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What are you paying for hosting—and are you getting your money’s worth?

July 9, 2008

Website and e-mail hosting are services for which you can pay a little or a lot with little difference in service. And sometimes you actually get more when you pay less.
For example, I pay $10/month for hosting for my firm website, three blogs (this blog, Caveat Emptor, and Lawyerist), and unlimited e-mail accounts. I get [...]

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Optimizing your web site for potential clients

May 5, 2008

here is a lot of talk about optimizing web sites for search engines, but what about optimizing your web site for potential clients?
Search-engine optimization (SEO) is about making it easy for a search engine to index your page. The easier it is for Google to figure out that you are a family lawyer in Minnesota, [...]

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Online marketing 101: websites and advertising online (part 2 of 3)

February 21, 2008

Okay, so you are comfortable with online privacy issues, you have spent some time on Wikipedia and Google learning about the “geek stuff,” and now you want to get going and market your law firm online. Obviously, you want to start with square one: a website. And a website is the logical next step in [...]

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Online marketing 101: privacy and technical know-how (part 1 of 3)

February 5, 2008

By now, most attorneys are at least thinking about marketing their practice online, if not doing it in some fashion already. But “online marketing” is a concept so vague it is completely unhelpful. Online marketing encompasses everything from websites to social networking sites to chat rooms. Much online marketing is similar to offline marketing, but [...]

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HyTekHosting is a fantastic hosting provider

December 27, 2007

I use HyTekHosting for a web hosting provider. They host my e-mail, this blog, Caveat Emptor, my home page, and my fledgling law wiki, Minnlawpedia.org.
On Christmas evening, I sat down to make some changes and, due to a series of stupid missteps, lost first Caveat Emptor, and then every web page on my home directory! [...]

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Website basics

July 31, 2007

Every lawyer should have a website by now. That is not news, just a fact. Lawyers who don’t have some kind of online calling card, whether a blog, Facebook or MySpace page, or website, are missing out on clients. Period.

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Law firm marketing: web sites and blogs

May 30, 2007

Every lawyer I know either has a web site or want one. Many lawyers have a vague belief that a web site is a required marketing tool “in this day and age,” but few know why that is or how they expect a web site to benefit them.
Web sites
Most law firm web sites are static [...]

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