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Law firm owners waste hours every week on repetitive tasks that could be automated, but most fear that automation will make their client experience feel cold and robotic. What if automation could actually make your law firm MORE personal and efficient?In this episode of The Maximum Lawyer Podcast, we sit down with Greg Jenkins, founder of Monkeypod Marketing, to break down:🔥 What You’ll Learn in This Episode:✅ How automation can multiply your law firm’s efforts (without losing the human touch)✅ The biggest automation myths that hold law firms back✅ How to automate your intake, follow-ups, and client communication✅ Why documenting your processes is the key to growth✅ How automation improves—not replaces—your client relationships✅ Greg’s favorite automation tools (and how he uses them to run his own business)🚨 If you’re tired of getting bogged down in admin work and want to focus on high-value legal work and firm growth, this episode is for you!🚨💡 Resources & Next Steps:📲 Text me your thoughts & questions! → 314-519-260📩 Submit your video questions & get featured: maximumlawyer.com/askk🎧 Subscribe for weekly law firm growth insights!📲 Join the Facebook Group: https://www.facebook.com/groups/maximumlawyer📢 Enjoyed this episode?👉 LIKE, COMMENT, & SUBSCRIBE for more strategies on law firm automation and scaling!Greg Jenkins is founder and CEO of:  http://www.monkeypodmarketing.com/, and his business is automation other businesses.   Do you want to get on the show? Shoot us an email or message us! Becca@maximumlawyer.com Resources:Join the Guild MembershipSubscribe to the Maximum Lawyer Youtube ChannelFollow us on InstagramJoin the Facebook GroupFollow the Facebook PageFollow us on LinkedIn

Every listener of the show knows how much Tyson hates email... Mike comes with a tip to help him with that. Thanks so much for listening to the show! If you want to know more about this and keep on maximizing your firm, please join our Facebook group: https://www.facebook.com/groups/403473303374386/ or like us on Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/MaximumLawyerPodcast/ and comment!You can also go to http://www.maximumlawyer.com/ or, if you’d prefer, email us at: info@maximumlawyer.com Do you want to get on the show? Shoot us an email or message us! The Maximum Lawyer Podcast. Partner up, and maximize your firm. Resources:Join the Guild MembershipSubscribe to the Maximum Lawyer Youtube ChannelFollow us on InstagramJoin the Facebook GroupFollow the Facebook PageFollow us on LinkedIn

Questions:Jim:If you had to point to an event or experience in your childhood or young adulthood that shaped who you are as a lawyer or signal the lawyer that you would become, what is it?  What is one thing you are doing that you should stop doing?If you were not practicing criminal or PI law, what practice area would you choose?In the last two weeks, what percentage of your time spent working was performed doing work than you and only you could do?A few months ago you said on the podcast that you would be starting your weekly email newsletter the following week. Have you done it?Tyson:How much would you sell your firm for? Why?Same as JimIf you could not practice law, what would you do? Why?Are you Successful? Why?What attorney inspires you the most? Hacking’s hack: A book. Content Inc.: How Entrepreneurs Use Content to Build Massive Audiences and Create Radically Successful Businesses (Business Books) Hardcover – September 8, 2015by Joe Pulizzi  (Author) https://www.amazon.com/Content-Inc-Entrepreneurs-Successful-Businesses/dp/125958965X In Content Inc., one of today's most sought-after content-marketing strategists reveals a new model for entrepreneurial success. Simply put, it's about developing valuable content, building an audience around that content, and then creating a product for that audience. Tyson’s tip:  A book. Profitable Podcasting: Grow Your Business, Expand Your Platform, and Build a Nation of True Fans Paperback – September 14, 2017by Stephen Woessner  (Author) https://www.amazon.com/Profitable-Podcasting-Business-Expand-Platform/dp/0814438288 The word is out: content marketing is king. But when nearly every business has a blog, it's tough to stand out. The real secret is that there's a much better tool for spreading influence and generating revenue--one with far less competition.Thanks so much for listening to the show! If you want to know more about this and keep on maximizing your firm, please join our Facebook group: https://www.facebook.com/groups/403473303374386/ or like us on Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/MaximumLawyerPodcast/ and comment!You can also go to http://www.maximumlawyer.com/ or, if you’d prefer, email us at: info@maximumlawyer.com Do you want to get on the show? Shoot us an email or message us! The Maximum Lawyer Podcast. Partner up, and maximize your firm. Resources:Join the Guild MembershipSubscribe to the Maximum Lawyer Youtube ChannelFollow us on InstagramJoin the Facebook GroupFollow the Facebook PageFollow us on LinkedIn

