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Discover how some of the most successful and entrepreneurial real-life solo lawyers and law firm owners—like you—are overcoming the same real-world challenges you may be experiencing in your own law firm. Listen and learn from real-life interviews conducted by your host, RJon Robins. RJon is the founder and CEO of How to Manage, which has helped over 9,000 business owners find and fix the problems that keep them stuck and transform their law practices into thriving, profitable law businesses.
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From The Vault

Stop Engaging in Random Acts of Marketing

"An automatic marketing machine can transform your life. Forget about your business... we're really talking about a choice of how you want to live your life."

Welcome inside the vault. This is a collection of previously unreleased lessons from eight-figure entrepreneurial mastermind RJon Robins. And in case you didn't see the warning label – this content can be explicit and is for serious entrepreneurs only.

In this lesson from the April 2021 Live Quarterly Meeting with How To MANAGE a Small Law Firm members, RJon reveals how an automatic marketing machine can transform your law firm and your life. He details why coordinated marketing efforts beat random acts of marketing. Most importantly, he shows how a reliable flow of prospects changes your relationship with clients, staff, and even yourself.

Key Takeaways:

1. The true benefits of an automatic marketing machine

2. Why reliable income beats higher but unpredictable revenue

3. How prospect flow affects the clients you choose to work with and firm culture

4. The importance of coordinated marketing efforts

5. The impact of breaking free from desperate decision-making

This episode provides law firm owners with insight into why a coordinated plan is needed to build a sustainable marketing machine. For a complete blueprint, check out the Automatic Marketing Machine book.

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February 10, 2025
2 min read
From The Vault

Strategic Thinking In Action

"These are the strategic choices that we as the owners of the ship get to make...Otherwise we're going to abdicate our role of the owner to someone else. And then we'll wake up unhappy with the choices they make."

Welcome inside the vault. This is a collection of previously unreleased lessons from eight-figure entrepreneurial mastermind RJon Robins. And in case you didn't see the warning label – this content can be explicit and is for serious entrepreneurs only.

In this lesson, RJon leads How To MANAGE a Small Law Firm members through a visualization exercise to understand their role as strategic business owners. Through a ship analogy, he demonstrates the replicable strategic steps they can make to guide their firm's direction. Most importantly, he reveals the practical difference between an owner's strategic role and the tactical implementation by their team.

Key Takeaways:

1. Understanding the owner's strategic role

2. The difference between strategic and tactical thinking

3. How to make effective strategic decisions

4. The importance of proper delegation

5. Creating systems for implementation

This episode provides law firm owners with clarity about their role and a framework for making strategic decisions that drive business growth.

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Turn the lessons in this episode into an actionable growth plan for your business with the FREE 5-Week Business Plan Bootcamp. https://htm.live/bootcamp

February 3, 2025
2 min read
From The Vault

Face Your Financials

"Not paying attention to the financials doesn't change the truth of what's going on in your business. It just blinds you to the truth of what's going on in your business."

Welcome inside the vault. This is a collection of previously unreleased lessons from eight-figure entrepreneurial mastermind RJon Robins. And in case you didn't see the warning label – this content can be explicit and is for serious entrepreneurs only.

In this eye-opening lesson with How To MANAGE a Small Law Firm members, RJon tackles the truth about financial avoidance in law firms. He reveals how procrastination creates a cycle of dysfunction and why actions, not intentions, determine profitability. He also challenges law firm owners to raise their expectations and take consistent action with their financials.

Key Takeaways:
1. Why financial avoidance creates a cycle of dysfunction
2. The importance of monthly financial reviews
3. How expectations drive actions
4. Why good intentions don't create profitability
5. The role of consistent action in building a profitable business

This episode provides law firm owners with a clear understanding of the importance of incorporating monthly financial reviews to build a profitable business.

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January 27, 2025
2 min read
From The Vault

Strategy, Tactics, and Testing

"A strategy is a theory of preferences. Tactics are the steps you take... the things you do to put your theory of preferences to the test."

Welcome inside the vault. This is a collection of previously unreleased lessons from eight-figure entrepreneurial mastermind RJon Robins. And in case you didn't see the warning label – this content can be explicit and is for serious entrepreneurs only.

In this lesson, RJon breaks down the critical difference between strategy and tactics through practical demonstration. Using simple examples and direct instruction, he reveals how understanding this relationship can transform your approach to business decisions. Most importantly, he shows why failed tactics don't necessarily mean a failed strategy.

