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4 Successful Law Blog Case Studies

by Adrian Dayton on July 22, 2010 in Legal Marketing, Legal Technology

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Are you willing to pay the price to have a great law blog?

Most lawyers aren’t.

They want the accolades, the new clients, TV interviews and Wall Street Journal mentions- but they aren’t willing to put in the work.  Let me be clear, creating a substantial law blog that will make a difference in your practice will take a lot of work.  Just like when I bought my first home, it was a foreclosed property that needed a lot of TLC.  People told me, “it is going to take twice as much time and money as you think to get the house fixed up.”  They were right.

To achieve anything meaningful in life you must sacrifice, and blogging is no different.  This post will focus on four attorneys who have had dramatic success with their law blog, and how much time and effort was really required to make their blogs pay off. Keep Reading ⇒

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Social Media Gets You on the Golf Course Quicker

by Adrian Dayton on April 22, 2010 in Legal Marketing

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I love to golf. I love to golf with friends, with clients, and with prospects. Spending time doing something you enjoy is an extremely effective way to develop business because it helps build sincere relationships.

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10 Steps to Become a Social Media Rainmaker

by Adrian Dayton on March 23, 2010 in Legal Marketing

social media marketing11 10 Steps to Become a Social Media RainmakerA few hundred years ago, an Italian economist by the name of Pareto made an interesting observation. He noticed that 80 percent of all land in Italy was owned by just 20 percent of the population. This observation led to what we now know of in business as the Pareto Principle, or the 80-20 rule.

Eighty percent of all new cars are bought by the same 20 percent of the population. Twenty percent of students in a lecture ask 80 percent of the questions. But we aren’t really interested in cars, real estate, or classes.

We are interested in being stars in our firm by bringing in business — by “making it rain.” This economic principle certainly applies to legal rainmakers as well. Twenty percent of law firm lawyers bring in 80 percent of the business. But why? What makes them so special?

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Adrian Dayton, Lawyerist Contributor

by Adrian Dayton on March 22, 2010 in General

adrian dayton11 Adrian Dayton, Lawyerist ContributorI’m thrilled to be part of the Lawyerist community. Joining the ranks of some of my favorite lawyers and bloggers is a real honor.

Just to tell you a little bit about myself, I am an attorney and author of the book Social Media for Lawyers: Twitter Edition.  My real passion is travel, and I will be spending the month of March speaking about social media to groups of lawyers all over Australia. I can hardly wait.

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