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Bourbon of Proof: PI Marketing and the Power of Brand

Published on September 4, 2025

Video Description

This video breaks down why so many personal injury attorneys get their marketing wrong. If you ask an AI tool to make a picture of a personal injury lawyer, it’ll probably spit out the same image you see on every billboard: a big smile, a suit, maybe even pointing at their name. That cliché doesn’t help you stand out anymore.

For a long time, PI firms could coast on referrals and cookie-cutter advertising. But times are different now. Insurance companies are squeezing harder, costs are rising, and the firms that survive will be the ones who adapt. That means finding ways to cut costs, improve case outcomes, and use technology to run leaner.

At the core of all this is your brand. Your brand is the one thing nobody else can copy. It is not just a logo or a tagline. It is who you are, how you work, and why clients trust you. The firms that figure this out early will keep thriving. The ones who wait until they are already squeezed out of the market will not.

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Transcript

What do they do wrong on social media and on websites? Do this test when you get home. They go on to ChatGPT and tell it to make a picture of a personal injury attorney. Just say, what's the stereotypical personal injury attorney look like? It will pull up an image, I guarantee it, that looks like every billboard you've ever seen. The big guy with a face smiling, pointing at the sign. That's not what you wanna be. And that's, you don't, you don't wanna stand out. You wanna be different. And so, so change it up. And AI tools are a great way to brainstorm, you know, find your unique strength. What's gonna happen over the evolution of PI is for the longest time there was so much money in PI that you could just get away with anything as far as marketing went. You get referrals, I mean, you just made money. But now as, you know, insurance companies are squeezing, every costs are rising, everything's changing, there's gonna be optimizations that happen like using technology like we're talking about we're talking about today, but other technologies that are out there that are gonna be required in order to keep making the kind of money you've been making before. You gotta save costs, you gotta make the amounts of the settlements go up and so by doing that, what remains is your only asset which is your personal Your brand. Brand. Yeah. Like you, like who you are and what you do. And so, don't wait to be squalls out of the market before you focus on that.

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