In this episode, Jim and Tyson interview Chelsey Lambert, the owner of Lex Tech Review, a platform where she writes articles and product reviews on all of the different technology and services you can use to run a law firm, books webinars and more! They will go over all kind of software reviews and tips to run your business and law firm the right way.

Her mission: To support legal professionals as they wade through the changing tide of legal technology.

Business: CRM and CMS
“A law firm is a business that so happens to sell legal services. Leads, sales, margins, profits. Those are the realities of whether or not your business is going to survive. You have to know those numbers.“

2 Groups
Lawyers going solo for the first time, don’t get tech-tool technology happy. Don’t spend your first months trying to make everything run perfect. When you start a business, you have revenue or you have nothing. You can have all the technology in the world, but if you don’t start building your name, a network and a source of income in business, you are not going to have any money to pay for it.

Established law firms already have technology that they’ve been using or a series of processes and they are hesitant to move away from what the are used to. Change is hard, but delaying the move to adapt a new system is going to hurt you, because clients expectations are always changing.

Delegation and Virtual Assistants
“By you doing that kind of work that could be delegated, you are not only able to operate at a profit margin that could be lucrative to you, bit you are robbing your law firm of that profit and of the time that you could be spending doing adisional business development opportunities.“

1. Know your numbers and how long things take.
2. Being able to leverage that time to increase the firm's revenue.
3. What disservice are you doing to your clients if you are totally worn out.

Hacking’s Hack:
Optimize your Youtube videos with TubeBuddy.
https://www.tubebuddy.com/
It allows you to do a lot of great things!

Chelsey’s Tip:
Outlook for iOS. There is an option where you can send your calendar availability!

Tyson’s Tip:
An app and a site. https://www.lynda.com/. Test it out and let us know what you think!

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In this episode, Jim and Tyson interview Alycia Kinchloe, a business, family and disability lawyer.. Alycia started her practice 4 years ago after working on a mid-size disability firm her whole life. They will go over her process of going out on her own, her practice and her firm. Lessons learned, marketing, struggles and more!

“I had gained all the skills to be able to do that, I helped grow a law firm from 1 to a 140 employees, I helped create systems, I helped create budgets, I helped with the marketing, I went to court, I did all the things I needed to do and I had an executive MBA on top of that. I had the skills, I just had to have the faith to go out there and start it."

Her firm: http://kinchloelaw.com/

Alycia Kinchloe, is the founder of Kinchloe Law. Alycia earned her law degree from Temple University's Beasley School of Law. In law school, Alycia was member of student government and was member of Temple's prestigious Trial Advocacy Program. She also worked as teaching assistant for the Program. Alycia later attended St. Joseph's University Haub School of Business where she earned an Executive MBA and expanded her knowledge of business.

Her podcast: The Growth Goal Podcast
https://itunes.apple.com/us/podcast/the-growth-goal-podcast/id1200832683?mt=2

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Hacking’s Hack:
https://waitbutwhy.com/
Go in depth on particular and interesting topics the right way!

Alycia’s Tip:
You have to have resilience.
“If you were able to get through law school, if you were able to pass the BAR, and you were brave enough to be able to start on your own, you are resilient enough to be able to do it.”

Tyson’s Tip:
An app: OneNote!

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In this episode, Jim and Tyson will answer some questions posted by members of the Facebook Group about what kind of clients take in when going solo and starting your own practice and the long term impact client intake protocols can have in your business. Also, social media, platforms, content creation and getting your message out there!

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“Take what you want and leave the rest.”

Whenever you are leaving a firm and you already have a fairly successful client base and practice, but you are leaving to start your own practice, whether or not you should lower your standards when it comes to taking on new clients to actually bring in new life to the firm and whether or not is ok to loosen your protocols during this process.

Jim’s favourite episode:
The Website Roulete

Hacking’s Hack:
Walk 10,000 steps every day. Stay healthy!

