The importance of listing your law firm in South Africa
The importance of listing your law firm in South AfricaThe corona virus pandemic has disrupted every one of our lives with significant consequences. Germane to the consequences of the covid-19 outbreak are social restrictions and economic hardships that have restricted our movement materially and exposed us to economic hardships that not even the Global Financial Crisis of 2008 could surmount.While the global health crisis has forced most of us to spend time with our families, it has also resulted in an unparalleled reliance on social media and the internet for news update; social interactions and information on anything from how to make dishes akin to those we normally order at our favourite restaurants, to our doctor’s locations and lawyer’s offices’ trading hours. Reports suggest that internet usage in South Africa will move from 63.8% in 2018 to 80.8% in 2023, one can only wonder what the effects of the coronavirus pandemic will be on this projection.However, as commonly known, internet searches do not always produce the desired results; so often we enquire about our mild headaches only to find out that we might be suffering from a heart disease, or so google tells us. This problem is not unique to the field of medicine; one research suggests that 79% of customers prowl the internet with the aim of finding information about a desired good or service before making actual advances to procure such products. The problem is buttressed by unlisted local businesses and a lack of exposure to digital marketing platforms thereby making it hard for consumers to identify optimal value in a product offered by a retailer. Consumers face a challenge in unfiltered information on the internet and a constant threat from scammers and criminals.No problem is however without a solution. Many businesses have taken advantage of technological opportunities presented by social media and the internet to have a digital footprint and move with the times. In conventional fields such as law services, the advantages of technology have not been fully explored. The covid-19 pandemic has made it difficult for clients to search and find reasonably priced and excellent attorney services across all provinces in South Africa. Even in circumstances where a potential client knows of a legal help firm, they are unable to safely communicate with such a lawyer and attorney to reach agreements as regards the proffered legal services, price and appointments.Getlawyerd.com offers significant solutions to individuals and law firms that might find themselves in the kind of quagmire outlined above. The website offers legal practitioners an opportunity to list their lawyer services easily on the site thereby opening themselves up for the opportunity to have a digital footprint. The added advantage is that clients can visit the website to identify practitioners within their desired areas and communicate with such practitioners thereby assisting the clients to find their model practitioners and initiate contact with such practitioners. Furthermore, the website allows for certain qualifying legal practitioners to list their attorney services for free in terms of the covid-19 relief package to help alleviate the economic and social pressures presented by the pandemic and allow for those qualifying practitioners to acquire a digital footprint akin to that of their bigger competitors.https://getlawyerd.com/blog/2020/07/14/lawyers-legal-aid-south-africa/
