Legal Marketing & PR

Link your blog to your twitter profile - Day 8 Twitter Tips and Hints

Posted on June 08, 2009
This is one tip and hint I almost did not include. However, there are so many new tweeters out there not taking advantage of this, I thought we better. If you will remember a couple of the previous post in this series, you will recall these: Give a good profile and provide a URL Don’t [...

Blogging Survey - We need your help!

Posted on June 08, 2009
We are in the process of gathering some information from our readers and newsletter subscribers. And we need your help. What you will find when you click on our Survey are a few questions which will help us determine how we can better serve our readers...

Don’t tweet just to post something - Day 7 Twitter Tips and Hints

Posted on June 07, 2009
Adding to the conversation on twitter should be your goal if you are commenting on a particular twitter thread that is going on. Tweeting for the sake of tweeting is a lot like leaving one of those stupid comments some leave on our blogs. You know the ones I am talking about...

Building a Successful Blog — Part 15 — Where to find ideas for your blog post

Posted on June 06, 2009
As we continue with our ongoing series, Building a Successful Blog, posting to our blogs has been the theme for the last few episodes. Building a Successful Blog — Part 12 — Posting to your Blog Part 1 Building a Successful Blog — Part 13 — Posting to your Blog Part 2 Building a Successful Blog [...

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Give a good profile and provide a URL - Day 6 Twitter Tips and Hints

Posted on June 06, 2009
Building your community is one of the great things about twitter. And, quite frankly it is also what makes twitter such a great business developing tool. However, there are ways you can kill your ability to build your community on twitter from the very first day you start using it...

Twitter is for business - Day 5 Twitter Tips and Hints

Posted on June 05, 2009
There has and always will be a debate as to whether twitter is an effective business development tool for anyone using it. Recently one of the individuals I follow on twitter had a great twitter thread on the subject. And, using a twitter tool I am going to talk about in the next few [...

Watch your follower to following ratio - Day 4 Twitter Tips and Hints

Posted on June 04, 2009
While it is true, there are no rules on twitter. I would however argue there are some good practices you should consider when you are on twitter. The tip for today is one of those good practices you need to adopt if you hope to have a successful twitter experience in my opinion...

Don’t use the default avatar on twitter - Day 3 Twitter Tips and Hints

Posted on June 03, 2009
How many times have you received an alert that someone has just followed you on twitter. I check out each and every one of them every single day. And if there is one thing which really gets me it is when someone uses the default twitter avatar pictured in the image below...

Use your real name as your twitter ID - Day 2 Twitter Tips and Hints

Posted on June 02, 2009
Yesterday we started off with some brief instructions on opening your own twitter account. I mentioned that I feel you are better off using your real name as your twitter “Username”. And I have my reasons. Use your real name What you will find once you have been on twitter for a while is that you [...

Open your own twitter account - Day 1 Twitter Tips and Hints

Posted on June 01, 2009
What better way to start off a month long series on Twitter Tips and Hints then to do a quick run down on how to open a twitter account. It is really very easy to do. First of all you need to go to twitter’s home page. There you will be given [...

30 Days of Twitter Tips and Hints

Posted on May 31, 2009
You really would have to live in a cave in some remote country somewhere to not know about twitter. Like many of the people I talk to daily, I have found twitter to be one of those tools I would not want to be without. Twitter has become one of my top traffic [...

Get your copy of Problogger’s 31 Days to Build a Better Blog WorkBook

Posted on May 29, 2009
Regular readers of Blog For Profit know how much I appreciate the writings of Darren Rowse at Problogger. Problogger is one of those blogs you just have to read. And, just in case you want to know, I read it daily. Sometimes more then once a day. I have to credit Darren [...

Summer Subscription Drive

Posted on May 26, 2009
I thought since the school year is over here in my part of the woods and we are fast approaching summer, we would run a subscription drive here at Blog For Profit. If you are not subscribed to Blog For Profit than you are not receiving our free updates...

ProBlogger Book is Now Available on Kindle

Posted on May 25, 2009
If there is one book I recommend the most to new bloggers it is Darren Rowse’s ProBlogger Book. The good news it is now available for the Kindle if you have been wanting to get a copy for the Kindle. What better way to take this great blogging resource with you where ever [...

Blog For Profit is Now Available on Kindle

Posted on May 23, 2009
Not quite sure yet what, if any benefit there will be to having Blog For Profit on the Amazon Kindle Store. However, I figured it could not hurt to have it on one of the top searched sites in the world. If any of you subscribe via Kindle, let me know how it [...