Tyson’s Tip:
From the book Elon Musk…
https://www.amazon.com/Elon-Musk-SpaceX-Fantastic-Future/dp/006230125X
In the book the author talks about Elon Musk, when he came to the Unites States, how he started networking.... He had a list of all this influential people and started calling them.
Create a list of the people you want to associate with, that are big time people, and c

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In this episode, Jim and Tyson interview Nicole Abboud; a business owner, Millennial speaker, adjunct college professor, attorney, and podcaster. Nicole combines her understanding of the legal profession (she practiced law for 5 years) with her knowledge of content marketing to help lawyers build their brands and practices. They will go over her career as a podcaster and her business and mission.

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About our guest:
The site:
https://www.abboudmedia.com
Nicole:
http://www.nicoleabboud.com

The podcasts:
http://www.genylawyer.com
Each week, host – Karima Gulick – speaks with attorneys who dare to live their lives on their own terms and who are building fulfilling careers. Guest from all walks of life (and the legal profession) share their courageous stories, offer their tactical advice, and provide just the right amount of motivation to help you accomplish your goals.
Her podcast:
http://www.nicoleabboud.com/podcast/

Leadership Development
“Everything that you do as a lawyer, if you are running your own practice, whether you work within a law firm, the best thing you can do for yourself to set yourself up to success is to invest in leadership development”

Hacking’s Hack:
Lawyers! Sign up for the Maximum Lawyer Conference!
http://maxlawcon.maximumlawyer.com/

Nicole’s Tip:
Take this week to listen on social media. Pick a hashtag that relates to your practice area, to your business - anything you wanna find more information about - and just follow it. Follow the conversations that are following around it, and eventually join in on those conversations if it is appropriate. You will find out that you will end up meeting a lot of new people, you will make new connections, you will gain greater insight and ultimately start talking about yourself.

Tyson’s Tip:
On the first episode of the year, I encouraged people to send out 10 thank you notes to people that have helped them on 2017. Now I want to encourage you to set lunch with 5 people you have not talked to in a while. Get back in front of them. Keep that engagement up.

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In this episode, Jim and Tyson interview Twitter expert Madalyn Sklar! They will go over her career, the importance of using the right social networks for content marketing, scheduling and the power of Twitter and Twitter Chats for connecting with people.

Her site: http://www.madalynsklar.com/

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Twitter: a social network for creating relations and connections with people:
“What people need to do that are not actively using Twitter is really look at this as a platform that they should revisit and just learn how to use it, do not go on there to broadcast, go on there and listen, and learn from other people that are doing really well in there.”

Content scheduling: Social Jukebox
https://www.socialjukebox.com/
“Put evergreen content (that never gets old or expires; like testimonials) into Social Jukebox and that way it will keep rotating and it is less time and effort from you. And this applies to Facebook, Linkedin, etc. This frees you up so you can spend more time on the platforms engaging with people”

Publishing content:
“You got to test and try things, so I will test different times to see; is there some things that work better than others?”

“Go be consistent, so just get on there every day and be visible. Visibility make all the difference in the world”

Hacking’s Hack: Track down Madelyn!
Twitter:
https://twitter.com/madalynsklar
The Podcast:
http://www.madalynsklar.com/podcast/

Madalyn’s Tip: JUST DO IT.
Hey! If you don’t get out there and just do it, then what’s the point?!

A free mini class: a lot of great tips for Twitter and more!
https://madalynsklar.thinkific.com/courses/secretsauce

Tyson’s Tip: Use Amazon Chime and let us know what your thoughts are!
https://aws.amazon.com/chime/

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In this episode, Jim and Tyson interview Australian attorney Chris Hargreaves. This episode is all about social media and content marketing for lawyers; running and starting their own firms, going solo or planning on it. Solid gold.

Chris is a senior litigation lawyer in Brisbane, Australia, he works as a special counsel for a firm, does internet marketing consulting for law firms and solo practitioners and does a ton of writing; blogs and books.

Chris’s sites:
https://tipsforlawyers.com/

“Learn the skills, strategies and mindset you need to thrive in law over the long term, and build a great career on solid foundations”

Digital Marketing for Lawyers and Law Firms

“You don’t need to find the “next big thing” in order to build your firm’s digital marketing efforts.
You just need to pick a battle-tested, professional strategy that you can deliver on.
And then deliver on it. Day in, day out.”

