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As a small business, bringing in customers in today's competitive market can be a challenge to say the least. With limited resources, like smaller budgets and less flexible hours, trying to get your business to stand out amongst the crowd can feel like an uphill battle. Lisa Michaels, a freelance content marketing consultant, suggests that the best way for small businesses to attract new customers is to work with what they have. With a bit of creativity and hard work, small businesses can generate customers with the tools already at their disposal.

As a small business, bringing in customers in today's competitive market can be a challenge to say the least. With limited resources, like smaller budgets and less flexible hours, trying to get your business to stand out amongst the crowd can feel like an uphill battle. Lisa Michaels, a freelance content marketing consultant, suggests that the best way for small businesses to attract new customers is to work with what they have. With a bit of creativity and hard work, small businesses can generate customers with the tools already at their disposal.

It seems that, with each passing day, we add to our mound of document collections and over time, it gets harder and harder to find the important documents you need. Crucial reports or forms are lost, your workflow and productivity take a hit, and you wind up wasting dozens of hours searching through your files. With the right systems in place, however, you can avoid the chaos and keep your documents right where you can find them, saving you the headache.

Nothing is more annoying and detrimental to your lawyering work than constant interruptions. To show you how to curb those disturbances and get your law firm focused back on more productive work, Maddy Martin sat down with Amy Mann to share the seven easy steps any lawyer can take that can help them streamline their processes and create a more efficient workflow that'll set them for long-term success.

Every legal or financial professional needs to know how to convert leads, but, especially for solo or small practices, lead conversion can be a complicated and overwhelming process. To help solo attorneys and small financial agencies build simple and efficient lead conversion processes that are guaranteed to result in an easier workload, more successful conversions, and increased revenue, Maddy Martin of Smith.ai shared her best practices for attracting, qualifying, converting, and retaining new clients.

It goes without saying that, as a law firm, you have to keep your potential clients where they are and nowadays, that's online. To help you get the most out of your digital marketing efforts, Maddy Martin of Smith.ai and Kelly Street of AttorneySync compiled their best tips and tricks that you can use to build your online presence, strengthen your intake process, and convert more qualified web leads than ever before.

If you own a small law firm, you might find yourself too busy to answering calls or qualify leads. Unfortunately, that won't do your lead conversions any good. Automating your most time-consuming tasks, like sending out invoices or new client intake forms, and outsourcing tasks, like call answering and lead qualification, can give you a better work-life balance and give your lead conversion process the attention it deserves so your law firm can convert more leads with less work from you and your staff.

You don't have to carry all of the weight of accelerating your small law firm on your own. There are a handful of top-rated legal software and services you can rely on to give your firm the boost it needs. To help you decide on the best software and services for your business, Maddy Martin of Smith.ai asked a handful of legal experts which legal software and services to try, as well as what practices to implement, so that you take the stress of improving your law firm off of your shoulders.

Scheduling your week can be a real pain, but systematizing your scheduling with right tools can help you block out your whole week in minutes. Let Joel Runyon, entrepreneur at IMPOSSIBLE and advisor at Woven, show you how you can get started optimizing your scheduling for a more productive work week.