“Get a divorce” billboard gets dumped
May 10, 2007
CNN carried this story about a billboard for a law firm that generated lots of complaints:
A racy billboard proclaiming “Life’s short. Get a divorce” caused such an uproar that city workers stripped it from its downtown perch after a week.
It wasn’t so much about the partially clothed man and woman on the law firm’s ad.
It was the phrase that lawyers Corri Fetman and Kelly Garland chose that drew scores of complaints from neighbors and from other attorneys who said it reflected poorly on their profession.
You can read the whole story here.
Do it yourself marketing - finding great images.
October 17, 2006
Do you, your staff or a family member or friend create your own marketing materials? If so, read on. This short article will give you some great resources for fantastic images and photos that are completely legal to use and either free or very inexpensive.
It used to be the case that finding engaging images and photos for marketing purposes that were weren’t copyrighted or extremely expensive was quite difficult - at least in my experience. Below are some of the resources I use on a daily basis to create the materials we use here at Promethean.
http://www.sxc.hu/
This is a site with thousands of free images you can use. Registering is free and gives you access to the larger file sizes.
http://www.stockxpert.com/
This is spin off of the site above. The images may be considered “more professional” and are very inexpensive to download.
http://www.shutterstock.com
This is our newest find for image sites. It is $159.00 for one month with up to 750 downloaded images - still a fantastic deal for what they offer.
Next month I will write a little bit about the program we use for creating our marketing pieces and free software classes online.
Hope this helps you!
Danielle
Director of Sales & Marketing
Promethean Software Corporation
The makers of TurboLaw Software
danielle@turbolaw.com
(800) 518-8726 x112
Contract Limerick
April 6, 2006
From the fine folks over at the Volokh Conspiracy comes this limerick summarizing a contract dispute:
An ode to Cricket Alley Corp. v. Data Terminal Systems (from a poet in my Contracts II class):
Facts:
DTS sold registers to Cricket’s
To automate bookkeeping wickets.
The shop owner said, “Dang!
These won’t talk to my Wang.
We’re stuck with hand entered sales tickets.”Holding:
Cricket’s needs were expressed or implied.
On salesmen’s claims Cricket had relied.
Damage was foreseeable
And so we’re agreeable
Consequence relief can’t be denied.
Be sure to check out the comments, as there are a few other user-submitted limericks as well.
2005 MBA Conference
March 14, 2005
I just wanted to post a quick thank you to the MBA organizers for this year’s annual conference, and also to the lawyers, both customers and non-customers, who visited our booth. We had a great time in Boston meeting all of you and look forward to next year!
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