Anxiety Therapy Marketing – Facebook Live Event

It seems apt that I started to write this post on World Mental Health day as I want to talk about working with anxiety clients and how to conduct anxiety therapy marketing to attract this group of clients. The statistics clearly show that mental health issues are on the rise each year and more than ever before there are huge groups of people around the globe who need help from therapy professionals. In the UK the NHS is the first port of call for most of these people but with funding cuts and a reliance on prescribing pills as a solution there are a huge range of anxious people out there whose problems still persist.  As a hypnotherapist I know that it is possible to make a huge difference to these people but in order to do that you firstly need to know how and then how to attract those clients.

For those of you wondering the size of the market here are some of the statistics from just the UK where I am based:

  • Prescriptions for anti-depressants and anxiety medication has risen from 31 million in 2006 to 65 million in 2016.
  • 1 in 4 people will experience a mental health problem each year.
  • Only 1 in 8 people with a mental health problem are receiving treatment.
  • Medication is the number one choice for doctors in the UK.
  • Mental health funding is dropping year on year in real terms.

These clearly show that our current health systems simply cannot keep up with the sheer volume of people who need help. This is why private healthcare is a booming business and one that you need to be part of.

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Marketing for Mental Health Professionals

If any new therapist asked me what could make a difference to their practice I would tell them these three things:

  1. Be great at what you do. Solve problems and your clients will spread the word about your methods.
  2. Whilst you are building traction in start to implement a host of therapy marketing strategies to help you build your income.
  3. Create a passive income stream to insulate your business from seasonality and to increase your earnings.

As a hypnotherapist I know that most hypnotherapy training in the UK is relatively basic. It gives you the bare bones of what you need to do but has very little detail to make sure that you get outstanding results time and time again. This is why there are a ton of CPD courses out there to help us improve our methods and strategies. BUT not all CPD courses are built the same. Some have poor content, are generic and have little new to offer our clients which is why I decided to team up with an anxiety specialist with 20 years experience Steve Norton to deliver a Facebook Live discussing how to get the best possible results for these particular clients.

Do you Have a System? 

Steve and I decided to partner on this project because we have similar thoughts on how to get results with clients and that is by having a system or framework to work within. When you have a systematic approach to dealing with anxiety clients you can make sure that you have covered all bases to get the best results. Steve has created a four session protocol to help anxiety clients together with scripts, strategies, and methods to alleviate their worries and fears. With over twenty years experience helping anxiety clients this is the perfect program to use in your practice and we will be sharing some insights on his results and experience in our Facebook Live event on the 30th October 2019 at 7pm UK Time.

Lead Generation for Therapists?

So how did Steve and I first meet? Well around 18 months ago I helped Steve with his anxiety therapy marketing strategies and in a relatively short space of time we doubled his website visits and income! This is because I also have a marketing system that can be used successfully time and time again to bring in new clients. If a therapist follows this therapy marketing strategy then they are going to make more money, fact!  It therefore made perfect sense for Steve and I to join forces to create a program that not only shows you how to attract clients in the anxiety niche but also how to help them get great positive results as well.

Facebook Live Event 30th October 2019

Want to join Steve and myself to hear more about anxiety therapy marketing and practical steps you can take with your clients? Simply like my Facebook page https://www.facebook.com/therapymarketingexpert/ and write a comment to say you are interested and we will send you an invite to the closed session.

Therapy Marketing and Anxiety

Therapy Marketing and Retargeting Plus a Great Case Study

Therapy Marketing and RetargetingWell we are almost half the way through the year already. Time flies when you run your own business and we it won’t be long before the holiday slowdown so I thought I would talk about some techniques to get some customers in through your door before everyone takes a vacation. Today I wanted to write a post about therapy marketing and retargeting. Plus I have a great case study that I wanted to share with you from one of the therapists who used my Google Adwords course to attract new clients in Sydney Australia.

So What is Retargeting?

If you are not using retargeting in your advertising then you are missing a trick. This is such a simple concept yet so many therapists have not even thought about applying the principles to their marketing efforts.

Very simply retargeting means marketing to clients who have already shown an interest in your products or services on your website. Although we can of course retarget to people who may have sent us emails in the past or used us to help them before the term retargeting typically is linked with website visits.

