Author: Guy Alvarez

5 Ways to Sustain Law Firm Marketing Efforts While on Vacation

It’s officially summer which means it’s vacation season. Vacation time and holidays are a necessity for lawyers and legal marketers. It’s a way to recharge and maintain your physical and mental health. Now, the challenge is how do you sustain law firm marketing and business development efforts while you’re on vacation? We all know that […]

What Is The Right Balance Between UX and SEO for Law Firm Websites?

User experience or UX refers to the user interface and the process users follow to interact with a website. SEO or search engine optimization is the process by which web designers and marketers ensure that the site has the utmost search visibility. With the growing importance of digital and content marketing, SEO and UX are […]

Setting Goals in Google Analytics: A Beginner’s Checklist

So, you’ve stumbled upon Google Analytics and have decided to use it to find out how well your website is doing. For casual users, it might be just a fun look at all the data Google collects. But for law firms that need it to measure site performance and gauge viewer engagement, it’s an entirely […]

The Balance Between Paid and Organic Social Media for Law Firms

Social media is the biggest and best method to interact with people both far and near. Whether you are a single attorney running your own private law practice or a marketer at a large law firm, you need Facebook, Twitter, and LinkedIn to reach your target audience. Social media content is divided into two categories, […]

Ten Tips for Building a Thriving Online Social Community

Creating an online community that thrives is an extremely rewarding endeavor for any law firm looking to capture their target clients and demonstrate thought leadership in a particular practice area. A successful online community can help law firms and lawyers innovate and develop new relationships with influencers, customers and prospects. Creating a community is the easy […]

The 5 Tenets of Social: Listen, Learn, Engage, Measure, Adapt

The world of social media marketing is constantly evolving and can be viewed as a fast pace changing environment, everyday we hear of new technology, new platforms and more efficient ways of doing business. But, the core principles of social media marketing never change and are extremely necessary for a successful outcome. In Brian Solis’ […]

Using Social Media for Lateral Recruiting: Ten Tips for Law Firms

I was asked to speak last week at the annual NALP conference in Hollywood, Florida. I was a little afraid that the beautiful weather and the lure of the beach and pool would greatly diminish the attendance at my session. However, I was pleasantly surprised by the great turnout at the session on a topic […]

SEO For Bing: Why You Should Consider It and Tips for Getting Started

Although not as popular as Google, Bing maintains a considerably large audience that includes many potential clients for your firm. Bing also powers Yahoo, which means that over 51% of Yahoo searchers see results from Bing’s index and ranking algorithm. Search results on both sites are almost identical, so optimizing for Bing works for Yahoo […]

Law Firm Analytics: Measuring Your Digital Marketing Efforts

The only way to know if your marketing efforts are meeting your goals is, of course, to measure results. Otherwise, there is no way to tell if your campaign is on the right track or running off the rails. With so many different channels available for advertising and marketing in the digital world, it can […]