Marketing Your Complementary Therapy Practice

This book is for newly qualified and well established therapists in all branches of complementary therapy. Being a successful therapist, particularly in private practice, requires good marketing skills, and the purpose of this book is to give you so many ways of marketing your practice that it would be virtually impossible to fail. If you use this book as it is intended you should be able to create a tidal wave of enquiries from potential clients, you can then let your therapy skills take over. This book will help you to: - PREPARE PROMOTIONAL MATERIAL; FROM BROCHURES AND BUSINESS CARDS TO LEAFLETS AND NEWSLETTERS. - DECIDE WHERE TO ADVERTISE; IN NEWSPAPERS, MAGAZINES, NEWSLETTERS AND OTHER PUBLICATIONS. - USE THE INTERNET AND ON-LINE DIRECTORIES TO YOUR ADVANTAGE - DEVELOP WORKING RELATIONSHIPS WITH LOCAL ORGANISATIONS, GROUPS, SOCIETIES AND RETAILERS - CONSIDER THE VALUE OF OFFERING DISCOUNTS, VOUCHERS, FREE CONSULTATIONS, OPEN DAYS AND OTHER PROMOTIONS There are more than 101 ways to market your practice. You will know that you are successful when you start to create your own ideas.

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Marketing Your Complementary Therapy Practice

This book is for newly qualified and well established therapists in all branches of complementary therapy. Being a successful therapist, particularly in private practice, requires good marketing skills, and the purpose of this book is to give you so many ways of marketing your practice that it would be virtually impossible to fail. If you use this book as it is intended you should be able to create a tidal wave of enquiries from potential clients, you can then let your therapy skills take over. This book will help you to: - PREPARE PROMOTIONAL MATERIAL; FROM BROCHURES AND BUSINESS CARDS TO LEAFLETS AND NEWSLETTERS. - DECIDE WHERE TO ADVERTISE; IN NEWSPAPERS, MAGAZINES, NEWSLETTERS AND OTHER PUBLICATIONS. - USE THE INTERNET AND ON-LINE DIRECTORIES TO YOUR ADVANTAGE - DEVELOP WORKING RELATIONSHIPS WITH LOCAL ORGANISATIONS, GROUPS, SOCIETIES AND RETAILERS - CONSIDER THE VALUE OF OFFERING DISCOUNTS, VOUCHERS, FREE CONSULTATIONS, OPEN DAYS AND OTHER PROMOTIONS There are more than 101 ways to market your practice. You will know that you are successful when you start to create your own ideas.

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Marketing Your Complementary Therapy Practice

Marketing Your Complementary Therapy Practice

by Steven A. Harold
Marketing Your Complementary Therapy Practice

Marketing Your Complementary Therapy Practice

by Steven A. Harold

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Overview

This book is for newly qualified and well established therapists in all branches of complementary therapy. Being a successful therapist, particularly in private practice, requires good marketing skills, and the purpose of this book is to give you so many ways of marketing your practice that it would be virtually impossible to fail. If you use this book as it is intended you should be able to create a tidal wave of enquiries from potential clients, you can then let your therapy skills take over. This book will help you to: - PREPARE PROMOTIONAL MATERIAL; FROM BROCHURES AND BUSINESS CARDS TO LEAFLETS AND NEWSLETTERS. - DECIDE WHERE TO ADVERTISE; IN NEWSPAPERS, MAGAZINES, NEWSLETTERS AND OTHER PUBLICATIONS. - USE THE INTERNET AND ON-LINE DIRECTORIES TO YOUR ADVANTAGE - DEVELOP WORKING RELATIONSHIPS WITH LOCAL ORGANISATIONS, GROUPS, SOCIETIES AND RETAILERS - CONSIDER THE VALUE OF OFFERING DISCOUNTS, VOUCHERS, FREE CONSULTATIONS, OPEN DAYS AND OTHER PROMOTIONS There are more than 101 ways to market your practice. You will know that you are successful when you start to create your own ideas.


Product Details

ISBN-13: 9781845284497
Publisher: How To Books
Publication date: 04/15/2011
Pages: 204
Product dimensions: 6.80(w) x 9.90(h) x 0.60(d)

About the Author

STEVEN A. HAROLD started his career in marketing before becoming a Clinical Hypnotherapist and Energy Therapist and setting up a successful therapy practice with clients from all over the world.

