Ask SLS: Is It Better to Get Written or Video Reviews from Your Clients?
Today, we’re tackling the world of client reviews. Whether you’re placing reviews on your website, asking clients to leave you reviews on a third-party site, or setting up a camera and asking them say a few words about what it was like to work with you, you can never go wrong with getting feedback from clients. Not only will it potentially help your marketing efforts, but it also comes in handy if you’re constantly trying to improve the quality of service your law firm is delivering. That said, our question for today is…
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Marketing Company Comparison: SLS vs The Company Trying to Sell You Facebook Likes
Have you ever gotten an email solicitation from a marketing company promising to get you more engagement on your Facebook page? Depending on the industry you’re in, an offer like this could be extremely valuable – particularly if you’re selling some sort of product that people can potentially buy on impulse. If you’re a lawyer, however, selling your services on Facebook, or any other social media site for that matter, isn’t necessarily going to land you more clients.
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SLS Consulting Named #1 of Top 5 SEO Companies
We’ve often compared the world of SEO marketing to the Wild West, but it’s nice to know there are sheriffs out there, separating the good from the bad. And one of them is Rising Star Reviews, which ranks local SEO experts based off of client reviews.
Since we at SLS Consulting, Inc., work with a small subset of trained professionals (lawyers) when we provide our internet marketing services, we know the value of third-party organizations when it comes to separating the wheat from the chaff.
How did Rising Star Reviews come to this decision? Once they certify a business like SLS, they look at our client reviews from Google, Yelp, and UpCity. You have to have at least 5 reviews and an average rating of 4 stars across those platforms to be eligible for ranking. It’s important to note that this rating cannot be purchased!
You can have a look at our number 1 ranking here.
If you have any questions about what we do, or why you need a marketing firm to help you with website design and SEO, give us a call at (323) 254-1510.
Everything You Ever Needed to Know About Online Reviews!
Whether you’re looking for a new restaurant to try, deciding which hotel to stay in, or even trying to find a new mechanic to work on your car, the odds are pretty good that you took a look at an online review site to help you make your decision. Even though online reviews can sometimes be questionable, they do represent crowdsourced opinions regarding specific businesses, and people often find reviews more reliable than how a company markets itself. In short, people often trust other people more than they do the business.
For lawyers, obtaining client reviews can be difficult, but the potential benefits are huge! Not only do online reviews help differentiate you from your competition, but they can also provide valuable insight that can have a big impact on conversion and signing new cases. Let’s take a look at some specific review sites and how law firms should strategize for each one.
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Join SLS in Giving to PCDA’s Holiday Toy Drive!
For the seventh year in a row, Professional Child Development Associates (PCDA) is holding its annual Holiday Toy Drive! Between November 26th and December 21st, 2018, unwrapped, non-battery-operated toys can be dropped off at multiple locations in the Los Angeles area, including outside of SLS Consulting’s office door in Old Town Pasadena!
Which Digital Marketing Tools Are SLSers Most Thankful For This Year?
As we head into Thanksgiving, we’re all preparing to spend time with our families, stuff our faces, and celebrate the good things we have to be thankful for. Sure, there’s the usual: friends, loved ones, having a roof over our heads, and having delicious turkey (or tofurkey) to eat, but we at SLS wanted to go one step further and talk about what we’re thankful for here in the office.
To that end, we asked each of our departments what hardware, software, or other work-related “tool” they were most thankful for!
MozCast Google Algorithm Review – October 2018
The end of September saw a flurry of Google search engine activity! Those updates spilled over into the beginning of October, and we’ve been tracking them for you in our monthly installment of the MozCast Google Algorithm Review.
Ever wonder why your website’s rankings dip or swell? The answer is that Google’s engineers are always tinkering with Hummingbird, Google’s core algorithm, and its individual components. Since no one besides Google truly knows what is being done or the goals of the updates, we bring you the search engine world’s best guesses!
Google+ Is on Its Way Out – What Now?
We all saw it coming: Google has decided to shut down their social media app, Google+, over the course of the next year, officially pulling the plug in August 2019. Their plans were announced along with a revelation that a security flaw had potentially revealed the personal information of users (including name, age, and gender) from 2015 until it was discovered in March 2018. According to the search engine, no malicious activity was detected during this time – but we will let you decide what to believe.
Word Count: How It All Adds Up
Key takeaways:
- Should you try to come up with a certain amount of words for your website content pages and blog articles? In general, no.
- SLS Consulting has found that there are three factors for effective web writing: being informative, being accessible, and being concise.
- The best advice for writing content is to write until you’ve said all you have to say about the subject, while not forgetting about your readers!
If you’re the kind of person who produces (or assigns) content for a website, there’s a tendency to write (or request) a minimum number of words for an assignment. But—is word count truly important in producing quality web content? Or is it, ultimately, counterproductive? Let’s take a look at this question.
Word Choice Matters
Key takeaways:
- When you write content on your website, the words you use matter not only to your intended meaning, but also to your clients’ understanding.
- There’s a good middle ground between words that are too arcane and words that are too simple. Try to find it, and your clients will thank you.
- In the end, you want to be as authentic as possible while reaching the widest audience possible!
Today, our writing team at SLS Consulting would like to play a little word game with you…
“The Internet is an exemplary conduit through which to entice potential clients.” There’s nothing wrong with that sentence. It makes a statement and it speaks a truth. But is there a more effective way to say the same thing—spread the same message? Read the rest »
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