How I Have Optimized My Website
If you are creating your own website or have hired someone to do it for you, here are some things to consider of how…
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The quick steps to getting a website going, without paying someone else.
First Steps to Get a Website Up For Your Private Practice
Creating a well designed website for your private practice is very important in marketing your practice online. It is the business card and face…
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Monthly Round Up Of Posts: August 2018
In the month of August we started an insightful Marketing Strategies series which looks at different types of marketing and how you can optimise…
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Content Audit For Local SEO
Local SEO is a unique breed of “cat.” The ranking factors are just different than in regular SEO, because consumers are looking for a…
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How to Market Your Private Practice Online
Q&A was part of Next Level Practice, the most supportive community for therapists starting a private practice. In this video, Joe answers the question based…
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Networking that is not Slimy with Theresa Leskowat I PoP 311
How do you plan on growing your business? Do you believe in the power of networking or do you think it comes across as…
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How Facebook Pixels Work
Q&A was part of Next Level Practice, the most supportive community for therapists starting a private practice. In this video, Joe answers the question based…
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The Future of Websites | Website Roundtable with John Clarke, Perry Rosenbloom, Joe Sanok and Jaime Jay | PoP 286
Ever wondered what websites will be like a year from now? Have you thought about what type of future technology would improve websites? In…
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How to Get Clients Using Your Website | Website Roundtable with John Clarke, Perry Rosenbloom, Joe Sanok and Jaime Jay | PoP 285
What’s the funnel that you use to get people to your website? And, once they’re on your website, how do you keep them there?…
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Low-Hanging Fruit on Websites | Website Roundtable with John Clarke, Perry Rosenbloom, Joe Sanok and Jaime Jay | PoP 284
Have you ever wondered what low-hanging fruit you could improve on your website? Do you know what the essentials to every website are? Are…
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What You Can Do While Waiting For Your Website to Go Live
Q&A was part of Next Level Practice, the most supportive community for therapists starting a private practice. In this video, Joe answers the question based…
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Counseling Website and Getting Clients with Perry Rosenbloom | PoP 271
What are the most common website trends within the counseling field? How can you grow your email lists? And, how can you successfully transition…
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How to Make a Website? Starting a Practice | PoP 263
In this episode, Joe Sanok speaks about how to make a website when starting a private practice. Podcast Sponsor Confused by all the advice on…
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Is Blogging Worth The Time?
When people ask me how to blog, it’s often filled with fear, anxiety, and worry. What is a meta description and SEO? Most practice…
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Top 5 Reasons To Create An Online Therapy Practice
As the creator of the Online Counseling Directory – a listing service for therapists who are practicing Tele-Mental Health – I frequently get asked…
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How To Get Your Practice Online
When it comes to taking your practice online, your plan should be determined by the desired outcomes you wish to achieve. Getting Started The…
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An Authoritative Guide to Improving the Customer Journey Through Your Website
In today’s day and age, practically every business is accompanied by a website. Not only do customers expect this, but businesses have recognized websites…
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PoP 217 Ideal Client 5 of 5 Environment and Vibe
Today, Joe Sanok speaks attracting your ideal clients, part 5 of 5, environment and vibe. In This Podcast NOTE: This podcast is for people…
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PoP 210 | How to Rank Higher in Google with Jeff Guenther
Today, Joe Sanok speaks with Jeff Guenther on how to rank higher in Google. Podcast Sponsor The future of relationship assessment is here. Created by…
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Should I Or Shouldn’t I Build My Own Website?
