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"Consultwebs.com - Legal Marketing Magic..."
  • Consultwebs.com - Legal Marketing Magic for Mid-Size Firms
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Agenda
  • Introductions
  • Refining Business & Marketing Goals
  • Setting & Achieving Site Goals
  • Delivering Client Information
  • Search Engine Optimization (SEO)
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Why Web Marketing
  • Convenient, inexpensive, current (when do you read ads?)
  • Future - consumers - pay bills, e-mail, buy products, read the paper – NY Times
  • Forbes 500 CEO’s – 40%
    • Attorneys – Free information, research
  • Communicate, be versed for client reasons
  • Price comparison – print versus Internet (mindshare / timing)
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Marketing Considerations
  • Resources – Actual Versus Perceived
    • Time
    • Opportunity Cost
    • Ramp-up Time
    • Personnel Skills & Suitability
  • Outside
    • Cost Comparisons
    • How to Evaluate Vendors
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Content Flow / Data Bases
  • Determine Site Goals
    • Static or Fresh Site
    • Personnel Skills & Time
    • Content Providers, e.g., Moreover.com
    • Need For Browser Entry by Attorneys and Staff?
    • Editing Software Versus Database
      • Pros & Cons of Each

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Client Retention / Delivering Information
  • Document Repositories
    • Document Distribution
    • Brief Bank
    • Class Action Documents
    • Externally Hosted Site
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Extranet Benefits
  • Cost Savings for Firm, for Client
  • Single Information Source
  • Standard User Interface
  • Stronger Client Relationships
    • Start With Proposal
    • Inform As You Proceed
    • Carry On Through Process
    • Competition – Bank Example
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Business & Marketing Goals
  • Saving Admin Time
    •  Forms, Maps, Qualifiers
  • New Clients? How Aggressive Do You Wish to Be?
    •  Location
    •  Areas of Practice
    •  Search Engines
  • Reducing Other Advertising?
  • Success Stories
    • Small Firm – 3 New Clients Per Week. Others
    • Measuring and Retaining Success
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Web Site Targeting
  • Specialized Sites For Areas of Practice?
  • Specialized Sites To Target Geographic Areas
  • Search Engine Targeting
  • Specialized Directories
  • Your Own Directories
  • News Feeds
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Working With Search Engines
  • Understanding Search Engine Goals
  • One Site Or Multiple Sites?
  • Search Engine Optimization (SEO)
  • Submissions
  • Free And Pay Search Engines Options
  • Monitoring Your Site and Statistics
  • Directories
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Web Site Enhancements
  • Quizzes – Interesting and Informative
  • FAQ’s – Help Them Ask The Right Questions
  • Discussion Boards
  • PowerPoint Presentations
  • Meaningful News


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Web Site Enhancements Cont’d
  • Articles That Inform and Show Expertise
  • TOC’s
  • Downloadable Forms and Checklists
  • Calculators – R/E, Child Support, Business
  • Meaningful Links / Resources
  • Seminars
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Web Site Enhancements Cont’d
  • Scheduled Chat Sessions
  • Interesting Directions Pages With Photos / Landmarks
  • Photos of Attorneys, Staff, Functions
  • Successful Cases
  • Human Interest and Community Links
  • Polls and Questionnaires
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Resources
  • American Lawyer Media
  • Consultwebs.com
    • Law Web Marketing
    • PromoteWebs
    • Law Web Success
  • Microlaw


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