A True Revolution in Mental Healthcare.

The blog articles you write are instantly syndicated to your Website's visitors and other Websites around the world.

When someone who is visiting your Website has an RSS reader (it is now a standard feature in Microsoft Internet Exporer 7), they are notified that you have a feed to which they can subscribe. Excerpts of your articles appear on people's RSS reader as well as on other Websites. Included with the excerpt is a link to your TherapyHosting.com Website.

Now … picture your blog articles included in thousands of other people’s blogs, which in turn are included in even more people’s blogs.  This is the most effective way to generate traffic to your Website that is made up of people looking specifically for the kind of information and services you choose to provide.  And here is the most remarkable fact:

You, as a therapist, have an incredible advantage over even the most successful bloggers. 

• Your expertise places you in a very unique and advantageous position – everyone has issues that can be helped with psychotherapy.
• In America alone, over half the population accesses the Internet to research health issues.  The most common health term searched for is "depression". Use TherapyHosting.com's TherapyBlogger Social Networking technology to make your information and services readily available to these searchers.

• The ability for your Website visitors to subscribe to your RSS feed, so that they are "streamed" your blog articles every time you update them. This saves your visitors the frustration of checking back with your Webste, only to find that there hasn't been an update. Pretty soon,people stop coming back.
  
  RSS changes that - now, when they visit, their RSS Reader (Microsoft Internet Explorer 7 has one built-in) detects your RSS feed and asks them if they want to subscribe. If they like your information, they will. Now, anytime you add an entry, they are notified automatically. They read an excerpt in their RSS Reader and click your Website link for the rest of your article. Market your products and services at the end of every article to direct visitors to your revenue sources.
  
  
• Your RSS Feed becomes integrated into other people's blogs. Each of those people are integrated into even more blogs. The result is large amounts of Internet traffic made up of people specifically looking for the information you are providing.

   

• The Websites that post your RSS feed broadcast their own RSS feeds, which in turn sends more traffic downstream to your Website.  This “spider-web” of interconnected information creates the "highway" for this very powerful mental health social network.
  
  
• Create your own Social Network of providers. This can look like a mental health information super-source, or it can take the form of an "e-clinic". Trainees and Interns can benefit from more interactive access to professionals working in the field as well as from the ability to network amongst themselves to form support networks.
  
  
• Taking a different approach, therapists can create social networks to draw from each other’s complementary areas of expertise by including blog entries written by other therapists within their own blogs.  This provides Website visitors with a much more detailed information resource than what would be possible to create on one’s own.

   

  What you should write about.  As a therapist, your daily experiences can be subject for blog entries.  Remember, your entries do not need to be lengthy.  Here is a good strategy that makes your blog articles more compelling to both the news sources and their readers:  there is an endless supply of compelling blog material in analyzing the psychological context and impact of current events and the people involved.  Such a strategy will make your blog entries timely and newsworthy.

   

  How does this contribute to you financially?  To start, the increased visitors to your Website mean that some of those visitors will become clients.  However, Web 2.0 and social networking opens up a much larger door for therapists.  If you have written a book or have been thinking of writing a book, building a “fan base” by creating a blog will give you a tremendous advantage when you set out to secure a traditional book-publishing deal. 

   

  But getting published compared with what Web 2.0 can do for your career is just the icing on the cake.   You could very well write and sell an e-book from your TherapyHosting.com Website (an “e-book” is a book that is distributed electronically via the Internet).  You could sell tens of thousands of copies or more and since you are distributing your book electronically, there is virtually no overhead and all the revenue is yours alone. 

   

  Remember, the subject matter in which you are an expert is in extremely high demand.  Everyone has stress in their lives, everyone is depressed from time to time, and everyone has relationship issues.  Beyond the common issues, there are specialized areas of mental health that make your specific knowledge invaluable.