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How Can I Increase My Avvo Score and Why Should I Do It?

goat_lawyer Online management of legal profiles is an important part of reputation management and local marketing for lawyers. Accurate and up-to-date legal profiles on sites like Avvo can create higher search rankings and show your superiority when compared...
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Does Your Law Firm Need a Logo?

logo_iowa_personal_injury A logo is an image that visually represents your law firm. In a basic form, a law firm logo might just be the firm name itself. Logos can get more complicated from there, including other designed visual elements or taglines. Think of your law firm...
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What Online Marketing Activity is the Best Use of an Attorney's Time?

Overworked Lawyer Time is short. In this post we explore and make the case that the best thing an attorney can do to boost their online marketing efforts is to bolster their reputation online....
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Can a Law Firm Website Fuel Retirement?

Retirement Lawyers often overlook the valuable business assets they build while in practice. These assets, like the firm's website, can increase the value of the firm and influence its salability when it comes time to retire....
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How Can Attorneys Reduce No-Shows?

Empty Chair The new client no-show is a triple-whammy of lost income, lost future referrals and lost marketing dollars. This week we cover tips on how to improve communication with potential and current clients to keep your appointment book humming along....
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How do Siri, Alexa and Google Assistant Find Attorneys?

Hey Siri, who’s the best lawyer? Just like being the first lawyer to have a website in 1997, or to have a mobile-friendly site in 2008, taking some initial steps to show up in voice searches may be easier to do now before it inevitably becomes more saturated and monetized later....
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How Should an Attorney Handle Negative Online Reviews?

Responding to Bad Attorney Review Warren Buffett said, "It takes 20 years to build a reputation and five minutes to ruin it. If you think about that, you'll do things differently." The problem is, today, even if you do everything right, you can still get hosed by bad reviews....
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What Email Services Are Best for a Small Law Firm?

Email Mailbox A modern law firm cannot operate without reliable access to email. Its ubiquity and features allows email to serve as the solution to many tricky communication problems. Everything from managing asynchronous communication, to collecting documents,...
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Bankruptcy Attorneys: Whether and Where to Put the Federal Bankruptcy Disclaimer on Your Website

Bankruptcy Disclaimer image – arrow with dollar sign Most bankruptcy attorneys and marketers for lawyers know the magic phrase: "We are a debt relief agency. We help people file for relief under the Bankruptcy Code." But some haven't even heard of it. And many don't know this phrase's implications…...
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Is My Website Ready For 2018?

2018 loading Answer these 6 straightforward questions to be sure your law firm website won't let you down in the new year. For most practices, sorry, you can't just set it and forget it....
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