Legal Marketing 2.0 Podcast

Lawyer, author, and ClearView Social founder, Adrian Dayton, joins to talk about evaluating data so lawyers and marketers can make more informed decision when it comes to social media strategy. And, we do a deep dive on  LinkedIn, which is gradually becoming more social, opening up opportunities for lawyers to build their networks and share content.

Legal tech is a rapidly changing field with a growing number of legal technology startups offering innovative products and services. Lawyers that see problems or gaps in tech are starting their own companies leading to a new democratization of web technology. Law firms can now choose to work with a large variety of viable products from both big and small tech companies. How are firms responding an...

Google has placed a focus on connecting visitors to pages with the meaning they're looking for rather than just exact phrases and keywords to help provide users with the best possible results. For marketers, this means thinking about the broader topics around the keywords you're trying to rank for. Targeting topics instead of keywords only Ask yourself: how many different ways will people search f...

Ari Kaplan discusses the challenges and importance of accountability partners when it comes to executing marketing plans within law firms. What challenges do law firm marketers face today? There isn't a lack of good ideas when it comes to marketing, rather marketers can struggle with executing their ideas due to an absence of accountability. Marketers should realize it's more important to get thin...

Small law firms face a different set of challenges than big law. However, they are able to take more risks on creative marketing strategies. In small firms, staffing and budget resources are limited, but this can lead to opportunities to utilize outside business partners in areas like writing, design, or SEO. Big law can lead to legal marketers being stretched thin, whereas small law can allow mar...

Law firms and companies trying to target a B2B (business to business) audience are starting to recognize the value of paid LinkedIn advertising. Paid advertising on LinkedIn is a great way to not only expand your reach, but provides you with incredible targeting opportunities. Budgets for LinkedIn Advertising Like Google Adwords, you can set up your own budget. However, the difference between Goog...

Podcast Shownotes In episode 18 of the Legal Marketing 2.0 podcast we chat with Jennifer Ellis about using the WordPress platform to build a website for your law firm – from solos to large firms. Jennifer literally wrote the book on WordPress for Lawyers: WordPress in One Hour for Lawyers: How to Create a Website for Your Law Firm (ABA). Jennifer has had an unusual career in the legal profession g...

Have you built a new website or redesigned your existing one and don't know what to do next? In this Legal Marketing 2.0 episode, hosts Guy Alvarez and Tim Baran discuss the top three takeaways - content, search engine optimization (SEO), and social media - from our popular blog post: You've Built a Website. Now What? It starts with content Without content you can't have a successful SEO or social...

Podcast Shownotes What is Google AdWords and how does it work? Google AdWords is an advertising platform that allows advertisers to place ads anywhere they are willing to pay to position them. It enables law firms to gain qualified leads by high placement on the search results page. The platform works on a market principle. In other words, what you pay is based on what the market will allow - more...

Podcast shownotes The conversation and effort around SEO has been about how to optimize your site, get inbound links and the technical aspects. But increasingly the importance of local SEO has taken center stage. What is local SEO? In a nutshell, local SEO tailors web results to your geographic area. A customization based on where you are in the world. It's important because typical search isn't f...

Law firms are not just about selling legal services but the client's experience receiving those services. To do that you need to marry good industry insight with vigorous market research with exceptional design. What is the biggest challenge in getting a firm to do brand research? Their knee-jerk reaction is: "We don't need it. We know our clients. We've got it covered. Let's skip that and go stra...

Podcast shownotes What does it take to build a marketing and business development department? You're responsible for sustaining a vision for how a law firm can improve and what it can become. Also, for inspiring colleagues and partners to embrace the same vision and to work with management on barriers to change. None of this is possible without buy-in and support from management, especially in top...

Podcast Shownotes In this episode of the Legal Marketing 2.0 podcast, legal marketing leaders with decades of experience in the industry, provide super useful insight and advice on the process of law firm directory submissions. Chambers and Partners and The Legal 500 directories play a prominent role in the discussion. Let's get the big question out of the way: In today's world, do you even need a...

Podcast Shownotes Evan started out at a big defense firm which represented large insurance companies. He left the firm to become a solo practitioner, and a few years later, joined together with another solo practitioner who was a former colleague, to form a firm with a primary focus on insurance recovery for policyholders. Identifying an underserved area of law Evan identified a law practice niche...

The beauty of CRM is it can do a thousand things. The problem with CRM is it can do a thousand things. Starting out, most firms should concentrate on only two or three things. The challenge is that those two or three things are different for each firm, groups within the firm, or attorneys. Start with a needs assessment. Understand what you want to get out of CRM before you get the technology. Cons...

Think of online behavior as an extension of offline behavior. If activities run afoul of ethics rules offline, don't do it online. Twenty-seven states have adopted some duty of technology competence requiring lawyers to understand and use technology to provide adequate representation to their clients. It can cause significant stress for solos and small firm attorneys, in particular. On top of repr...

You're never in a bad situation if you have a full pipeline. And you can't build a full pipeline if you're not doing business development. What's the biggest myth that needs to be put to bed when working with attorneys on business development? That business development is not sales and that sales is not involved in the legal business development process. We're all individual walking brands. Lawyer...

First a little background on Mark Cohen's journey before digging in to how he used writing and social media to develop a thought leadership platform. Mark was a trial lawyer for almost 30 years. He started out as an Assistant U.S. Attorney, became a big law partner, then left to start a national boutique firm where he learned how technology could be used more effectively to manage legal services,...

Law firm awards submission insights and tips! The recognition awards provide is meaningful to lawyers and firms who don't get a lot of accolades for their work. In fact, they get a lot of heat. So when a publication says "good job!" or recognize them as part of an elite group of people, that can be a source of inspiration. Additional benefits: - Awards highlight something positive about the firm....

What is Client journey mapping and why is it important for lawyers and law firm marketers? Simply put, a client journey map is a visual of the actual experience a client has in working with any organization. For a law firm, that experience can start even before a prospect becomes a client. Client journey mapping entered the legal lexicon about two years ago and comes from the phrase "customer jour...

Are you using analytics to track your website performance and digital marketing efforts? If so, are you using it correctly? In this episode of the Legal Marketing 2.0 podcast, we discuss - How to collect data - What to do with the data you collect - What are meaningful data insights? - Google and other analytics tools There's more to analytics than Google Analytics vanity metrics: visitors and pag...

Few things cause more confusion or frustration in digital marketing than search engine optimization (SEO). In the latest episode of the Legal Marketing 2.0 podcast, we clear up some of the confusion by identifying four techniques: Technical, On Page, Of Page, and Local, with some actionable takeaways. Show notes: Technical SEO – This is how the search engines crawl and index your website and blog....

Ten essential elements to establish a thought leadership platform to build your personal brand, extend your network, and attract more clients.

Hosts Guy Alvarez and Tim Baran of Good2bSocial discuss marketing in the legal profession and why they're launching the Legal Marketing 2.0 podcast.