The podcast is called Profitize Your Business: http://profitizeyourbusiness.co/ “If you want to maximize the profits from your business, the wealth from your business, cutting your taxes and cutting your expenses that’s only gonna take you so far. You need to profitize your business; you need to maximize your marketing, you need to maximize your sales; you need to adapt really good management practices… So that's what the profitize your business podcast is all about.”     Thanks so much for listening to the show! If you want to know more about this and keep on maximizing your firm, please join our Facebook group: https://www.facebook.com/groups/403473303374386/ or like us on Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/MaximumLawyerPodcast/ and comment!You can also go to http://www.maximumlawyer.com/ or, if you’d prefer, email us at: info@maximumlawyer.com Do you want to get on the show? Shoot us an email or message us! The Maximum Lawyer Podcast. Partner up, and maximize your firm. Resources:Join the Guild MembershipSubscribe to the Maximum Lawyer Youtube ChannelFollow us on InstagramJoin the Facebook GroupFollow the Facebook PageFollow us on LinkedIn

Morris works at https://www.martinsonandbeason.com/ https://www.martinsonandbeason.com/our-attorneys/morris-lilienthal/ Hacking’s hack: A book. KNOWN: The handbook for building and unleashing your personal brand in the digital age Paperback – January 28, 2017by Mark W. Schaefer https://www.amazon.com/KNOWN-handbook-building-unleashing-personal/dp/0692816062/ref=asap_bc?ie=UTF8 Morris’s Tip: https://www.helpareporter.com/. Grow your SEO. Tyson’s tip:  A tip. 1. Get your goals out in the open. 2. Don’t make your goals too complicated. Thanks so much for listening to the show! If you want to know more about this and keep on maximizing your firm, please join our Facebook group: https://www.facebook.com/groups/403473303374386/ or like us on Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/MaximumLawyerPodcast/ and comment!You can also go to http://www.maximumlawyer.com/ or, if you’d prefer, email us at: info@maximumlawyer.com Do you want to get on the show? Shoot us an email or message us! The Maximum Lawyer Podcast. Partner up, and maximize your firm. Resources:Join the Guild MembershipSubscribe to the Maximum Lawyer Youtube ChannelFollow us on InstagramJoin the Facebook GroupFollow the Facebook PageFollow us on LinkedIn

In this episode, Jim and Tyson will talk about the importance of using plain language; everyday words and keeping it simple so your target understands you better. They will go over a list of 8 tips to help you do it and not sounding like a lawyer. Not using tactical language.  Take notes in client meetings of things that you hear from them.Put yourself in your client's shoes and think about how they view things.Read over the chat and emails that you get.Show more of your personal life so you can relate better with your clients.If you are struggling with content have somebody in your office read it over.Speak about your journey as a lawyer and write a BIO.Read what you write out loud.Hacking’s hack: http://answerthepublic.com/. It allows you to put in search terms or things that you think your clients may be searching about and shows you the questions people are asking. http://answerthepublic.com/#about-us Tyson’s tip:  https://www.renderforest.com/. Free Tools for creating professional intros, animations, slideshows and music visualizations in minutes. Thanks so much for listening to the show! If you want to know more about this and keep on maximizing your firm, please join our Facebook group: https://www.facebook.com/groups/403473303374386/ or like us on Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/MaximumLawyerPodcast/ and comment!You can also go to http://www.maximumlawyer.com/ or, if you’d prefer, email us at: info@maximumlawyer.com Do you want to get on the show? Shoot us an email or message us! The Maximum Lawyer Podcast. Partner up, and maximize your firm. Resources:Join the Guild MembershipSubscribe to the Maximum Lawyer Youtube ChannelFollow us on InstagramJoin the Facebook GroupFollow the Facebook PageFollow us on LinkedIn

