Your Opinion on Blog Money-Making Strategies

Hello and Happy New Year to all of you! I would like your opinion on a very tricky issue: blog money-making.

I don’t write Legal Andrew for the money, but earning a little income on the side helps to defray the cost of hosting and time spent running the blog. Thus, you may have noticed a combination of Google Adsense contextual ads, along with “sponsored posts” that I write occasionally.

Now it’s time for me to get some real feedback from you. Do you hate the monetizing of blogs? Do you prefer one type of monetization over another? …





Month in Review – December

Hello to all of you wonderful readers. If you are new to Legal Andrew, I’m glad you found your way here. If you’re a regular, I’m glad you keep coming back. I value all of your time and participation.

Popular posts

1. The most popular post for December is You Gotta Love a Free Espresso Machine. It was #1 on Google for “free espresso,” but now it’s down to #3. Sadly, traffic to the post is down a bit too.

2. Second place goes to …





Basecamp for Lawyers and Law Students

Grant Griffiths has a great post about using Basecamp in the legal profession. This is a great time to look at the software more in depth.

Online project management

Basecamp is an online software set created by 37 signals. It’s a fully featured task and project management system. You can have many users, lots of projects, and easily refine permissions to protect confidential information.

They have several different plans ranging in price from $12 to $149 per month. …





Much Ado About PayPerPost and Performancing

Sponsored Post

The PayPerPost buzz continues around the blogosphere with their announcement that they are acquiring some of Performancing.com. Specifically, PayPerPost is acquiring Metrics and Exchange, which provide statistics and classifieds for bloggers, respectively.

ProBlogger is worried about Metrics, and I don’t see why. Yes, PPP has used some questionable business practices (not requiring disclosure), but it has overcome that with mandated disclosure now.

I’m not sure what people have against a company buying up part of another company. Isn’t this what a lot of …


Mobilize Your Virtual Legal Workforce

Does your law firm have fluctuating staff requirements? Do you find yourself swamped sometimes, while at other times giving busy work to associates and paralegals? Virtual employees might be the solution for you.

There is a great news article at Law.com’s Legal Technology page about using virtual workers for a law firm. The article explains how you can use technology to allow collaboration between your core employees at your firm’s office and virtual workers anywhere in the country.

Among just a couple of the benefits of virtual employees are setting lower billing rates for …


About Me – My Five Favorite Movies

You may have seen these “memes” going around. Other people call it “blog tag.” Basically, you answer a question and tag several other bloggers to answer it as well. Most of them are of a personal nature. It helps build community, reveals details about bloggers, and also shares some link love.

From now on, when I participate in one of these, I’ll start the title with “About Me.” You can quickly see that it’s personal. If you’re not interested, you can easily skip the post altogether. But, if you’d like to know more about …


Create Your Own Audio Resume

Sponsored Post

I’ll bet you have a paper resume, but do you have one on audio? That’s the market Audio Resume is seeking to fill. Learn More About Audio Resume

The procedure is simple: call an 800 number, answer five general interview questions, then give out the URL to your audio resume. You can even use the badge, pictured above, to link to your audio resume from job site profiles or your blog. Of course, you have to pay $9.95 to …


Lawyers Appreciate Clients Who Foster Productivity

Anastasia passed me the baton for the 10-day “lawyers appreciate” countdown. I love group projects, so here’s my post.

Of course lawyers appreciate their clients. After all, they are the ones who pay the bill. More importantly, lawyers (hopefully) exist to serve their clients.

However, in keeping with the theme here, I wanted to point out how clients can be appreciated even more by lawyers: foster productivity.

Understand time demands

It’s been said before, and I’ll say it again: Your matter is most important to you, but …


Online Networking with JibberJobber – Part 2

This is Part 2 in a series of posts on Jason Alba’s Career Toolset, JibberJobber. Check back soon for future posts in this series.

Yep, it has been almost two months since Part 1 of my JibberJobber series. Sorry for the delay.

If you recall, Part 1 focused on using JibberJobber to manage and track your networking contacts. In Part 2, I’m going to highlight some other cool features of the service.

Track companies

Part of a job …


Help for Marketing Your Law Firm

Are you looking for some good online resources for marketing your law firm? If so, you might want to check out the Law Firm Marketing Coach.

Henry Harlow runs this site, and he has some interesting
free resources to check out. He’s got a pretty thorough document on keywords and search engine optimization. Also, he has two email courses where you can learn about productivity and client development

I haven’t used any of Henry’s resources, but it might be worth a look for you. …


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