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Archive for October 2009

LA – THE POWER OF MANY

Oct 28th, 2009 | By Scott Trost | Category: featured articles

Group Advertiser Dominates in the City of Angels
Here’s a question. Name me another city besides Los Angeles where the dominant TV legal advertiser is a group advertising effort…. in Spanish.
That’s right. Los Defensores, the brainchild of Walker Advertising founder Maryann Walker, has been the dominant #1 TV spender in the LA basin for several years. [...]



The Best Return on Your Marketing Dollar

Oct 24th, 2009 | By Scott Trost | Category: Marketing Tools, Taking Action

The other day I was talking with a good friend whose primary practice is workerʼs comp, although he also does a fair bit of auto accident and other personal injury work.
He told me he ran into one of his former clients on the street. They exchanged pleasantries and then the former client dropped this bomb: [...]



Little Tools Make Your Life Easier

Oct 24th, 2009 | By Scott Trost | Category: Marketing Tools, Taking Action

Let me warn you upfront that there is nothing cool or dynamic about what I am about to say.
But hereʼs what I can promise. I will tell about some tools that will:

Save you a lot of time,
Turn rejects into future clients, and
Increase the value of your cases.

1) Save you a lot of time
Here’s the scenario. [...]



Top Dogs in 2009

Oct 23rd, 2009 | By Scott Trost | Category: Lead Stories, featured articles

Someone asked me for a list of firms whose growth is worthy of study. I’m sure I’ve missed a few but here is what I came up with on a first pass. Let me know who you think should be added.
I included some comments. Although some of the comments may be unfavorable, make no mistake [...]



Website Videos – Don’t Try This at Home!

Oct 19th, 2009 | By Scott Trost | Category: Commentary

Here’s a quick word of warning.
I’m a big fan of video on websites. There are all sorts of reasons to populate your website with video. But, as I am spending today reviewing attorney websites, I’m reminded how dreadful most attorney website videos are.
These videos are sure to send potential new clients scattering, screaming into the [...]



Trouble in the Big Apple?

Oct 19th, 2009 | By Scott Trost | Category: General News, Lead Stories, Marketing News

Here’s a question for you.
Of the top 100 TV markets in the country, how many experienced a reduction of attorney TV advertising in the last five years?
How about seven. Just seven TV markets out of the top 100 saw a reduction in attorney advertising in the last five years. While the law firms in 93 [...]



SSD EXPLODES!

Oct 18th, 2009 | By Scott Trost | Category: General News, Lead Stories, Marketing News

Binder & Binder Ups TV Spending 170%. Binder and Binder, the firm that specializes in Social Security Disability cases, has put an advertising blitz on the national airways in 2008 and the first two quarters of 2009. The firm has long played second fiddle to Jim Sokolove for network cable advertising (i.e. advertising that is aired across



TelMetrics4Laywers – Track or be Tracked

Oct 9th, 2009 | By Scott Trost | Category: Marketing Tools, Taking Action

I’ve spent the last five years talking to and studying all the PI lawyers who have become the #1 firms in their towns. I’ve learned what they do and how they’ve grown. And I’m about the share the #1 piece of wisdom that I have learned from these #1 lawyers – Here it is: It’s all



TV – Are You Narcissus or Athena?

Oct 9th, 2009 | By Scott Trost | Category: Commentary, Marketing Tools, Taking Action

Remember Narcissus. He’s the guy who was so enamored with looking at his reflection in a stream that he perished looking at himself.
Athena was the Greek goddess of warfare and strategy, considered the wisest of the gods..
When it comes to TV advertising, most attorneys are more Narcissus than Athena.
These lawyers who end up advertising on [...]



cj Leadership Conference

Oct 2nd, 2009 | By Scott Trost | Category: General News

I attended my first cj Leadership conference last week. This is an annual event for clients and friends of cj

cj is fast becoming not just one of the best legal advertising agencies in the country but one of the best advertising companies, legal or otherwise.