Community marketing is great for your business! Listen to the episode and get to know a couple of different ways you can apply it! “If you see somebody on the news organically it’s gonna have a little bit more of an impact than seeing a TV commercial.”Anneke's info:https://www.linkedin.com/in/annekekurthttps://www.charlesboyk-law.com/ TPS Proud Student and Teacher of The Month:  https://www.charlesboyk-law.com/gives-back/tps-proud-student-teacher-month/Bikes For Kids: https://www.charlesboyk-law.com/gives-back/bikes-for-kids/ Hacking’s hack: Appointment Core. Automate Your Appointment Setting Process for Your Infusionsoft & Google Calendar.https://www.appointmentcore.com/ Anneke’s tip: Get Google Reviews! Every person that comes into your office, have them filling a paper survey in which the questions would evoke a really good review and then ask them if they’ll be willing to pull out their phone and leave a review right there in your office’s address in Google maps. Remember they should not be connected to your wifi.   Tyson’s tip: The Wordpress app lets you post into different websites and track some data.   https://itunes.apple.com/ar/app/wordpress/id335703880?mt=8 Thanks so much for listening to the show! If you want to know more about this and keep on maximizing your firm, please join our Facebook group: https://www.facebook.com/groups/403473303374386/ or like us on Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/MaximumLawyerPodcast/ and comment!You can also go to http://www.maximumlawyer.com/ or, if you’d prefer, email us at: info@maximumlawyer.com Do you want to get on the show? Shoot us an email or message us! The Maximum Lawyer Podcast. Partner up, and maximize your firm. Resources:Join the Guild MembershipSubscribe to the Maximum Lawyer Youtube ChannelFollow us on InstagramJoin the Facebook GroupFollow the Facebook PageFollow us on LinkedIn

In this episode, Jim and Tyson will interview Michael Downey and go through his journey as an attorney from big firms to his own practice in legal ethics, and the importance of marketing in this process. Nitch down!“If you go to a food court and you’re thinking I want some food, odds are if you are hungry of Pizza you are going to go to the pizza place Meanwhile, if there is a place that sells Hamburgers, Pizza, Mexican, etc., you probably gonna pass that place up cause you are gonna go the the focused practitioner.”  https://www.linkedin.com/in/michaelpdowney https://www.downeylawgroup.com/ Hacking’s hack: A book from a Lawyer who also went out on his own. Never Eat Alone: And Other Secrets to Success, One Relationship at a Time Hardcover, by Keith Ferrazzi. A great book on how to network and connect with people. Michael’s tip: Selling the Invisible: A Field Guide to Modern Marketing Hardcover, by Harry Beckwith. “What’s going on on the mind of someone who is looking to buy my services and then helping me understand better how to market to them and get them to hire me.” Tyson’s tip: Think about this. If Bill Gates and Mark Zuckerberg tooked over you law firm, how would they run things differently? Thanks so much for listening to the show! If you want to know more about this and keep on maximizing your firm, please join our Facebook group: https://www.facebook.com/groups/403473303374386/ or like us on Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/MaximumLawyerPodcast/ and comment!You can also go to http://www.maximumlawyer.com/ or, if you’d prefer, email us at: info@maximumlawyer.com Do you want to get on the show? Shoot us an email or message us! The Maximum Lawyer Podcast. Partner up, and maximize your firm. Resources:Join the Guild MembershipSubscribe to the Maximum Lawyer Youtube ChannelFollow us on InstagramJoin the Facebook GroupFollow the Facebook PageFollow us on LinkedIn

A very simple process: Shoot a videoPull the audio from the videoTranscript the audioPost in every network (LinkedIn, Instagram, Twitter, Facebook, etc.)Re post in time http://brendon.com/ Tyson’s tip: https://www.bluejeans.com/. Online meetings, video conferencing, and screen sharing for teams of any size.   Hacking’s hack: A new podcast. http://rickmulready.com/category/aoptpodcast/, from a guy called Rick Mulready. Thanks so much for listening to the show! If you want to know more about this and keep on maximizing your firm, please join our Facebook group: https://www.facebook.com/groups/403473303374386/ or like us on Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/MaximumLawyerPodcast/ and comment!You can also go to http://www.maximumlawyer.com/ or, if you’d prefer, email us at: info@maximumlawyer.com Do you want to get on the show? Shoot us an email or message us! The Maximum Lawyer Podcast. Partner up, and maximize your firm. Resources:Join the Guild MembershipSubscribe to the Maximum Lawyer Youtube ChannelFollow us on InstagramJoin the Facebook GroupFollow the Facebook PageFollow us on LinkedIn

This episode is a talk that Jim gave at https://www.slu.edu/ to a group of students who are taking Law Practice Management.  Resources:Join the Guild MembershipSubscribe to the Maximum Lawyer Youtube ChannelFollow us on InstagramJoin the Facebook GroupFollow the Facebook PageFollow us on LinkedIn