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They join us for free legal advice each week, but now they are making it easier for you
to get your legal questions answered, especially online.
Mr. Ed Herman of Brown and Crouppen is here to tell us all about the new website. Welcome
back my friend. It seems like it's been a while.
It has been a while since I've been on. I always say I'm like Batgirl on the old Batman
show. She wasn't on that often, but when you saw it was her, you knew it was going to be
a good episode.
Ooh. I like that.
Yeah, you know.
Take that Andy Crouppen. You're what we call a recurring character.
That's right. I like it.
You guys have been working on this website for a while.
You know, we've always had a good website, but the brand new website is really so far
ahead of the curve of what law firms are doing across the country, and I'm sure everyone
will soon copy it, which is fine, I think it's great. But yeah, if you go to GetBC.com,
you'll see it. It really is interactive, it's colorful, it's so easy to find the information
that you need, and it's got... well they've got a nice graphic over here... it's so good
if you want to stay conntacted, any way that you choose to be connected to a lawyer. You
can follow us on Twitter. You can become a Facebook friend. You can go to our YouTube
channel to be nostalgic and look at some of our old commercials. But more importantly,
if you look in the upper left, the "Do I Have A Case" section, for just a moment of your
time, very limited information, whatever you feel comfortable sharing, that information
gets shot directly to our call center that will have a lawyer review that very quickly
and get back to you in whatever format you want them to. They may e-mail you back, they
may call you on the phone, and it doesn't cost you anything. On each individual page
for the different practice areas, there is also a longer form that you could fill out
if you would rather give more detail online, and not have a long conversation. It gives
us a little bit more information, and we can give a more detailed answer, quicker.
You talk a lot about staying in touch with the firm, in touch with lawyers in different
areas of expertise. But when we first pulled that website up, I think I saw some prescription
drugs at the top. So I am imagining too that this is about staying connected to the hot
legal issues of the day.
I think, yes. And I think... especially, you know, the people who watch the show, you're
St. Louis people, we're a St. Louis firm. We're very in-tune with issues that can affecft
our area, our community. For example, if you go to our blog on there, you are going to
hear any kind of information that may affect us in our community or national stuff like
pharmaceutical recalls, toy recalls. I know that Toyota recalled because of the gas pedal
and the floor mats. I guarantee you that will be up on our blog today and people can get
all the details that they need. Last week when Andy talked about Tylenol, a person could
have gone right to the site and really gotten all of the facts that they possibly need on
that. And it's free. I would suggest that people put it on their bookmarks at home and
just have it as a resource. It's just a lot of good information; it's easy to digest,
and it was written... all of it was written so that anybody can understand it. It's not
a bunch of legalese.
That's handy. And GetBC.com is the place to go.
GetBC. It's just a little easier way. And also you might have seen on there that you
can click and get our VIP card for free.
Yeah, tell me, what's that about?
The VIP card program, we've had it for several years, and people love it. It basically is
a passport in our community. It will help you get a better fee when you hire us, but
it will also help you get discounts at about 100 other local businesses and it doesn't
cost anything to get it, and they are the kind of discounts you can get over and over
and over again. All of the people that participate in the network, it's not like, "Oh, I can
go one time to St. Louis Tanning Company and get a discount." No, you will get a discount
every single time you go if you've got the VIP card.
Very nice. Very very nice. And it's not... we're focusing on GetBC.com, but Twitter,
Facebook... they're everywhere, and I'm sure there's links to that through the new website.
Everything. Any way that you want to stay in contact with us, we have made it easy across
the board.
Check out the new site. We've posted a link to Brown and Crouppen's new website on ours,
GreatDayStLouis.com.