Table of Contents

Acknowledgements
Preface
Acknowledging the Message v Medium
Rejecting Marketing Ideas that Don't Work
Shooting the Messenger
Introducing the Elements of Copy
Ordering What You Write About
Recognising that Less can be More
Bringing it all Together
Refining Your Copy Further
Choosing Practice Places
1. Working From Home
2. Working from a Therapy Centre
3. Renting a Room
4. Providing Mobile Therapy
5. Buying an Existing Practice
6. Setting Up in Sports Centres
7. Servicing Private Health Clubs Working as a Corporate On-Site Therapist
9. Setting Up in Doctors' Surgeries
Managing Your Practice
10. Deciding What to Charge
11. Making it Easy to Buy
12. Converting Enquiries into Clients
13. Talking to Clients on the Telephone
14. Offering a Free Phone Number
15. Retaining Clients
16. Specialising
17. Assisting Recommendations
18. Providing Testimonials
19. Playing it Cool
Creating Promotional Materials
20. Designing a Practice Brochure
21. Creating Business Cards
22. Leafleting
23. Selling Therapy Products
24. Publishing Your Own Newsletter
25. Producing Mini-Manuals
Educating the Masses
26. Putting on a Fundraising Event
27. Working with School Teachers
28. Working with School Pupils
29. Working in Colleges and Universities
30. Liaising with Training Schools
31. Lecturing
32. Supervising Students
33. Running Evening Classes
34. Organising Monthly Groups
35. Offering Corporate Workshops
36. Working with Local Councils
Joining Directories
37. Opting for Yellow Pages
38. Choosing Other Directories
39. Assessing Talking Pages
Advertising Plus!
40. Advertising in Newspapers
41. Investigating Magazines
42 Focussing on Newsletters
43. Radio Broadcasting
44. Appearing on Television
45. Billboard Advertising
46. Using Local Authority Publications
47. Utilising Continuity or Breaks
48. Writing Articles
49. Running Competitions
Connecting With Organisations
50. Supporting National Days
51. Assisting Ailment Groups
52. Supporting a Charity
53. Speaking to Social Groups
54. Helping Religious Connections
55. Doing Volunteer Work
56. Dealing with Telesales Callers
57. Working with Driving Schools
Creating Health Contacts Plus!
58. Advertising in Hospitals
59. Working with the Emergency Services
60. Advertising on Doctors' Appointment Cards
61. Registering with the National Health Service
Utilising Networks
62. Creating a 'Board of Advisors'
63. Forming a Co-operative
64. Joining an Association
65. Building Networks
66. Using Mailing Lists
67. Building a Database
68. Joining Local Trading Schemes
69. Exchanging Therapies
70. Mentoring
Using Retail Outlets
71. Joining Forces with Hairdressers
72. Marketing in Shops
73. Promoting on Cafe Menus
74. Combining with Beauty and Health Shops
75. Campaigning at Shopping Centres
76. Teaming up with Specialist Shops
77. Reaching Supermarket Customers
78. Working in a Cafe
Using The Internet and Social Media
79. Setting up a Website
80. Listing with Search Engines and Directories
81. Utilising Social Media Websites
82. Authoring Web Articles
83. Participating in Egroups and Forums
84. Sharing your Expertise
85. Blogging your services
86. Backlinking to Rank Higher
87. Automating Customer Contact
88. Recording Audio, Video and Podcasting
Offering Extra Enticers
89. Rewarding Recommenders
90. Offering Discounts
91. Selling Gift Vouchers
92. Offering a Free Initial Consultation
93. Giving Free Talks
94. Holding Open Days
Adding Miscellaneous Ideas
95. Working at Craft Markets
96. Taking a stall at a Health Fair
97. Publicising your Practice in Libraries
98. Advertising in Sports Centres
99. Giving Away Promotional Freebies
100. Producing Bookmarks
101. Putting Flyers on Windscreens
102. Attracting Passing Trade
103. Advertising on Cars
104. Giving Them More!
A Winning Strategy
Index.

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Lesley Parker

An excellent framework from which to begin and come back to on a continual development basis. (Lesley Parker, Macmillan Complementary Therapist, South Downs NHS Trust)

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