Contents
- 1 What Is Cause Marketing?
- 2 What Cause Marketing Does
- 3 What Makes a Successful Cause Marketing Campaign?
- 4 Do Large Companies Use Cause Marketing?
- 5 How Effective Is Cause Marketing?
- 6 Does Cause Marketing Work for Lawyers?
- 7 How Can Your Law Firm Do Cause Marketing?
- 8 Cause Marketing Can Generate Valuable Free Publicity
- 9 Cause Marketing Won’t Benefit Your Law Firm if No One Knows What You Do
- 10 Have a Question About Cause Marketing For Lawyers? Leave a Comment Below!
What Is Cause Marketing?
Cause marketing is simply a marketing campaign promoting a cause that customers believe in.
Cause marketing for lawyers is a marketing campaign promoting a cause your clients believe in.
What Cause Marketing Does
Cause marketing for lawyers generates awareness of your law firm’s brand and creates goodwill for your brand. (See an in-depth definition of cause marketing)
What Makes a Successful Cause Marketing Campaign?
A cause marketing campaign’s success is dependent upon prominently communicating your law firm’s brand connection with the cause, otherwise, the goodwill is lost.
Do Large Companies Use Cause Marketing?
Every major company uses cause marketing. Costco sent me an email saying,
Thanks for dining out with your Costco Anywhere Visa® Card. Did you know your next meal out can help provide 10 healthy meals for kids in need?
When you spend $5 or more dining out with your enrolled Citi® card, we’ll donate $1 to No Kid Hungry — up to $2 million. That’s enough to provide 20 million meals.
Bobby’s Burger Palace used this cause marketing ad to get people in the store.
How Effective Is Cause Marketing?
Cone Communications found in a study on cause branding that 85% of American consumers “have a more positive image of a product or company when it supports a cause they care about” and “80% are likely to switch brands, similar in price and quality, to one that supports a cause.”
Does Cause Marketing Work for Lawyers?
Cause marketing is the most effective type of marketing even for lawyers.
Ken Hardison of The Personal Injury Lawyers Marketing & Management Association (PILMMA) advocates cause marketing in his article Inspire Your Law Firm On Independence Day.
See the effect created when the Cellino & Barnes law firm used cause marketing at a hockey game. The law firm got a bigger round of applause than the hockey team which was “on their way to their fourth straight win of the season”.
The law firm flashed an announcement on the screen “Home from Iraq.” The announcer said, “back from Iraq is the American hero” and the soldier, who was at the game, was flashed on the screen waving to the crowd. The screen panned back to the message now with the Cellino & Barnes law firm showing on the lower right corner of the screen.
How Can Your Law Firm Do Cause Marketing?
A 1-800-HURT-911® licensee joined forces with an advertising agency that places mobile billboard signs on cars to find a kidney for a mom.
Cause Marketing Can Generate Valuable Free Publicity
Cause marketing can generate a lot of free publicity so make sure you notify local newspapers, radio, and TV. This is the story on TV news about how 1-800-HURT-911® was helping to find a kidney.
Cause Marketing Won’t Benefit Your Law Firm if No One Knows What You Do
This was a great cause marketing idea but it wasn’t apparent to viewers what 1-800-HURT-911® does. Is it an organization of personal injury lawyers or a kidney organization?
Grace, a spokesperson for 1-800-HURT-911® Florida said she wanted to help out but, unfortunately, didn’t say that she and the personal injury lawyers at 1-800-HURT-911® wanted to help out. No one knows from this interview that 1-800-HURT-911® are personal injury lawyers. People could assume it’s a kidney organization.
Make a cause marketing video for your personal injury law firm website. This video was made by a HURT911® licensee.
Whether you decide to use cause marketing for your law firm with 1-800-HURT-911® or not, give cause marketing for lawyers serious consideration for your law firm. Just a little thought and a small investment in your marketing budget will return tens of thousands of dollars in free publicity generating awareness and goodwill for your law firm brand.