Building a Successful Blog — Part 14 — Creating Effective Post

Posted on May 22, 2009
I seem to be on a roll the last few days with post for this blog. And it might have something to do with the topic we have been covering lately, posting and now content. Previously in this series we had these two post: Building a Successful Blog — Part 12 — Posting to your [...

Building a Successful Blog — Part 13 — Posting to your Blog Part 2

Posted on May 21, 2009
In Building a Successful Blog — Part 12, we discussed posting to your blog and getting organized. I want to continue a bit further along this path in this episode and spend some time discussing one of the blogging tools which has helped me. At least it has helped when I use it [...

How to Use Twitter as a Law Firm - A follow up

Posted on May 20, 2009
As promised and as a follow up to yesterday’s post, How Not to Use Twitter as a Law Firm - Brought to you by @mmalaw I am giving you the how to use twitter as a law firm. To illustrate what I mean, lets take the same bullet points we talked about yesterday and [...

How Not to Use Twitter as a Law Firm - Brought to you by @mmalaw

Posted on May 19, 2009
Up until this morning I have pretty much kept my mouth shut on how badly some lawyers and law firms are using twitter. This morning I received an email from a friend who told me, “you have to do a post on how bad this firm is using twitter.” And what was amazing, it [...

Dawn Elaine Bowie - Going Solo

Posted on January 24, 2008
Dawn Elaine Bowie was just recently featured on Build a Solo Practice, LLC in a post titled, Going Solo; Confessions and Inspirations - Dawn Elaine Bowie. Attorney Bowie is a solo practitioner in Rockville, Maryland who was a non-trad law student, a mother with three children...

Blog design matters

Posted on January 23, 2008
Kevin O’Keefe recently had a great post which provided the results of a recent question and answer done by David Peralty, Head of Marketing at Splashpress Media, when they asks readers at The Blog Herald if it’s important to have a powerful, beautiful or striking blog design when presenting what he describes as the ?whole [...

Blog Your Passion

Posted on December 10, 2007
Lorelle on Wordpress had a post today called How do you become a passionate blogger? Blog your passion. This is actually something I tell people whenever I visit with them about blogging. If you are not passionate about the topic you are blogging about, it will never work...

Website or Blog?

Posted on October 31, 2007
Kevin O?Keefe had a great blog today called, 6 reasons large law firm blogs beat law firm websites with RSS feeds. While I agree with Kevin?s premise. I think it applies to small firm and solos just as well. And from my own experience, I know a blog will beat a Web site when it comes [...

What not to Put on Your Blog

Posted on October 24, 2007
Chuck Newton has a great post today called ?Avoid Staid Old Images?. He has a list of items to avoid. Gavels Eagles Courtrooms Courthouse Steps The Scales O? Justice Piles of Law Books Nautical Themed Stuff (unless you?re an admiralty lawyer) Compasses Groups of Middle-Aged White Lawyers in Suits I could not agree more...

Home Office Lawyer Featured Blawg

Posted on October 20, 2007
My little blog Home Office Lawyer is the featured blog this week on the ABA’s Blawg Directory. I am honored and humbled. When I started the Home Office Lawyer in March of 2005, I really never expected it to get the attention it has. I have enjoyed publishing it more than words can describe...

Get your free blog design today - call reminder

Posted on October 12, 2007
Remember today is the big Pre-Launch party for Blawg for Profit.  Be on the call for some helpful information on blogging to attract clients and for the contest winners.  Thanks for everyone that entered the contest.  Hope to see you on the call. The details for accessing the call are in the post immediately below...

Call details + How to get Free custom blog!

Posted on October 08, 2007
Grant and I are grateful for the response we’ve received from our announcement about the release of Blawg for Profit.  As most of you know, it is a complete course on how to launch and run your own profitable blog. But, we will also be offering custom Wordpress blogs, and an ongoing members only site with [...

Contest - Get a FREE copy of the Blawg for Profit course

Posted on October 05, 2007
As most of our readers know, Grant and I are launching our Blawg for Profit program Monday, October 15, 2007. Blawg for Profit is the culmination of six months work that Grant and I have put in together trying to create a product that helps solo and small firm lawyer obtain the benefits of [...

What?s the Purpose of Your Blog?

Posted on October 05, 2007
And can you accomplish that purpose by using ghost writers? My position is that you can’t. And Allison Shields of Legal Ease Blog has ask a question to keep the conversation going in her post titled, As a Lawyer - Blogger, What?s the Purpose of Your Blog? I have talked about ghost writers in a previous [...

Why do You Blog?

Posted on October 02, 2007
Great post today over at Tame the Web: Libraries and Technology called, Why do you Blog? Michael Stephens gives us a peek at his dissertation in his post. He provides just a bit of an answer to those who have been asking about his dissertation. And in the process gives us a great indication of why [...

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