QR codes are all the rage. More than 20 million mobile phone users used QR codes in the last quarter of 2011.  And mobile user searches on the internet have been growing exponentially. QR Code is Quick Response Code – a bar code which can bring you to a designated internet location or QR Codes can be programmed [...]

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I know. Blogging, Twitter, Facebook, YouTube, now Pinterest.  Can you handle yet another distraction?  Well, when you first heard about blogging it was just for people journaling about their everyday problems…until it wasn't.  When you first heard about Facebook you thought it was just for your teenagers….until it wasn't.  When you first heard about YouTube [...]

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John Jantsch wrote a terrific piece a few years ago called "7 Time-Tested Ways to Dig Out From a Recession". My position, however, is a little different. You should be doing these things ALL THE TIME. While you can read all seven ideas on John's great site, I'm going to highlight numbers three, six and [...]

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Quite often we ask ourselves how we can create a niche, how to be different, how to truly carve out a unique subset of a practice area to call our own and then get known for that area.  I always like to follow demographic changes and economic changes to see what can be done.  Well, [...]

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This is a very common question a new lawyer asks. The thought process goes something like this: 1. I want to get the (any) client in the door. 2. Everyone else gives a free initial consultation, I think?. 3. I'm too afraid to charge for a consultation because the potential client won't come in. 4. [...]

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My son and I are a frenzied fans of the show 'Chopped' on the Food Network.  In brief, in every episode four chefs come together in a cooking competition before a panel of judges.  In progressive elimination  segments the chefs are each given the same basket of four basic ingredients which they must combine to produce [...]

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Last year when Hurricane Irene hit we had two 80 foot trees uproot and come crashing down completely destroying our deck. While our home had just superficial damage the loss of the deck remained a very significant financial repair. We immediately called our neighbor because the previous year we had watched their builder construct a [...]

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You've all had experiences where you rave about someone or something. Have you ever stopped to analyze why you are raving? My readers know I often like to write about personal experiences to make a point translatable to your practice. Today is no different. I recently had to purchase another router so I could continue [...]

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First, this is not a political post. I will be laying out facts and projections. The goal is for you to use the information (or not) when thinking about the (very near) future of your law practice. Period. I am a Gleek. I admit it. And never was I more Gleeky than the week Ricky [...]

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If you search the Internet you’ll see nearly a million hits for “lawyer elevator pitches”. The elevator pitch is an introduction of who you are and what you do. It’s your chance to make a good first impression.  The elevator pitch of course doesn’t happen all that much in elevators, rather it happens at all [...]

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