Kevin O’Keefe in “Real Lawyers have blogs” outlines basic questions for determining whether a law firm or lawyer is getting a return on investment for these efforts. You can look at the post here.
While I think these are good questions to ask, it’s a dangerous proposition to limit social networking success to these questions. A firm wouldn’t drop its PR effort simply because it can’t trace business back to this initiative. Social networking is marketing: becoming visible, getting out the firm’s message, expertise, engagement in specific legal issues.
Social networking is iterative: Keep looking at ways to improve outreach, messaging, design, use of technology and content repurposing. Measuring ROI shouldn’t be about giving up on social networking.
Tags: blogging, Linkedin, Social networking ROI
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