Social Media

Feb 21, 2022 05:29am

By Allison Puryear

2 min read

Don't Worry About Your Follower Count

Marketing on social media can feel challenging. Social media can be an...interesting place, but it's also a place where our ideal clients spend a lot of time. Reaching your ideal client on social media can also really boost that imposter syndrome - wouldn't having more followers make you seem more authoritative, more an expert? Is having a low follower count keeping you from marketing on social media?

Just keep in mind, every non-celebrity you follow who has thousands, tens of thousands of follo…

Feb 21, 2022 05:29am

By Allison Puryear

Under Blogging & Social Media

2 min read

Feb 14, 2022 05:14am

By Allison Puryear

Under Blogging & Social Media

2 min read

What to do When you Need a Social Media Detox

The best possible thing you can do for your practice is to make choices that keep it sustainable. Is social media bringing clients in the door? Is it the kind of marketing you want to be doing?

Let’s say social media IS bringing clients in the door. Let’s say it’s your biggest referral source. Let’s say you DO love it but it can be a bit much sometimes.

The answer is ABSOLUTELY you can take a break. You can just take a true break and have a gap in your feed or you can schedule posts out ahead of…

Feb 14, 2022 05:14am

By Allison Puryear

Under Blogging & Social Media

2 min read

Sep 25, 2021 01:26am

By Allison Puryear

Under Uncategorized, Abundance Practice Building, Content, content creation, Private Practice, Social Media, therapists & therapy

1 min read

Episode 266: Advice for Creating More Online Content?

Facebook posts, blogs, Instagram Reels - oh my! Creating online content can be overwhelming, y'all - maybe even a bit scary. In this Ask Allison episode of the podcast, Allison is sharing her tips & tricks for how to make content creation both manageable & fun.

Sep 25, 2021 01:26am

By Allison Puryear

Under Uncategorized, Abundance Practice Building, Content, content creation, Private Practice, Social Media, therapists & therapy

1 min read

Jun 8, 2021 08:38am

By Allison Puryear

Under Content, Social Media & blog

4 min read

Private- & Hobby-Based Social Media

In some ways, the internet broadens our world and helps us connect with clients, market, and create a supportive and awesome community. In other ways, it can create an unintentional fishbowl. If your client is in their 20s, 30s, or younger, without a doubt, social media is a part of their lives. Social media is so mainstream and normalized now. Do social workers have an ethical responsibility to restrict themselves from enjoying online hobbies that “regular” non-therapist folks can? Social medi…

Jun 8, 2021 08:38am

By Allison Puryear

Under Content, Social Media & blog

4 min read

Mar 8, 2021 02:25pm

By Allison Puryear

Under Blogging, Practice-Building, Private Practice, Social Media & Websites

3 min read

How to Show Up As Yourself In Videos

It took me some time and some work to get comfortable on video - my Vimeo account is just a wasteland of starts and stops, flubbing what I'm saying, or just feeling like it wasn't quite there yet. I have a lot to say on this subject so buckle up.

In the Abundant Practice Builder's Facebook Group I posted one of the first videos I tried to film. My scripts were written, my content was something I was proud of. I was launching a program and I know it was super-helpful too. I borrowed fancy photog…

Mar 8, 2021 02:25pm

By Allison Puryear

Under Blogging, Practice-Building, Private Practice, Social Media & Websites

3 min read

Oct 30, 2017 04:45am

By Allison Puryear

Under Content, Guest Post, SEO, Social Media & Strategizing

7 min read

You're Already a Good Writer

If you’re a therapist you’ve already got most of the skills necessary to be a writer, too. You’re likely:

Curious about people;
Interested in sharing information and inspiration; and
Able to construct a coherent narrative.

That means if you want to write, you should. And if you decide to write and want to get it out there for the rest of the world to read and get paid for it, you should do that, too.

Before becoming a therapist I made my living as a freelance writer, which included a 4-ye…

Oct 30, 2017 04:45am

By Allison Puryear

Under Content, Guest Post, SEO, Social Media & Strategizing

7 min read

Aug 28, 2017 02:00am

By Allison Puryear

Under Business, Business-Building, Guest Post & Social Media

12 min read

Guest Blog: What Happens When You Decide To Write a Book

I've admired Mercedes Samudio's social media savvy for years. She's built an amazing platform around Shame Proof Parenting that I not only appreciate as a fellow businesswoman, but also as a parent. Her book is phenomenal and you should get it asap if you're a parent or if you work with parents or kids.

Mercedes recently provided a module for the Marketing Fundamentals eCourse in the Abundance Party that's all about publishing a book so I finally got to meet her outside of Facebook and she was a…

Aug 28, 2017 02:00am

By Allison Puryear

Under Business, Business-Building, Guest Post & Social Media

12 min read

Apr 24, 2017 05:00am

By Allison Puryear

Under Marketing, Social Media, Websites, conscious entrepreneurship, fear & online marketing

12 min read

5 Ways to Dance With Your Fear of Online Marketing

Daniel Fava has been a really helpful member of the free Abundance Practice-Builders Facebook Group for a long time. He’s a tech guy with a therapist wife and you can tell from this post that he blends the emotional and technological beautifully. He’s seen how having an amazing website helped his wife’s private practice and is driven to spread the love to others’ practices as well.

When I asked him to guest post, I was thinking more about his tech know-how, the kind of stuff that makes me glaz…

Apr 24, 2017 05:00am

By Allison Puryear

Under Marketing, Social Media, Websites, conscious entrepreneurship, fear & online marketing

12 min read

Apr 17, 2017 04:00am

By Allison Puryear

Under Mindset, Private Practice, Self-care & Social Media

7 min read

The Benefit of the Doubt

I’ve mentioned being wholly Team Locke so this post shouldn’t be a huge surprise. I’ve noticed a pattern in some folks as they’re in that scary building stage: a propensity to jump headlong into conclusions. I want to create a little structure to protect you from that because it’s not who you are and what you’re about (if it was you’d probably be super-annoyed by me all the time and likely unsubscribe pretty quickly).

Here are the top 3 ways I see this show up & suggestions on how to give the be…

Apr 17, 2017 04:00am

By Allison Puryear

Under Mindset, Private Practice, Self-care & Social Media

7 min read

Mar 27, 2017 07:00am

By Allison Puryear

Under Business, Business-Building, Self-care, Social Media & Strategizing

4 min read

Pacing Yourself

It’s so easy to go full throttle when you get excited about something. I’m the last one to tell you to dampen your enthusiasm… if you’ve know me at all you know my excitability and passion are not the most easily containable.

But here’s the deal: we only have so much time and energy. There are 1 million different ways to market your private practice but that doesn’t mean you have to do all of them. I’d so much rather you go deep on a few activities than to spread yourself, and your message, too …

Mar 27, 2017 07:00am

By Allison Puryear

Under Business, Business-Building, Self-care, Social Media & Strategizing

4 min read

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Social Media

Don't Worry About Your Follower Count

What to do When you Need a Social Media Detox

Episode 266: Advice for Creating More Online Content?

Private- & Hobby-Based Social Media

How to Show Up As Yourself In Videos

You're Already a Good Writer

Guest Blog: What Happens When You Decide To Write a Book

5 Ways to Dance With Your Fear of Online Marketing

The Benefit of the Doubt

Pacing Yourself

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