The Firmgrown Podcast: Recent Episodes
Olivia
Hi, I am Olivia Kiratu and I host the Firmgrown Podcast. I created it to help Africa-based lawyers & business development professionals like you to grow their practices.
How?
By growing three very important things - profitability, visibility and productivity.
I cover topics like branding, business development and digital media with honesty, my perspectives drawn from coaching lawyers & firms across Africa and some good ol’ laughter.
Lawyers should have fun too, right?
While email takes a lot of our time it is a necessary evil in our highly connected world. In addition, to win and retain clients, lawyers must be responsive to emails. But that is easier said than done. Right? I know the struggle is real and In my latest podcast episode I am dishing out on my favourite email productivity tips to help you take control of your day and more importantly, your inbox.
Follow-up after an event is very important. To make the most of a networking event, you need to be proactive and strategic in what you do after the event. If you need some ideas on how to handle this last and very critical part of networking this episode is definitely for you.
Being a tech-lover one thing I have been working on recently is using technology to improve my public speaking preparation, promotion and delivery. Sharing is caring, so I recorded this podcast episode to share my new favourite “public speaking apps”, details on how I use them and even the lessons I am learning in the process.
According to statistics by DataReportal, LinkedIn has 303 million active users per month, 40% of which visit it daily. In addition to these numbers, LinkedIn has evolved as a social media tool and no doubt about it, if used correctly it can help you increase your online visibility and grow your private practice. To use it efficiently, you should use technology to automate some of your LinkedIn-related tasks to make time for your other obligations like attending to client work, research, admin and your continuous learning. In this podcast episode, I share some of the apps I frequently recommend to lawyers who want to level up on LinkedIn. The best part is most of the tools I recommend are free. Honestly, I wanted to make a list of 10 tools but finished my list at 11 and decided it would not hurt to share that much more:).
Digital marketing tools like websites and social media have not only changed how law firms market themselves, but how individual private practice lawyers market themselves and build their reputations. In this episode, I look at what lawyers should know about building their online reputations.
I made this episode for all those lawyers thinking of launching their own practices. I have taken the lessons I have learnt from my own business and showed how they can be applied by new law firm founders in their new practices, to start well & start strong.
Thinking of launching your own practice & joining the partners' club, here is a free copy of our Law Firm Launch Checklist to help you do it - Law Firm Launch Checklist
I get a lot of questions about how I got into business development. Honestly it was not something I knew or dreamed about doing. In this episode I share my journey and how each of the steps played a role in shaping me to be the coach I am today. If you are a business development professional or thinking of hiring a business development manager for your firm, this episode will be insightful.
In 2017, I decided to become more consistent and intentional about my social media presence. The one tool I chose to focus on the most was LinkedIn. I have come a long way since then and have learnt a lot. In this episode I share the strategies I have been using to increase my visibility on the platform.
A lot of lawyers think that the only brand they need to build is their law firm's brand. The truth is, because private practice lawyers offer highly personalised services, the personal branding is an important skill that all lawyers, regardless of age, location or specialisation should master. In this episode, I break down what personal branding is and the key benefits lawyers can get from building strong names & reputations for themselves as individuals.