How to make property matters easier when your firm doesn’t specialise in property law

How to market yourself and your firm Is marketing a great way of investing in yourself and your firm? Well, yes, it is! Marketing yourself and your business effectively involves a combination of strategies, and tactics to reach your target audience, build brand awareness, and generate leads as well as sales.    The way to market yourself and your firm is limited only by your own imagination. Here are just a handful of the many strategies you can employ to effectively promote both yourself and your business:  Website and social media – Build a professional user-friendly, responsive website or social media page – treat this as your “shop front”.   This form of promotion needs to be clear, functional, easy to follow and regularly updated. This ensures that your clients can access your business with ease and clarity, while receiving regular updates of new ideas they may be interested in. If you don’t feel comfortable with this type of promotion on your own, there is always an option to involve a professional website designer to ensure that your story is delivered without complication.  Content marketing – Create high-quality, relevant content that educates as well as entertains or even solves problems for your target audience. You can showcase and explain your areas of expertise with blogs. Share this content on your website and social media platforms to establish yourself with

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How to manage tight settlement deadlines

How to manage tight settlement deadlines Even at the best of times, managing a settlement can be challenging. Between delays, adjustments, difficulty contacting banks, councils, and more, there are many opportunities for time to slip away. On top of this, for your client, the settlement process is usually the last hurdle before they legally take possession of a property, so they may be feeling anxious, stressed, and impatient. This pressure can often amount on you, as their lawyer or conveyancer. Fortunately, there are ways to manage tight settlement deadlines. Here’s three tips: Involve a settlement expert When a client submits an urgent request, it can be difficult to ensure the matter is attended to, and seen through to completion on time. In instances like this, it is helpful to have extra support. SettleIT, powered by InfoTrack, is a flexible solution, allowing you to outsource the lodgment of registry documents and settlements – both electronic and manual. Our team are dedicated, reliable and determined to help you from the moment you get in touch. Cornwalls recently enlisted the help of SettleIT to assist with a last-minute client request. “We were referred to SettleIT and the experience was brilliant. We engaged SettleIT for something that had a very tight timeframe,

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Maintain profitability and earn valuable rest this holiday season

Maintain profitability and earn valuable rest this holiday season As the holiday season draws near, you may be thinking about the months ahead. Are you looking to expand your services into different states in 2021, to stay profitable, but don’t currently have the expertise on board? Or will you wind back your property lodgment and settlement services in order to enjoy a well-deserved break? These are two of the challenges that property lawyers and conveyancers face in the time leading up until Christmas. While traditionally the summer is a slow period for many professional services and b2b businesses, it doesn’t have to be this way. Here are three strategies that you can implement to stay open for business these holidays, maintain profit, set your direction for 2021 and earn a well-deserved break.  1. Keep your brand presence front and center while you rest While you might be looking to hibernate, it’s important that your firm does not. It is important to stay viable to stay at the forefront of your client’s minds. So while you may not be working with them on a particular matter, when it comes to servicing them in the future, it is important that you are

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