My Story Starting Off It started six months ago when I had decided to start private practice. One of the first things on my…
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PoP 190 | HIPAA and Tech Peace of Mind with Roy Huggins
Today, Joe Sanok speaks with Roy Huggins about HIPAA and Tech Peace of Mind. Sponsor Head on over to www.wecounsel.com/professional to learn more about the joint partnership…
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PoP 181 | 12 Days Of Practice: Five Blog Post Ideas
Today we’re talking about five blog post ideas with Joe Sanok. In This Podcast: I totally agree that blogging is one of the best…
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PoP 178 | 12 Days Of Practice: Two Website Questions
Today we’re talking about two website questions with Joe Sanok. In This Podcast: Am I in the right place? Can this counselor help me? The…
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PoP 171 | How to Optimize Your Psychology Today Profile
Today we’re talking about how to optimize your psychology today profile. Podcast Sponsor WeCounsel, a HIPAA compliant telehealth platform that connects mental health providers to their clients…
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How to Create a Blog Post in WordPress
Today we’re talking all about how to load your blogs into WordPress. If you don’t have a WordPress website and you’re looking for a…
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How to embed a video into a WordPress blog post
Knowing how to embed a video in a blog post is an essential skill to help rank higher in Google. Google ranks you higher…
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How to Use Google Trends
Google Trends is a quick way to discover keywords and decide which keyword to use. Use Google Trends to Compare Keywords So let’s type…
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How to Write a Blog Post Quickly
When I learned about SEO and blogging and how to focus my keywords, I went from the bottom of page 4 to the top…
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WordPress Installation: Step-by-step
Recently I had a five day series all about how to set up a website and installing WordPress. The Website Roundtable concluded a number…
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PoP 125 | Website Roundtable, How to Build a Website WordPress Tutorial with Joe Sanok, Perry Rosenbloom, and Aaron Carpenter
Welcome to Day 5 How to create a website, step-by-step In this final website roundtable podcast, we’re going to be covering start to finish…
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PoP 124 | Website Roundtable, Blogging for Beginners and Attracting Clients with Joe Sanok, Perry Rosenbloom, and Aaron Carpenter
Welcome to Day 4 Blogging and Attracting Clients All right, here we go into Day 4. In this chapter, we’re going to be diving into blogging…
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PoP 123 | Website Roundtable, Website Platforms WordPress, Wix, and Square Space with Joe Sanok, Perry Rosenbloom, and Aaron Carpenter
Welcome to Day 3 Website Platforms WordPress, Wix, and Square Space Well welcome back! It’s Day 3. So today we are talking all about platforms….
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PoP 122 | Website Roundtable, Website Goals with Joe Sanok, Perry Rosenbloom, and Aaron Carpenter
Welcome to Day 2 Website Goals Welcome to Chapter 2 of the Website Roundtable. Hope you guys dove into some of those vocabulary earlier…
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PoP 121 | Website Roundtable, Website Vocabulary Definitions with Joe Sanok, Perry Rosenbloom, and Aaron Carpenter
Welcome to Day 1 Have you ever wondered how to create a website for your counseling private practice? This podcast is meant to help…
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Website Roundtable
Website Roundtable Bios Joseph R. Sanok Joe is a private practice consultant and the owner of Mental Wellness Counseling in Traverse City, MI. He…
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Pinot & Practice
Click here to sign up for Pinot & Practice. I’ve had an idea floating around in my head. Here are the concepts: Affordability: I’m…
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PoP 112 | 16 Tips for 2016 in 16 minutes to grow your practice
In this podcast session, I do a rapid fire explosion of tips in less than 16 minutes. This is rapid fire and the best tips…
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PoP 108 | Hermeisha’s Practice Practice Consultant Roundtable
In this session, we discuss Hermeisha Hopson’s Jacksonville, NC counseling practice, Refuge Counseling. Julie Hanks, Kelly Higdon, and Miranda Palmer join me for the…
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5 Ways to Rank Higher in Google
When you are starting your private practice or growing it, ranking high in Google is essential. There are five important aspects of ranking higher…
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Ranking on Google
Google has always devoted itself to innovation and to helping users find content as quickly as possible. It is because of this that users…
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Podcast 88: Quick tips to grow a client base. An interview with Dan Wendler
Today we’re having an in-depth conversation with Dan Wendler all about marketing a private practice. Today’s Private Practice Sponsor Brighter Vision is the worldwide leader…
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4 Common Therapist Website Mistakes (And How to Fix Them) [Guest Post]
Guest post by Daniel Wendler of MarketingForTherapists.org The good news is that it’s extremely easy to launch a website for your therapy clinic. The…
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Cost-Cutting Strategies That Helped Me Build My Private Practice
Tres Adames has been a reader and contributor here for a while. He’s one of the first people that reached out to me on…
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A/B Testing on Your Private Practice Website
A/B TESTING If you have ever had trouble choosing a logo or color scheme for your site, A/B testing may be a great solution….
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How to Become a Consultant on Sugar Daddies | An interview with Dr. Harrison Davis
Today’s Private Practice Resource: This is such a great interview from the American Counseling Association Conference. Dr. Harrison Davis took time out for this…
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Starting a Private Practice | Your first month
Starting a private practice is really tough. When I first launched Mental Wellness Counseling, in Traverse City, MI it took me a while to get…
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When should I hire a website designer? #4 was really hard!
This morning I had an amazing meeting with Aaron Carpenter from Legendary Lion Web Design. For a long time, I’ve tried to learn…
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How to Rank Higher in Google an interview with marketing and website expert Sarah Barnes | Podcast 26
This is part 2, check out part 1 first Part 1 Summary In this podcast I talk with Sarah Barnes, SEO and website guru….
