When you walk into an attorney-prospect’s office you will want the attorney to view you as a professional who produces quality and professional work. To accomplish this goal, it pays to be prepared. One Certified Legal Nurse Consultant shared with me how she learned this lesson the hard way.
For a busy CLNC® consultant staying up with pertinent information on the web can be pretty time consuming. There’s an awful lot of information that changes on a daily, hourly, even as-you-read-this basis. One way for you to stay on top of the news or the latest changes in a subject of interest for your legal nurse consulting business is to use RSS feeds on a customized Google or Yahoo! homepage.
The weather has finally turned to fall here in Houston. This means that for a too-short period of time, those summer days of 104+ degrees are gone. Our recent mornings have been in the low 60’s, what we currently consider “crisp.” Morning is my favorite time and Tom and I are out well before the sun comes up for a walk around our “hood.” This morning was a little extra crisp so I went to get a light jacket and also noticed my hiking gear, my arctic gear, my rain gear and even my diving gear.
I was working out the other day and, in order to drive the pain as far from my consciousness as possible, my trainer and I were discussing some issues he was having with his Apple® laptop. Now, I don’t know much about Macs® and I didn’t sleep in a Holiday Inn Express Sunday night but I was more than willing to give him some free tech advice (and forestall any more sets of lunges).
Certified Legal Nurse Consultants get paid big bucks. To get paid those big bucks, we have to get off the fence and take a stand, even if that means not always being right. Every successful CLNC® consultant has had that cliff-hanging moment of doubt. Here’s what one Certified Legal Nurse Consultant, Dale Barnes, learned from one of those experiences.
The longer you’re in the world of technology, the more iterations of devices you see. Some are good, some are bad. I remember when I left (unwillingly) my paper DayTimers®, was issued a PDA (Personal Data Assistant) and had to learn how to use a stylus to write that silly Palm® language. The stylus was like a mechanical pencil without lead and was constantly getting lost. I still occasionally find one under a desk or in the back of my sock drawer. The only thing cool about my PDA was that the cover flipped up like a communicator on Star Trek® (the original series). At the time, PDAs were a must-have for every Certified Legal Nurse Consulting business.
Marketing is one of the simplest subjects you will ever study. So, why do some people fail miserably at it? Because they just don’t do it.
Every web browser accepts cookies. These are the innocuous little files kept by your browser from websites you visit. Cookies have a lot of uses. They can keep your web travel history so that when you return to a website it will remember you and key your browser to pull up your login and password. They also keep a history of websites you visit and they help other websites serve you advertising based on your past browsing and purchases across the web.
One of the first things all Certified Legal Nurse Consultants learn in the CLNC® Certification Program is the 34 CLNC® services you can and do provide to your attorney-clients. In today’s video blog, one of our CLNC® Mentors shares a brand new CLNC® service she is providing to attorneys. Watch this video to add one more service to your own CLNC® business.
Certified Legal Nurse Consultants, let me paint you a picture of pure bliss. Two weeks in the Piedmonte and Lake Districts of Italy, starting the trip in Milano for a little shopping to get over the jet lag. Good food, great wine, better company (Vickie of course) and no email, iPhone or contact with the outside cyber-world.
Having said that, let me make a confession. Vickie disconnects easier than I do. When we leave the country she leaves it behind. The office can contact her if it’s on fire but otherwise it needs to be of very high importance before they call. Vickie won’t check email because she figures it’ll ruin the vacation. We’ve been around people who walk, head down, through the Sistine Chapel responding to email and don’t get to enjoy the beauty above them.
We don’t go naked though when we leave the country. We have a “dumb” smart phone that we take with us. It’s a pretty good phone, but it isn’t connected to a data plan, it doesn’t play music and it won’t surf the web (I think it might accept text messages but I haven’t tried it) – it’s phone calls only.
*The opinions and statements made by Vickie Milazzo, the founder of Medical-Legal Consulting Institute, Inc. are based on her experiences and expertise, should not be applied beyond the specific context provided, and do not guaranty or project actual results. Vickie Milazzo is no longer involved in the operations or management of the business, but is involved as an independent education consultant.
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