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Notes from the work.

Writing on lead generation, intake operations, and acquisition economics in regulated industries.

Workflow and operations

What a consent record should contain

A consent record is only useful if it shows exactly what the consumer saw and agreed to. Here is what to keep.

Legal services

Intake criteria belong to the attorneys

Legal intake works best when the firm's attorneys write the qualifying questions and the intake team applies them the same way every time.

Workflow and operations

Intake is a marketing channel

The minutes between a form fill and a callback decide how much of a media budget turns into signed work.

Acquisition modeling

Why the next dollar costs more

Every acquisition channel gets more expensive as spend rises. Budget plans that ignore this overspend on the channel that looks best today.