Are you a law firm owner who is looking for ways to make more money? In this episode of the Maximum Lawyer, Tyson Mutrux delves into 14 types of revenue for law firms and offers actionable strategies to diversify income streams.
Law firms and attorneys alike can take advantage of so many streams to make money. There are many ways to engage with clients and colleagues alike and diversify your income stream. Diversifying income streams is an important way to generate more revenue for a law firm. Tyson speaks to the different types of revenue that can bring in money. These include subscriptions, selling templates and courses, charging for partial services like onboarding, partnering with other firms, developing and selling legal software and coaching or consulting.
Take a listen to learn about the 14 types of revenue that can increase your income!
Episode Highlights:
01:19 Subscription Revenue
02:19 Service and Product Revenue
04:18 Affiliate Revenue
06:15 Recurring Revenue
08:11 Consulting or Coaching Revenue
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Tyson Mutrux (00:00.814) Welcome back to another Saturday episode of the Maximum Lawyer podcast. Today, I'm going to be talking about the 14 types of revenue for law firms. There actually might be more, but I picked 14 that I'm going to go through a little bit just to jog your, give you some ideas that you might be able to use in your practices to maybe generate a little bit more revenue. Or for some of you, this might be your primary source of revenue.
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type in, you know, max law texting number, something like that. That way you can text if you have a question. 314-501-9260. Okay, so I want to get into this episode. I think it's going be a fun one. I think it might get some of your creative juices going and hopefully you can take some actionable ideas away from this episode. I think it's pretty cool. But number one is subscription revenue.
That is one that has been talked about fairly recently over the last decade. So obviously you can offer some sort of subscription based legal plan, whatever that may look like. I'll let you come and kind of craft up your own, however you want that to be. But you can do some sort of subscription plan where they pay you every month or even every year, whatever it may be. A small business example that might be, a small business pays a monthly fee.
Tyson Mutrux (02:21.07) for maybe employment law advice and contract reviews, whatever it may be. that is one idea. Number two, obviously service revenue. I'm almost gonna, that's sort of like a given. I'm not really, it could really be 15, but in this one, I'm gonna talk about service and product revenue. So this isn't just your services. This is actually selling things like legal templates.
ebooks, online courses, and these could be to lawyers or non-lawyers. They can go to both. just kind of try to think outside the box a little bit. So example of that might be some sort of a downloadable estate planning kit or some sort of course on starting an LLC that you can provide to clients or potential clients. Number three is some sort of implementation or setup revenue. So you
This would be something like charging for onboarding services such as setting up trusts or forming some sort of entity for them. So you're not doing the full job, you're doing part of it. An example might be some sort of a flat fee for creating the LLC, including some of the paperwork, but you're not really doing all the filing. I know that this is sort of an odd one, but it is a way… I've seen firms do things similar to that before where they're doing part of it, not all of it, and they're letting…
letting the client sort of take it the rest of the way over the goal line. That's an option for you. Number four is affiliate revenue. That's where you partner with some, maybe you could partner with a legal tech or some sort of insurance company. I think that some estate planning firms might do something like this when it comes to insurance companies and earning commissions, but you would earn commissions is what it would be. Those of you that have some sort of following on social media, you could definitely do some sort of.
affiliate revenue there an example of this might be you know recommending a case management tool to clients or to lawyers and earn a percentage of each of the sales or Let's say that you were an estate planning firm. You could create some sort of software which I'm gonna get an assassin a little bit, but you could get with some estate planning service or company that has a software and
Tyson Mutrux (04:46.56) you for clients or for people that don't hire you, you could get some sort of commission for sending them over to this. The software that is that could help them with their estate plan. That's an option. One you might not be thinking about is sponsorship revenue. This is where you maybe could host a seminar or webinar and invite sponsors. An example, this might be some sort of an estate planning firm where a financial planning firm will sponsor the seminar.
So you're getting revenue for that. That could be a really simple way of doing it. I know many of you have not thought of that, but that is a way of partnering with them where they're getting access to your client list or your potential clients by them sponsoring your event. That's an easy way of doing it. Expansion revenue. So this could be upselling an existing client on another product or service that you have.
or expanding into a new city. That's something that could be pretty easy. Seven, referral revenue. So referring cases to people like me, you're handling wills, but they call you about a car crash and you refer them to an injury attorney and you get a percentage of those fees. The vast majority of states, I know that not all states do that, but I know states like Missouri and Illinois do, but I don't think Colorado does, which is pretty unfortunate.
Although I think that that rule might be changing if I'm remembering that correctly, but that's another way of you potentially getting money. All right, SaaS revenue, I mentioned that earlier. So that's software as a service. You could develop your own legal tech software, have someone develop that and then sell that, offer that to other attorneys, or you can create your own software and sell it to clients. That's another way of getting money. Recurring revenue. And what I'm talking about here is
I mean, there could be a lot of different options with this, but I know that with some workers compensation cases, and these are the more serious ones where the attorney gets paid until the client passes away. I mean, this is a very unique thing. It's going to be hard to kind of apply this across the board, but that's way of getting some sort of recurring revenue. Number 10, per usage revenue. So you're going to charge per activity.
Tyson Mutrux (07:08.942) I'm going to kind let you come up with your own ideas as how you would do that. an example could be clients pay per contract drafted or per court appearance made. So you could reconfigure things how you were getting paid. So maybe you have a flat fee plus pay per usage revenue. There's lots of different ways you could play with that. Another one is licensing revenue. you could…
license any proprietary language or legal templates or resources that you have out to other law firms. So let's say you have some really good family law tools that you can license out to other firms. That's something you can do to drive some more revenue. Interest revenue. So you could earn interest from things like annuities. for those of you that…
let's say you have a really big case, either from a referral or from one of your own injury cases, you can then put that money into an annuity and you can gain interest on that and make money off of that. I've heard of several people doing that. That's something that is a way of getting some money off of the money that you make. It's pretty good. Another one is premium revenue. charging a premium, you charge premium fees for more high profile or specialized cases.
you add, so you have your regular rate and then you have a premium rate. That's a way of increasing your revenues in a way, in a really simple way that you could, that way you can make some more money. And then the last one is either consulting or coaching. And this could apply to other lawyers or this could apply to non-lawyers, either one. So that gives you a lot of options when it comes to coaching or consulting. All right, I went through this list really fast. So you might have to go back and,
Listen to it again to get some of those or you can use some sort of AI tool to get a summary of What those are but hopefully you enjoyed this episode. I those was kind of a fun one because you can Kind of get your get you thinking a little bit about ways of increasing revenues incrementally, but that's all I have for you today Hopefully you enjoyed it just as a reminder shoot me a text if you have any questions three one four five zero one nine two six zero or if you just want to say hello I like those as well until next time
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