social media for attorneys
DESCRIPTION
How personal injury attorneys can use LinkedIn, Twitter, Facebook and Link Bait, to market their practice and generate leads.TRANSCRIPT
Social Media and Link Bait
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• seOverflow is a search engine optimization, pay per click, and social media marketing company in Denver, CO.
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Who Is seOverflow?
• A conversation powered by Social Media Applications such as blogs, Twitter, LinkedIn, Facebook, YouTube, Flickr, etc. between potential clients, employees, colleagues- people.
• People use their social media networks to find resources, chat about current life events, and more!
• Social Media is now more popular than email.• Think networking event except online and
always on!
What is Social Media?
Social Media Applications:
• Build links to website and increase search engine rankings
• Develop leads and referral sources on social networks
• Monitor and control reputation online
• Develop your web presence beyond your website
• Understand what jurors are doing/saying online
Why Should PI Attorneys Use Social Media?
3 Key Social Media Applications:
What is Twitter and How Can I Use it to Market My Firm?
• A micro blogging platform
• An open, public, global instant messaging platform
• Short format messages lead to quick information sharing that provides relief from rising email and IM fatigue
• A less gated method of communication: you can share information with people that you wouldn't normally exchange email or IM messages with
What Is Twitter?
• # 2 most visited social media website according to ComScore (online Neilsen ratings) Jan 2009
• Trivia: Who is the most famous attorney using twitter?
• Hundreds of other attorneys, some listed here:http://legalbirds.justia.com/birds/all/all/injury-accident-law/cc/list
http://scoop.jdsupra.com/2008/09/articles/law-firm-marketing/145-lawyers-and-legal-professionals-to-follow-on-twitter/
Who Is Using Twitter
How To Use Twitter
How To Use Twitter
How To Use Twitter
How To Use Twitter
• Discover leads
• Answer questions
• Seek advice from legal community
• Drive traffic to blog posts
• Gain insight on human responses to polls
• Personal branding
• Relationship building
How Do PI Attorney’s Use Twitter?
A Real Life PI Twitter Example
http://lawfirmandattorney-internet-marketing.com/attorney-lead-generation-twitter/
Possible Issue – In-person solicitation
• Use monitoring tools like TweetBeep or Twilert
Monitoring Twitter For Leads
Just How Powerful Is Twitter?
• Set up: 10 minutes to twitter 1 hour for misc add-on tools and applications
• Ongoing Maintenance: 15 minutes per day tweeting
• Other misc time for finding tweeps to follow
• Add Twitter link to your website and email signature
Twitter Time Requirements
A ‘Facebook’ for Professionals
What Is LinkedIn?
• Build an online network out of your connections.
• See your connection’s, connections and connect with them.
• Search for people at specific companies and in specific positions and request to connect with them.
What Is LinkedIn?
• Manage the information that’s publicly available about you as professional
• Find and be introduced to potential clients, service providers, and subject experts who come recommended
• Be found for business opportunities and find potential business partners
• Discover inside connections that can help you land jobs and close deals
• Post and distribute job listings to find the best talent for your company
What is LinkedIn Used For?
• Add keyword rich links to your profile to boost your SEO (most links just say ‘my website’)
What Can You Do With LinkedIn?
• Publish links to your blog posts
What Can You Do With LinkedIn?
• Publish your presentations
What Can You Do With LinkedIn?
• Join and Participate in groups
What Can You Do With LinkedIn?
• Answer questions in Q&A forums
What Can You Do With LinkedIn?
What Can You Do With LinkedIn?
• Add LinkedIn Link to Martindale Hubble Listing
• Set up: 1 hour
• Ongoing Maintenance: 15 minutes per week answering questions and participating in groups
• Other misc time for adding and approving new connections
• Add LinkedIn link to your website and email signature
LinkedIn Time Requirements
It’s Not Just for Kids Anymore
• Facebook gives people the power to share and makes the world more open and connected
Millions of people use Facebook everyday to keep up with friends, upload an unlimited number of photos, share links and videos, and learn more about the people they meet
What is Facebook?
• Draws a higher percentage of it’s users from the 45+ demographic than LinkedIn
• Australia recently allowed service of court docs via Facebook
• More than 175 million active users, fastest growing demographic is 30+
• Average user has 120 friends
• More than 15 million users update their status at least once per day
Interesting Facebook Facts
• Create a ‘personal’ page
• Create a ‘business’ page
• Gain access to a large network of ‘friends’
• Publish your content to a large network
• Join and participate in groups
What Can You Do With Facebook?
• Create your ‘personal’ page
• Build up your network by ‘friending’ people
• Join and participate in groups
• Update your status often (hint you can tie Facebook and twitter together and have twitter update your Facebook status)
How To Get Started Marketing on Facebook
• Create a ‘page’ for your business
• Contact your friends to become ‘fans’ of your business page
• Add a link to your business ‘page’ from your website
• Invite people to an ‘event’
• Link your blog to your ‘Notes’
• Clients can leave reviews on your page as well
How To Get Started Marketing on Facebook
Facebook ‘Page’
• View Facebook Insights (analytics for your page)
• Social Ads: deliver targeted ads with pay for performance pricing to specific demographics
• Facebook Connect: sign in and interact with other sites using your Facebook account
Advanced Facebook Marketing
• Set up: 1 hour
• On-going participation: 15 minutes 2 times per week to participate in groups, keep up with friends, update business page, etc.
Facebook Time Requirements
Linkbait
Put Social Media to Work and Improve Your SEO
• “Fishing for links”• Content developed from a unique angle on a
relevant topic that people will want to link to• Text (article), pictures, video, software or other
tools• Host on your own site, and use Social Media
sites to give it a boost and generate links• Link Bait “market” is competitive and is often
flooded with material- you must stand out!• Link Bait can be loosely related to your actual site• End goal is links, not conversions
Link Bait
• Strategic Link Bait: very manual distribution, most likely deals within a certain niche
• Viral Link Bait: can appeal to a broad audience, easy to spread wide via social media
Two Types of Link Bait
Strategic Link Bait Example
Viral Link Bait Example
• Strong social media presence makes it easier to spread link bait across the web
• The more friends, followers, connections, etc you have the better your chance these people will pass along your link bait content
Link Bait And Social Media
• http://lawmarketing.ning.com/
• http://www.legallyminded.com/
• http://www.lawyrs.com
• http://www.uslaw.com/
• http://www.jdsupra.com
• http://www.legalonramp.com
Other Law Social Networks
• Opening five slots for our beta social media strategy and implementation program. Wait list also being formed
• Includes us developing a custom SM strategy for your firm and implementing the strategy
• Includes link bait development and distribution.
• You or your staff must be able to dedicate a small amount of time to twitter, facebook and linked in (we’ll guide you).
Social Media For Attorneys: BETA
• Any Questions?
• Presentation will be available online
• Join seOverflow beta program: Social Media for PI Attorneys, only accepting 10 clients for now.
Q & A
• http://www.10e20.com/blog/2009/02/06/twitter-for-lawyers-legal-professionals/
• http://www.slideshare.net/leewhite/social-media-is
• http://socialmedialawstudent.com/social-media/social-media-and-social-networking-for-lawyers-in-a-nutshell/
• http://jurylaw.typepad.com/deliberations/social_networking.html
• http://lawfirmandattorney-internet-marketing.com/attorney-lead-generation-twitter/
• http://healthblawg.typepad.com/healthblawg/2009/01/marketing-your-legal-practice-using-social-media.html
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