Category Archives: Legal Marketing

Blogging For Your Law Firm? There Is No Middle Ground.

Marketing your law firm with a blog is a romantic notion in a certain sense.
Law firm marketing folks – heck, all marketing folks – extol the virtues of blogging. Create a law firm blog and your business will soar, setting you apart from the competition and bringing you accolades of all sorts.  Your law [...]

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Legal Marketing Tip: A Flip Camera And 8.3 Seconds

Legal marketing takes all forms, but one of the best ways to convince the world that you’re good at what you do is to get other people talking about you.
Word of mouth is indeed a powerful force, especially these days. There are so many lawyers out there, so many marketing messages thrown at consumers, [...]

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Online Legal Marketing Overdrive – 9 WordPress Plugins That Rock My Blogs

Online legal marketing needs to include a blog – I’ve said it before and I’m sure I’ll say it again before too long (that is, unless I end up saying that blogging is dead – nah, not likely).  And if you’re serious about your online legal marketing efforts you should be using WordPress.  Not the [...]

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How Content Drives Law Firm Marketing

Law firm marketing used to be so simple.  Slap up a few ads, buy up some television time, and call the Yellow Pages representative to pick up a fat check.
But somewhere along the line it got more difficult.  Prospective clients started wising up and asking questions.  They realized that there was no early way for [...]

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Online Legal Marketing Tip – Google Local

Online legal marketing tactics vary from person to person, but one thing every lawyer wants is to rank at the top of the Google results.  On this audio post (I’d call it a podcast but then I’d probably never podcast again, then I’d look like a dummy) we talk about online legal marketing using Google [...]

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Online Legal Marketing 101 – Be Original

When marketing your law firm online it’s important to remember that originality is key. And I’m not just talking about the design of your law firm’s website or your point of view – it should be obvious that you need to be different so as not to blend in.
What I’m talking about is the [...]

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Legal Marketing – Wash, Rinse, Repeat

Legal marketing efforts are important – we all know it.  We need to keep the new business (and repeat business) flowing in the front door in order to keep the coffers full, the staff busy, and the lights on.
We learn everything we can, we soak up information, we read as much as possible.  And in [...]

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Online Legal Marketing – Fish Where The Fish Are

When you’re marketing your law firm online it’s easy to get caught up in the blogging whirlwind.  After all, that stuff takes nothing more than time – and it’s entirely within your control.  There are technical issues to contend with, but they’re easily tackled.
Most people will tell you to work on excellent content and optimize [...]

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Scribe SEO: Search Engine Optimization Gets Kicked Up To 11

I don’t post about products too frequently.  And when I do, I post about stuff I use.
This morning a new search engine optimization product hit the market and I bought it in about 5 seconds.  Paid full freight, signed up without the free test drive that was offered.
That product?  Scribe SEO.
Scribe SEO is a plugin [...]

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We Are Different … And We Are Lucky

I came across this video at the Content Wrangler and wanted to share it with you. It’s a video being used for a conference coming up in San Francisco this May, and it makes us realize the enormity of the times in which we are living.
Legal marketing, online marketing, communications of all kinds have [...]

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