{"id":11574,"date":"2010-03-16T08:23:00","date_gmt":"2010-03-16T15:23:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.bloodhoundrealty.com\/BloodhoundBlog\/?p=11574"},"modified":"2010-03-16T08:23:01","modified_gmt":"2010-03-16T15:23:01","slug":"i-hate-my-theme","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.bloodhoundrealty.com\/BloodhoundBlog\/11574\/i-hate-my-theme\/","title":{"rendered":"I hate my theme…"},"content":{"rendered":"

In some ways, my stengths – I love to tinker with eletronics, am Internet savvy, know a little about marketing – are my weaknesses: I like to do things myself, or at least like to fully understand exactly what someone working for me is doing so that I could take it over if need be.<\/p>\n

Witness my web performance. I’m doing pretty well right now, with top rankings on Google etc. I’ve done that largely because the competition is so miserable. But what I really want to do is lay waste to the competition: to succeed in ways that don’t depend on them being incompetent. <\/p>\n

I also want to convert every single visitor into a client. I want to build all the important relationships as well as can be done on the web, and close the deal on the phone. <\/p>\n

I feel the press of time for two reasons. I’m in my mid-30s, and have certain financial and personal goals that require me to figure this all out… soon! and then keep moving on and figuring other things out!<\/p>\n

Second, I think the legal profession is going to be awash in smart, hungry lawyers who had planned to take a firm job, but now find that firms are imploding around them. These people are going to eat my lunch if I don’t catch it first.<\/p>\n

Anyhow, onto the mundane. I sort of like the overall look of my Raleigh criminal lawyer<\/a> website. But I suspect that just cause it looks slick, doesn’t mean it’s getting the selling job done. <\/p>\n

With my Raleigh bankruptcy<\/a> practice, I’m sort of am heading in a Thesis\/Headway direction, with a more robust, less graphically designed theme, that, by all accounts, better for SEO and flexibility reasons. <\/p>\n

In addition, I suspect that that flexibility will allow me to do a better job of pulling in visitors, 77 percent of them bounce on the first page.<\/p>\n

Thoughts?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

In some ways, my stengths – I love to tinker with eletronics, am Internet savvy, know a little about marketing – are my weaknesses: I like to do things myself, or at least like to fully understand exactly what someone working for me is doing so that I could take it over if need be. 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