You already have an online reputation. By tracking it you can actually get more clients and generate more income. The key to fighting bad information is drowning it with good information.

1. How to Monitor &
Enhance Your
Reputation on the
Internet as a Lawyer
Larry Bodine
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legal, accounting, investment, medical or any other professional service directly through this seminar. Neither the publisher nor the authors assume any liability for any errors
or omissions, or for how this seminar or its contents are used or interpreted, or for any consequences resulting directly or indirectly from the use of this seminar. For legal,
financial, medical, strategic or any other type of advice, please personally consult the appropriate professional.

2. About Larry Bodine, Esq.
• Editor in Chief of Lawyers.com
• 2.5 million visitors per month
• Top online destination for
consumers seeking a lawyer or an
answer to legal question
• Business development Advisor for 20
years
• Former Marketing Director at Sidley
Austin
• Practiced law as a litigator
908.771.8639
Larry.Bodine@LexisNexis.com
www.linkedin.com/in/larrybodine
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How to Monitor & Enhance Your Reputation on the Internet as a Lawyer
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3. Overview
You already have an online reputation
• Track your online reputation
• Get more clients, generate more income
• Fighting bad information with good information
• Blogs
• Websites and SEO
• Profiles on Google, LinkedIn, Facebook, online directories
• Twitter
• YouTube
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How to Monitor & Enhance Your Reputation on the Internet as a Lawyer
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www.ExecSense.com © ExecSense, Inc.

4. New Business with Reputation Management
Establish a solid online presence – a great way to generate leads
and new files
•
There are 194 million US Internet users
• 2/3 of the US population
•
85% of executives consider law firm websites important sources
of information in their search for lawyers - Greenfield/Belser
•
82% of the consumers who use local Web search sites follow up
with in-person action - comScore
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How to Monitor & Enhance Your Reputation on the Internet as a Lawyer
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www.ExecSense.com © ExecSense, Inc.

5. Why should lawyers engage in social media?
Source: HubSpot Online Marketing Opportunity Report: Social
Media, Blog, and Search Engine Activity by Industry
Overall Online Activity Social Media Activity
• Search engines are top priority
• Blogs 30%, social media 30%
Analysis of online activity of
33 top keywords related to law

6. Online Dangers to Reputation
70% of employers do a Web search on job applicants as part of
their hiring procedures
Online reputation as important as credit score
•Trolls and stalkers – it happened to me…twice!
•Competitors and online bullies
•Losing litigants writing on Wikipedia
•Facebook and Twitter imposters
•YouTube attack videos
•Employees - NLRB rules employees can call you a**hole and
scumbag online so long as they are discussing a term or condition
of the workplace
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How to Monitor & Enhance Your Reputation on the Internet as a Lawyer
Larry Bodine
www.ExecSense.com © ExecSense, Inc.

7. Monitoring Your Online Rep
Search and inspect the Web
• Google yourself
• Start a Google alert on your name and firm
• Search Facebook & Twitter with www.bing.com/social
• Set up RSS feeds -- visit FeedBurner.com and click the Register
link at the top of the page.
• Download TweetDeck or use search.twitter.com to monitor
conversations about your company in real-time.
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How to Monitor & Enhance Your Reputation on the Internet as a Lawyer
Larry Bodine
www.ExecSense.com © ExecSense, Inc.

8. Careful Counter-insurgency
If you see a problem, deal with it quickly.
• Don’t respond to the bully directly -- “You can’t win a pissing
contest with a skunk”
• Google and ISPs very responsive to © violations
• Impersonation is a crime
• Defamation claim ineffective
• Throwaway email address
• IP address - useless
• Reputation.com, Optimum7, Reputation Hawk – paid services
• Unfortunately, they are no help with YouTube
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How to Monitor & Enhance Your Reputation on the Internet as a Lawyer
Larry Bodine
www.ExecSense.com © ExecSense, Inc.

9. Overwhelm the “bad” with good
• Pay for SEO services to rank as high in Google as possible
• Get 1,000 inbound links to your website at
www.therainmakerinstitute.com
• Buy additional domains – make each one a micro site for each
area of law
• Register your own name as a domain
• Also register “www.yournameSUCKS.com”
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How to Monitor & Enhance Your Reputation on the Internet as a Lawyer
Larry Bodine
www.ExecSense.com © ExecSense, Inc.

