Episodes

  • Ring, Ring! What to Expect When You Call Up a Marketing Agency

    Ring, Ring! What to Expect When You Call Up a Marketing Agency
    Nov 13 2024
    Get the 411 on everything you need to think through before you get on the line with a prospective ad agency. ----- This episode is off the hook, y’all. Working with a professional marketer could be the key to unlocking new possibilities for your law firm, but sometimes it’s tricky to dial in on the most important questions to ask as you vet an agency. In a bit of LHLM Theatre, Gyi and Conrad play the parts of curious lawyer and potential marketer engaging in the right business conversations as they begin their fruitful working relationship. Lawyers will learn how to ask questions that give meaningful insights into future growth and hear the sort of tactics marketers should be serving up in your consultation. Stay on the line—our next episode features another law firm website teardown! The News: ChatGPT Search is available now! Go check it out. A GenAI question box from Google looks to be a pretty promising tool: Google Business Profiles Learn Something Specific Question Box. More Conrad & Gyi on some special podcast appearances - Answering Legal: Law Firm Reboot Camp Podcast and Profit, Scale, Thrive. Suggested LHLM Episodes: LinkedInGPT || Red Flags for Firing Your Agency How Not To Use TikTok For Your Law Firm || 5 Tips to Increase Referrals Connect: The Bite - Lunch Hour Legal Marketing Newsletter! Leave Us an Apple Review Lunch Hour Legal Marketing on YouTube Lunch Hour Legal Marketing on TikTok
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    37 mins
  • SHOCKING Insights from Clio’s 2024 Legal Trends Report

    SHOCKING Insights from Clio’s 2024 Legal Trends Report
    Oct 30 2024
    AI replacing lawyers… undercapitalized marketing budgets… unanswered calls… the horror! Clio’s 2024 Legal Trends Report is a scary-good resource for attorneys, and the insights from its massive data set are super helpful from oh-so many angles. The guys unwrap their top fun-size tidbits for discussion and offer tips for applying them in your law firm. They discuss the AI revolution, stats on law firm communications, tactics for higher conversion rates, and more. Read the full report! It’s here, and it’s free: Clio’s 2024 Legal Trends Report Mentioned in this Episode: BEDLAM - Mockingbird Client Conference Connect: The Bite - Lunch Hour Legal Marketing Newsletter! Leave Us an Apple Review Lunch Hour Legal Marketing on YouTube Lunch Hour Legal Marketing on TikTok
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    37 mins
  • Diary of an In-House Marketing Director

    Diary of an In-House Marketing Director
    Oct 23 2024
    Your underutilized, underappreciated marketing directors are writing quite the sob stories in their journals every night. Is your law firm worthy of their complaints? ----- Today, we’re picking the heart-shaped lock of every law firm marketing director’s innermost desires and disappointments. Gyi and Conrad unpack the age-old issues between marketers and those they serve to (hopefully) broaden understanding for both sides. They outline some of the common mistakes made by each party—lawyers v. marketers—and give tactical advice for collaboration that encourages the bloom of efficiency and profitability. They pick apart the faulty ideology around referrals, search, and marketing budgets that could be stunting your firm’s growth and your marketer’s potential. Later, which should you pick—Ahrefs or Semrush? The guys answer a listener question on which, if either, of these tools is best, but not without a few caveats. The News: Search Engine Land Acquired by Semrush – Eh, this probably isn’t great for Search Engine Land’s readers. There’s got to be some sort of stupid Type-A ego B.S. going on with this whole situation: WP Engine asks court to stop Matt Mullenweg from blocking access to WordPress resources - The Verge. Allison McKeen, Ryan McKeen, and Brittany Green launched a great new book (and may, or may not, be Mando fans)! – The Way: A Simple Roadmap for Leading a Healthy Law Firm Suggested Episodes: Dear State Bar Regulator - South Carolina Edition Connect: The Bite - Lunch Hour Legal Marketing Newsletter! Leave Us an Apple Review Lunch Hour Legal Marketing on YouTube Lunch Hour Legal Marketing on TikTok
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    37 mins
  • Are You Wasting Money on Legal Directories?

    Are You Wasting Money on Legal Directories?
    Oct 9 2024
    In the wake of yet another legal tech acquisition, the guys offer up tactical insights on legal directories. These paid listings for attorneys have been around for ages, but are they actually bringing customers to your law firm? ----- Steeper and steeper prices for online legal directories are making many lawyers really question whether the juice is worth the squeeze. So, is it? As the old attorney saying goes—it depends. Gyi and Conrad outline the potential value and downsides of directories and how to vet these services to ensure your investment is worthwhile. The News: Instability, uncertainty… not a good look. What’s going on, Wordpress? – WP Engine vs. WP Google AI Overview ads launch on mobile in U.S. – Because, you know, they’ve got to keep up in the AI arms race. Apparently, Conrad has powers of divination! – Internet Brands buys Findlaw Conrad wrote a great article on brand costs in PPC for SearchEngineLand – Branded keywords: How Google Ads drives up CPCs Suggested Episodes: Online Legal Directories, Worth Your Time (And Dough)? 5 Ways To Make Your Google Profile Pop || Is Your Chat Service Selling Your Leads? Mentioned in this Episode: Guide to Escaping FindLaw - FindLaw Jailbreak Guide | Mockingbird The Bite - Lunch Hour Legal Marketing Newsletter! Leave Us an Apple Review Lunch Hour Legal Marketing on YouTube Lunch Hour Legal Marketing on TikTok
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    44 mins
  • HELP! My Marketing Agency Was Acquired — What You NEED To Know

