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Searching for Law Firm Website Search Traffic

In the quest to drive traffic to their law firm website, many regard search traffic as the Holy Grail. While both direct traffic and referral traffic can be highly valuable to business development efforts, there can be little question that, in ...

Gyi Tsakalakis - January 6, 2014
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Best Online Marketing Advice: Be Authentic

This time last year, we asked Gyi Tsakalakis to gaze into his crystal ball and give his best lawyer marketing predictions — along ...

Gyi Tsakalakis - December 31, 2013
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Business Development Goals for Every Lawyer

We all begin each new year with good intentions, but you know what they say about the road to hell. Most lawyers have some marketing and business development goals and objectives in mind. However, such goals often tend to be aspirational and ...

Sally J. Schmidt - December 16, 2013
Power User Guide: Best-Loved Keyboard Shortcuts

Break up with your mouse! You know that old chestnut from composer Burt Bacharach, “Make it easy on yourself, ’cause breaking up is so very hard to do?” Well, that’s what I want you to do. I want you to break up — with your mouse. And I’m going ...

Vivian Manning - December 11, 2013
Outsourcing for Beginners

When you open a solo law practice, especially early in your career, it’s easy enough to do everything yourself. Often you’re too poor to hire anyone anyhow, and if you haven’t yet built up your book of business, you have the time to figure ...

Ruth Carter - December 10, 2013
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Help: Salespeople Won’t Leave Me Alone!

In this edition of "Ask the Experts," Holli McVean, office manager at Carscallen LLP, and a member of the Association of Legal Administrators, has great advice for getting all the information you need — efficiently and politely — from cold and ...

The Editors - November 20, 2013
Build Communities, Build Business

I have long believed that one of the most effective ways to build business is to build communities. And, with the popularity of social media, this view has only been reinforced. Seth Godin, the popular author and speaker, uses the term ...

Sally J. Schmidt - November 18, 2013
Holiday Gift Guide for Lawyers in Your Life

Nothing trite. Nothing cliche. Just lots of specific ideas for those hard-to-please attorneys!

Reid Trautz - November 15, 2013
Mootus: Your Personalized Legal Knowledge Base?

Collegiality is often viewed as a defining hallmark of a felicitous legal career. With the advent of virtual offices and the tethering of humanity to Internet devices, though, much of what made for traditional law firm interaction has vanished ...

Jared Correia - November 14, 2013
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Referral Traffic: A Form of Word of Mouth

Now that you’ve mastered the basics of web traffic sources for your law firm's website, and embraced the Gyi Tsakalakis - November 13, 2013

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