Comments on: 21 Things For Counselors To Consider When Building A Website

By: Tamara Suttle

Tamara Suttle — Wed, 07 Sep 2011 13:32:54 +0000

Allison! Thanks so much for dropping in to chat! I so appreciate you joining this community and allowing us a chance to meet you. Glad you find this post to useful. Wish I had had it when I started my websites!

And, thanks for sharing your concern about LPCs using client testamonials. I have contacted an attorney this morning for some clarification. (I was actually surprised to read your comment about this.) Stay tuned for the update soon!

By: Allison Schoonmaker, LPC

Allison Schoonmaker, LPC — Wed, 07 Sep 2011 04:27:35 +0000

Great article and good topics to consider! I’ve been intimidated by the time commitment for a regular blog but may get to it soon.
Just a note: depending on the type of licence a clinician may have, and what state they are practicing in, client testimonies may be considered unethical (as they are for LPC’s).
Keep up the good work! Together, we are all better!

By: Tamara

Tamara — Sun, 23 Jan 2011 15:16:37 +0000

Hi, Dave! Thanks for dropping by to chat. You are so right! Every one of those is really important, too! I appreciate you expanding the list! Hope you’ll be often to chat at Private Practice from the Inside Out!

By: Dave Hampton

Dave Hampton — Sun, 23 Jan 2011 10:44:24 +0000

Good list; unfortunately, the legal stuff is also important: Terms of service, copyright, privacy policy. Also take a moment to run an analytics program (Google Webmasters is one) that checks to see that your site is optimized for cataloging by search engines: is the robots.txt file and the sitemap.xml file present, for example.

As you say, it all doesn’t have to be complicated, just considered.

By: Tamara

Tamara — Fri, 09 Jul 2010 04:18:47 +0000

Practice Builders, welcome to Private Practice from the Inside Out! Thanks for commenting and sharing the link. I hope you will be back often.

By: Practice Builders

Practice Builders — Wed, 07 Jul 2010 06:29:54 +0000

Along with a website, you can take your practice to the next level with an e-brochure. You can email e-brochure, post e-brochure as a link on your website and send it across to virtually anyone without special software or a special reader. Excited !!!

Explore unique concept at http://mypracticebuilders.blogspot.com/2010/06/take-your-dental-practice-marketing-to.html.

By: Tamara

Tamara — Wed, 30 Jun 2010 17:00:45 +0000

Welcome back, Leanna! Oh, I so get the “too noble to market” thinking! Yes, and I’m old enough to remember when it was UNETHICAL for physicians and mental health professionals to advertise! Weren’t attorneys in the same situation? Even an ad in the phonebook was taboo!

I look for and learn about marketing from fields far beyond mental health – I like learning from attorneys, CPA’s, financial planners, yoga instructors, and other entrepreneurs so I’m really glad you are dropping in here. I hope you’ll be back often and share your knowledge as we continue to build our online community at Private Practice from the Inside Out.

By: Leanna Hamill

Leanna Hamill — Tue, 29 Jun 2010 17:40:01 +0000

Thanks! I found you through Susan Giurleo and Twitter (I found her on some blog or another) and I saw that therapists need to think about practice management as much as attorneys do. And I think we are both in professions that often see themselves as “too noble” to market ourselves. Although, I don’t know how else we are supposed to get clients since the days of being the “town lawyer” (were there “town therapists” in the old days?) are long over.

It’s interesting to see the commonalities between the 2 fields and get ideas for my practice from someone other than attorneys.

My practice focuses on estate planning and elder law, so I’m often wishing that therapists would have websites and a focused niche so that I could find the right folks for my clients.

I’m glad you are spreading the word about the importance of a site and its contents.

By: Tamara

Tamara — Mon, 28 Jun 2010 23:29:42 +0000

Hi, Karen! Welcome back! Yes, you are so right . . . otherwise visitors to your sites get bogged down with all the words and lose interest!

Hey – I just dashed over to check out your website . . . . I’ve been away too long because you’ve had a face lift on your site, haven’t you?! It’s looking good!

Thanks for commenting today!

By: Karen Carnabucci

Karen Carnabucci — Mon, 28 Jun 2010 22:15:22 +0000

Also, short snappy paragraphs so there’s lots of white space — making sites and blogs easy to read.