CLE on Solo/Small Firms - Guess Who?

November 8th I will be on a panel speaking about "Using a website and social media to build your practice":

NYSBA Solo/Small Firm Success CLE.

It will also be shown here in Albany via video conference.

You'd think they could set this up so I wouldn't have to go to New York City. But then, I get to go to New York City. Haven't figured out yet if they're paying for my train ride. Hmm ....

Republican vs. Democrat

Here is our new TV commercial for the Warren Redlich for Governor campaign:



Or on YouTube: Republican vs. Democrat.

The version that will air on TV is: New York: Republican vs. Democrat

Traffic Court site sees more growth

Our Town-Court.com website is growing nicely. The image below shows the number of visitors from January 1, 2006 (shortly after we started measuring) to the present. We have helped nearly 4 million different people find information about traffic courts, with over 10 million pageviews.

September is the biggest month yet, with over 240,000 visits by over 210,000 different people (some visit more than once). It was a roughly 4% increase over August, despite August having an extra day.

September 2009 had less than 150,000 visits, a year-on-year increase of over 60%. The third quarter shows a 20% increase compared to the second quarter.

Christine O'Donnell?

Some time ago, I acquired the domain name christineodonnell08.com in an auction on GoDaddy.

A candidate for US Senate in Delaware had allowed her domain name to lapse. I bought it fair and square in that auction. I've done the same with a few other websites, both here in Albany and distant. The idea originally was to preserve the historical record of those campaigns.

Due to some controversy that developed, and a dishonest tactic used by O'Donnell (claiming a copyright violation) to try to shut down the site, I have changed a bit. With her site in particular, I removed all copied content and substituted original content. She likes that less apparently.

Anyway, I was stunned when national Tea Party groups turned to her campaign. She caught fire. I saw a result - traffic to my site about her shot up. It saw maybe 20 visits a day for a long time. Then it jumped to as many as 800 visits. A couple days before the primary it climbed to 2000 visits, then 2500. On primary day it was over 7000 visits. And the day after it was 25,000. Wow!

The graph below shows the hockey stick effect.


Traffic has gone down somewhat since then, but it's still in the thousands per day. I've added Google ads and am getting fairly good revenue. As a lark I've added a Christine O'Donnell Nude page just to see how many perverts there are in our country.

Out-of-state tickets for Maine drivers

We are frequently asked by clients if NY tickets will affect them in their home state. Below is an image showing a Pennsylvania ticket on a Maine driving record, and it looks like this violation did not count for points. So if it's the best that you can do for a Maine driver, an 1110(a) isn't terrible.



Our biggest blog post on this topic is Do Points Transfer from July of 2009.