Is Your Firm Focused On Potential Clients In Emerging Industries

Developing the Next Generation of Rainmakers Is Your Firm Focused on Potential Clients in Emerging Industries? On July 4, I read the Inc. Magazine list of  7 Companies Older Than America. I suspect these companies already have lawyers and even more likely do not need them. So those 7 companies might not be the best potential clients. What would be the best potential clients? A couple of years ago I wrote: Are You and Your Firm Focusing on the Right Clients? In that post, I talked about Fortune’s Top Industries.  I think it is also important to look at emerging industries.  Is your firm paying close attention to those? I think it is job 1 for finding clients with substantial growth potential. Just recently I read: China promises support for 7 emerging industries. The seven industries include: Is anyone in your firming learning the Chinese language? Will these also be emerging industries in the US and Canada? You might also read: What are you doing to stay on top of what industry sectors are growing? You might wonder how I happened to find these articles. It was really pretty easy. I get RSS feeds to  Forbes Entrepreneurs,    Business Week-Small Business  , CNN-Money Small Business  in my iGoogle and Google Reader pages. I practiced law for 37 years developing a national construction law practice representing some of the top highway and transportation construction contractors in the US.