You have probably seen this in action before but have never really thought too much about it so let me explain. Have you ever visited a website before and looked at certain products debating on whether to make a purchase and then found that when you left that website you suddenly saw adverts for the exact product you were looking at? If you use the internet then this is probably happening to you daily. As an example yesterday I was on a website printing off information about getting a new house sign made. Five minutes later on Instagram, an advert was served to me with the exact same sign enticing me to make a purchase.

Therapy marketing and retargeting can do the same for you but only if you set it up correctly otherwise you could be wasting your money.

How The System Works

When a person heads on to your website a portion of JavaScript “Cookie” is placed into the person’s browser. As they continue to surf on other sites this “Cookie” notifies retargeting platforms to serve up ads based on your browsing history.  So if a person comes across my website and spends time looking at my Stop Smoking page I can have ads set up to remind that person of my service. I can then follow them around the web until they eventually pick up the phone to book with me.

Although this is the simple version it is a little more complex to set up to get right but immediately you can see the potential. Remember only a small portion of your visitors will convert into purchasers on their first visit. Retargeting means that you up your chances of success of eventually getting that sale.

The Pitfalls for Therapists Remarketing

Firstly getting retargeting approved on Google Adwords is incredibly difficult because of the sensitive area that we work in. In fact, I bypass that platform for this particular purpose. I can totally see their point as well. Imagine you are browsing a web page about erectile dysfunction and immediately I start serving ads up to the person about my therapy to help solve the problem. Now imagine that this person lives with their family and another member uses the same computer and sees the ads. This means they immediately know something about a family member that should have remained very private.

Facebook however does not have such stringent rules and retargeting therapy is possible providing you serve ads in the correct way. If you purchase my Facebook Ads Course I show you how to use this lucrative form of advertising to get more sales and leads.

There are other problems with remarketing as well. Go back to the example I gave you earlier on about heading to a website offering house signs.  In this instance, I had already purchased the sign a month or so earlier. I was actually revisiting the site to print off the details for one of the builders because he wanted something similar on his house. The company that had served me the advert had actually already made the sale but were still spending money showing ads to me which were now unnecessary.

In addition how many times have you gone to a website and browsed a product to find it is exactly the thing you didn’t want. Now imagine the horrible product following you around the internet day in day out. If anything you are now put off ever visiting that website again as it has a negative impact on you.

The key to remarketing is striking the right balance between serving up ads that directly speak to a person but doing it for just the right amount of time so that it does not become stale.

Retargeting and Shopping Carts

Another useful area where remarketing can be used is when someone heads to your online shop and abandons the cart without finalising the purchase. Statistics show that around 68% of people never finish a purchase on a site which is a huge amount of money being left on the table. Reminding those people of your product can significantly reduce that figure. A perfect example of how therapy marketing and retargeting could make you lots more money especially if you are selling big-ticket items.

General Remarketing

As I said earlier even if you consider it too difficult to set up a remarketing campaign you can retarget customers using a simple email. Where possible you should be collecting emails of visitors to your website as well as people who use your services. If you send them offers, information on new services and general interesting updates you can get additional business. This is a no brainer! Remember it is hard enough to attract customers who spend with you in the first place. Once you have those customers nurture them and provide them with extras that make them want to buy from you again and again.

A Case Study

google adwords hypnosis marketingFinally, I just wanted to share with you a quick case study from a hypnotherapist in Sydney who just finished my Google Adwords for Therapists Online Course. This therapist is a newcomer to hypnotherapy and had just started a therapy business in a highly competitive city. He knew that just waiting for SEO to help him get some business was going to be a long process so he decided to buy my course on paid advertising to see if it could help him get some clients. He was happy to give his permission for the following statistics to be shown to you all.

On his very first attempt at creating ads his results were as follows:

Total Ad Spend – $914.09 (including GST which is 10%).
 
