Working on your business requires focus, and I recommend you focus on simple text automation and basic outsourcing using these tools/services:

  • TextExpander; – subscription service provides the ability to trigger text macros in any text input field, email or word processing area. If you can’t leverage TextExpander it’s because you aren’t working on your business enough.
  • FancyHands; – subscription service provides 5 tasks per month at the entry level. If you can’t figure out how to outsource 5 basic tasks per month then you can’t leverage outsourcing.

Want to focus 100% on working ON your practice?

Check out the Small Firm Bootcamp 2020 – the 2-day conference for solo and small firm attorneys coming up in May of 2020 in New Orleans. Special “early bird” pricing is now in effect.

And if you want personalized from me guidance improving and growing your practice consider joining my ; Co-Pilot coaching program …which is exclusively for solo and small firm lawyers who want to better manage and market their practices

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