Home -> Law Blog Directory -> Legal Marketing & PR Blogs -> Real Lawyers : Have Blogs

Legal Marketing & PR

: Real Lawyers : Have Blogs

How can a lawyer make money from social media?

By Kevin OKeefe

I was following a recent discussion among lawyers where someone asked if other lawyers thought that 'social media' experts may have just made up the concept of social media. The theory being that so called 'experts' go to social media websites, create a persona, and then tell everyone they need to be on them so the expert gets a following. The person concluded that no one they knew was using social media to make any money. May sound crass to say I make money from using social media, but I do. Social media is a means whereby my blog content and other things I may say are amplified to more people and I connect with my target audience of bloggers, reporters, conference coordinators, clients, and prospective clients. I regularly see referral traffic to my blog from social media/social networking sites such as LinkedIn, Delicious, Facebook, Twitter, and Stumbleupon...continue to full post

Full post as published by Real Lawyers : Have Blogs on May 28, 2008 (boomark / email).