Total Revenue – $2740
Lifetime Customer Value – $342.5 (based on my first 8 clients – I suspect this will go up over time).
% spend on advertising – 33.3%
As you can see the numbers speak for themselves. In a really short space of time, he had attracted 8 new clients and earned back significantly more than he had spent in advertising. He believed that with tweaking he could lower the percentage he spent on advertising. I believe that not only could he substantially lower that figure he could also have significantly increased his revenue by selling programs rather than individual sessions. This is the power of pay per click advertising done correctly.
Just as an interesting aside this means that this therapist made back over twenty times the cost of my course on his first attempt. Not a bad investment especially when similar or even better results can be repeated time and time again.
Of course, not everyone gets this right first time and without guidance, I have seen people make some horrible errors and lose lots of money because they did not understand what they were doing. Those same people believed that Adwords was simply not worth the money when in fact it was them who had the problem rather than the system. Be careful dabbling in something you don’t understand!
Until the next time

Back to School – Website Marketing for Therapists

Therapy marketing WebsitesIf you are in the UK you will know that today is the first day back at school after the long summer holidays. This does not just apply to children but to adults as well so I thought this would be the perfect time to launch my first online course for therapists. One of the biggest issues that I see time and time again is therapists making fundamental mistakes with their website design and content. This is a huge issue as your website is now usually the number one marketing tool for your business. Get it right and you have great foundations on which to build your empire but get it wrong and you may as well go back to your old day job. So I have created a course called “Turn Your Therapy Website Into a Client Magnet” that is especially designed for website marketing for therapists.

Before I explain a little bit more about the course I want to firstly thank those therapists who took the time out to send me their websites so that I could use them in the video content. I had a great response and it would have been great to use them all but in the end I settled on two websites in particular one from the US and another from Australia. I will be sending a short thank you note to the other hypnotherapy business owners over the next couple of days to give them some advice on what they can do to boost their website and business.

Common Therapy Website Problems

Firstly I thought I should mention that of all the websites that were sent over to me there were a number of common problems that appeared time and time again.

  • The therapist has decided to create their own website and has done it badly! This was generally due to a lack of website design skills and saving money. So here is my opinion. If you can’t be bothered to spend money creating a website or going to classes to learn how then don’t bother at all. I know this sounds harsh but the reality is that if your website stinks then it makes your business look bad and won’t make you any money. I am not sure what it is about therapy that makes people think it is ok to do this but it is a huge problem.  You have to invest in your success. If you own a shop you get the best premises, signage and stock. If you are a plumber you need a reliable van, tools and website. These things cost money!!! Setting up a therapy business is relatively cheap in comparison to many other businesses so save up and do it right.
  • Therapists do not bother to put their location on the first page of their website or in some cases on it at all. Now I am not sure if they think that their clients and Google are mind readers but without this information nobody knows where you are. This is basic stuff! People are on your website in most cases for a period of seconds. If they can’t see that you are near them then they are off elsewhere like a shot. The same applies to the Google bots that search your website for clues as to where to place you in the rankings. If a client enters in a search “Hypnosis in Adelaide” then the bot has search your website for that keyword and will show all the listings which have that term in the page. If your website does not say where you are then your website is consigned to an internet black hole! Start to think like the people searching for your website and what you might need to add to your website to help them find you.

Therapy Website Marketing Online Course

Website marketing for therapists is so crucial to your business success that I have created an online course which contains over two hours of video lessons plus information sheets to help you create the perfect platform for your business. I believe that the information contained in the course can make a huge difference to a therapy business and its ability to get found in the Search Engines as well as assisting you to create a platform for making passive income.

I am not a website designer (even though I have made my own websites) but that does not matter. Why? Because most website builders are great at creating a website but have no idea about search engine optimisation of the elements that you need to have to make a success of a therapy business. That means that even when you spend thousands of pounds getting an expert in to create your site it still does not create a great return for you. I show you how you can get a website built for under $200 and the content it needs to contain to act as that client magnet. I know what I am doing. As of this morning I was number 1 on Google in the US for Hypnotherapy Marketing,  number 1 in the UK  and number 2 in Australia. Not bad for a website that I update once or twice a month! If I can do this worldwide what can I do for you in your local town or province?

Build a Hypnotherapy Website That Gets Customers

Follow the tips and strategies that are contained in my online course and you will be guided through each of the important elements that your website must have.  These are the exact methods I used to create three successful practices in the UK plus they catapulted this website to one of the leading websites in the world for hypnotherapy marketing. So what are you waiting for?  The link for the course can be found below. I hope you all find it useful and informative and I would love to hear what course you would like me to create next to help with your marketing.

Marketing a Therapy Website Online Course

Turn Your Therapy Website into a Client Magnet Turn Your Therapy Website into a Client Magnet Online Course