Thursday, February 28, 2019

Stand Out with a Custom Phone Number from RingBoost

“Memorable phone numbers generate more leads.”

With RingBoost, you can secure a custom phone number to help you stand out from the competition and grow faster.

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There’s plenty of buzz around digital marketing these days. But the best lead generation tool for law firms remains inbound phone calls. A call is immediate, efficient, and helps you build a strong relationship from the beginning of your client’s experience with your firm.

Many firms focus intently on web forms and online intake to get data from a potential client. But that process often results in time-consuming back-and-forth exchanges that still fail to give you clarity about the client’s problem or its viability as a matter you’re interested in taking. Besides, when you rely too much on internet search traffic to acquire prospects, you inadvertently send them to search engines that also highlight your competition.

Calls bring your leads directly to you, and in a timely way. And, perhaps best of all, everyone already knows how to place a phone call. They may not, on the other hand, be savvy enough to navigate your web forms and online intake process.

A catchy number can be an effective branding tool, even before a call is ever placed. You’ll rise above the competition with your custom phone number. Unforgettable numbers increase advertising response rates for both out-of-home and online advertising. To maximize your marketing efforts, use a memorable phone number as your call-to-action.

RingBoost is the nation’s largest marketplace for custom phone numbers, including local and toll-free numbers.  They offer five categories of custom phone numbers:

Toll-Free Vanity

Toll-free vanity numbers have nationwide appeal and contain memorable words or phrases, like 1-833-JUST-LAW. They are a great option for firms that practice across regions or want to project a large brand presence.

Shared Use

Toll-free, shared-use numbers are similar to toll-free vanity numbers, but you license them exclusively by market area. They offer a cost-effective way to secure a super-premium number.

Custom Local

Local numbers use your community’s area codes so you can anchor yourself to a specific location and establish insider trust. With local numbers, you own the number after you buy it and can port it to your carrier or have it forwarded to any number of your choice.

Easy Dial

Easy-dial numbers use patterned digits that are easy to convey and easy to remember. They can be local or toll-free, depending on your needs. A number that ends in 700-7000 has a nice ring to it, doesn’t it?

Tracking Numbers

Tracking numbers provide meaningful data to help you decide which advertising channels are most effective. RingBoost lets you secure a block of numbers to compare success in each channel (for example, using a different number for your print, television, podcast, and social media advertisements lets you quickly sort out which channel generates the most leads).

How to Get it

Whatever your desired number, RingBoost will help you get the right custom phone number for your law practice.

To learn more about RingBoost, connect for a consultation, or search some of their available custom numbers, visit RingBoost.com.

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Wednesday, February 27, 2019

$10 To Spend On Lawyerist.com In Honor Of Our 10-Year Anniversary

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Use promo code 10for10 to get $10 to use on your purchase of anything from Lawyerist.

120 months ago, Lawyerist had only 4,000 monthly site visits and a few pages of content. Today, we have over 100,000 monthly site visits and thousands of pages of content to help you create the practice you want.

To say we’ve grown is an understatement.

In the last 10 years we’ve:

  • Launched portals to help you pick what software would be a good fit for your firm;
  • created blog posts to learn more about the business of law;
  • developed a productivity journal to help focus your days;
  • nurtured our online tribe through our FREE Lawyerist Insider subscription and Facebook Group; and
  • launched LabCon for those of you interested in a more intensive and personalized experience.

Thank you to everyone for being a part of this journey. Here’s to another 10 years!

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Podcast #213: The ROI of Gratitude, with John Israel

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In this episode with John Israel, we talk about how investing time in showing gratitude to people can wield a long term return in both personal and business relationships. John breaks down what the “Mr. Thank You Project” is, and shares why acknowledging the people around you is so important.

John Israel

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John Israel is the founder and owner of the “Mr. Thank You Project,” which is a global mission to elevate the level of gratitude on the planet by 1% by inspiring 74 million thank you cards written all over the world.

John started this project by writing five thank you cards every day for 365 consecutive days. He now shares his story through keynote presentations, television/radio/podcast interviews, and occasionally magazines and blogs.

You can follow John on Twitter and LinkedIn.

Thanks to Gusto, Podium, Casetext, and Ruby Receptionists for sponsoring this episode!

Show Notes

You can get John’s book, The Mr. Thank You Project: A journey to elevate the level of gratitude on the planet…one card at a time here.

Check out his Tedx Talk here.

Learn more about The Mr. Thank You Project here.

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Tuesday, February 26, 2019

How To Text Your Clients Without Losing Your Mind

Lack of communication from attorneys is the most frequent complaint from clients. But with only so many hours in a day, how do you effectively communicate with clients? One easy way to alleviate client dissatisfaction is through text messaging.

Why You Should Be Texting Your Clients

These days, texting is the most used way of communication for Americans under 50. In fact, more than 95% of Americans own cell phones, and nearly 75% of those users are smartphone users. We send 8.5 billion text messages each day. And texting works, too. Those little pings enjoy an average open rate of 98% and a 45% response rate. Email, by comparison, has a 20% open rate and a 6% response rate, if you’re lucky.

Text messaging is an easy way for you to schedule meetings with your clients and to send notifications, reminders, case status updates, links to documents, and even satisfaction surveys or review links. Your clients use their phones for these things every day. Why should your business not give your clients an option to communicate by text if that’s what they prefer?

