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Private Practice Challenge: Marketing in Private Practice
Today we’re going to crush some common marketing myths therapists get sold ALL. THE. TIME.
You know...myths like...
- Good therapists don’t need to market.
- More marketing equals better marketing - you have to say yes to every opportunity.
- Throwing money at marketing will yield better results.
Free Training & Over $3k in prizes for Therapists
Are you ready for some fun?
The work that we do as therapists is powerful and impacts us on every level. But, sometimes that work can be pretty exhausting and a lot of what you do and how you change people goes unseen.
Every year we like to celebrate therapists, private practice, and the launch of our Business School Bootcamp for Therapists with a free training and some AWESOME free giveaways! This year is no different and is including even more giveaways than last year!
Private Practice Challenge: Niche in Private Practice
In today's lesson, you're going to learn...
How to get ultra clear about who you are and what you LOVE to do.
- How specializing will attract people outside of your specialty and lead to a more diverse practice. (Strange but true!)
- How tapping into your passion will lead to more referrals.
- And so much more!
Private Practice Challenge: Fees
Get ready to...
- Feel confident charging a fair rate!
- Learn how fee setting will make or break your practice.
- Overcome common struggles related to setting fees.
- Discover how to select a fee that feels right to you.
- Learn how clients LOVE it when you set a fair fee!
Private Practice Challenge: Vision
In today’s challenge, we’re going to cover...
- How to offer over-the-top services your clients will LOVE
- What it takes to succeed in this profession. (And it’s not what they told you in grad school.)
- How to build a practice that has a BIG impact on the world!
January 2018 5-Week Private Practice Challenge!
Join us for this stupendous 5-Week Private Practice Challenge!
This challenge is PACKED with strategies, techniques, and mindset shifts that you can apply directly to your private practice TODAY.
We know free trainings don’t always align with your busy, busy private practice schedule -- so we've divided this training into five, self-paced, easily digestible sessions!
WOOO!
Each session will include a video training, worksheet, AND actionable steps (aka homework) that you can implement throughout the week. PLUS, if you watch the video the day it's released you can ask questions in the comment section, and we'll be in there throughout the day to answer you directly!
Tidying Up My Private Practice Step 6: Your Support Team
We aren’t meant to build our businesses in isolation though when you start your private practice, you usually think about it just being you, in your office, handling the business. In reality, it takes a lot of support to help you get to a place of success so let’s look at who is on your team.
So how do you build up the support you need? First it’s time to ditch…
Guest Podcast with Dr. Jeremy: Integrating Testing in Your Private Practice
I need you to meet Dr. Jeremy. Why? Because ever since I met him, I have realized how badly we need his kind of work in community. More and more psychologists are avoiding integrating testing in their practices because they don't know how to make it profitable, or if they do, they only know how to do it in a way that stresses them out. Even if you aren't a psychologist, this is a great conversation and if you have psychologists on your staff, then you want to give this a listen as well.
Tidying Up My Practice Step 5: Marketing Assessment
Wow, have you been following along and working through each week of the streamlining your private practice challenge? Are you making some deep change and tidying up that practice? We sure hope so! This week we are moving on to marketing!
A lot of people find us and join our Business School Bootcamp for Therapists because they want help marketing their private practice. They are often surprised that marketing is about much more than just posting on Facebook and that good marketing includes a solid business foundation! So, all of the work you’ve been doing so far has been preparing you for your marketing assessment!
Tidying Up My Practice Step 4: Time Management and Processes
Starting and growing a private practice can be a real time suck. There are so many things to accomplish and to balance the management of the business along with the clinical work, well it’s often something we don’t plan for. So all the management stuff gets shoved in between appointments with clients, or late nights after the kids have gone to bed.
In the beginning, it can be fun. It’s like finding a new love. You are all excited and have a new found energy. But over time, you get comfortable and maintaining that kind of energy long term can really wear you down.
Tidying Up My Private Practice Step 3: Business Boundaries
I know you talk about boundaries in your clinical practice regularly. From the outside looking in, it is always so clear. We can see the places that people aren’t speaking their truth. We can see the impact of putting other people’s needs before own’s in a way that is unhealthy and detrimental (as opposed to in a giving back, act of service sort of way). As we reflect, explore, and delve deeper we can often help our clients create that beautiful connection that lets them see the why and how of this pattern and develop new ways of being.
Tidying Up My Practice Step 2: Business Plan and Finances
When you imagine a business plan, typically an image of a 20 page document comes to mind, sitting on a bookshelf collecting dust, and it makes you want to run for the hills. My first business plan was a napkin sketch but in that napkin sketch were some key components that helped me be successful and I want to help you today figure out those parts so you can feel confident that you have your business planning basics down.
What is in a business plan?
A business plan is a live document, meaning, it will change over time but it is what you go back to when you get stuck on making decisions in the next steps for your business. For example, you may start out as a solo practice and then one day realize, you really want to add clinicians. So you will go back through this process and adjust each time you want to make a change.