A NEW Web Seminar from
SAGE PDI/SAGE Law Marketing &
Law Marketing Portal


Thousands of attorneys have attended these seminars this year...We invite you to gain these critical business development skills in our next one. Don't let your office miss out!

How to land Golden Opportunities like the Best do...

Web Seminar:
How To Target and Land
A New Large Business Client
Thursday, March 29th, 2007; 1 PM - 2:30 PM Eastern time.

In this session, you will learn the best practices in converting a major prospect into a new client: how to get in front of the decision-makers, what to say and do when you meet, and how to beat the competition...practical and proven methods for making the sale.

Learn what really works - how to put together an organized and sustained pursuit of a client you desire, and how to maximize your chances of landing the client. Now be sure you know how to answer these questions:

• What does successful pursuit of a target client entail?
• How do we target and define sources of a client’s point’s of business “pain” that create opportunities to serve them?
• How do we get in-front of the decision-makers at a big prospective client?
• What do we say and do if we get this initial meeting?
• How do we interest them in giving us an opportunity to do work?
• How do we distinguish ourselves from other firms that they are currently working with?
• How do we leapfrog from an engagement or two into a broader and deeper working relationship?

Why this seminar? We find that most professionals don’t know how to proactively, consistently and continually pursue a relationship with a target client. Worse yet, they waste opportunities and time by pursuing RFPs or other forms of “begging” just to get a chance to show off their capabilities. And, even if they do get a chance to get in front of their ideal prospect, they often blow the opportunity by selling the client based on their firm’s depth of experience and capabilities.

What's wrong with this picture? In this seminar, we show you what to avoid, and most importantly we show you how to succeed. You can start today to crack even more prospective new business accounts.

Because, fortunately, there are a set of tried and true best practices available to you and your firm – methods that work because they respond to what clients want and how they look at the firms proposing to them.

Taught by marketing experts Larry Bodine and Michael G. Cummings, attendees of this LIVE Web conference will learn what the best know about winning new clients. For more information about the presenters, see below.

Click Here to see the specific topics covered or to register for this key skill-building seminar. Any number can attend in one room.

Who should attend:

  • All attorneys aiming to become top producers
  • New partners or associates looking to prepare themselves for golden opportunities
  • Firm leaders, practice groups and office members whose success is dependent on the sales and closing productivity of their team

Are You Committed To Making the Most of Your Opportunities in 2007?

Many attorneys can talk a good game – but making real changes in your acumen requires time, work and the know-how about what to do RIGHT.

With the insights and focus you gain from this seminar you too can begin to see long-lasting money-making results:

* Landing, high profit clients
* Selling rewarding and interesting work
* Saving precious time and golden opportunities
* Improving overall client relationships for referrals and add-on work

Prepare yourself! Take your next step forward with...

Our Best Practices Web Seminar, Thursday, March 29th, 2007; 1 PM - 2:30 PM Eastern time. Gather with others in your office...any number can attend in the room where you connect to the site and the call — at the same low price.

To register: Click the Button to register online by credit card; or register by mail with check in advance using this Order Form (PDF); or call us at 1-630-572-4798.

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Responses to our other web seminars for attorneys:

"It was a great seminar, with many important things to think about, presented in an engaging way." - David Southern, Gardner Carton & Douglas

"...a fantastic seminar. I have had extremely positive feedback from a number of our lawyers including our Managing Partner...We expect to follow up with SAGE for another seminar." - Multiple-office Law Firm

"I wanted to let you know that I thought last week's webinar was extremely well-done and well-received by the attorneys in my Firm. The 20 attorneys in attendance said that they found the information useful and "use-able". In fact, we are planning a follow-up seminar next week to review some of the points you covered and to start critiquing peoples' 30-second commercials. I've also had requests to meet with folks one-on-one to help them develop a plan to begin to implement some of the ideas you discussed. For us, that's real progress. - Marketing Director, Washington DC Law Firm


How Can You Build Your Practice?
Veteran Marketing Pros Will Show You...

Marketing and selling is a skill that you can learn — and, most importantly, it is an essential skill you MUST learn to be a success in the legal profession. One of the best ways to learn this skill is to emulate the best practices in the profession, those proven effective because of what clients think and want. By knowing what to do — and with the confidence of real, live case examples of success — you will see what is possible and be motivated to achieve similar results.

At any stage of your career, your marketing and selling skills can set you apart. So, attend this seminar, see how others are excelling at these marketing and selling skills. Start to develop your abilities to make breakthroughs during this year and next.

Start now to make your new client opportunities happen for you. Without a commitment to building your skills, it won't. Independent marketing experts, Michael Cummings of SAGE PDI, Inc. (SAGE Professional/SAGE Law Marketing) and Larry Bodine of The Law Marketing Portal, present a LIVE Web Seminar on how, as an attorney, you can strengthen your practice through emulating how the best succeed, and enjoy the benefits of doing so.

