JC Serrano
- Apr 8, 2022
- 4 min read

How Do You Generate Employment Law Leads?

Lead Generation Tips For Employment Law Attorneys

The marketing process of recruiting prospects who exhibit interest in your legal services and converting them into leads to them becoming clients is known as lead generation.

Additionally, a lead generation strategy allows you to target the right people. So, if you're specifically looking for labor law clients, you're making sure the people who you're attracting aren't looking for other services you might not be able to provide at the moment.

Here are a few strategies to help you find employment law leads for your law firm:

The most crucial benefit of lead generation campaigns is that they allow you to communicate with prospects who have previously expressed an interest in what your company has to offer. This helps you transfer a lead from a lead to a customer by warming up your sales interaction with them.

The First Step: A Website

With the introduction of the internet, the buying process has changed, with more customers putting more effort into discovering the businesses they want to do business with—rather than companies having to find them. You may not realize a potential lead has discovered you, usually through your website, so you must be prepared at all times.

This means that your law firm's internet presence must portray your firm as a trustworthy authority.

Lead Generation Strategies For Employment Law Firms

The best approach is to post valuable information on your law firm's website and social media channels, preferably content that demonstrates your experience and ability to provide a service that can assist in the resolution of a specific problem.

Visitors are engaged by this content, which starts the trust-building process. If visitors think your information to be valuable and trustworthy, they are more likely to trust your legal practice and desire to form a relationship with you.

1. The Sales Funnel

In order to generate leads and qualify them as quality prospects, you'll need to implement a sales funnel.

A sales funnel is a series of processes designed to help your prospects gain trust and make a purchasing decision. When a prospect reacts to a lead generation campaign, they are often not ready to buy; they are simply inquisitive.

Remember: If you try to sell to them too early in the buying cycle, you will miss out on the opportunity to create a trusting relationship and thereby convert them into a lead. To counter this, you must nurture your prospects through the sales funnel, ensuring that your law firm receives their business when they are ready to buy.

So, remember that your legal blogs and social media posts shouldn't be overly promotional. It needs to have legitimately valuable content that's going to help the people who read them. People will notice if you start writing sales pitches instead of helpful guides and tips.

2. Electronic Newsletters

Engaging prospects and clients with an e-newsletter is an excellent lead-generating approach. However, before you can use this strategy, you must first establish a marketing database, and the ideal method to do so is to offer a lead magnet to your website visitors.

A lead magnet, as the name implies, is something of perceived value that attracts visitors and entices them to offer you their name and email address in exchange for the item of perceived value, such as a free ebook.

An effective e-newsletter approach relies largely on regular communication and interesting articles to help create trust with your readers, so that when a prospect is ready to buy, your firm is the first they think about. A prospect becomes a qualified lead at this point, and you can start a sales conversation with them.

3. The Internet and Social Media

If you want your law firm to be noticed, having a presence on social media is the way to go. However, because social media has become the preferred marketing method for most firms these days, this is a double-edged sword. As a result, your law firm's lead-generating marketing must stand out among the clutter of other advertisements.

Remember: Instead of sending traffic from your social media lead generation activities to a generic page on your law firm website, you should direct it to a landing page that is specific to the message of your marketing campaign, as this will result in the loss of potential leads.

4. Google Adwords

Depending on the keywords your law business chooses to target, this type of paid advertising can deliver a very healthy ROI for your lead-generating campaigns.

Because your ad's space is limited, you'll need to make sure it packs a punch in terms of persuading your target audience to take action. Text-only advertisements, text and image ads, and video ads are all available through Google Adwords.

You should direct people from these ads to a specific landing page that continues to deliver on the promise made in your marketing, much like you did with social media campaigns.

5. Print and Radio

Radio and print advertising, particularly those channels and publications that are focused on your law firm's local area and location, still have a place in today's law firm marketing plans.

Remember: That said, radio commercials are normally seconds long and print commercials are measured in terms of the fee you are willing to pay. So you just have a few seconds to deliver an engaging message and persuade your audience to perform the appropriate action.

While providing a phone number is more convenient on paper, both mediums respond better to a website address because it is easier to remember.

All answers from radio and print marketing must be sent to a message-specific landing page on your law firm's website, such as an enrolment form for a small business legal event or a link to download a special guide, as with all other lead generation efforts. Keep in mind that the website address should be as brief and distinctive as feasible.