Key Takeaways:
1. Understanding the difference between strategy and tactics
2. How to develop and test your theories
3. The importance of clear tactical guidelines for employees
4. The reasons why effective management includes creating systems for implementation

This episode provides law firm owners with a practical framework for turning strategic thinking into tactical action.

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Turn the lessons in this episode into an actionable growth plan for your business with the FREE 5-Week Business Plan Bootcamp. https://htm.live/bootcamp

January 20, 2025
1 min read
From The Vault

SWOT Analysis Fundamentals for Law Firm Owners

"This is how people have been building and running successful businesses for generations. It's not glamorous. It just produces amazingly great results."

Welcome inside the vault. This is a collection of previously unreleased lessons from eight-figure entrepreneurial mastermind RJon Robins. And in case you didn't see the warning label – this content can be explicit and is for serious entrepreneurs only.

In this lesson from January 2024, RJon takes How To MANAGE a Small Law Firm members through a fundamental SWOT Analysis exercise for their business. Through practical examples and direct instruction, he demonstrates how this simple yet powerful method can create alignment, uncover opportunities, and drive strategic thinking in your law firm. Have a pen and paper ready to identify your law firm's business strengths, weaknesses, opportunities. and threats. It's time to make SWOT Analysis a regular business practice in your law firm.

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Turn the lessons in this episode into an actionable growth plan for your business with the FREE 5-Week Business Plan Bootcamp. https://htm.live/bootcamp

January 13, 2025
1 min read
From The Vault

Stop Leaving Success to Chance

"To try to run a law firm or any business for that matter, without good financial controls, without intelligible financial reports, without the ability to analyze, interpret, understand, make rational, sane, intelligent decisions based on financial...that's not how an entrepreneur behaves who expects their business to be financially profitable."

Welcome inside the vault. This is a collection of previously unreleased lessons from eight-figure entrepreneurial mastermind RJon Robins. And in case you didn't see the warning label – this content can be explicit and is for serious entrepreneurs only.

In this lesson, RJon challenges law firm owners at the January 2024 Live Quarterly Meeting to examine their relationship with financial controls. Growing a law firm requires a different focus at different times – from gross revenue and profit margins to team efficiency and business independence, among other key areas. Just like shifting gears in a car, each mode serves its purpose, but financial controls are the road signs telling you when to shift.

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Turn the lessons in this episode into an actionable growth plan for your business with the FREE 5-Week Business Plan Bootcamp. https://htm.live/bootcamp

January 6, 2025
1 min read
From The Vault

Taking Time Off: A Proven Plan for Law Firm Owners

"You all own your own business. So you get to make your own rules. You just keep making up rules that keep you trapped. You could just as easily make up rules that set you free."

Welcome inside the vault. This is a collection of previously unreleased lessons from eight-figure entrepreneurial mastermind RJon Robins. And in case you didn't see the warning label – this content can be explicit and is for serious entrepreneurs only.

In this challenging lesson, RJon pushes law firm owners to commit to implementing How To MANAGE a Small Law Firm's proven 30-day emergency-access-only framework.

Key Takeaways:
1. Moving from intention into implementation
2. The importance of a professional support system
3. Four-step process to prepare for a 30-day absence

Through this framework, you'll shift your law firm from one that demands your constant attention to one that serves your life by building a practice that can run without you.

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Turn the lessons in this episode into an actionable growth plan for your business with the FREE 5-Week Business Plan Bootcamp. https://htm.live/bootcamp

December 30, 2024
1 min read
From The Vault

A Mindset Exercise

"It really comes down to making a decision. The decision comes first. People get all caught up in the how, but the how doesn't matter until you've made the decision."

Welcome inside the vault. This is a collection of previously unreleased lessons from eight-figure entrepreneurial mastermind RJon Robins. And in case you didn't see the warning label – this content can be explicit and is for serious entrepreneurs only.

In this lesson from October 2021, RJon takes How To MANAGE a Small Law Firm members through a powerful mindset exercise examining three key areas:

1. The decision to grow
2. The choice to stop working with "crappy clients"
3. The commitment to building a machine that works for you

Through a compelling steam engine demonstration of sustainable systems in action, RJon reveals how mindset shifts create real-world results.