10. Blogs Most Effective
• Google indexes blogs quickly and ranks them highly
• Best platform: Wordpress.com
• An analysis of 33 keywords for the word "lawyer“ found that
30% of all online activity is in blogs – Hubspot.com
• Publish, publish, publish – blitz the Web with new content
• Hire someone to write dozens of blog posts
• LexisNexis writes 70,000 pages of blog content for thousands
of lawyers each year
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How to Monitor & Enhance Your Reputation on the Internet as a Lawyer
Larry Bodine
www.ExecSense.com © ExecSense, Inc.

11. Start with a Google profile
• https://profiles.google.com – obviously ranks high and it’s free
• Anchor of Google search and your Gmail, calendar, Docs &
YouTube accounts
• Create Google Reader page - www.google.com/reader
• Constantly checks your favorite news sites and blogs for new
content
• Google+ is new social network - www.google.com/+
• Built-in search feature
• Republish all your blog content
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How to Monitor & Enhance Your Reputation on the Internet as a Lawyer
Larry Bodine
www.ExecSense.com © ExecSense, Inc.

12. Facebook
• More time is spent on Facebook than any other website
• More than 800 million active users, and +50% log on daily
• Average user has 130 friends
• Rampant attacks by employees, and workers fighting with each
other
• Open multiple accounts – it’s free
• Republish your blog content
• Ask people to “like” your page
• Get fans talking by asking questions – interaction ranks you
higher
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How to Monitor & Enhance Your Reputation on the Internet as a Lawyer
Larry Bodine
www.ExecSense.com © ExecSense, Inc.

13. LinkedIn
• It’s free
• Profile may rank higher than your law firm profile
• 1.5 million lawyers
• 120,000,000 users in 200 countries
• Accept and invite connections – increases visibility
• Make and request recommendations
• Subject to ethics rules
• Link to your blog, Facebook Page, etc.
• Join groups and become a known quantity
• Can flag inappropriate comments
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How to Monitor & Enhance Your Reputation on the Internet as a Lawyer
Larry Bodine
www.ExecSense.com © ExecSense, Inc.

14. Twitter
• One billion tweets are posted on Twitter each week -- Kissmetrics
• A time-waster unless you have 10,000 followers…but tweets and
retweets improve your Google search rankings
• Open multiple accounts – it’s free
• Hire a marketing agency to tweet your blog posts
• Rainmaker Institute can get you 5,000 followers for a fee
• Send me your verdicts and settlements in consumer cases
• Lawyers.com gets 2.5 million visitors per month
• Blast out new content on @Lawyerscom to 15,400 followers
every day
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How to Monitor & Enhance Your Reputation on the Internet as a Lawyer
Larry Bodine
www.ExecSense.com © ExecSense, Inc.

15. YouTube
• The future of law firm marketing
• Know, trust and like
• Over 3 billion videos are viewed a day
• It’s the wild west
• Attackers set up fake accounts and YouTube does nothing about
defamation
• Copyright violation is another thing
• Hire a videographer or build your own studio
• Post one video a day
• Call Gerry Oginski - http://lawyersvideostudio.com
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How to Monitor & Enhance Your Reputation on the Internet as a Lawyer
Larry Bodine
www.ExecSense.com © ExecSense, Inc.

16. Online Directories
• Yes people and companies still use them
• They turn up in Google searches
• Lawyers.com, Martindale.com, Avvo, Findlaw, Best Lawyers,
online Yellow Pages, Superlawyers
• Lack of a profile raises doubt to 50% of legal service buyers
• For your info:
• Martindale.com gets 900,000 visitors/month
• Lawyers.com gets 2,500,000 visitors/month
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How to Monitor & Enhance Your Reputation on the Internet as a Lawyer
Larry Bodine
www.ExecSense.com © ExecSense, Inc.

17. Action Plan
• SEO
• Blog
• Google profile
• Facebook
• LinkedIn
• Twitter
• YouTube
• Online Directories
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How to Monitor & Enhance Your Reputation on the Internet as a Lawyer
Larry Bodine
www.ExecSense.com © ExecSense, Inc.

18. Questions for Larry
• Editor in Chief of Lawyers.com
• 2.5 million visitors per month
• Top online destination for
consumers seeking a lawyer or an
answer to legal question
• Business development Advisor for 20
years
• Former Marketing Director at Sidley
Austin
• Practiced law as a litigator
908.771.8639
Larry.Bodine@LexisNexis.com
www.linkedin.com/in/larrybodine
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How to Monitor & Enhance Your Reputation on the Internet as a Lawyer
Larry Bodine
www.ExecSense.com © ExecSense, Inc.