Apr 7, 2017 | Business matters, Marketing, Networking, Practice development
The following is a guest blog post by Rachel Bédard, Ph.D. In a recent blog post Mallory Griffith and I outlined the benefits of collaboration with other professionals. Collaboration offers a wealth of treasure: better clinical offerings, beneficial referrals for your...
Mar 24, 2017 | Business matters, Networking, Practice development, Professional development
The following is a guest blog post by Rachel Bédard, PhD (psychologist) and Mallory Griffith MA, CCC-SLP (speech language pathologist), who collaborated in its writing. We mental health professionals often collaborate with psychiatrists and medical doctors for the...
Mar 19, 2017 | Business matters
Getting started in private practice involves much more than finding office space and printing business cards. You need to be familiar with business regulations in your area, tax obligations and professional ethics. You also need to engage in business activities such...
Mar 5, 2017 | Business matters, technology
A couple of years ago on this blog, I posted: "Five Email Scams That Appeal to Your Vanity." Most of them are still circulating. Beware when someone writes that they're coming to do some business in your town and would like to pre-pay for several appointments with you...
Feb 15, 2017 | Blogging, Marketing, Presentations, Public education, Writing
Part of your outreach and marketing should include public education in the form of articles, blog posts, fact sheets, tips sheets and presentations. Of course, you want them to be accurate and current. If you apply a few advanced search techniques, it's not hard to...
