Second Rule of Marketing: Build a Moat Before Consolidation Hits | Dan Kennedy pt. 2

If Part 1 made you want to rethink your marketing, Part 2 is where Dan Kennedy gets dangerously practical.

This episode picks up live from the Great Legal Marketing Summit (October 2025) with Dan going deeper on the stuff most lawyers ignore because it feels “old school” or “too much work.” Direct mail. Personal follow-up. Real client engagement that does not look like every other firm’s same five ads and the same three landing pages. The kind of marketing that makes you the obvious choice because you are not playing the same game as everyone else. 

Consolidation is coming. More money is moving into legal. More companies are buying up attention, platforms, and distribution. And that reality changes what “growth” even means for a small firm. You can either get swept into the noise, or you can build something durable with a strategy and a circle of people who are testing what works. 

That’s where the conversation lands at the end. Dan talks about the value of mastermind groups, not as a trendy thing, but as a place to borrow the best experiments, skip expensive mistakes, and keep momentum when the market shifts. If you have been feeling like your marketing is fine but fragile, this episode will click. 

Want the notes from this conversation and the rest of the Summit sessions? Grab them at glmsummitnotes.com.

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Brian Glass is a nationally recognized personal injury lawyer in Fairfax, Virginia. He is passionate about living a life of his own design and looking for answers to solutions outside of the legal field. This podcast is his effort to share that passion with others.

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