Legal Marketing & PR

How One Estate Planning Attorney Used Blogging and Social Media to Get Noticed

Posted on July 03, 2009
This is a guest post from California Estate Planning attorney Jennifer N. Sawday. Jennifer’s blog can be found at California Estate Planning Blog where she blogs about “matters involving estate planning in California.” And you can follow Jennifer on twitter at @JenSawday...

Interact, engage and build… ?? Day 30 of Twitter Tips and Hints

Posted on July 03, 2009
Well, this is it. Day 30 of twitter tips and hints and we come to the end of the post series. For today’s tip and hint, I am going to use one of my favorite tweets I see in my twitter stream daily. View unmarketing’s tweet While I would like to take full [...

There Are No Rules, But… ?? Day 29 of Twitter Tips and Hints

Posted on July 02, 2009
It is true and even with all the suggestions you hear on how to use twitter, there are no set in stone rules. What you do need to do however is establish some goals or perhaps what you want to accomplish with twitter. When you first start looking at using twitter as a [...

Do Not Auto-Follow New Followers on Twitter ?? Day 28 of Twitter Tips and Hints

Posted on July 01, 2009
I know this is not something most of those who have been on twitter for a while would do. Right? However, I have seen twitter newbies do this and it is really not the way to manage your followers on twitter. There is really no good reason to use the auto-follow feature [...

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Twitter for Dummies: Buy the Book ?? Day 27 of Twitter Tips and Hints

Posted on June 30, 2009
I am going to keep this one very short. If you want to get some great information from someone who knows what they are talking about. Go right now to this link and buy Twitter For Dummies. And yes that is my affiliate link to Amazon and I will make a huge [...

Question for Tomorrows Edition of Twitter Tips and Hints

Posted on June 30, 2009
Exclusive for subscribers! Download Blogging Tips To Help You Blog Copyright © 2009 Blog For Profit. This Feed is for personal non-commercial use only. If you are not reading this material in [...] Related posts:Using twitter as your RSS feeder — Day 13 of Twitter Tips and Hints Since I started to use twitter more and more, I...

Using Hashtags with Twitter ?? Day 25 of Twitter Tips and Hints

Posted on June 29, 2009
For those of you who have been on twitter for a while, you most likely have noticed and know what a hashtag is. For those of you new to twitter, you may be saying, good god not another twitter term I need to know about. Actually, hashtags can be a great tool and [...

Saying Blogging is Dead is Such Complete BS

Posted on June 29, 2009
I am always lost for a reason some of those who are considered the “big boys” need to make the statement every few months that blogging is dead. Or that they are leaving blogging behind for greener pastures. Quite frankly, I think it is complete bullshit...

How to Get Followers and Make Friends on Twitter ?? Day 24 of Twitter Tips and Hints

Posted on June 28, 2009
Followers and Friends are truly what make twitter so much fun and worth it. And if you are new to twitter, you are most likely wondering how the heck do I go about getting new followers. There are sites and applications popping up every single day hyping the fact they can get you [...

Unleash the Power of Guest Posting

Posted on June 28, 2009
Alone In An Empty Room? What if you threw a party and no one came? That’s what a lot of professionals feel like when they start blogging. They post, and post, and post, but no one knows about their niche blog and no one ever finds it. It’s like standing in the middle of an empty room, [...

I Dare You To Ask Your Clients or Customers To Follow You On Twiter ?? Day 23 of Twitter Tips and Hints

Posted on June 27, 2009
One of the dumbest statements I hear business and/or professional services firms say is that they don’t want their clients or customers following them on twitter. Huh!?! Do you communicate with your clients and/or customers when they come into your business or offices? Do you talk to them when you see them [...

Take a Poll on Twitter ?? Day 22 of Twitter Tips and HInts

Posted on June 25, 2009
I have mentioned many times about the fact twitter is a great research tool. It is a great question and answer tool too. I get some of my best input from twitter when I simply ask a question of those who are following me. Recently, I took the research and question and answer technique [...

Using a Twitter Desktop Client to Organize your Twitter Experience ?? Day 21 of Twitter Tips and Hints

Posted on June 24, 2009
It has been a long time since I have not used a twitter client to handle my twitter use. In fact, I rarely go to my own twitter page to do anything on twitter. For the most part, the twitter client I have been using the last few months is TweetDeck. And now that [...

Don’t Worry About Unfollows ?? Day 21 of Twitter Tips and Hints

Posted on June 23, 2009
It has happened to all of us. We post some good tweets, at least we think they are. Or we send some good links to twitter. And what happens, we get a few unfollows. Even worse, you use one of those stupid twitter tools to see who has unfollowed you and it [...

Need a Retweet? Ask for them ?? Day 20 of Twitter Tips and Hints

Posted on June 22, 2009
How many times have you written that killer blog post? However many times have you posted that killer tweet on twitter? And how many times have you wished someone would retweet one or both of them? I know most of you can answer yes to all three of those questions...

