1. Set the geographic definitions before you read the numbers
A dashboard can show a city, county, state or broader service area, but those labels are not interchangeable. Millsboro is a municipality in Sussex County; Delaware is the state. The Census estimate describes the town’s population, not the size of a legal market and not the number of prospective clients. Your firm should therefore decide whether a metric is meant to describe Millsboro, Sussex County, Delaware or another service area before using it in a budget or practice-area discussion.
Recommended approach
Ask Bosseo to demonstrate how geographic labels would be defined for your account. Confirm whether a ranking, call, form or matter can be associated with a specific city, county or broader area, and record the limits of that association. Treat Millsboro as a defined service geography rather than using the town’s population as a forecast.
