Scott Drake discusses video marketing with New York Medical Malpractice & Personal Injury Trial attorney Gerry Oginski.
Oginski produces his own video and distributes the content to his website and other 3rd party sites. He uses video as his primary marketing tool.
The title is the same for each.
The background is the same for each and
They’re even looking at the same place off-camera.
YouTube shows they each have less than 20 views even though they were uploaded over seven months ago.
But there’s a bigger problem here.
When I sat down with Mark Merenda, CEO of SmartMarketingNow.com to interview him recently, he graciously provided a personal endorsement of me without even asking him!
Mark is a well-known marketing expert who helps lawyers across the country create their marketing message. In this video testimonial he talks about me (which is something I never get to do).
My watch needed a new battery the other day. It’s a Seiko diving chronograph. Steel bracelet, multi-function display, with day/date/time/stopwatch/ alarm and count-down timer. Oh yes, did I mention it tells time both analog and digitally? It’s really cool.
Well, I decided to take it into a little jeweler’s shop on the same street as my office. I dropped the watch off, told them I needed a new battery, and I’d be back in 10 minutes.
Did you know that traditional lawyer advertising has “sucked?” It’s true. Lawyers made a terrible name for themselves when they’d advertise. Why? Because lawyers failed to educate their potential clients. In this 3rd video I give a “State of Affairs” commentary about online attorney video marketing from 2009.
Watch the video to learn more.
It wasn’t that long ago that I considered myself a trial attorney focused solely on handling my client’s cases.
As I learned how important it was to get new business, there was always the requisite get-to-know other lawyer meetings in order to expand my referral base. I also tried all the traditional forms of advertising including Yellow Pages, TV commercials, display ads, classified ads, 1-800 number campaigns, free recorded messages and on and on.
In the second part of this series, I discuss my thoughts about the State of Affairs of attorney marketing online. It’s a worthwhile quick video that helps you understand how significant creating video is to market your law practice.
In this video I give a “State of Affairs” commentary about online attorney marketing from 2009. In the next series of Fireside chats you’ll see more commentary about how attorneys need to engage their viewers more and leave behind the old ways of ‘marketing’ themselves with traditional forms of advertising.
I had a chance to talk to Grant Griffiths, also known in the legal world as the “Blawgfather” while I was explaining to lawyers the need to create attorney video, at a conference in Orlando, Florida.
In this video, Grant talks about the importance of blogging for attorneys. Take a look.
You can do it for Google search. You can also do it for video as well. The question is: Should you?
Lawyers who use pay-per-click are literally paying rent to be on the right-side of Google search results, or at the top of the page with the yellow background. Many of these firms are nowhere to be found in the organic search results. What does that mean? If you stop paying rent, nobody will find your website.
