Maximum Lawyer

A game changing episode. Jim and Tyson will go over a list of 10 things you should not do or stop doing that will help you relieve some stress and get more work done. Efficiency.

“In order for us to be able to move forward as a firm, as a lawyer, as a person there are things in our lives that should be forgotten or abandoned. If we are not completely all in, the we should say no.”

1. Unnecessary meetings. “Meetings can really be a time suck.”
2. Networking that goes nowhere. Some are just a waste of time.
3. Too many practice areas. Nitch down, be a specialist.
4. Outdated firm systems. Keep your systems updated!
5. Unscheduled phone calls. Don’t answer your own phone!
6. Volunteering or serving on boards. “If you are gonna commit to it, commit to it”
7. E-mail. Do you hate emails too?  Get in your e-mail and get it done. At once.
8. Low level and busy work. Remember; eliminate, automate, delegate.
9. Book keeping. Listen to this episode.  http://www.maximumlawyer.com/podcast/episode-16-accounting/
10. Negative people. Keep away from them. Seriously. Be around people who motivate you and energize you.

Tyson’s auto responder:

We respond to emails as quickly as we can, but just so you know, emails received after 3pm Central time Monday-Friday or on weekends/holidays, or emails that need an in-depth look on our part, might not receive a response until the following business day or later in the week.

If you need an immediate response, feel free to call 888-550-4026  or email legal assistants Angi Haus ([email protected]) or Kelsey Ortmann ([email protected]). They are

both happy to answer your questions.

- Tyson Mutrux

P.S. Have general legal questions? Try searching our YouTube page!

Hacking’s Hack: A great book. The War of Art: Break Through the Blocks and Win Your Inner Creative Battles, by Steven Pressfield.

 https://www.amazon.com/War-Art-Through-Creative-Battles/dp/1936891026

Tyson’s Tip: Turn off your unnecessary phone notifications that suck your time!

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In this episode, Jim and Tyson interview Jason Oesterly, owner of Washmo Media LLC an Infusionsoft certified partner, and he will explain us how systems and infusionsoft can help our business.

Jason has helped us start Maximum Lawyer and he is our go to guy when we have questions about Infusionsoft, our Client Marketing System. https://www.infusionsoft.com/

Great episode. Full awesome and really useful tips.

“Whatever system you are going to take a look at, being Infusionsoft or any other, you should focus on what are your needs today, where do you want to go, and make sure that you are not gonna be put on a corner stuck with a system that won’t grow with you. A system needs to scale as you need you scale”

Hacking’s Hack: Uowork! https://www.upwork.com

I’ve just found an immigration paralegal on Upwork! Great employee, simple, fast, cheap!

Tyson’s Tip: Create blog posts through wordpress from your phone whenever and wherever you want. Use your time! Create content!

Jason’s Tip: Test your site.  https://www.thinkwithgoogle.com/intl/en-gb/tools/test-my-site.html

Test My Site is an easy way for businesses to measure their site’s performance across devices, from mobile to desktop, providing them with a list of specific fixes that can help their business connect more quickly with people online. Businesses just need to type in their web address and within moments they’ll see how their site scores. They can also get a detailed report with tips on what to do next, and where to go for help at no charge.

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In this episode, Jim and Tyson will go through a list of 6 strategies to get good and relatively easy and cheap publicity.

1. Reach out to reporters and develop a relationship before you need a story put out there.
2. Support a cause. REALLY support it.
3. Write a book.
4. Start a podcast!
5. Issue press releases.
6. Do a CLE!

And there’s a BONUS!

KEEP HUSTLING. Keep doing things, keep meeting people, keep marketing, keep networking; KEEP DOING!

Hacking’s Hack: A podcast. Perpetual Traffic. Mostly devoted to social media strategies and advertising. Check it out: http://www.digitalmarketer.com/podcast/

Tyson’s Tip: An app. Lucidchart. Diagram things very easily. Easy to use. https://www.lucidchart.com

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We, as attorneys and business owners, could benefit from spending a little bit of time brainstorming on how to make the whole experience of working with us memorable in a good way. Exceed expectations and benefit from it. Get referrals from satisfied clients.  

Hacking’s Hack: This Blog. http://sethgodin.typepad.com/. Fantastic.

Tyson’s Tip: Simple. Sit down and break you practice into stages or phases from start to finish. Everything can be broken down into stages. Write it out, from point A to Point B, map it out. This is gonna show you deficiencies in your practice.

BONUS: Don’t get too fancy with your blogs. Just put something out there. Something simple.

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In this episode, Jim and Tyson challenge each other on improving different aspects of their practice, and will talk out loud about the things that they’re struggling with.    

Jim is hiring a new employee and realized he has no plan for it; he has no on-boarding process for this new attorney. Tyson has a system for this, and he will help Jim with his struggle with great ideas and good advice.  

https://www.infusionsoft.com/

Tyson’s been wanting to do for a really long time is a Newsletter, he’s been struggling with taking the time to do it and how to do it. Jim writes a great Newsletter and has really good advice for him! Also, Tyson’s been putting together a book for the last 2 years now, and he needs help…

Hacking’s Hack: Get a trainer! Do some exercise, it will make you feel good... And work better.

