associates to build stronger relationships (Paul Hastings, January 2008)

Building relationships through industry roundtables (Winston & Strawn, December 2007)

The fine art of bird-dogging (Butzel Long, October 2007)

Advancing client relationships, one step at a time (Fish & Richardson, September 2007)

Cross-selling (Goulston & Storrs, August 2007)

Sales training: Is it worth your while? (December 2006)

From Strategies: The Journal of Legal Marketing

The most important difference in legal selling: Time (December 2007)

Five critical factors that will increase coaching success (December 2006)

From Marketing the Law Firm

The most important trend in legal business development: Social relationships are out, value relationships are in (March 2008)

From Legal Management

Cross-selling strategies (December 2007)

From Massachusetts Lawyers Weekly

Increase new business by re-connecting with past clients and colleagues (December 12, 2005)

Interviews

Cole Silver interviews Jim Hassett - (December 10, 2007) - Stream audio or Download MP3

Good marketing all about the client, not the lawyer (Interview by Barbara Rabinowitz, Massachsetts Lawyers Weekly, April 2, 2007)

For Success Kit owners

The ten minute Quick Tour

The top five uses of the Desk Reference

Tips for lawyers

Tips for business development professionals

Tips for planning how to use the Kit in your firm

Tips for running a pilot test of the Success Kit

Tips for using the Success Kit in coaching

Tips for building commitment through group meetings with the audio CDs

LegalBizDev products and services

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Download a summary of special programs for associates

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