    HELP! My Marketing Agency Was Acquired — What You NEED To Know
    Oct 3 2024
    What do you do if the marketing agency you are engaged with gets acquired? Legal marketing experts Gyi Tsakalakis and Conrad Saam break down the news of Scorpion’s acquisition of Get Noticed Get Found and get into the potential pitfalls of YOUR marketing agency getting bought out. Learn the crucial things to watch for, like loss of data control, hidden fees, and potential conflicts of interest. Don't get caught off guard—stay informed and protect your firm's interests! Conrad’s Blog Post Press Release: Scorpion Acquires GNGF 📺: Watch on Youtube 0:15 Get Noticed Get Found Acquired by Scorpion 3:15 Does my agency have a conflict of interest? 6:28 Can I choose where my ads run? 8:45 Are you renting your own website? 14:22 What are the legal ramifications? 16:10 Transparency, Data, Ownership
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    23 mins
  • The LHLM Q&A Extravaganza — LIVE! From LEX Summit 2024

    The LHLM Q&A Extravaganza — LIVE! From LEX Summit 2024
    Sep 25 2024
    You’ve got questions, we’ve got answers! Gyi, Conrad, and a roomful of attorneys got together for a Q&A session addressing real lawyers’ most pressing legal marketing queries. Every law firm has different resources, assets, liabilities, niches, advantages, connections, etc. So, how do you take your uniqueness and make your firm stand out? This episode showcases highlights from their session, where the guys offered tactical advice on the marketing issues that are consistently top of mind for law firms. The News: Big money flying around in the agency world — Scorpion acquired Get Noticed Get Found. Here’s the news bit: Scorpion Strengthens Commitment to Legal Industry with Acquisition of Get Noticed Get Found, Advancing its Consolidation Strategy. And, Conrad’s thoughts: What to do when your Agency is Purchased by Scorpion. Filevine has big news… and we beat Bob Ambrogi to the punch—ha! (Oh, you know we love you, Bob.) Now, what news, pray tell? Filevine’s got a lot going on: Even better end-to-end automated workflows AIFields: Instant Legal Document Analysis & Insights Filevine Revolutionizes Depositions with Depo CoPilot, an AI-Powered Second Chair for Litigation Attorneys Mentioned in this Episode: The Bite - Lunch Hour Legal Marketing Newsletter! Leave Us an Apple Review Lunch Hour Legal Marketing on YouTube Lunch Hour Legal Marketing on TikTok
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    40 mins
  • Local SEO 2024: How to Rank AND Expand Your Law Firm

    Local SEO 2024: How to Rank AND Expand Your Law Firm
    Sep 11 2024
    “Rank Number One!”—an all too easy promise made by SEO agencies, but probably only deliverable while they’re standing in your lobby. What happens when you walk down the block? The guys talk about real, meaningful ranking results with Local Falcon. How is your law firm showing up in local search? Gyi and Conrad give an extensive explanation of Local Falcon, their go-to data visualization tool for seeing how your firm shows up in the local map pack (those three neatly featured business profiles you see at the top of your search results). You’ll learn how to figure out who your main competitors are, how to use Local Falcon metrics to make ranking improvements over time, and insights into the many effects of proximity and your area’s geography on ranking factors. Later, the guys dig in even deeper to explain how Local Falcon can be used to help you figure out whether you ought to open another office, or, perhaps, close one down. They hash out how to assess your metrics to determine the success (or lack thereof) of your investments. The News: A very long, drawn-out Google Algo Update is finally done, and it was big—according to people who care about that stuff. Yelp has never been fond of Google, and the recent ruling against the Googs gave them the ammo they needed for a lawsuit – Yelp sues Google for antitrust violations - The Verge. And, the compulsory AI mention: Semrush Launches AI Overview Tracking in Organic Research. Mentioned in this Episode: Local Falcon Does My Website Suck? | Law Firm Website Teardown - LHLM Episode The Bite - Lunch Hour Legal Marketing Newsletter! Leave Us an Apple Review Lunch Hour Legal Marketing on YouTube Lunch Hour Legal Marketing on TikTok
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    42 mins
  • Does My Website Suck? | Law Firm Website Teardown

    Does My Website Suck? | Law Firm Website Teardown
    Aug 28 2024
    You may be losing prospective clients if their experience on your website is mediocre—or just plain bad. The guys share how to fix things up to grow your business. ----- What do marketing pros look for when they check into a law firm’s website? Gyi and Conrad take us through their processes as they take a deep dive into the structure and content of a Denver PI law firm website. They explain what to be on the lookout for, how issues with both site content and coding negatively affect a user’s experience, and tools they use to assess the visibility, credibility, and success of a site. 📺 Watch on Youtube The News: Will there be any enforcement behind this? We hope so: FTC Fake Reviews Rule and the End of “Fake Reviews”? (John Henson). Looks like Google AI Overviews Are Impacted By Core Updates, but will it change anything? Joy Hawkins writes about How Links Impact Organic Results and Local Packs, but Gyi’s got beef. AI Overviews Research: Analyzing sources in Google’s AI-generated answers—Are you tracking this stuff? You should be! Clio Sets Legal Tech Funding Record with $900M Raise at $3B Valuation. Someone’s got to compete with them, but can they, really? Mentioned in this Episode: LEX Summit Digital Marketing Q&A / Live Taping of Lunch Hour Legal Marketing The Bite - Lunch Hour Legal Marketing Newsletter! Leave Us an Apple Review Lunch Hour Legal Marketing on YouTube Lunch Hour Legal Marketing on TikTok
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    53 mins