Digital marketing is important for all lawyers and law firms.

July 23, 2014 in 23, website design for lawyers by Amanda Friese | Permalink

I recently hired a lawyer to represent me in a case against the landlord that I used to rent an apartment from. When I first moved in to this apartment I absolutely loved it. The apartment was in a historic neighborhood which meant that my place had a ton of charm and character. The landlord seemed really cool at first, as they tend to do, but a months or so after I moved in she started to act very strangely. She would send me strange e-mails at odd hours of the night making crazy demands and assumptions. My guard immediately went up and I started to save all of our e-mail correspondences in case I would ever need them. I am glad that I did because those e-mails came in handy during my case against her. As time went on the apartment I was living in started to fall apart. A hail storm broke the ceiling windows in the bathroom and when I requested that they be repaired, my landlord ignored my calls and e-mails. About a month later the washing machine in my unit broke causing the entire back room to flood. I called my landlord as it was happening and didn’t hear a word from her until a week later after leaving multiple angry messages on her voicemail and e-mails in her inbox.

attorney website designThe pinnacle of my frustration with my landlord came when I was moving out. I was obviously not planning on signing another lease with this landlord and gave her very early notice that I would not be resigning my lease. After very little communication on her part I moved out knowing that I had covered myself legally throughout the move out process. Three months later my landlord subpoenaed me for two thousand dollars in damages to the apartment. Obviously this was ludicrous and I knew that if she took me to court that I would win without a doubt. I got online to search for a lawyer and was immediately overwhelmed by all of my options. In looking through all of the various law firm websites I was surprised to notice how much the attorney website design weighed on my decision to hire them or not. I quickly realized that if an attorney had a poorly designed website that I would immediately dismiss them as an option and move on to a different firm’s site. Little things like font choice or ease of navigation seemed to greatly impact my judgement of the law firm. It was clear to me that marketing is a very important aspect of a lawyer’s business. I realized how true it really is that a website is today’s most common first impression. I passed judgement very quickly after seeing an attorney’s website design.

Eventually I found a lawyer to represent my case and just as I thought it was over very quickly and ended up in my favor. In the end my landlord owed me money to cover my legal fees.

WHEN I MARRIED YOU, YOU TOLD ME YOU WERE GOING TO BE A NEUROSURGEON, NOT A CARDIOLOGIST

July 23, 2014 in 23, brain surgery, neurosurgeon by Sonny Andrew | Permalink

When we met back in the university I had so much respect for you. I thought you were the most amazing person I had ever met and before I even knew what had happened, I was falling in love. I fell in love with a man who was an amazing polo player and a great dancer. I will never forget when we went to the big school dance one summer and all the people stopped to watch you do your Waltz. You just had that special affect on a person that is so rare. Above all; when I first met you, you were going to be a Neurosurgeon and not just a cardiologist.

It is unbelievable how you have changed over the years. You used to be a man of principals who believed in something. You used to talk about your greatest passion; brain surgery, and how one day you would be the best brain surgeon in the country. Look at you now; you are just a sad cardiologist who spends all his time tinkering with people hearts when you should be inside their heads tinkering with their brains. Don’t you still have any moral fiber holding you to your past ambitions? How sis you fall so far, when you were always so driven and determined, two of the qualities that made me fall in love with you.

I remember when we got engaged and I called all my friends to tell them I was going to be the wife of a neurosurgeon, and I can never forget the shame when years later, I had to introduce you as a cardiologist. It was hurtful for me to have to always be the one to announce to the world that you had given up. My mother was especially let down by the news. She had always dreamed of having a brain surgeon for a son-in-law and it was an awful let down for her to learn that you were going to end up as nothing more than a heart doctor.

I have a friend whose husband is a back surgeon, he does spine surgery. At least they can hold their heads up high when they are at the country club. I feel as if I constantly have to excuse you to the world for your choice to give up your study of the human brain. You used to have a giant cartoon drawing of a brain above your bed and from its mouth there was a caption that read “I am the most important organ in your body, so don’t lose your head now.” I never got tired of seeing that poster when I would come visit you but did it mean anything or did you know even then, that you were going to give it all up just a few years later.

