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""Tip of the Week" - Guest Posting is a Great Way To Market Your Expertise
Posted on August 31, 2008Guest blogging is a highly viral, free way to publicize your expertise in front of a different yet compatible audience to attract more readers to your own website and hopefully convert those readers into clients or referrers of clients. A...
Staying the Course When Deciding to Go Solo (Part II)
Posted on August 29, 2008In part one of Staying the Course When Deciding to Go Solo I talked about creating that mantra that helps you to work through your fears of starting a solo practice, those fears which inevitably surface after the initial rush...
How Solos take on the Big Boys
Posted on August 27, 2008I just read a great blog post from Jordan Furlong of Law 21 and editor in chief of the Canadian Bar Association's National Magazine called "How David Beat Goliath." WOW. Jordan analogizes the Solos and Big Law to the story...
If a Bank Fails, What is the Solo Pratitioner's Responsibility for Client Funds? - Ed Poll
Posted on August 25, 2008After a recent Connecticut Law Tribune article discussing the wave of bank failures and a lawyer's responsibility for a client's funds, I asked the reigning authority on The Business of Law?, Ed Poll, to guest post on the topic. Ed...
"Tip of the Week" - Purge your RSS and Subscriptions
Posted on August 24, 2008I couldn't get to the Tip of the Week any earlier this week because I was too busy purging my RSS and e-mail subscriptions. You know what I'm talking about. You read one or two interesting blog posts or articles...
Staying the Course When Deciding to Go Solo (Part I)
Posted on August 22, 2008When you first commit to the whole concept of entrepreneurship, starting a solo practice, you are simultaneously ecstatic and frantic and giddy and fretful. Once the decision is made, though, it seems you can't get started soon enough. You want...
Graduating at 80, Alice Thomas Will Open Her Legal Practice
Posted on August 19, 2008This article is truly inspirational. Alice Thomas is the only student at McGeorge School of Law who grew up during the Great Depression, the only one old enough to have worked as a waitress at a drug store or held...
Social Media Is Your Business Future
Posted on August 19, 2008Borrowed liberally (OK...a full hijack) from John Jantsch of Duct Tape Marketing: Gone are the days when all you needed to be on the web was a website. Today you need to think and act in terms of a total...
My Unexpected Phone Call with Jay Foonberg
Posted on August 17, 2008This past Friday I had an unexpected and very wonderful hour long telephone conversation with Jay Foonberg. If you don't know who Jay Foonberg is (which would be surprising if you are a solo) he has been called the 'Dali...
Solo Practice University Has New Home Page - Check it Out
Posted on August 14, 2008We've just launched the new home page for Solo Practice University. Check it out. If you are already receiving our updates via RSS or email, you don't have to change a thing. You will continue to get them without interruption....
Networking for Shy Lawyers
Posted on August 11, 2008You've been told over and over again the way to get connections in the profession, drum up business, is network, network, network. You know I'm right. And you know for some people it is just so easy. They jump out...
"Tip of the Week" - Designing A Logo? Create A Contest
Posted on August 10, 2008Many solo practitioners are looking for a distinctive design to be part of their branding package and marketing message. That killer logo. Where to look? What to do? Create a contest. There are numerous companies which freelance artists, graphic and....
Inspiration for the Solo Practitioner - "Consider This"
Posted on August 08, 2008Consider this when: You want to innovate with client service; You want to create a virtual law office (VLO) from your basement; You want to get a virtual assistant a thousand miles away; You want to break free from the...
Twitter for Small Business - The Solo Practitioner
Posted on August 06, 2008Over at DuctTape Marketing, John Jantsch has created a very nice Guide to Using Twitter. While not for lawyers specifically, and definitely not all things Twitter, it is very worthwhile to read for those who have been toying with the...
For Virgins Only
Posted on August 05, 2008If you are still 'virginal' about blogging and the fun bloggers can have once they lose their blogging virginity (even as lawyers)...you must read the esteemed Victoria Pynchon's Blawg Review #171. It is one of the best Blawg Review's ever....
$7.00 Gas and the Solo Practitioner - A Glimpse Into the Future?
Posted on August 04, 2008I've shied away from what some call 'doom and gloom' but it's time to start getting back to economic realities and this dove tails nicely with my recent post on Creating a Total Client Experience. Job losses will probably accelerate...
"Tip of the Week" - Phone Tag (Voicemail to Text)
Posted on August 03, 2008Finis Price of TechnoEsq turned me on to PhoneTag, a voicemail to text service that eliminates the hassle of having to listen to voicemail. Phonetag (formerly Simulscribe) simply converts your voicemail to text and lets you 'read' your voicemail on...
Are You Suffering From Brain Drain?
Posted on July 30, 2008Another terrific post from Men with Pens addresses a very big issue solo practitioners face; too many things to do, not enough time. The end result, lost time, brain drain and at a significant cost to your business and personal...