Attendees at this live Web broadcast will get honest advice from these two independent experts. Building your practice is each attorney's responsibility...not the firm's or its partners. There are no magic bullets like advertising or public relations or slick-looking proposals. Instead, learn the practical, proven and enduring lessons of the best business generators. (For more information about the presenters, click here.)

Put your success under your own control.



Invest in The Skills You Need to Succeed in the Legal Profession

Web seminars are a highly effective and cost-saving way to gain the full benefits of our years of experience...and the lessons of the top rainmakers.

What is a web seminar? The format allows you to remotely attend a seminar without spending the extra time and costs associated with a live, in-person presentation. You simply connect to a website to both view the slides and listen to the presentation over a group conference call. The advantages for you:

  • Economical - The seminars cost a fraction of what you would pay for similar training at an open forum. Also, any number of people can attend in the room where you connect to the site and the call — at the same low price. So the format is perfect for a team or group of co-workers.
  • Time-saving - You can attend no matter where you are, with no commuting or down-time. For most people, it's lunch.
  • Reviewable - You receive all the slides of the session. If you miss a session, you can take it again at another time.

The session is designed to be direct and to-the-point, giving attendees
an abundance of proven, practical ideas and suggestions
for emulating top rainmakers in converting prospects into good clients.

PRESENTED BY:
SAGE Professional Development Institute (SAGE PDI, Inc.) & Law Marketing Portal

SPEAKERS:
Veteran Marketing Pros
Michael Cummings & Larry Bodine

DATE:
Thursday,
March 29th, 2007
1 PM - 2:30 PM Eastern time

LOCATION:
At your office, on the Web

COST:
$300 per connection

TO REGISTER:
Click the button to register online via credit card;
or register by mail with check in advance using this Order Form (PDF);
or call us at
1-630-572-4798.

Gather with others in your office...any number can attend in the room where you connect to the site and the call — at the same low price.

How To Target and Land a New Large Business Client covers:

1. Earn the right to this client’s business

2. Avoid the common mistakes that can quickly derail you in the eyes of the client and eliminate future possibilities with them

3. Understand their business priorities and how this creates an opportunity for you

4. Pick their most compelling business points of pain and anguish - and leverage them

5. Attract their attention by suggesting relevant and value-added solutions to heal their hurts

6. Exploit the weaknesses of your competitors that are currently working with the client

7. Position the value proposition of your firm

8. Network into the account through the people and relationships you already have in place

9. Leverage a mix of marketing and selling tools that can provide the opening you need

10. Conduct a client-centered sales call that leads to getting their business

Gain the insights and examples you need to gain top clients in today's competitive world.


Registration fee includes:
one telephone connection,
one internet connection,
one set of handout materials and unlimited participant attendance at your site.

Registrants are free to make unlimited copies of the handout materials for their own internal use.

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About the Participants:

Larry Bodine is an industry leading advisor in the marketing of professional services, with extensive experience in the legal profession, and a prolific author. He is the director of The Law Marketing Portal, the number one web destination for business development articles, resources and tools in the marketing of legal services.

Since 2000 Larry has also been a strategic marketing consultant. He advises professional firms and businesses across the country on marketing strategy, individual sales plans and Web sites. Typical assignments include developing a firmwide marketing strategy, meeting with partners to compose individual marketing plans and using technology to market a law firm.

He is the former Director of Communications of Sidley, Austin Brown & Wood, where he served for eight years. He also has 15 years' experience as a journalist, serving as Editor and Publisher of the American Bar Association Journal, the National Law Journal, Lawyers Alert (renamed Lawyers Weekly) and other news publications.

Larry practiced law in Madison, Wisconsin and is a cum laude graduate of both Seton Hall University (J.D., 1981) and Amherst College (B.A., 1972).

Michael G. Cummings is the managing principal of SAGE PDI, Inc. (SAGE Professional/SAGE Law Marketing), based in St. Charles, IL. He has been a marketing strategy and business development consultant for over 20 years. Michael is co-author of a new book (2004) with Allan Boress – The Best Practices of Legal Marketing.

Prior to establishing SAGE, Michael was a partner at Mercer Management Consulting - a leading business design consulting firm. At Mercer, he was responsible for new business development, managing client relationships and delivering business design engagements in the communications, information and industrial industries

He was an account leader of Mercer’s top account: IBM. Using his account planning, relationship management and selling skills, Michael helped Mercer to create over 300 senior executive relationships and a sustained base of business. He also led account teams aimed at expanding relationships with Motorola, Siemens and NCR.

Early in his career, Michael was a member of the team that established the marketing function at Andersen Worldwide (Arthur Andersen & Accenture).

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You will learn practical methods you can apply immediately to make the most of your large client opportunities NOW...with this Best Practices web seminar.

To register: Click here, or register by mail with check in advance using this Order Form (PDF), or call us at (630) 572-4798.

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