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==== ====A One Page Website Is All You Need To Start Making Money Online! Learn all basics aboutInternet Marketing FOR FREE. For more information, click the link below:http://www.financesuccessonline.com==== ====Lawyers face the same challenges any business does. In order to get new business they mustmarket their services, i.e., advertise. And lawyers deal with the same marketing and advertisingchallenge every business does - how to beat the competition. Plus lawyers have to assume thatany Internet or non-Internet marketing or advertising they do may well produce little or no resultsfor the amount of time and money they spend -- regardless of what an outside marketing oradvertising advisor may say to the contrary.Prior to the Internet the main non-Internet marketing option or advertising choice for any lawyerwas to advertise in the yellow pages. To this day the print yellow pages contain plenty of colorful,one page display ads that feature lawyers offering their services, and lawyers pay a lot for theseads. How effective these ads are is anyones guess -- its hard for your colored, one page displayad to stand out when you have 20 other lawyers doing the exact same thing! The yellow pagescompanies, however, continue to promote their marketing and advertising philosophy that "biggeris always better" and "everything we sell is an opportunity," so they often present a lawyer with anon-Internet marketing and advertising solution that costs plenty but often produces little.This line of thinking, along with the use of print yellow pages in general, has gone the way of thedinosaur at a very accelerated pace. The yellow pages in print form had their heyday for manydecades, but the population now goes to the Internet for the information they seek, so most printdirectories are collecting dust. A lawyer who advertises in the print yellow pages may well getcalls, but theyll most likely be from vendors using the yellow pages as a cheap source of leads.The major paid search providers (pay per click search engines) tend to offer lawyers Internetmarketing and advertising solutions in a manner similar to the way the yellow pages do with theirprint directories. "Bigger is always better," so rather than realistically discuss with a lawyer a payper click Internet marketing and advertising campaign that makes financial sense and produces adecent ROI, the pay per click providers will tell the lawyer to go for as many top listing keywords(the most expensive) as their budget will permit and bid as high as they can. The lawyer may gobroke in the process, but at least theyll get exposure! Many lawyers get into pay per click as aquick way to get leads but quickly exit a month later after spending lots of money for Internetmarketing and advertising results that produce nothing but expense.While pay per click Internet marketing and advertising is the running favorite of Internet marketingadvertisers worldwide, pay per click advertising for a lawyer is usually an extremely expensiveproposition for what they get. How much a lawyer is willing to "pay for a lead" takes on a wholenew meaning with pay per click. The cost per click for many lawyer related keywords, e.g.,"personal injury lawyer," "criminal defense lawyer," can range from $5.00 to $70.00 per clickdepending on the market, and when the typical lawyers conversion rate (the number of clicks it

takes to generate a lead) of one to two percent is factored in, the lawyer can find themselvespaying upwards of $500.00 to $7,000.00 per lead, and a lead is not a client.Part of the problem lawyers face when they work with pay per click (and this translates directly intopoor conversion rates) is that (1) they spend little time creating their pay per click ads and (2) theads direct traffic to the lawyers website. Any Internet marketing professional who knowssomething about pay per click knows you never send pay per click traffic to a website. Insteadyou create special pages, i.e., "landing pages" for pay per click traffic to be directed to. Thelanding pages perform the job of convincing traffic to do what the lawyer requires, which isnormally to contact the lawyer via e-mail or by phone.Legal Internet directories and portals offer the lawyer a potential Internet marketing andadvertising option because of their popularity and enhanced Internet visibility. How effective alisting in a legal Internet directory or portal can be for a lawyer in terms of marketing, advertisingand Internet exposure will depend upon the particular attributes of the legal Internet directory orportal in question. All things being equal, legal Internet directories or portals that charge a fee tobe listed in them make more sense as an Internet marketing and advertising choice than similarsites that offer listings for free. The lawyer has to be particularly careful, however, when theyconsider advertising in legal Internet directories and portals that "look" like they offer a lot -- and aprice to go with it -- but for whatever reasons simply do not produce enough leads for the amountof Internet marketing and advertising money the lawyer must spend.Many legal Internet directories and portals exist that have a very strong Internet presence, andthey are excellent resource centers for lawyers, but this does not automatically make them goodplaces to advertise. With Internet legal portals especially its not how many lawyers the portalattracts but how many people the Internet legal portal attracts who are searching for legalservices. People have paid thousands of dollars for advertising in Internet legal portals that haveproduced nothing in the way of Internet marketing and advertising results. A very wise idea forany lawyer who considers advertising in an Internet legal portal is to get some very accurate userdemographics on what kind of specific traffic the Internet legal portal is actually attracting.What is a lawyer supposed to do? Everywhere the lawyer looks, whether the marketing andadvertising media is Internet or non-Internet, considerable financial risk is involved, and aguarantee that the lawyer will get good, solid results for the amount of money they spend is oftenhard to achieve.Ultimately the best way for a lawyer to go with Internet marketing and advertising - the way thatwill ultimately get them the best long term results for the money they spend -- is to focus on gettingtheir website to rank high in organic search results. When all things are considered, people on theInternet who search for goods and services mainly search for websites to find their answers. Theymay look to legal Internet directories and portals, and if they dont find what they want they mayturn to pay per click listings as a last resort (only about 30% to 40% of users bother with pay perclick) but ultimately people who search the Internet are looking for websites that provide them withthe answers they seek.If a lawyer is looking for an Internet marketing and advertising solution that doesnt require beingpart of the pay per click crowd, the lawyer may want to look into pay per phone call programs. Payper phone call is like pay per click, but the lawyer does not pay for a call unless they receive one.

And the costs for pay per phone call are normally substantially less that what the lawyer will payfor a click in many cases. A smart lawyer may even want to consider getting involved with severalpay per phone call providers with the idea that between the providers the lawyer will receiveenough leads in the aggregate to make involvement with these programs worth it.Many of the Internet marketing and advertising solutions that a lawyer chooses to look into mustbe tried on a case by case basis. Absolutely nothing can be assumed. A pay per click advertisingcampaign that works extremely well for the lawyer with one search provider might fail miserablywith another.One last thing that a lawyer should be aware of when it comes to the Internet and a websitepresence is that appearances really do count. Many people have been on the Internet for 10years and have correspondingly seen websites of all types and styles. People are used to seeingprofessionally designed websites. The lawyers website should be too.Michael Merten is an Internet marketing professional who consults with lawyers and legal financecompanies. He specializes in getting legal websites to appear in first page search results onmajor search engines in record time. Mr. Merten can be reached at Minnesota Internet Marketing[http://www.minnesotainternetmarketing.com].Article Source:http://EzineArticles.com/?expert=Michael_Merten==== ====A One Page Website Is All You Need To Start Making Money Online! Learn all basics aboutInternet Marketing FOR FREE. For more information, click the link below:http://www.financesuccessonline.com==== ====

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