Why Every Solo Practitioner Should Have a Great Social Media Plan - Shama Hyder
Posted on July 28, 2008From Brian Solis of PR 2.0 Question: If a conversation takes place online and you?re not there to hear or see it, did it actually happen? Indeed. Conversations are taking place with or without you. If you?re not part of...
"Tip of the Week" - Echosign (Secure E-Signatures)
Posted on July 27, 2008Well there is a product which is highly rated (I'm sure there are others) called Echosign. Imagine: Type up fee agreement. Upload into EchoSign. Email agreement to other party through EchoSign. Other party gets the email and e-signs. EchoSign notifies...
Why Being A Solo Practitioner Can Actually Make You Happier
Posted on July 25, 2008This very interesting article from the Psychology Today blog confirms that the quality of our work, more than our interpersonal relationships, determines our happiness: One factor towered over relationships in its connection with happiness. That factor was work...
How Solo Practitioners Can Awaken Their SuperHero
Posted on July 23, 2008It took this post by Christopher S. Penn to make me realize that with the technology we have at our disposal today to educate our prospects, we can all be superheros. With technology today can't we literally 'fly' around the...
How To Create a Total Client Experience...Which Will Generate More Business
Posted on July 21, 2008If you've been reading my blog for a while you know that I do not differentiate legal services (the marketing, the business, the way to treat clients) from selling products. If you are to run a successful solo practice (or...
"Tip of the Week" - Make Sure You Take a Vacation
Posted on July 20, 2008Now that I am back from mine, a few days in the sun and surf and a few more days pretty much away from the computer but not traveling away( a 'staycation'), I remember why I work for myself....so I...
Aaaaaaaaah! I'm Taking A Blogging Vacation.
Posted on July 14, 2008It's time to take a well-deserved break. A lesson for all of us who blog. Don't feel you have to churn out constantly. You are allowed to take the pause that refreshes. I'm not going anywhere. Just need a chance...
Going Solo; Confessions & Inspirations - Jeremy Bartholomew
Posted on July 10, 2008Jeremy Bartholomew writes a beautiful post which will inspire even the most fearful. He has five kids to feed. He is living in Michigan with a seriously depressed economy. Yet July 4th was 'his' independence day and as he writes...
If You Are A Current Law Student Who Wishes To Go Solo.....
Posted on July 10, 2008...there has never been a better time to sign up for the Solo Practice University E-zine*....widget to the right---------->>>>> and identify your status as 'Student.' Shortly, I will be sending a special broadcast just to law students for a very...
Can A Solo Practitioner Take A Vacation?
Posted on July 09, 2008The Complete Lawyer's July/August edition is out and it is a doozy. It is all about your exit strategy from your current employment. My contribution to this edition, however, answers the question: 'how does a solo practitioner handle vacation, medical...
How You Can Make Money By Turning Cases Down
Posted on July 07, 2008David Swanner of the South Carolina Trial Lawyer Blog writes a very important post called, "How You Can Make Money By Turning Cases Down." There are multiple reasons this post is important and they go beyond what David has written:...
"Tip of the Week" - Privnote - The Ultimate Private E-mail?
Posted on July 06, 2008I think this is pretty wild. We all know that e-mail is just not really private, either through people forwarding to others, hacking, etc. We disclaim e-mail's inherent vulnerability in our own retainer agreements yet we want to use e-mail...
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My fiance's check is DD into a local credit union. Bank seems to have a pattern of "invisibly holding" charges from the debit card until just HOURS before his DD is processed (and this is after hours, of course). Over th
Have your fiance take the information you've collected and go into the bank...
Can a former employee use photographs of jobs completed whie working for me in marketing material for a new business?
There are several issues here
1. Sub contractor started up a compe...
Why people afraid to invest money in MLM website?
The MLM System is very difficult....
I am being accused of hitting a 7 yr old child with my car, but I honestly don't think I hit the child. The Child was never knocked down, ran around my car to go back to ball practice, and was walking around with the par
You are in a serious situation. Get a lawyer immediately. Make no statements to ...
Are Solo 401k IRA rollovers legitimate?
see this website. Call em up....

My fiance's check is DD into a local credit union. Bank seems to have a pattern of "invisibly holding" charges from the debit card until just HOURS before his DD is processed (and this is after hours, of course). Over th
Have your fiance take the information you've collected and go into the bank...
Can a former employee use photographs of jobs completed whie working for me in marketing material for a new business?
There are several issues here
1. Sub contractor started up a compe...
Why people afraid to invest money in MLM website?
The MLM System is very difficult....
I am being accused of hitting a 7 yr old child with my car, but I honestly don't think I hit the child. The Child was never knocked down, ran around my car to go back to ball practice, and was walking around with the par
You are in a serious situation. Get a lawyer immediately. Make no statements to ...
Are Solo 401k IRA rollovers legitimate?
see this website. Call em up....