Today, I don’t even recognize the man I married. I hope it is not too late for you and you will see that you must return to your studies and finish becoming a neurosurgeon. If you won’t do it for yourself or for me then please do it for our children.

Deciding about becoming an egg donor

July 9, 2014 in 23, egg donation, surrogate, surrogate mother by Melissa | Permalink

As a young, single woman, on great way to help other and also earn a small fee is to get into egg donation. While this is quite a bit more work and time commitment than doing blood or plasma donation, there is a very real feeling of satisfaction when you are helping another woman or a couple start a family. When women are unable to get pregnant for whatever reason, when they want to be pregnant and can’t it must be a very terrible feelings. Anything that we can do to help those women is a blessing in my opinion, and I think that it is a great cause to get in to. Egg donation does take a lot of time and energy, because there are appointments that you must go to as well as check ups with the doctor and medicine that will help to ensure that the right number of eggs are produced. Then, when it is time to collect and donate the eggs, there is a procedure where they will use mild sedation and retrieve the eggs. Once they have them, they will use IVF to fertilize the eggs with the sperm from the donor family or couple. egg donationAfter the eggs are fertilized, they will be implanted into the woman who is going to carry the baby. This can take several different rounds in order for the woman to become pregnant, but in the end there is usually a very high success rate for getting pregnant. And it as all because a woman decided to donate her eggs to that couple.

On the extreme end of that spectrum is becoming a surrogate mother. This is where instead of donating just your eggs, you actually carry the baby to term for the couple, so that they are able to have a baby, even when the woman is unable to carry the baby to term. There can be so many different reasons why a woman is unable to carry a baby to term, and in that situation there is nearly no greater altruistic move than for another woman to carry the baby for her. In the end, the result is a child for a couple that want a child, and the surrogate mother is able to give that to the family. There is quite a bit of compensation that goes into being a surrogate, and for that reason there is also a lot of legal paperwork that must be signed and legal fees that must be paid. But as with egg donation, the surrogate will get all the expenses of the pregnancy covered, and will also often be paid a fee for the essential use of her womb. While this may not be for everyone, as it is a bit more intense and time consuming than simply donating eggs, it is something that is really helpful and necessary for those women who are unable to become pregnant and who want to have a family of their own. Because of this, it is something that so many would consider doing.

How anyone could run a gym without gym management software I have no idea

July 9, 2014 in 23, health club software system by Shauna | Permalink

How any health club or gym out there could possibly survive without the help from a health club software system is fully and totally beyond my comprehension. I know that I am a part of that young crowd that tends to not understand how people could have possibly functioned without the Internet and I also understand that to many people this could be seen as a huge short coming and that is fine quite frankly. How to understand how people functioned socially is one thing but with how difficult and complicated it is to successfully own and run any kind of business is I am just shocked that this could have ever been done without quite a bit of help from computers and gym management software. Even for the kind of people who generally tend to be good at pretty much everything that they do I can’t imagine how much work and time it would take in order to accomplish all of the tasks that go into running a business.
gym managementI think the worst thing about running a gym or health club without the right kinds of tools provided by a health club software system is primarily all of the organizational tools that are offered through the computer. Everything that has to do with number of finances and members is all put into the health club system software and then organized so if you want to look at how long it has been since your members have last come into the gym you can easily see that put out in a graph or if you want to figure out how much money you are currently having come in from member fees another button will quickly and easily put all of that information together for you as well. I am the kind of person who is incredibly curious so I know that if I was a business owner I would wonder these things all of the time and just want to know. Even if I did not need to know the exact numbers at that time I would have to go through the whole process and figure out just because I would want to know. I would probably never actually get any work done if I owned a small business because I would always be wrapped up in stupid, unimportant and yet incredibly time consuming tasks. With the help of a health club software system though once these silly burning questions pop into my head I could easily figure them out with the help of the gym management software and then get back to the previous tasks at hand. I am sure once I had all of the array of tools out in front of me and knew how to use them as well I would probably spend a lot of time at least at first playing with and exploring all of the options and checking out all of the cool things that can be done with the help and technology of the gym management software.