For law offices, legal services, or anyone building a practice or brand, content rules. Putting out useful, quality content. And blogs provide the forum. But how is your content performing? Google Analytics can show you. And it’s free! You can do a deep dive with the tons of information that this robust application provides but that can get complicated and [...]

Twitter is a great tool to create and nurture relationships, share information and build awareness. With over 150 million active users, it can also quickly become a less than useful echo chamber. Here are five tips to hone your Twitter into a lean, productive experience. Dumpster day We’ve talked about Dumpster Day: Make your Law Office a Less Cluttered – [...]

Docstoc, provider of a wide selection of documents used to start, grow, and manage your professional life and small business, launched a robust selection of free apps with premium content earlier this month. One of the apps is the Legal and Copyright Small Business Toolkit which contains over 35 high quality video interviews with attorneys and executives about common legal [...]

A business dispute is complex and often complicated. Pleadings, discovery, trial, and appeal each demand much of a litigator’s time. The use of a lost profits expert could liberate the litigator to plan and perform with rigor and responsiveness by reducing many time demands. A lost profits expert is an experienced accountant, appraiser, or academic with expertise in quantifying financial [...]

Our lives are becoming increasingly digital. As with Evernote and Google Docs, Dropbox, a file hosting service, provides an online space to store our digital lives. Here are a few tips for a more productive use of the service. Sync files faster Dropbox automatically limits your file upload speeds to avoid taking up too much bandwidth. On Windows, Click Dropbox [...]

If you blog, you’re heard of the open source WordPress platform. We’re huge advocates. Making a great experience even better are the excellent free plugins provided by the vibrant WordPress community. We occasionally bring you a few of our favorites. Here are five more. 1. Google Analytics for WordPress No blog is complete without analytics. Track and measure how your [...]

The relationship between fitness and productivity is well documented, and we’re all about productivity. Earlier this week we discussed using a treadmill desk at work and de-stressing with Progressive Muscle Relaxation. Wrapping up a fitness-and-wellness week is the calorie counter, diet and exercise tracker app, MyFitnessPal. Here’s how it works: Download MyFitnessPal app, and create an account by providing an [...]

At the beginning of this year, shortly after Dick Clark rang in New Years for the last time, I made my resolution: I was going to learn to meditate. I could ignore meditation no longer. I’m a self-improvement junkie, and after a year of hardcore fitness training, it was time to focus inward on spiritual development and the health benefits [...]