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		<title>Successful Rainmakers: Key Characteristics</title>
		<link>http://legalmarketingcenterblog.com/2008/05/04/successful-rainmakers/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 04 May 2008 19:10:26 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Jim Hart</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[Successful Rainmakers and legal marketers are not born, they are taught.   That&#8217;s why you are reading this - to learn how you can develop the  characteristics and traits that are necessary to turn a you as a lawyer into a marketing  maven who will earn more money, with better clients.
The characteristics that [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Lawyer Marketing:  5 Simple Ideas to Help with Legal Rainmaking</title>
		<link>http://legalmarketingcenterblog.com/2008/04/24/lawyer-marketing-ideas/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 24 Apr 2008 14:46:03 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Jim Hart</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[Lawyer Marketing - isn&#8217;t that an oxymoron?  What does that mean, anyway?  Lawyer marketing is nothing more than  finding ways to tell other people, either potential clients or potential  referral sources, about you and your law practice so that someday either they,  or someone they know, will need your legal [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Blogging for Business&#8230;</title>
		<link>http://legalmarketingcenterblog.com/2008/03/28/blog-marketing/</link>
		<comments>http://legalmarketingcenterblog.com/2008/03/28/blog-marketing/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sat, 29 Mar 2008 01:53:24 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Jim Hart</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[There is an interesting post today from Ben Glass entitled &#8220;Warning: Blogging Doesn&#8217;t Work&#8221;.  I have to say, I completely agree with Ben&#8217;s sentiment that lots of attorneys are complaining that &#8220;Blogging doesn&#8217;t work,&#8221; although the complaints I hear most frequently are:

I don&#8217;t have enough time to blog
I&#8217;m too old to figure out that [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Should you join a Bar Association as part of your legal marketing efforts?</title>
		<link>http://legalmarketingcenterblog.com/2008/03/05/bar-association-membership/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 06 Mar 2008 01:15:25 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Jim Hart</dc:creator>
		
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		<category><![CDATA[Lisa Landy]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[Referral Marketing]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[Susan Cartier Liebel]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[I pride myself in being a great legal marketer, but if there is one thing that I have been bad at over the years, it&#8217;s becoming involved in my local bar associations.   In my heart, I&#8217;ve always felt that getting involved with the  bar association wasn&#8217;t a waste of time, but it [...]]]></description>
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		<title>JD Supra launches&#8230;</title>
		<link>http://legalmarketingcenterblog.com/2008/03/03/jd-supra-launches/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 03 Mar 2008 19:08:20 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Jim Hart</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[Last week JD Supra went live.  According to Steve Matthews, this is a new website that is &#8220;dedicated helping lawyers &#38; law firms share legal documents, forms, pleadings, judgements, research, and other professional support materials.&#8221;  Not only that, but it is also a tremendous marketing tool for solos and large firm lawyers alike.
JD [...]]]></description>
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		<title>The Little Black Book on Law Firm Marketing and Business Development - Insight and Practical Marketing Advice for the Managing Partner at Your Law Firm</title>
		<link>http://legalmarketingcenterblog.com/2008/03/02/little-black-book-law-firm-marketing/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 02 Mar 2008 22:08:42 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Jim Hart</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[The Little Black Book on Law Firm Marketing and Business Development provides, in 138 easy-to-read pages, practical marketing information and real life examples that you can immediately put to use in your own law firm.  The book is co-authored by Paula Black and John Remsen, who draw from their own experiences as respected authorities [...]]]></description>
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		<title>A simple way to invigorate your Legal Marketing&#8230; TODAY!</title>
		<link>http://legalmarketingcenterblog.com/2008/02/25/a-simple-way-to-invigorate-your-legal-marketing-today/</link>
		<comments>http://legalmarketingcenterblog.com/2008/02/25/a-simple-way-to-invigorate-your-legal-marketing-today/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 26 Feb 2008 04:01:48 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Jim Hart</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[I had lunch today with a partner at Zimmerman, Kiser &#38; Sutcliffe in Orlando.  She asked me a simple question that intrigued me - &#8220;What one thing could I do NOW to really help my marketing?&#8221;
After thinking about the question for a moment, and asking her a little more about her practice (she does primarily [...]]]></description>
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		<title>How to Motivate Referral Sources</title>
		<link>http://legalmarketingcenterblog.com/2008/02/19/how-to-motivate-referral-sources/</link>
		<comments>http://legalmarketingcenterblog.com/2008/02/19/how-to-motivate-referral-sources/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 19 Feb 2008 20:17:06 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Jim Hart</dc:creator>
		
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		<category><![CDATA[Referral Marketing]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[Duct Tape Marketing]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[I just came across an excellent article by John Jantsch, author of Duct Tape Marketing, regarding how to motivate referral sources to refer you business.  It&#8217;s funny how intuitively I have followed most of the advice given by John in my everyday practice.  That&#8217;s the great thing about legal marketing and what makes [...]]]></description>
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		<title>An interview with Seth Godin about &#8220;Meatball Sundae&#8221;</title>
		<link>http://legalmarketingcenterblog.com/2008/02/14/an-interview-with-seth-godin-about-meatball-sundae/</link>
		<comments>http://legalmarketingcenterblog.com/2008/02/14/an-interview-with-seth-godin-about-meatball-sundae/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 14 Feb 2008 15:42:36 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Jim Hart</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[Seth Godin will be releasing his new book, Meatball Sundae, within the next two weeks.  For any attorney who follows The Legal Marketing Center, you know that I really like Seth&#8217;s books.  Just two days ago I finished reading Unleashing the Ideavirus - and have used a number of his ideas in promoting [...]]]></description>
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		<title>A Great Reason to Switch to Value-Based Billing</title>
		<link>http://legalmarketingcenterblog.com/2008/02/14/a-great-reason-to-switch-to-value-based-billing/</link>
		<comments>http://legalmarketingcenterblog.com/2008/02/14/a-great-reason-to-switch-to-value-based-billing/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 14 Feb 2008 05:42:17 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Jim Hart</dc:creator>
		
		<category><![CDATA[Practice Management]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[Value Billing]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Right now, I am considering a big move in my law firm - one from time-based billing to value-based billing.  What is value-based billing?  It is taking into account the client&#8217;s goals and expectations, providing them with a clear picture and strategy for how you will help them reach their goals, and billing yourself out [...]]]></description>
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