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Turn the lessons in this episode into an actionable growth plan for your business with the FREE 5-Week Business Plan Bootcamp. https://htm.live/bootcamp

December 23, 2024
1 min read
From The Vault

Escape The Grind: A Wake-Up Call For Law Firm Owners

"Are you going to keep hiding out in the grind, or are you going to get serious about building a business that works for you and your family?"

Welcome inside the vault. This is a collection of previously unreleased lessons from eight-figure entrepreneurial mastermind RJon Robins. And in case you didn't see the warning label – this content can be explicit and is for serious entrepreneurs only.

In this powerful lesson, RJon delivers a much-needed wake-up call to law firm owners about the true cost of staying in their comfort zone. He reveals how the familiar "grind" of daily work becomes a trap that prevents business growth and personal transformation.

Key Takeaways:
1. How to recognize when expertise becomes a trap
2. Why comfort zones stifle business growth
3. The real cost of staying in the grind
4. When to delegate and trust professionals
5. How to make the decision to break free

This episode is for law firm owners who want to stop grinding and are ready to start building a business that serves their life.

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Turn the lessons in this episode into an actionable growth plan for your business with the FREE 5-Week Business Plan Bootcamp. https://htm.live/bootcamp

December 16, 2024
2 min read
From The Vault

How Your Standards Design Your Life

"Your minimum standards for how anyone should perform in their role should be engineered to be profitable for the employee, it should be profitable for the clients, and it should be profitable for you as the owner of the firm."

Welcome inside the vault. This is a collection of previously unreleased lessons from eight-figure entrepreneurial mastermind RJon Robins. And in case you didn't see the warning label – this content can be explicit and is for serious entrepreneurs only.

In this lesson, RJon guides law firm owners through an exercise to define their minimum standards. Through real-time coaching and practical examples, he demonstrates how the standards you set and more importantly maintain directly shape your business success and personal lifestyle.

KEY TAKEAWAYS:
1. How to define clear, achievable minimum standards
2. The connection between standards and lifestyle goals
3. Why realistic standards benefit everyone in your law firm
4. Creating systems that support your standards
5. The impact of standards on sustainable success

This episode is a good example of a highly interactive exercise between RJon and How To MANAGE a Small Law Firm members. It provides law firm owners with a practical framework for designing standards that create both the business and the life they want to build.

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Turn the lessons in this episode into an actionable growth plan for your business with the FREE 5-Week Business Plan Bootcamp. https://htm.live/bootcamp

December 9, 2024
2 min read
From The Vault

The Power of Setting and Maintaining Minimum Standards

"Goals are what you're aiming for, but the standards are what you are tolerating. We've got to spend less time talking about our goals and more time talking about and thinking about our standards."

Welcome inside the vault. This is a collection of previously unreleased lessons from eight-figure entrepreneurial mastermind RJon Robins. And in case you didn't see the warning label – this content can be explicit and is for serious entrepreneurs only.

In this lesson, RJon challenges How To MANAGE a Small Law Firm members to examine their minimum standards. He reveals how the lack of clearly defined standards with staff and clients often holds law firms back from achieving their full potential. Without minimum standards, law firm owners find themselves tolerating poor performance, missed deadlines, and challenging client behaviors. Get ready to set your minimum standards for business and professional success.

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Turn the lessons in this episode into an actionable growth plan for your business with the FREE 5-Week Business Plan Bootcamp. https://htm.live/bootcamp

December 2, 2024
1 min read
From The Vault

5 Ways To Make Your Law Firm More Profitable

"The way to build a multi-million dollar business is not with some grand gesture. The way to build a multi-million dollar business is by fixing little problems in your business...and that's a much more durable solution"

Welcome inside the vault. This is a collection of previously unreleased lessons from eight-figure entrepreneurial mastermind RJon Robins. And in case you didn't see the warning label – this content can be explicit and is for serious entrepreneurs only.

In this lesson, RJon provides How To MANAGE a Small Law Firm members with a detailed roadmap for increasing law firm profitability. He focuses on five key areas for improvement:

1. Increasing gross revenue
2. Increasing gross profits
3. Being smarter about fixed costs
4. Reducing waste
5. Reducing the cost of acquisition

Through practical examples, actionable strategies, and cost-effective solutions, RJon demonstrates how law firm owners can build a more profitable and durable business.

Let's go to the vault!

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Turn the lessons in this episode into an actionable growth plan for your business with the FREE 5-Week Business Plan Bootcamp. https://htm.live/bootcamp

November 25, 2024
1 min read