Tuesday, March 23, 2010

Recent Law Grad Charges $174 Per Tweet On Twitter

Forget about billing $174 per hour. If recent law grad Rex Gradeless strikes it lucky, he could be making far more than that by charging advertisers $174 to post a 140-character tweet on Twitter promoting their product or service to his 76,000 followers via Sponsored Tweets.



While he apparently has yet to get such an advertising dynasty up and running, Gradeless posted last week what may be a first-of-its-kind sponsored-content tweet by a lawyer, reports Legal Blog Watch. It promotes Tony's Crispy Crust Pizzas.



Rex Gradeless has a unique ability to pinpoint useful information for a variety of audiences. That probably explains why the recent St. Louis University School of Law grad has more than 76,000 followers on Twitter, where he’s known as @Rex7.


“He understands that there are a lot of lawyers who aren’t his age who need to be brought along,” says John J. Ammann, who directs the legal clinics at Gradeless’ alma mater.
Online social media like Twitter, Ammann adds, aren’t one-size-fits-all “because guys who are 60 years old aren’t going to pick up Twitter so fast. But they can, and he’s going to show them the way.” Gradeless, 25, also blogs as the Social Media Law Student.


Perhaps not surprisingly, Ammann and other lawyers who’ve seen Gradeless in litigation settings say his way of determining what interests various groups is extremely effective there, too. He is careful in how he expresses himself, and he shows an awareness of how the legal profession works that is beyond that of many recent law grads.


For Gradeless the question now has become what to do next, and the economy is influencing his decision-making. While he’d like to do civil litigation, the jobs are scarce. In August, shortly after taking the Missouri bar exam, Gradeless had a soft offer with a top-20 law firm he wouldn’t name. The position wouldn’t start until January 2010, Gradeless says, and he’d hopefully be doing legal and Web 2.0 work.


“You have a juggernaut of marketing types in law firms who want to control the message, and it’s hard for them to see it’s not going to be possible forever,” Gradeless says. “Hopefully I can educate them and we can start doing some of this other social-networking-type stuff.”


Like building an internal Twitter-type program for better efficiency in critical situations, as when law clerks are focused on writing a motion, Gradeless says, and haven’t been told the case settled a few hours ago.


“If you settle a case and the attorney has to draft paperwork, the last thing they’re thinking about is their clerk,” says Gradeless.


“You get the sense he’s learning it and he’s sharing what he’s learning,” says Dennis Kennedy, the St. Louis-based computer lawyer, blogger and ABA Journal tech columnist. Unlike many others in the online legal arena, Kennedy adds, Gradeless doesn’t try to act like an expert. And that could be part of his appeal.


In fact, Gradeless says, Twitter was the most fun when he first started in November 2008 and none of it made sense. He didn’t have a job lined up, spring on-campus interviewing was canceled and Gradeless thought Twitter might be a good way to market himself. Back then about 80 Twitter users identified themselves as lawyers, but only about 45 of them actually tweeted on a regular basis, says Gradeless.


For the anti-Twitter folks, Gradeless says, many don’t understand all it can do. He can post a question and potentially get back 63,000 points of view almost instantly.


“You might see a lot of things on my Twitter feed, but there’s direct messages too that nobody sees,” he says. The direct messages have led to some interesting discussions, including one with someone who had what seemed like a viable legal claim for $5 million and was looking for a lawyer. “I’ve been asked to do stuff like that, and I have to say, ‘I’m not even a lawyer yet.’ ”
Gradeless mentions recently meeting in person someone who follows him on Twitter. That person told Gradeless he didn’t know much about him, but thought of him as the guy who’s “really into law.”


“That’s a good thing,” Gradeless says. For the most part, he avoids posting personal information.
In terms of his appeal, he notes Twitter posts are limited to 140 characters, so having a four-letter handle helps.


“It can get re-tweeted a lot,” Gradeless says, referring to a Twitter process where users repost others’ links. “I would always be linking, and I often follow everyone who follows me. It sort of snowballed from there.”



If you want to be a law firm using twitter, please contact us today to learn how we can help...

3 comments:

  1. Everybody knows in which almost everything provides a couple of factors, thus will be purchasing on the web. Additionally, there are several chanel replica handbags negative items regarding purchasing on the web. As an example, you cannot test the particular garments you would like to acquire to find out if they are usually ideal or perhaps not necessarily. At times you cannot notify whether or not any carrier will be buckskin or perhaps not necessarily. The greatest downside regarding purchasing on the web will be that individuals can't start to see the replica chanel merchandise. We could simply start to see the images of the goods. Once we are usually purchasing several buckskin females hand bags on the web, several go shopping masters typically reveal the hand bags they may be marketing are usually buckskin hand bags. Given that we could not necessarily notice or perhaps feel the particular carrier, we all typically rely on chanel replica handbags these, right after we all have the carrier, we all at times realize that they cannot think that buckskin hand bags. The way to identify whether or not any carrier can be a buckskin carrier or perhaps replica rolex submariner not necessarily? There are a few suggestions that we desire can assist you. Initial, normal buckskin confront provides a unique specific normal chanel replica routine. In the event you media or perhaps crunch the particular buckskin confront, there's no lines and wrinkles about it.

    ReplyDelete
  2. Other fabrics and also leatherette can include quilted polyester, crinkled nylon, fake chanel ripstop nylon, good leather-like PU with the help of organic upholster, and / or heavy-duty polyester 1200 Denier EVA molded hi-count clothes, PVC saving. fake chanel Typically the blinds are actually very similar to the rainbow, with the help of all color selection, make not to mention formation on hand. prada replica From acquiring over the internet, a vast range of concepts is to be found when ever on the lookout for elective travel and leisure purses because of a number of vendors. gucci replica Typically the purses include small move develop at the widely used over-the-shoulder pouch. fake louis vuitton An added widely used decision will be bit clutch i465 handbag constructed for a couple of cosmetic foundations, cell not to mention mandatory toiletries of which help a woman to enjoy a particular evening out and even little hike.

    ReplyDelete
  3. Hmm! Never heard of this news page ever before. If it’s informative post about Law grad charges. kindly share the link with me as well. Nowadays; I’m busy looking for process essay help from an online site which is why I’m totally unaware of what is happening around the world. So; some info from this news page will be quite helpful for me.šŸ§”

    ReplyDelete