{"id":110743,"date":"2025-03-18T07:03:05","date_gmt":"2025-03-18T15:03:05","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/xira.com\/p\/2025\/03\/18\/expert-services-company-harbor-acquires-marketing-consulting-firm-clientsfirst\/"},"modified":"2025-03-18T07:03:05","modified_gmt":"2025-03-18T15:03:05","slug":"expert-services-company-harbor-acquires-marketing-consulting-firm-clientsfirst","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/xira.com\/p\/2025\/03\/18\/expert-services-company-harbor-acquires-marketing-consulting-firm-clientsfirst\/","title":{"rendered":"Expert Services Company Harbor Acquires Marketing Consulting Firm CLIENTSFirst"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Harbor, a consulting company that provides expert services to the legal industry in strategy, technology, operations and intelligence, has acquired CLIENTSFirst Consulting, a marketing firm that provides consulting on client relationship management, data quality, e-marketing and other areas. Harbor said that the addition of the CLIENTSFirst Consulting team will enable it to expand and deepen [\u2026]<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/harborglobal.com\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Harbor<\/a>, a consulting company that provides expert services to the legal industry in strategy, technology, operations and intelligence, has acquired <a href=\"https:\/\/clientsfirstconsulting.com\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">CLIENTSFirst Consulting<\/a>, a marketing firm that provides consulting on client relationship management, data quality, e-marketing and other areas.<\/p>\n<p>Harbor said that the addition of the CLIENTSFirst Consulting team will enable it to expand and deepen its services relating to law firm business development and growth.<\/p>\n<p>Chris Fritsch, founder and president of CLIENTSFirst Consulting, has joined Harbor as vice president of marketing technologies.<\/p>\n<p>According to Harbor, it already provides assessment, implementation and management of marketing technology products, including CRM, experience management, and proposal generation, as well as AI tools. In addition, the company provides competitive intelligence and data analytics to inform business development strategies.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cAs AI and digital transformation drive disruptive change in marketing, the technology available to law firms \u2013 particularly for strategic decision-making and business development \u2013 is showing signs of healthy consolidation and innovation,\u201d said Matt Sunderman, CEO of Harbor in a press release.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cLaw firm CMOs and CBDOs are not only driving AI experimentation, they are also asking for strategic advisory services to help them make the most of the data they already have to better serve their clients \u2013 faster, more efficiently, and with more personalization \u2013 as they ramp their organizations for growth.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Harbor, a consulting company that provides expert services to the legal industry in strategy, technology, operations and intelligence, has acquired CLIENTSFirst Consulting, a marketing firm that provides consulting on client relationship management, data quality, e-marketing and other areas. Harbor said that the addition of the CLIENTSFirst Consulting team will enable it to expand and deepen [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":110744,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[24],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-110743","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-lawsite"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/xira.com\/p\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/03\/Screenshot-2025-03-18-085446-1024x576-MXjdgV.png?fit=1024%2C576&ssl=1","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/xira.com\/p\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/110743","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/xira.com\/p\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/xira.com\/p\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/xira.com\/p\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/xira.com\/p\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=110743"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/xira.com\/p\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/110743\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/xira.com\/p\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/110744"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/xira.com\/p\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=110743"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/xira.com\/p\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=110743"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/xira.com\/p\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=110743"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}