Craig Cooper has a marketing degree from Indiana University as well as an MBA. Craig has over 15 years of experience in working with businesses from the ground up. Craig has also worked with hundreds of dentists, attorneys, veterinarians, and business owners over the last several years, building their practice or business from a few patients or clients, to hundreds of patients and clients. He has also developed and created projects such as, www.circlecitydentists.com, www.indianapolisattorney.com, www.austindentist.com, www.indyveterinarians.com, and www.sanantoniodentist.com.
Like anyone in business, lawyers and their law firms are always looking for new business or new clients. Most lawyers are great at what they do in the law arena, but not in the marketing or advertising area.
Lawyers can look at many options to build their business, like yellow pages, yellow book, radio, tv, direct mail, etc. There is nothing wrong with those ideas, but there are some other ways to build your practice, while yet being cost effective.
The first ideas is that of their website. Any lawyer or law firm needs a website in today's marketplace. If you do not have a website, you are restricting yourself and your business greatly. The website must also be optimized to draw in the clientele that you are targeting. If the site is not optimized, you likely will not be found in search results. The second idea is that of business network groups in your community. There are many of these groups all throughout your community and area. They usually cost about $400.00 to join, but the networking alone with many other business owners and community leaders, will bring you in a strong return for many years to come.
The third idea is to join an online directory that targets locally. This means to find an online directory that doesn't just target nationally, but actually locally. Like www.buffalolawyers.com or www.indianapolisattorney.com. These sites have great positioning in the search results and are likely to target more of what you want online. Usually the cost is very little as well. The fourth and final idea is that of advertising in neighborhood directories. These directories cost very little, but can target hundreds of neighborhoods. Highly recommended to gain new clients.
As you can tell, there is a multitude of ideas in advertising and marketing to succeed in your business, but maybe one or two of these ideas will help you in the short-term and long-term.
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