August 2010

TechnoLawyer: Nine Ways to Nurture Your Referral Relationships

TechnoLawyer is running some columns I’ve written in its SmallLaw series. They have some excellent writers (plus me) addressing small firm issues. TechnoLawyer makes the columns public a week after release on the TechnoLawyer blog. You can get the content a week earlier by subscribing to SmallLaw via e-mail. My most recent column came out yesterday. I [...]

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What’s the Truth about Virtual Law Offices?

Two weeks ago, I posted an article about virtual law offices (VLOs) as a result of my concern that lawyers buying these services and the service providers fail to fully discuss and/or understand the marketing challenges involved. I got some great feedback and some criticism. I’m glad to have stimulated some discussion (here, here, here [...]

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Sunday Funny: Better than a Cat Video

I think this is an upgrade from the cat video I posted last Sunday. This truly is funny in a bizarre sort of way. Click through if you can’t see the clip. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Z3Bl3LvzTSs&feature=player_embedded

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Saturday Quickies: Bad Behavior, Facebook, and Client Reviews

Happy Saturday! Every Saturday I publish links to some of the things I’ve come across that might interest you. These are things that caught my attention this week. I’m publishing these links without much comment so you’ll have to click on them if you’re curious. I also include a picture I like. HOW TO: Handle [...]

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How Much Revenue Should You Have Before Hiring Help?

I’ve been getting lots of questions lately about hiring. Mostly, solo practitioners are asking me whether they’re ready to add the overhead of a staff person or second attorney. It’s a tough question to answer because the answer depends on a variety of factors. We all know that the same numbers mean something different in [...]

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Now I’m a Social Media “Expert”

I just wrapped up a guest appearance on The Small Business Advocate with Jim Blasingame. We talk about my use of Twitter and how it helped us grow our practice. It’s about 10 minutes long and you might find it helpful. While I’m pimping my media appearances – I appeared on CNN last week talking [...]

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How to Live Your Dreams

I wish I could tell you how to live your dreams. Unfortunately, I don’t know what your dreams are. It really doesn’t matter if I know what you’re dreaming. The question is, do you know what your dreams are? Do you have something you’re working toward? Do you have a vision of where you’re headed? [...]

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Tech Support: Be a Giver, Not a Taker

I’ve always thought of our law firm as a user of tech support. We’ve got an IT guy we rely on. He and his minions run around rebooting our laptops, plugging in our cables, and generally fixing the things we’ve broken on our network. Recently, we realized that we’ve got to start giving tech support rather [...]

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