Re: Startup costs of my own practice are not the problem, bu

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I think you might have gotten the leper treatment because you've
asked the same question thats been asked 1000's of times and has
been answered and discussed that many times. You could have
searched the past threads of this page and found enough
information to write a book (in fact at least one person has).
When I first read your post, I didn't even make a connection
between the website you mentioned and spamming. I just thought
you were lazy.

What would I change... I wouldn't have gone solo. I had a job
offer from a Construction Defect Insurance Defense Firm. Years
and years of mindless billable hours. I rejected it for what I
thought were good reasons at the time. And I went Solo.

Everything else I could tell you has already been written many
many times before.

I guess I would ask you the threshold question...

How big is your rolodex? How are you going to generate business
when the time comes? Are you really connected? Are you
specialized in a Niche field? Are you in (or planning to be in) a
location where there is a shortage of Attorneys or at least a
shortage in your Niche?

You will be bombarded by thousands of vendors all trying to sell
you a solution to your marketing problem. They are all liars. All
of them. Yellow Page reps, directory reps, direct mail,
newspaper, T.V./Radio/Internet sales people. Liars, all of them.
Worse then liars. You are almost better off buying lottery
tickets, because the mass market prospects they can deliver are
the worst of the worst possible clients.

So if your answer to business generation is any of the above,
then you're going to burn through your savings, credit, and
earnings brutally quick and have nothing to show for it but a
bunch of Vendor salespeople laughing at you, as they spend the
money that used to be yours.

On 11/29/06, Carl Jackson wrote:
>
> I'm just looking for some insight, and you, rrr, are so far
> the only one who has said anything useful. Other people so
> far are hostile which surprises me a little given other
> threads on this board. All I did was mention another website
> and I'm being treated like a leper.

> Well, I'm not looking for anything in particular or anybody to
> tell me anything, but since you did say your practice was a
> disaster and you put a gun to your head, could you be a little
> more specific about what went on? Furthermore, what might you
> have done differently if you could do it over again?
>
> Just trying to scope this out as best I can!
>
> Thanks!
>