Lawyer Blogs : Experts support in Law Office Computing Magazine
A series of law firm Web experts, including Larry Bodine and Dale Tincher, strongly supported the use of law firm blogs for law firm marketing in a good article on law firm Web sites in Law Office Computing.
For the past few years, blogs have been all the rage. But should your firm have one? Experts say ‘yes,’ with a few conditions. You must be able to keep the content fresh, updating it at least once a week, and you need to have a specific niche or focus for the blog. ‘If developed as part of a cohesive overall marketing campaign, law firm blogs can be very effective,’ Tincher said. ‘They can enable the blogger to distribute information quickly and in a more personal fashion.’
Blogs also can help establish a firm or specific attorney as an expert in a highly specialized field and keep clients current on ever-changing legal information, Veesenmeyer noted. Bodine is of the opinion that having several blogs is better than one. ‘The blogs compliment the main Web site and send traffic to it,’ he said. ‘The blogs can take the place of paper newsletters, client alerts and other public communications.’
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