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90 Minutes of Outbound Calls Generated $80K/Month (Here's the Math) with Molly McGrath

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Molly McGrath: 60 outbound calls take 90 minutes, and with a $5,000 average fee, two conversations can mean $10,000.

1. The Law Firm Growth Podcast episode examines a 30-day outbound-calling challenge that Molly McGrath ran for law firm admin bootcamp members, built around 60 calls a day and an $80K-a-month result. 2. Host Jan Roos talks with Molly McGrath, founder of Hiring Empowering Solutions, who places intake and support staff at law firms and runs the Law Firm Admin Bootcamp for more than 300 overseas coordinators. 3. Molly's thesis is that intake coordinators are "the biggest difference maker" and revenue generator in a firm, and that tracked follow-up calls to warm leads and past clients convert at a low cost per appointment. 4. The challenge began with 25 firms, a $500 Amazon gift card prize, weekly Monday sessions and Friday number reports, and only two firms remained at day 30. 5. Molly says the calls came from three groups, including no-show workshop registrants, stale pipeline leads and past clients, and that call number 26 converted best while follow-up call number four was the one that booked. 6. Jan Roos works through the math: 90 minutes a day for five days is about eight hours a week, which is roughly $16 per appointment at $8/hour or $50 at $25/hour, and he compares that with paid-ad costs. 7. Molly credits the two finishers to being newly hired for a single role instead of wearing "3.5 hats," and describes a bonus plan that has paid coordinator Alejandro $1,200 a month in a South Florida firm since May 2023. 8. She also names service-industry backgrounds (bartenders, restaurant and mattress-store sales) as the best predictor of strong intake staff, and says a rock-star salesperson fails when a firm lacks leads or a closing attorney. 9. On offshore hiring, Molly says the Philippines bar pass rate is 22% versus 71.9% in the U.S., attorneys there cost about $15/hour, and coordinator pay now averages about $8.50/hour, up from $3. 10. Law firm owners, intake coordinators and legal marketers who want concrete call-volume and cost math will get the most from it.

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