To make it easier, there are many software options that let you text clients from your computer so you can save your thumbs.

Besides, texting is so much easier and more convenient for everyone than leaving a voicemail.

Text Your Clients

Text Messaging Tools

Law Practice Management Software. Most law practice management software solutions include built-in features or simple integrations that let you send text messages directly from the platform itself. Clio, for example, integrates with Apptoto or Zipwhip. PracticePanther built its texting feature right into the software.

CRM, Client Intake, and Marketing Automation Software. Similarly, many CRMs, intake, and marketing automation software solutions include built-in or integrated text messaging options. Tools like Law Ruler, Lawmatics, and Lexicata facilitate your text messages to your clients from within the software.

Other software. In addition to software you’re already be using in your practice, other options abound for how you can easily text your clients.

  • Mighty Text links your phone with your computer so you’ll be able to view, send, and receive text messages and attachments from your computer.
  • Podium is a client relationship and review-management platform that helps your clients check their case status from their phone and lets you text them from a live web chat. Plus, it saves all those communications within the platform for later review if needed.
  • Signal is something we’ve talked about before. It’s a secure way to text encrypted messages to your clients with great security and easy set up and use.

Other Texting Considerations

As you’re looking for a tool to text clients, consider looking for a platform that lets you save them to your client file. And make sure it’s a secure service that uses encryption and other basic security standards to protect your data and your clients’.

Finally, be professional. The jury is still out on it, but I’m pretty confident clients don’t want to be getting poop emojis from their lawyer.

If you want to learn more about client communication, we’ve got just the thing for you.

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Monday, February 25, 2019

Download Ruby Receptionists’ Free eBook on How to Grow Your Practice

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“Learn how to turn more callers into clients with Ruby Receptionists’ free ebook”

In the age of smartphones, the business call is back. Learn how to turn more callers into clients and how to make a good first impression with Ruby Receptionists’ new free ebook.

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Ruby Receptionists offers professional, friendly, and fun virtual receptionist and online chat services to help you build and maintain client relationships. With their charm and enthusiasm, Ruby has successfully helped attorneys grow their practices for the past 15 years, and are sharing some of those insights in their new ebook.

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Ruby’s free ebook covers business calls, how calls can hurt or help you, and how hiring a virtual receptionists can help bring you more clients while keeping the ones you have happy.

How To Get It

To download your copy or to learn more about Ruby Receptionists, visit callruby.com/lawyerist-guide.

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Thursday, February 21, 2019

Simplify Account Management with LexReception’s Client Web Access

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“Easily see and manage your monthly minutes used, total monthly calls, and other usage details in one convenient place.”

LexReception’s Client Web Access portal is a sleek and user-friendly dashboard that lets you view and manage your account and virtual receptionists at your convenience.

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LexReception is a virtual receptionist service for solo attorneys and small law firms that offers all you need from a virtual receptionist service. It offers intake services and appointment scheduling, among other offerings, and they’re available 24/7/365, so your clients will never get sent to voicemail. It’s a highly rated service with thousands of happy customers. And with the ease of managing your account through LexReception’s comprehensive and easy to use Client Web Access portal, it’s easy to see why.

Managing your minutes, your script, and your payment with virtual receptionists shouldn’t be difficult, and shouldn’t require a phone call. With the LexReception Client Web Access portal, simply login and you’ll be taken to the dashboard where you’ll be able to make the changes you want to make.

The LexReception Client Web Access portal (CWA) is something customers get access to for free when sign up for LexReception. It’s an intuitive and user-friendly interface that helps you better manage your virtual receptionist services.

Within the CWA, with just a few clicks, you’ll be able to manage and verify contracts, check minute usage:

LexReception Client Web Access Usage

Check messages, run reports, set up CRM integrations, see and edit scripts:

LexReception Client Web Access Scripts

adjust minute plans, and make payments:

LexReception Client Web Access Payments

Simply log into your LexReception account online and you’ll automatically be taken to the dashboard.

The dashboard itself is intuitive and easy to use, though if you ever have any questions, LexReception’s friendly team is ready to help with any issues that may arise.

How to Get it

To learn more about LexReception or to schedule a free consultation, visit lexreception.com.

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Wednesday, February 20, 2019

Podcast #212: Tweeting Judges & Access to Justice, with Judge Stephen Dillard

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In this episode with Stephen Dillard, we talk about the how, traditionally, judges have mostly been inaccessible to the public and how quite a few judges are now going against the grain and taking residence on Twitter. We also talk about Judge Dillard’s thoughts about the role of courts in closing the access to justice gap, and what courts are doing to be more proactive.

Stephen Dillard

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Chief Judge Stephen Louis A. Dillard was appointed as the 73rd judge of the Court of Appeals of Georgia on November 1, 2010, by Governor Sonny Perdue. Prior to his appointment, Judge Dillard was in private practice with James, Bates, Pope & Spivey in Macon, serving as chairman of the firm’s appellate practice group. Judge Dillard was elected and reelected by his fellow Georgians in 2012 and 2018. On July 1, 2017, Judge Dillard was sworn in as the 30th Chief Judge of the Court of Appeals of Georgia.

You can follow Judge Dillard on Twitter and LinkedIn.

Thanks to Gusto, Podium, and Casetext for sponsoring this episode!

Show Notes

If you want to read more about how Judge Dillard is using social media to engage with his constituents, check out his article, Engage here.

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