Help for Marketing Your Law Firm
Are you looking for some good online resources for marketing your law firm? If so, you might want to check out the Law Firm Marketing Coach.
Henry Harlow runs this site, and he has some interesting
free resources to check out. He’s got a pretty thorough document on keywords and search engine optimization. Also, he has two email courses where you can learn about productivity and client development
I haven’t used any of Henry’s resources, but it might be worth a look for you. …
Sponsor or Make a Wish on the Million Dollar Blog Post
Do you have a wish for the world during this holiday season? You should mozy over to the Million Dollar Blog Post and drop in your wish.
The idea is simple. Get people to come in and leave their wish for the world. Sign up sponsors to donate $1 to charity for every wish that is made. Get one million wishes, so $1 million dollars will go to charity.
Wouldn’t this be a great opportunity for your law firm or solo practice? It’s simple to become …
Tag Your Law Blog at Blog Top Sites
It seems like just yesterday that I wrote about registering your law blog at Blog Top Sites. Ok, so it was only ten days ago.
Well, those crazy guys are still hard at work, improving their already good blog directory. Today they announced that you can now tag your blog. Everyone gets to pick five key words to assign to their blog listing in the directory.
Make your blog easy to find
“Why tag my blog?”, you might ask. It will help people find your blog more easily. Blog …
Add Your Legal Blog to Blawg
This is Part 4 in the series on registering your legal blog (read Part 1, Part 2, Part 3).
In Part 2 of this series, we covered how to suggest your legal blog to Blawg Search. What you might not know is that there is another legal blog directory, Blawg. Fortunately for the legal blogger, submitting your site is a …
How Do You Deal With Negative Blog Comments?
It seems like most blog conversations about comments deal with spam. However, it seems like the topic of negative comments gets little attention.
For business owners, marketers, and the like, the fear of negative comments on blogs motivates comment moderation. The HORROR! (To understand the downside of moderated comments, check out Kian Ann’s thoughts on encouraging blog conversations.)
But, to their credit, what else should they do? Can marketers credibly promote a product but allow people to post negative comments? …
Claim Your Legal Blog at Technorati
This is Part 3 in the series on registering your legal blog (read Part 1, Part 2).
To call yourself anything of a blogger, you must be familiar with Technorati. Basically, it’s the gold standard for blogs. It’s the blog index. You can search blog posts, learn about new blogs, and meet fellow bloggers. From a traffic standpoint, Technorati can boost your visitors (since people will find your blog and posts via their …
Suggest Your Legal Blog to Blawg Search
This is Part 2 in the series on registering your legal blog (read Part 1).
In the first part of this series we looked at Blog Top Sites’ new law category. We learned how to get your legal blog listed there and begin increasing your traffic. Today’s focus is on a legal blog directory!
Blawg Search
Hosted over at Justia.com you will find a relatively new search engine. Unlike Google, this search engine has a single focus: legal blogs …
Networking Carnival – at Some Assembly Required
Networking is an essential part to being a lawyer, or any professional for that matter. I have written about networking before, especially about using different technologies to aid in this endeavor.
To help your networking efforts, Thom Singer posted the December Networking Carnival over at his blog, Some Assembly Required. There is some good content over there, so you should check it out.
The cool part is that I’m hosting the carnival for January! It will go up on January …
Lawyers Giving Out Free Samples?
There is a great post over at John Jantsch’s Duct Tape Marketing about providing clients with a taste of your services at a low cost.
In essence, the idea is to provide free, or very low cost, points of entry where potential clients can get a taste of your services without actually retaining you. For lawyers, a classic method of free samples has been free initial consultations. This is a good way to help clients learn about you and your services.
Today, blogs allow …
Register Your Legal Blog With Blog Top Sites
This is Part 1 of a series on how to register your legal blog. (read Part 2)
If you are blogging, you probably want to increase your visitor traffic. If you’re a blawgger, you want to increase traffic to your blog to enhance your profile and hopefully gain clients. This series of posts will teach you how to register, claim, and index your blog with the crucial services to enhance your visibility and increase traffic.
Blog Top Sites
This service currently indexes over 35,000 blogs. …