Someone was rear-ended on Tuesday. By Wednesday they were on their phone typing “car accident lawyer near me,” and they called the first two listings on the map. Neither of them was you, and neither of them tried the case better than you would have.
What makes it worse is that you know exactly why. Your profile has no posts, three photos from when you signed the lease, and a two-star review from a client whose case you turned down that has been sitting there unanswered since February.
So you get a quote from a legal marketing agency: $6,000 a month, twelve-month term, and a content plan you have to review anyway because the last vendor wrote “we guarantee we will win your case” on a landing page and your compliance partner nearly had a coronary.
Meanwhile the intake sheet stays thin, the referral partners carry the practice, and every month you tell yourself you will deal with the website after this trial.