If you’re reading this on the day it was sent, then it’s my Birthday! Yes, I am totally one of those people who thinks we should celebrate birthdays all day, week, month, etc. To be fair, I try to do the same for others who I am close to as well. My wife’s birthday was
Read MoreThe Power of Delegation and Expertise When my firm first rolled out Lawmatics, our CRM system, I spent about 100 hours learning it, writing the emails, and building the system. During that time, my marketing director also went through it and did a ton of work on the project. Why? Because I was too cheap
Read MoreIs the Codeword for I Am Doing This Under Duress Sometimes it’s more about the polar bears (brand) and less about the taste (actual service) 1,300,000 lawyers.400,000 firms. So why are you the best choice for anyone? And to make matters worse, no one actually wants to hire us. They have a legal problem they
Read MoreJust Focus on Your Ideal Client One of the best gifts my wife ever got me was a straw. Seriously. One of those big plastic straws that goes into a cup. Nothing fancy. No wild shape. I think it cost one dollar for a four pack. But it had a TON of meaning to me.
Read MoreAs I write this, it’s 95 degrees in Salem, Oregon. I’m sure by the time you read this it’ll be closer to 75, but still. I know how to handle 95 degrees in Florida. Don’t move. Blast the AC. Bring a kiddie pool inside and lay in it. I do not know how to handle
Read MoreWhat time is it? Time for another newsletter! Time. We kill it. We save it. It’s money. And if you drive like me, we make good time. But also, we waste it. We waste a ton of it. And unlike that Justin Timberlake movie, we can’t buy it back or win it in a weird
Read MoreI used to jokingly end all of my LegalEase consultations with some version of this: “I am going to send you a contract. You can read it. This is NOT ClickFunnels. It does not become $40,000 if you do not sign up in the next 15 minutes, and there are not only two slots left.”
Read MoreHow Law Firms Can Thrive in a Swipe-Right World I have a friend who took her four year old on a cruise and referred to the experience as being on a floating prison. Having taken my son on two cruises, I cannot say it was THAT bad. But I think of that quote every single
Read MoreGrowing up, I freaking loved everything dark and gritty. I was a kid, and thankfully life was easy. Or, in financial terms, I was someone else’s bill. So stuff like Preacher (the comic, not the show), Ender’s Game (the book, not the movie*), and 28 Days Later (the movie, not the… not movie?) I ate
Read MoreA few weeks ago, Adam Williams posted something that has stuck with me: The business owner who has failed 10 times understands more about their business than the one who succeeded the first time. Seriously, if you learn nothing else this year, it should be that. Too often, our society gets caught up in outcomes
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