Integrity Marketingtag:typepad.com,2003:weblog-1670012009-11-12T09:52:04-06:00Marketing and practice development tips for estate planning and elder law attorneys.TypePadThis is an XML content feed. It is intended to be viewed in a newsreader or syndicated to another site.CRM for Estate Planning Lawyers on the Mactag:typepad.com,2003:post-6a00d8341e43ed53ef012875890684970c2009-11-12T09:52:04-06:002009-11-12T09:52:04-06:00If you are using a Mac in your estate planning practice, here is a great article about how one of your colleagues integrated the software, Daylite, into her practice for client and case management: http://www.applebriefs.com/2008/01/06/review-daylite-in-an-estate-planning-practice/
Here is what the author outlined as the primary requirements for CRM in the estate planning practice:
Manage contact information, including client data
Manage appointments and to-do items
Automatically create to-do items associated with each stage in the estate planning process
Keep track of all meetings and communications with each contact
Keep track of all documents associated with each contact
VP/CEO, Integrity Marketing Solutionshttp://integritymarketing.typepad.com/ims/2009/11/crm-for-estate-planning-lawyers-on-the-mac.htmlIs Estate Planning Really Dead?tag:typepad.com,2003:post-6a00d8341e43ed53ef0120a686fc95970b2009-11-12T08:26:31-06:002009-11-12T09:11:41-06:00I read a column today, published in the Santa Barbara Noozhawk and available online here: http://www.noozhawk.com/local_news/article/111009_mark_cornwall_what_about_retail_wealth_spent_on_estate_planning/, written by an attorney, proclaiming that "the business of estate planning as an attorney has all but fallen off the face of the Earth. Business is dead." ... I am interested in how REAL estate planning attorneys -- like you -- respond to that statement.
VP/CEO, Integrity Marketing Solutionshttp://integritymarketing.typepad.com/ims/2009/11/is-estate-planning-really-dead.htmlWebsite Design Should Be Simple, Flexibletag:typepad.com,2003:post-6a00d8341e43ed53ef0120a5cda9be970b2009-10-08T09:39:02-05:002009-10-08T09:39:02-05:00The bottom line is this -- the website is now dynamic, not static. A website is NOT like a billboard -- post it once in a high-traffic area and hope the calls pour in. It's not like a Yellow Pages ad -- printed once for the entire year. Not at all. Your website should be updated, changed, tweaked, targeted. You wouldn't send the same newsletter out month after month, neither should your website be considered a once-and-done project.
VP/CEO, Integrity Marketing Solutionshttp://integritymarketing.typepad.com/ims/2009/10/website-design-should-be-simple-flexible.htmlAdvanced Web Ranking an Elegant Solution to SEO Trackingtag:typepad.com,2003:post-6a00d8341e43ed53ef0120a5c45a5a970b2009-10-06T11:49:05-05:002009-10-07T10:11:19-05:00Our purpose in using the software is to track the search engine ranking of our clients' websites for keyword phrases. We run a baseline for each new optimization client before we begin optimizing their site. AWR also gives us a ranking report for the sites competing with our clients. This "top sites" competitive report is very valuable to us from a consulting perspective, as well as for optimization purposes. It gives us an excellent overview of the main "players" in any given market, tells us just how competitive it may or may not be to rank well in that market, and also gives us some insight into the strategies our clients' competitors are using online. Interestingly, we find many of our clients are fairly competitive, and seeing exactly which sites are ranking above theirs is a pretty strong motivator to getting the job done!
VP/CEO, Integrity Marketing Solutionshttp://integritymarketing.typepad.com/ims/2009/10/advanced-web-rankings-an-elegant-solution-to-seo-tracking.htmlAnother Estate Planning Website on Google Page Onetag:typepad.com,2003:post-6a00d8341e43ed53ef0120a56ef306970b2009-09-14T17:14:44-05:002009-09-15T12:30:36-05:00I believe it has been less than a month, perhaps three weeks, since we published Jerry Reif's newly-optimized estate planning website. We had nowhere to go but "up" with his site, as it previously did not show up at all on local searches for a Saginaw Michigan Estate Planning Attorney. We checked today and Jerry's optimized site is now listed on Google's page one for the local search.VP/CEO, Integrity Marketing Solutionshttp://integritymarketing.typepad.com/ims/2009/09/another-estate-planning-website-on-google-page-one.html