Start With a Vision

"Failing to plan is planning to fail."

This is true of all good business owners. Private practice is not exempt from creating a good business plan. While clinicians may not have to come up with an intense business plan like big corporations, it is ideal to create a vision that exemplifies your ideal private practice.

So what does a private practice vision entail? You want to envision what you want your practice to look like at its peak. Whether you want a part-time or full-time practice, where do you want it located? How many days a week do you want to be working? How many clients a day do you want to see? What hours do you want to keep? These are only a few of the questions you need to ask yourself in order to formulate your ideal practice.

Does this feel overwhelming to you? It doesn't have to be. Designing a vision allows you an opportunity to take your plan and put it into action. From this vision you can devise a formattable marketing scheme, and look at the avenues that will most likely produce successful results.

Still feeling overwhelmed? This is where we can help you sit down and figure out your vision! Go to Ask! Believe! Achieve! to learn more about designing your vision and building your practice.

Find Safety in Numbers

Ask! Believe! Achieve! wants to provide you with an opportunity to find support while setting up a private practice. I remember many nights where I felt anxious, wondering how clients were going to find me and how I was going to support myself financially until I got clients through the door. I wished I had a safe community to turn to during that time.

Support is now here! Ask! Believe! Achieve! has established a safe, private community board where clinicians can share their successes, trials, and lessons learned as you build your own private practice. Private practice can be a very isolating business. Through such communities (which are monitored carefully by the A!B!A! staff), you can grow and build your business with abundance in mind.

Join us and take the first step towards building your dream practice!

Internet -- How It Can Help You

The internet has taken over. Clients are having virtual affairs. Children are being bullied in chat rooms and blogs. And, marketing schemes are turning to the internet. Be honest with yourself...when you search for a business, do you tend to pick up the phone book? Or do you tend to turn to Google, Yahoo, or your GPS system? More and more, people are using the internet to find services. If you haven't looked at the potential of the internet, then you're possibly losing out on a huge marketing potential.

So, where to start? Websites don't have to be elaborate or flashy. The website needs to convey a message to your readers, that you are "the therapist" who can provide the reader relief from whatever pain they're feeling. If your site is focuses more on your education, theoretical orientation, and experience, then you're not connecting to the client and have a higher likelihood the potential client will continue looking for a therapist who will "get them."

Feeling overwhelmed now? Well, let us help! This is how Ask! Believe! Achieve! can work with you to integrate your marketing plan to include internet-based niche marketing. It isn't hard, but it is necessary to meet the needs of the clients in the 21st century.