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How to Rank Higher in Google an interview with Sarah Barnes, marketing, SEO, social media, and website expert Part 1
Summary In this podcast I talk with Sarah Barnes, SEO and website guru. She is Director of Marketing and Communications at Campbell and Company…
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Marketing Concepts | How to create images for a blog
Marketing Concepts | How to create images for a blog When I’m working with someone on a website I am often asked, “Where do…
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Practice of the Practice Podcast with Joe Sanok episode 023 | Caller Questions about SEO, Passive Income, and Raising Counseling Rates
www.PracticeofthePractice.com/episode23 Practice of the Practice Podcast with Joe Sanok episode 023 | Caller Questions about SEO, Passive Income, and Raising Counseling Rates by Joseph R….
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10 Reasons I personally use Bluehost and 50% off hosting today only!
If you are launching or plan to launch a website soon, you will need to buy hosting. Or maybe you’re going to launch an…
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What a Facebook Ad Taught Me About Email Lists
You may have noticed that every 7 days or so, you’re getting a pop up on my website asking if you want my 5…
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Practice of the Practice Podcast with Joe Sanok episode 021 | An interview with Tim Marema from Daily Yonder about Rural America and Counselors
by Joseph R. Sanok Practice of the Practice Podcast with Joe Sanok episode 021 | An interview with Tim Marema from Daily Yonder about…
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How to Launch a Website in 10 days
Launching a counseling private practice website can be time-consuming and an energy drain, but it does not have to be that way! It can…
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What I just learned…the hard way
I have learned a lot lately. Most of it has been the hard way and actually probably helped me lose some money, connections with…
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Is your website terrible? Improve Your Website Quiz | Self-evaluation
How is your website doing? Are you getting new clients from it? Here is an assessment I developed to give you a quick look….
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Time to grow your business?
Act now! Save yourself hours of frustration, learning, and tedious work. It took me so much time to figure out how to link…
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Redirect your website for better Search Engine Optimization
Recently in a podcast I discussed redirecting URLs to go to your website. Following the podcast I got this email: Hi Joe, Thanks for…
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Practice of the Practice 003 | Launching a counseling private practice website Part 2
Summary Joseph R. Sanok: Counselor, Private Practice Owner, Marketing Expert, and Blogger The Practice of the Practice Podcast: Counseling | Private Practice | Blogging…
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Practice of the Practice 002 | Launching a counseling private practice website Part 1
Summary Joseph R. Sanok: Counselor, Private Practice Owner, Marketing Expert, and Blogger The Practice of the Practice Podcast: Counseling | Private Practice | Blogging…
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Intro to Websites | Bluehost and WordPress step-by-step
On Practice of the Practice, I usually make totally unique and original content. But, I am not too proud to tell you about things…
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52-week Private Practice Creation
I often get people asking me about consulting and how to launch their private practice. Also, I often have discussions with counselors in private…
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Website Consultation
We counselors often miss immense opportunities because of our lack of business skills. Our websites often look crappy and we need help with design….
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The Bartender Counselor
I participate in a few online communities on Facebook and LinkedIn. Doing so has a number of benefits. You can see what…
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Websites 101: linking hosting, domain, and wordpress
Updated March 2013 The more that I talk with counselors, the more I see that they are scared of setting up their own websites….
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Selecting a counseling private practice name
How to name a counseling private practice What’s in a name? EVERYTHING! The name of your practice should be something that reflects who you…
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E-book is now on Amazon!
Joseph Sanok’s new e-book! Practice of the Practice | A Start-up Guide to Launching a Counseling Private Practice A straight-forward guide to making private…
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How I Got On The Front Page of Google in 6 weeks
How did I get on the front page of Google for the terms “counseling” and “Traverse City”? I often get this question. People will…
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Five Ways to Market on the Cheap
When I launched my counseling private practice several years ago, I was brand new to the Traverse City area. I was coming from another…
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Socializing Toward Extinction | Integrating Your Social Media
My time almost became extinct. For the first three years of my private practice, I had only a Facebook page http://www.facebook.com/mentalwellnesscounseling I only had…
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Set Up a Business Facebook Page in 5 minutes
Many people want to get a Facebook page for their counseling private practice. For many clinicians, the whole process can be overwhelming. Recently, I…
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Save on Rent: Share Google Calendars in Two Minutes
In an effort to reduce rent, at Mental Wellness Counseling we share offices when possible. Since it is rare to have every hour utilized, I…
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Use your website email with Gmail in 3 minutes
Ever wonder how to set up your email to look like mine, where I have my website instead og gmail? Up until 2 weeks…
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Website Directories | Free (or not so free)
Website Directories | Free (or not so free) By Nick Erber There are many SEO (search engine optimization) strategies out there, so many in…
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Set up a website for less than $15
Step One: Buy a Domain A domain is the online “property” that you are renting. You can buy 1+ years and you usually save…
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