Category Archives: Business

New Blogging Course I’m Trying Out

I’m evaluating a multi-media course on blogging from the folks at Simpleology. For a while, they’re letting you snag it for free if you post about it on your blog.
It covers:

The best blogging techniques.
How to get traffic to your blog.
How to turn your blog into money.

I’ll let you know what I think once I’ve had [...]

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Lawyer Marketing: Be Genuiely Interested in Your Clients

    I have been reading the classic Dale Carnegie book, "How to Win Friends and Influence People" recently and came across a line that really hit home to me.  To paraphrase, it was the statement that you can make more friends in two months by being genuinely interested in people than you can in two [...]

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Raising Your Level of Consciousness to Solve Problems

“You cannot solve a problem in the same state of consciousness in which the problem arose.”
- Albert Einstein

I came across this quote recently while attending a legal conference. It immediately hit me how close to home this hits for a lot of my clients. [...]

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Four Hour Work Week?

I just finished reading the new book by Timothy Ferriss, The 4-Hour Work Week, where Mr. Ferriss talks about how he broke free from his job working crazy hours each day, sleeping under his cube at night, and never doing anything he wanted to the “job” of his dreams where he is able to manage a [...]

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Lawyer Salesmanship 2: Figure Out How to Provide the Service

In my prior posts, I laid out my 10 steps for lawyers becoming better salesmen.  The first step is to find out what the client wants.  The second step in the process is to figure out how to provide the service your prospective client wants.  Since you did such a good job listening in the [...]

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Simplify…

One of the most successful companies in the world is Google.  They have the third most visited web site in the world according to Alexa.com.  But their website is one of the most simple sites you will find online.  There are probably 3 or 4 elements.  A title graphic, search box, some buttons and a couple [...]

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