Category Archives: twitter

5 REASONS WHY MOST LAWYERS DON’T TWITTER EFFECTIVELY

1. THEY THINK IT’S THE SAME AS THE YELLOW PAGES Fact: Twitter is not the yellow pages. Fact: Twitter is great for telling your followers something interesting. Fact: Twitter is not great for telling us what you ate for lunch or that you’re going on a big date tonight.Fact: A person in need of an…

Twitter-Should You Follow Someone With 70,000 Followers?

I get requests every day to follow someone I have never heard of on Twitter. I then scroll down to see how many followers they have and how many people they are following. Many of these people have followers ranging from 5000 all the way up to 75,000 followers. Here’s my question: these people don’t…

Should Lawyers Stop Marketing and Practice Law?

I am amazed at the volume of traffic on Twitter about people who market to attorneys, and attorneys who actively market using the same old screaming method and jargon found in 30 second TV commercials that lawyers have always used. Here are some examples as of 6/24/09“Lawyer marketing with Twitter”“Lawyer marketing with Facebook and MySpace”“Injured?…