Daily writing:
https://wordsbychris.com/

Hacking’s Hack: A tremendous podcast episode about analytics and creating more content based on your analytics.
https://www.smartpassiveincome.com/podcasts/
https://www.smartpassiveincome.com/podcasts/how-a-data-scientist-pivoted-into-a-new-brand/

Chris’s Hack: Take an hour or two and get real data about what you are really doing. Ho far articles are people reading? Analyse clicks and page time. Have a real look at the data and figure out what is actually working.

Tyson’s Tip: An app, iREC. You can use it to record calls!

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In this episode, Jim and Tyson interview attorney Jason Korner, a criminal defense expert. They will go over his career, his transition from government work to private practice and then going solo and building his firm, his mindset, his client base, marketing, struggles and lessons learnt along the way.

The firm:
http://kornerlaw.com/

CLIENT INTAKE.
We can talk all day long about legal reputation and skills at trial, but if somebody hears that you are a good lawyer and that your firm is a good firm and they call and that first phone call doesn’t goes well, they are not gonna hire you. (..) Earning their trust and getting them to hire you, starts with the first call.

FROM YOUR CLIENTS PERSPECTIVE
Anybody who works with clients must know the importance of put yourself where the client is! So there are times when I go around to the other side of my desk and sit down in the clients chairs… What do they se? What do they look at? It can change your perception. What’s their experience like?

Hacking’s Hack: A person to follow on Twitter: Madelyn Sklar: @madelynsklar https://twitter.com/madalynsklar
She is a Twitter guru!

Jason’s Hack: A book. McElhaney's Trial Notebook 4th Edition
by James W. McElhaney (Author)
https://www.amazon.com/McElhaneys-Trial-Notebook-James-McElhaney/dp/1590315030
It really does a great job of looking at things from a juror’s perspective, a judge’s perspective, clients perspective and bringing attorneys back to what really matters, but doing it through the trial window which is really such an important thing to most attorneys.

Tyson’s Tip: An app. It is called RecordIT! http://recordit.co/
Record your screen! You can use it to show someone how to use something!

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In this episode, Jim and Tyson interview Kelsey Bratcher, an Infusionsoft, Zappier and all around software guru. They will go over his career, his experience as an automation guru and the best ways to implement automation and systemazation in your business and in your law firm. Great take aways!

The sites:
Zappier:
https://zapier.com/
Infusionsoft:
https://www.infusionsoft.com/
AutopilotHQ:
https://autopilothq.com/
Kelsey is starting a podcast called “Get Automated”. It should be getting out in the next couple of weeks. We will let you know!

Hacking’s Hack: Twitter has opened up the number of characters that you can include in your tweets. From 140 to 280. With that they have also increased the number of characters you can use in your username. Maybe you can change your username to a more suitable one for your business. Up to 50 characters. It will show in all your tweets.

Kelsey’s Hack: A couple of books.
https://fourhourworkweek.com/

Tyson’s Tip: Slack, the paid version. It will make your life a lot easier with a lot of new functions.
The hack within the hack: Make your virtual assistants single channel guests.

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In this episode, Jim and Tyson interview Ryan Locke a criminal defense attorney in Atlanta. Actually, he runs his own law firm; the Ryan Locke Law Firm. They will go over his career, the things that drove him to be a lawyer, his past from the public sector to private, his struggles running his firm and marketing.

The Firm: https://thelockefirm.com/

Ryan’s podcast: https://thelockefirm.com

Ryan’s biggest piece of advice: CUSTOMER EXPERIENCE:

“when going solo, I thought about not having an office, but then I realized clients in criminal defense need to know that you’re legit and have that experience. That experience has to be good from beginning to end.”

Hacking’s Hack: Stand out! Check out this card:

Ryan’s Tip: An App. On Mac: Text Expander. On Windows: Phraseexpress. You type something and the it punches in more text than you type. Semi-automate documents!
https://textexpander.com/

Tyson’s Tip: https://www.process.st/
Process Street is a simple, free and powerful way to manage your team's recurring checklists and procedures.

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