USP = Unique Selling Proposition and it’s one of the most important tools a business owner can have in his or her arsenal because in just a few words your USP conveys a whole lot of information about you and why someone should do business with you as opposed to Joe Lawyer down the street.
For […]

To get your law business running on auto-pilot, you need these 6 systems:
1. A system for managing your numbers.
You should be getting daily, weekly and monthly reports that tell you within a tenth of a percentage point whether you are on track to meet your goals.
Once you know how to set this up, its super […]

I started waiting tables as soon as I could find someone who would hire me.  It was IHOP - the only place that could because I wasn’t old enough to serve drinks, and they didn’t.
I was business savvy from the start and quickly realized that the bigger the check was, the bigger my tip would […]

When I first went into business for myself, I had no idea how difficult the financial record keeping part of things would be. As an entrepreneur, it’s my least favorite part.
But, it’s also one of the most critical.
And, it’s something I overlooked for the first 3 years of my business.
I trusted that other people were […]

Over the past 3 years as I’ve worked my buns off to build my law practice into what it is today, I’ve also become a student of the successful.
You see, I figured that the shortest path to success was to model other successful people. So I studied them to see what they knew and what […]

Lawyers ask me all the time, “Alexis, how can you work only 2-3 days a week, bring in over a million dollars a year into your law firm and keep your clients happy?”

The answer is because I was willing to change.And, it was hard to do.
But, for me, it was a whole heckuva lot easier […]

I’m getting new photos taken today and went to the dentist earlier this
week to get a chipped tooth fixed. 

Well, this was no ordinary dentist office.
It looks like a spa.  In fact, half of it is a med-spa, doing facials and laser stuff.
And, when I checked in, instead of handing me a little clipboard with a […]

“Inside the Box Thinking Traps Lawyers In Business Model That Requires Work Until Death - But, Now There IS a Solution!”

Last week I shared with you the first of 4 systems that have changed my law practice from an underpaid job that was killing me slowly into an automated law business that gives me the […]

Have you spent any time watching Suze Orman on TV lately?
I have.
I call it research.
Frankly, I find her quite entertaining and she’s certainly reaching a lot of people with her message.
And, it’s a pretty good one.
I don’t agree with everything she says, but she’s certainly raising the public’s awareness of the need for trusts and […]

One of the single most difficult parts about building my law business was deciding what to charge and how to talk about my fees.
It was so hard! I’d get a lump in my throat and a pit in my stomach everytime I got to the fee part of the meeting.
 
And, for the first couple […]