Not sure if you’ve checked your in-box yet, but there’s another opportunity for you to purchase an ad based on your latest ranking. Oh, I know you are a preeminently, super, best lawyer, but please, stop buying these ads. The opportunities appear to be multiplying like tribbles, or ads for male enhancement paraphernalia in my
The First Rule of Legal Marketing
TRUST. If you ask me, the first rule of our profession is trust.
Without trust we cannot do much in our firms. Without trust we cannot learn and share with one another. Without trust we cannot mentor, or be mentored, by the incredible leaders of our profession, who are still around. Which says a lot
No More Excuses. Learn This S*** Already
Jonathan Fitzgerrald, CMO, Greenberg Glusker (Bad for the Brand and so much more) and I sat down yesterday to discuss our upcoming Webinar Best of the Web for Professional Development. Of course, a Vente iced-coffee propelled us off topic now and again, and at one point we started ranting about legal marketers
Call it link bait, if you will, but here’s my lawyers, legal marketers and Chick-fil-A post
So, here’s my take on the whole Chick-fil-A debacle going on in our country:
And that’s what it should be for those reading this.
Why? Because we are service providers. We provide something to someone else, based on our personal reputations, and they pay us for doing it.
We get hired because people know, like
Just what we needed. ANOTHER legal directory.
Going through my e-mails this morning and guess what?? I’ve been selected to join the newest and greatest online legal directory, ever.
Seriously, people. Stop with the new legal directories. I don’t care if it’s online. Made for the global world today. Will bring me all the clients my firm will ever need. Or that
Psst. Hey, buddy. Wanna buy a plaque?
Congratulations, you are now a Tier One, Preeminent, Super, Bestest, wonder-var lawyer … wanna buy a plaque?
Yes, Hollywood has their award season, and lawyers seem to have their blowing smoke season as well. According to how many plaque companies are contacting me right now, I’d say we’re in the thick of things.
Get a fricken website already
I just checked my calendar and, yup, it really is 2012.
Other than the earth coming to an end later this year, it’s about fricken time you got a website.
There just aren’t any good excuses out there.
Yeah, I’m talking to you solo and small firms out there.
And this is especially true for those of you who represent consumers – family law, divorces, child custody, employment matters, trusts & estates. I’d add personal injury, DUI and immigration to the list, but those folks are marketing machines.
Seriously. If you Google yourself or your firm, what do you find? If the answer is NOTHING, than you are LOSING business every day, and you don’t even know it.
Case in point:Continue Reading Get a fricken website already
I am so mad, I could write a blog post
I am so mad at Barnes and Noble’s NOOK that I am writing a blog post about it.
I have a 1st Edition WiFi NOOK. I spent $189 or so on it about 20 months ago. I love it.
Well, loved it.
Even though I have my iPad I still love my NOOK. I use
There is a time to disengage
New Year’s Resolution #1: Honor Your Commitments
I’m not a New Year’s Resolution kinda gal. I live a day at a time and prefer to make a daily resolution. However, I have a couple resolutions I’ll share over the next few days.
My first one is “Honor Your Commitments.”
When you commit to doing something, or showing up somewhere, it’s not