October 2009

Saturday Funny: Why Dogs Hate Halloween

In the interest of Halloween and humor I’ve moved the usual Sunday Funny up to Saturday this week. Our regularly scheduled programming will resume next week.

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5 Tips for Training Your Staff in Minutes a Day

Staff training is sorely neglected in family law practices. Most of the training is delivered as problems arise and issues get resolved. It’s traditional “on the job” training. It’s an inefficient process resulting in more mistakes than it should. Bottom line – we don’t have the time we need to do the training we know [...]

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Quick Steps When You’re Trashed Online

You’ve been trashed online. Somebody has said something awful about you on a blog, a website, Facebook or Twitter. It might be a client, it might be an opposing party, it might be a former employee. If it hasn’t happened yet, it’s going to happen. The internet didn’t invent criticism. It just made it easier [...]

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Brochures: Good For the Ad Agency, Bad For You

Marketing firms and advertising agencies make money selling you marketing materials and advertising. They don’t make money because you make money. It’s cynical, I know, but it’s true. I’ve bumped in to two law firms in the past week that had little firm brochures made. They are both tri-fold 5×5 square, multi-page pieces promoting some [...]

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Don’t Lose Your Chance at Facebook, Twitter, Etc.

You know you should be on Facebook, Twitter, LinkedIn, and the more than 340 other social networks. It’s important to be a part of the the social media scene, but it takes a ton of time – just to sign up. Actually, engaging in the sites takes even more time and time is, as usual, [...]

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Website Traffic – Are You Keeping Up?

Google Analytics provides very useful, free, data for benchmarking your site. They tell you how you’re doing compared to other family law sites. Here are the figures they returned as benchmarks for our family law practice site for the past 3o days. These are the numbers we can use to compare our sites to others. [...]

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Sunday Funny: The Cartoon and the TSA Response

And the T.S.A. response.

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Untouchables, Being Human, Controlling Social Media and Richard Nixon

It’s Saturday and on this day of each week I publish links to some of the things I’ve come across over the past week that might be of interest to you. These are things that stimulated me in some way related my practice. I’m publishing these links without much comment so you’ll have to click [...]

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