As a law firm marketing leader, I know you are pressured to grow the firm with limited resources. It’s a heavy burden when the hours are insufficient and the to-do list runs long. I’ve been there. The needs can feel endless when you’re responsible for elevating the brand, generating new business, and guiding a team. But you don’t have to go it alone. I advocate strategically tapping freelance marketers who can lighten your load while creating opportunities to lift your community.
Bring on Experienced Support
Bringing on freelancers allows you to delegate time-consuming initiatives like website design, content creation, events, data analysis, and more. This frees your team to focus their talents on high-impact goals only they can tackle. Handpicking freelancers with specific legal marketing expertise means minimal ramp-up time. These specialists have walked in your shoes, so they’ll quickly become trusted extensions of your department.
The right freelancers will have held leadership roles similar to yours previously. Please be sure to look for ones who have launched successful initiatives in law firms identical to yours. Their experience managing marketing departments and campaigns means they can join your projects. Match freelancers to the initiatives that best fit their strengths.
Use Years of Experience to Your Advantage
Consider partnering with contractors who are semi-retired or late in their marketing careers but still have valuable insights to offer. While new technologies and approaches are constantly emerging, these experienced freelancers know how to strategically pave the way forward based on decades of hands-on lessons learned. Though they are scaling back their schedules, the immense perspective they have gained from marketing leadership over an entire career makes them ideal partners to guide your firm confidently into the future. Their expertise, combined with your innovative ideas, can be a powerful combination.
Give Back to the Legal Marketing Community
Beyond expanding your team’s capabilities, collaborating with independent contractors creates opportunities to compassionately pay it forward to fellow marketers rebuilding their careers after setbacks or career gaps. Everyone deserves a chance to utilize their gifts and provide for their families. Hiring qualified freelancers supplements your team while opening doors for others.
Use Freelancers as Needs Require
Your marketing needs ebb and flow, so maintaining an on-call bench of freelancers lets you rapidly scale up or down as new demands arise. You gain much-needed flexibility and fresh perspectives that prevent insular thinking. Take a collaborative approach, and your freelancers will become invested in achieving your firm’s goals. Not only will you accomplish more in less time, but you’ll broaden the horizons for freelancers and your team.
While the pressures of leading a marketing department are immense, don’t forget that we all rise together. Freelancers allow you to do more while providing uplifting opportunities for others to employ their talents. You can set an example, lifting others as you climb. Together, we can empower one another to reach our highest potential.
As a law firm marketing leader, your juggling needs are complex but know you are not alone. We all need a hand at times. Strategically collaborating with freelancers allows you to achieve growth goals while lightening the load and opening doors for deserving professionals. Together, we can elevate each other higher.
We are Here to Help
Keep an eye out for talent in your local community who can help. Only some of those looking for work want full-time. Some of us have chosen a path to deal with work-life balance or other family obligations.
With extensive legal marketing leadership experience, a Legal Marketing Association volunteer, and a campaign award winner over the decades, I aim to lift others. If you need a strategic partner to lighten the load on time-sensitive initiatives or supplement your team, please don’t hesitate to reach out. I’m devoted to collaborating with you to make waves for your firm while creating ripples of opportunity for our community. Together, we rise.