Twitter and what it means to RSS ?? Day 19 of Twitter Tips and Hints

Posted on June 21, 2009
As we discussed just the other day, like many, I now use twitter as one of my main RSS feeds. And I know, some of you may be asking why. And this is one of the reasons why. Twitter — social media — trusted recommendation of a link — carries more weight than just [...

You Have to Participate if You Want To Get Benefits From Twitter ?? Day 18 of Twitter Tips and Hints

Posted on June 20, 2009
If you are going to be on twitter, be on twitter. Jump in and participate in the conversations going on around you. Listen to the conversations and don’t be afraid to add you own take on what is being said. For the most part, that is why most of us are on twitter...

Twitter as a Research and Development Tool - Day 17 of Twitter Tips and Hints

Posted on June 19, 2009
Over the last several months if there is one thing I have found twitter to be great for it is research and development. It is really amazing how you can ask a question on twitter and within a matter of only a few minutes you will have a wide range of answers and input...

Blogging will not foster clients, is a sinkhole of time and will go stale

Posted on June 19, 2009
First of all, I do have a dog in this race as we design blogsites for lawyers. Second, I do coaching and consulting with clients on blogging. What you see below is a response I posted on an email listserv called Solo Lawyer Marketing. It is a great listserv where lawyers and marketing professionals freely [...

Don’t Protect Your Updates ? Day 16 of Twitter Tips and Hints

Posted on June 18, 2009
I have never been able to come up with a good idea why anyone would want to protect their updates on twitter. In fact, I equate this to the same BS as requiring me to register before I can leave a comment on a blog. It would actually be fun to do a survey to [...

Name it and Domain it ?? The advantages of using keywords in your domain name

Posted on June 17, 2009
When we talk to our clients about SEO, especially naming their blogs and getting a domain, I tell them one key item. “Name it and domain it” as close to each other as you can. What do I mean by this? I like to see a blog for a professional service firm [...

How To Decide Who To Follow On Twitter ?? Day 15 of Twitter Tips and Hints

Posted on June 17, 2009
If there is one question I get and I know others get about twitter it is, “How do I decide who to follow on twitter?” For me, I usually look at a few key points on the person that I am looking at and trying to decide whether to follow them back or not...

Using Twitter Search to Follow a Search Term You Are Interested In ?? Day 14 of Twitter Tips and Hints

Posted on June 16, 2009
Not only is twitter a great communication tool. And a great way to network with other like minded people. Twitter is also a great search tool. Using twitter search, you can actually search for any search term that might be discussed on twitter at any given moment...

Tips for Marketing Your Business With Your Blog

Posted on June 15, 2009
Problogger had a great post just this morning called 13 Tips for Marketing Your Business With Your Blog and I have to say, Darren hit it on the head on this one. Here are the 13 Tips for Marketing Your Business With Your Blog: Listen First, Blog Later Know what you want to achieve Be Useful Be Personal [...

Using twitter as your RSS feeder — Day 13 of Twitter Tips and Hints

Posted on June 15, 2009
Since I started to use twitter more and more, I have found I am actually using it more for my RSS feeder than my actual feeder. That may seem strange. However, the way I organize those I follow on twitter, I can actually make a group of those on twitter who’s blog I [...

Send your new blog post to twitter - Day 12 Twitter Tips and Hints

Posted on June 12, 2009
If you are blogging and you are on twitter, you have a great opportunity to provide information to your followers and get your blog post to a large number of possible readers. I do this each time I post to this blog. I use EasyTweets to send my blog post to twitter and it [...

Your chance to give back to those on twitter - 30 Days of Twitter Tips and Hints

Posted on June 11, 2009
As you may have noticed, we are on Day 10 of our Twitter Tips and Hints. In addition to today’s tips and hints, I wanted to give all of you a chance to add your own favorite twitter tip and/or hint to the list. If enough of you provide your own, I will [...

Don’t ask me to click your junk - Day 11 Twitter Tips and Hints

Posted on June 11, 2009
I know what you are thinking, twitter should not have rules and anyone that suggest a rule is a complete jerk. And you are right. But, how many times have you followed someone you thought looked interesting and shortly after you follow, you get a direct message with a link to something...

Retweet and spread the wealth - Day 10 Twitter Tips and Hints

Posted on June 10, 2009
If there is one thing which you can do on twitter that will not only help you, retweeting will also help those you follow and read on twitter. The statement below is without a doubt one of the best when it comes to explaining how important retweeting is...

Don’t follow everyone just because they follow you - Day 9 Twitter Tips and Hints

Posted on June 09, 2009
Do not feel like you have to follow everyone who follows you and don’t follow everyone. You have limited time and there is really no way to keep up with it all. To follow or not to follow everyone who follows you is actually one of those topics and opinions that goes both ways...

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