Tyson’s Tip: Give Gratitud. Better in the morning; it changes the way you start your day. Write down 3 things that you are thankful for. And go from there.

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In this episode, Jim and Tyson interview Craig Goldenfarb. He explains us how having a business mindset and creating structures and systems is key to growing a successful firm.

"You can really maximize your scale and reproduce departments if you systematize most things in your office."

Craig's system that he could not live without is his "employee recognition system": a structuralized procedure for making sure that all 50 people in his office feel cared for.

"The way I treat my people is the one system that's most important to me."

The marketing system that Craig thinks you should start doing today: Have lunch every day with someone who can help your business on a personal or professional level. You got to have interpersonal relationships.

Hacking's Double Hack:

1. You should go to the 7 Figure Attorney Summit.

http://www.sevenfigureattorney.com/

Register NOW!

1. A book. Exponential Organizations: Why new organizations are ten times better, faster, and cheaper than yours (and what to do about it), by Salim Ismail.

Tyson's Tip: Invest your self. Masterminds, CLE's, Events like the one Craig is hosting. Invest in your future.

Craig's Tip: Time Block. Use time efficiently. If you can be disciplined enough to devote 2 hours a week to business stuff, you'll be a success.

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In this episode Jim and Tyson interview Personal Injury Attorney Gary Burger and go through his process of breaking up from an old partner and going solo, creating a whole new marketing strategy.  

Gary Burger is a partner at Burger Law and heads the Civil Litigation Group. Gary devotes his practice to helping injury victims and their families, providing financial recovery and protecting the future of those injured, and making our community safer through advocacy and volunteer work.

https://www.linkedin.com/in/gary-burger-393a2011/

“I used what happened with my old breakup on going into this new firm; I took that energy and used it into the direction that I wanted it to go… Embrace change”.

Gary’s biggest advice when splitting from a partner:

Sit down and write down your marketing plan. Read some marketing books, there’s a lot of good stuff out there. Form a plan, execute it and take step by step at a time.

“A journey of a thousand miles begins with a single step”

Tyson’s Tip: BestSelf The Self Journal - Day Planner Goal Setting System

 https://www.amazon.com/BestSelf-Self-Journal-Planner-Setting/dp/B01C33U15A

ROADMAP YOUR LIFE: Goals are meaningless without a plan on how to achieve them. SELF Journal helps you create a road map toward the life you want by helping you define your goals and then creating a road map to reach them.

Hacking’s Hack: An app, WAZE. A GPS-based geographical navigation application program. It works on smartphones and tablets with GPS support and provides turn-by-turn information and user-submitted travel times and route details, downloading location-dependent information over mobile networks.

Gary’s Tip: Go home and be with your family. And work after your kids go to bed.

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In this episode Tyson interviews Jim about his immigration practice and go through the importance of being ready and having effective systems during busy and difficult times. Great lessons and huge take aways!

“It has suddenly become cool to be an immigration lawyer in America”

“There are a lot of times when you come become part of the spotlight, or your practice area can become highlighted or in the public eye…you have to be ready for situations like this”

Hacking’s Hack: https://unroll.me/. Instantly see a list of all your subscription emails. Unsubscribe easily from whatever you don’t want. It’s great!

Tyson’s Tip: The Mevo Camera! It is fenomenal! https://getmevo.com/.

Edit video on the fly.Stream live or share later.

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Jim and Tyson are both huge fans of the “I Love Marketing Podcast”, and in one of their episodes, “Yellowpages Roulette”, they do something like this but using the Yellow Pages.

Random location and practice area: Sacramento, California - Bankruptcy.

1st Case Study: http://www.sacramentobankruptcy.com/

2nd Case Study: http://www.sacramentobankruptcyattorneys.com/

• Content
• Layout
• Design
• Lead magnets
• Information
• and more!

Both case studies have lots of pros and cons, lessons and huge take aways! What are your thoughts about them? Please comment!

Hacking’s Hack: From Google Hangouts you can make calls! If you are a user of Google Hangouts, calls are really easy to make!

Tyson’s Tip: A book. “Tribes: We Need You to Lead Us” by Seth Godin.

It’s great! About building communities and being part of them.  

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In this episode Jim and Tyson take a listener’s question as a case study and try to help him out giving their advice, different perspectives and struggles of their own.  

“Working on building a law firm takes as much, if not more, than actually doing law.”

Planification. Strategy. Vision. Long term. Without it, you are pointlessly doing things.

If you have questions or topics you’d like us to cover, we’d be happy to have you on the show live as we record it or to do it through Facebook Group and/or Page. 

Tyson’s Tip: A book. “The Miracle Morning: The Not-So-Obvious Secret Guaranteed to Transform Your Life (Before 8AM)” by Hal Elrod.

A lot of good takeaways.

Hacking’s Hack: A book. “Grit: The Power of Passion and Perseverance” by Angela Duckworth.

About perseverance.  

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