David's Blog

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Another busy month in our production team saw the following websites go live in June :- Hains & Lewis - www.hainsandlewis.co.uk Capital Seminars - www.capitalseminars.co.uk Cunningham Blake Solicitors - www.cbsolicitors.com ...
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The email below is a " Google Alert ".  This is the Google system that keeps track of phrases that you are interested in e.g. names of clients, competitors etc. When Google sees that phrase appear on a page that has been recently added to its...
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Great conference run by 360 Legal at 7 Bedford Row in London. Except that the session I saw before lunch over-ran by more than 20 minutes.....you've never seen so many people legit out of the room to get at the food....
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Thank you for your interest in our law firms website benchmarking audit.  Please note that you can only join this audit if your website is using Google Analytics.  The reason for this is that different website statistics packages actually...
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May saw the following websites go live :- Gorvins - www.employmentproblems.net Graham Evans & Partners - www.geplegal.co.uk Chesham & Co. - www.cheshamlaw.co.uk 1 Hare Court - www.1hclaw.com  ...
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The Gilroy house is the one on the left. View Larger Map  ...
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If got this email today.  If you need more work around unenforecable credit and loan agreements, then you might want to get in contact with these guys. Regs....David. ----------------------------------------------------- From: Adrian Neill...
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Following on from the success last year, we held our 2nd Annual Client Conference on 14 & 15 May at Coombe Abbey (a somewhat ‘unique’ venue which has quickly become a favourite with us & our clients).  You can still review the...
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I really hate it when businesses do things like this.  Have a look at this " proforma invoice ".  This company I assume have some kind of "rights" to market themselves to people who have bought Konica Minolta printers as they've...
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April was another busy month with new websites going live for the following clients :- Thompson & Jackson - http://www.thompsonandjackson.co.uk ActionMove (Clutton Cox) - http://www.actionmove.co.uk Blakemores - ...
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March was yet another busy month with a number of law firms choosing to upgrade their websites with Conscious.  The new websites below have gone live for the following clients :- Thorton Jones Family Law - http://www.tjflaw.co.uk ...
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I just saw this report in today's Legal Technology Journal newsletter :- "General counsel at 30 top multinational corporations have claimed that a law firm's website plays a key role in influencing their purchasing decisions. The claims arise as...
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In my new role providing marketing support to law firms I regularly talk to Partners and Marketing Managers and as such have become a bit of an expert on call handling approaches. Usually my calls are answered promptly and professionally, but unfortunately...
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"Social Networking", what do we really mean by that?  Wikipedia defines it as :- A social network is a social structure made of nodes (which are generally individuals or organizations) that are tied by one or more specific types of...
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I spent part of today at the Technology For Marketing & Advertising exhibition and conference at Earls Court 2. It's been a while since I've seen a trade show quite so well attended. In particular the queues for the free seminars were unbelievable, I...
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My thanks to Anne Irving of Irvings Solicitors who recently reported this. Someone had visited their website and filled in an enquiry form. The phone number they used in the form was a Premium Rate phone number. When the member of staff called the number...
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We write the tips booklets to help with our marketing but also to actually "help" our clients. Here's some great feedback from a client that makes it all worthwhile !

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I'm not quite sure what my colleague was trying to tell me when he gave me this Dilbert cartoon the other day....but it did make me laugh.   For more Dilbert, visit the official Dilbert website ....
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On the 28-Jan we sent out the ConsciousLaw newsletter. This is a newsletter targeted in the main at prospective clients, so it covers a little bit about how we can help them, and a lot about what we see going on around the legal marketing arena and the...
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I was never a big fan of instant messaging when it first came out.  But over the last few years I've kind of settled into a pattern of what it's good for. You know when you want to check if someone can talk, but don't want to interrupt them with a...
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Nothing to do with legal marketing, but this sign surprised me on my walk in to work the orther day.  On my office days I walk down some steps shown by the marker in the map below.  Imagine my surprise when this morning I came across this bus...
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This is how to get to the Network Location report which is provided by Google Analytics :- Log in to Google Analtyics. In the left hand navigation click on Visitors. Then click on Network Properties. Then click on Network Location. The...
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Just a couple of weeks ago I reported that we'd had a few new clients in November, well it turns out that November was a record for us with 11 firms of solicitors and 1 barrister's chambers choosing us to upgraded their brand and/or their website.  It's...
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I was lucky enough to have been asked to run a half-day training session for PM Forum.  The course covered a broad range of e-marketing topics such as :-  search engine optimisation  link building for better search engine...
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I spent a couple of hours this afternoon as a speaker at a Common Purpose "Profile" course here in Bristol.  It was a really interesting course with a compact and bijou class size of just 15, drawn from a wide range of public sector, private...

So why have a blog?

Well there are a number of reasons actually.  The first is that in my travels, both physically around the country, and virtually round the Internet,  I run into a lot of people and a lot of things. 

As a sales and marketing professional in the IT/legal sectors, I see things that different firms are doing and thought it might appropriate to commentate on, and document some of these.  Plus occasionally I might use it to sound off about something.

So, could a blog help your law firm?  Well it might, particularly if you are a real specialist in a particular area (or want to be).  It can help raise your profile and demonstrate your competence and expertise.

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David Gilroy
Sales & Marketing Director