4 Online Legal Marketing Trends Every Other Industry Knows About

Don’t you wish you had a crystal ball to peer into the future?  Some way to tell what the next few years would bring?  What would you do with that information?  Would you put money on the Super Bowl?  World Series?  Or would you take the opportunity to move ten giant steps ahead of the competition?

OK, it’s no and either-or sort of thing.  You’d probably do all of those things and a lot more.  But when it comes to marketing your law firm online there’s a certain amount of forecasting we can do without any help.  All it takes is a quick glance around to see where the rest of the world is today.

That’s right, we can see the future of online legal marketing by looking around us right now.  As a backwards-looking profession, we live in the past.  It’s in our legal pleadings, our reliance on precedent, and our education.  But the fun thing is that the rest of the world is living in the present.

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Online Legal Marketing Tip – Google Places

Google Local And Online Legal Marketing

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 Places, as well as some statistics about mobile phone adoption in the “baby boomer” crowd.

For example, more Americans than ever before are turning to their mobile devices for their web-related activities.  They’re checking email from restaurants, their sofas, and during idle time in general.  When people search online from their smartphones and mobile devices, Google Places gives them the option of clicking the local result and placing a phone call without the hassle of writing down the number.

When you’re marketing your law firm online it’s important to go where the eyeballs are.  In the old days that meant the Yellow Pages and newspapers, but more people than ever are replacing those modes of communication and information-gathering with their phones, netbooks and (very soon) iPads.

Will your law firm be found online when someone does a search from the grocery store checkout line?

To listen to the audio, just click the link below.  To save it to your computer, mp3 player, iPod or whatever – just right-click and hit “Save As.”

Online Legal Marketing Tip – Google Local (Click To Listen)

Want more?  You can pick up a full video-on-demand training session for Google Places right here for a paltry sum.

 

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