If your law firm is active on Facebook, you already know that “Likes” are valuable to your marketing efforts. When someone Likes your firm's page, each of your posts has a chance to appear on that person's News Feed – their personalized Facebook front page, which aggregates stories from the individuals, businesses, and organizations that they follow. Moreover, their friends might see a notification that they have Liked your page, further...
Mar 4
Getting people to use your law firm’s app
Many law firms see a mobile app as just another item on the list of desirable marketing tools. Once it's built, they cross it off the list and don't think about it again, even if it attracts very little attention. They don't realize that an app needs a marketing plan of its own to really succeed.
If you build it, they won't necessarily come.
Getting your law firm's app in the Google Play...
Read MoreJul 28
Google Places is now Google My Business: Why that matters to your law firm
As you may have heard, Google Places is now Google My Business. Billed as a versatile tool for small businesses, My Business is a repository for a large number of other Google services.
In short, it simplifies the communications components of marketing your law firm. Your firm no longer needs to go back and forth from one website to another to manage its business.
With this change, Google is entering into direct...
Read MoreJul 15
Changing your Twitter logo (you’re probably using the wrong one)
Your law firm may be using the wrong Twitter logo. Since your law firm must be adhere to all trademark laws, check what you are using soon.
Like many other logos on the internet, Twitter logo use is only allowed in precisely specific ways. Make it a point to ensure you are in compliance with their trademark policy in all formats. The link below direct the proper colors, type of font, display guidelines and settings to use the Twitter brand...
Read MoreApr 2
Paid Search Clicks on the Move and Rising
This just in: a Marin Software study has projected that smartphones and other mobile devices will account for 50 percent of paid search clicks by December 2015. (See the full report). If your law firm utilizes pay-per-click (PPC) marketing, make sure to keep mobile search needs in mind. Considering the current rate of mobile growth, your firm may wish to reexamine the marketing budget for mobile browser...
Jan 27
Click-to-Call Can Easily Boost Your Mobile Conversions
Most people who need a lawyer want to speak with them as soon as possible. They don’t want to spend time filling out a form; today, people want things as instantly as possible. That culture accounts for the high number of smartphones now in use. To add convenience to your site, allow potential clients to tap a phone number and call your firm right away.
User behavior has...
Read MoreDec 23
How To Use Heatmaps To Improve Law Firm Website Performance – Podcast
Heatmaps can show lawyers how website users interact with their content, navigation menu and other interactive elements on their site. This is a valuable marketing tool that identifies where lawyers can improve their sites.
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Read MoreDec 17
Google will find paid links and penalize your site
At one time, purchasing paid links was one of the most popular strategies to improve a law firm's search engine positions. Of course the practice as been banned for several years but it continued as marketers found ways to sell "undetectable" paid links. Google’s algorithm has changed significantly over the last few years and even purchased links that promise anonymous origins fail to deliver.
Google’s Distinguished Engineer Matt Cutts...
Read MoreDec 11
Organic Promotion Carries New Costs on Facebook
Brace your law firm for another change from Facebook: paid organic link promotion.
For the last few months, law firms relying on Facebook pages to promote their businesses have been encountering a great deal of difficulty. As they tried to reach end users with unpaid, organic promotion, it became apparent that only a small portion of their posts were actually seen in the news feeds they expected. As such, businesses...
Read MoreDec 9
New Clients Matter, Not Rankings – Podcast
Online marketin is valuable to law firms because it reaches out to large audiences of potential new people. However, don't forget the "rest" of the marketing pie when choosing your marketing strategy.
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