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Can you launch and maintain a successful paid advertising campaign? Have you felt uncomfortable working with paid advertising in the past? Are you ready to fill up your private practice?
In this podcast episode, Joe Sanok speaks about advertising to keep your practice full with Luke Charlton.
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Meet Luke Charlton
In 2013, Luke Charlton (AKA: The Aussie Hermit) decided to quit his comfortable 6-figure/yr government job, move halfway around the world, and start an online business as a Coach.
Thinking he knew enough about marketing to survive in one of the most expensive cities in the world (London), he quickly realized this online thing wasn’t as easy as it looked. Through years of trial and error struggling and nearly going bankrupt, Luke finally discovered the formula for online success now helping over 4,000 Coaches grow their business online.
Visit Luke Charlton’s website, The Hermit Hole, and connect on LinkedIn.
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In This Podcast
- Deconstruct your beliefs about paid ads
- Basics for your paid advertising campaign
- Work with a niche
- You don’t have to give guarantees
- Luke’s advice to private practitioners
Deconstruct your beliefs about paid ads
If you have a service that helps people … particularly if you’re a therapist helping to solve a painful problem, why wouldn’t you be trying to get your message out in front of your ideal client and telling them about it?
Luke Charlton
Many therapists may feel uncomfortable investing in paid advertising because they think it makes them look “salesy” and distracts from the needs of their clients.
However, advertising your services is one of the biggest, most important actions that you can take as a therapist and a business owner because you are putting your practice right in front of people that can directly benefit from its services.
In a way, selling the services of your practice by advertising them online is a direct link to helping your clients heal and recover from their pain points. You cannot help people if they do not know about you.
Basics for your paid advertising campaign
If I’m running ads, I want to go for the low-hanging fruit in the first instance [and speak to those clients] that are paying right now and want help right now.
Luke Charlton
- Identify the clients that you want to attract right now
- Go for the low-hanging fruit and make it easy for people that need and want your services right now to find you fast
- Then, develop your content to attract the next layer of clients that are curious but not yet sure if they want to work with you yet
Work with a niche
If you’re a coach, consultant, or therapist, you want to pick a very painful problem. What is the one really painful problem that you can help these people resolve? Work within a niche problem or situation.
The more unique it is, the easier it is to actually stand out with your ads.
Luke Charlton
Additionally, by working with a niche problem, you can advertise yourself and just say, “Book an appointment here”, because you don’t need to sell it further. If you’re that rare and in demand, the clients will come through the door.
You don’t have to give guarantees
You’re saying, “Look, based on my experience and based on the other couples or the other people that I have worked with in the past, I’m confident that I can help.” That’s not a guarantee.
Luke Charlton
You do not have to “guarantee” results with your advertising, because as a therapist, that would be immoral and perhaps impossible in some ways. You cannot predict how a session will go.
However, what you can guarantee is a money-back policy. You can guarantee that if in 90 days a person hasn’t experienced some sort of transformation or healing with their problem, they can have their money back.
Make sure to check what’s legal within your state and falls within your code of ethics.
Luke’s advice to private practitioners
If you try new things, remain patient, and work with your niche, it’s almost impossible for you to not be successful.
Useful links mentioned in this episode:
- Check out the 28-step checklist!
- Visit Luke Charlton’s website, The Hermit Hole, and connect on LinkedIn.
Check out these additional resources:
- Level Up Series: Creating Products and Email Lists for Sustaining Additional Streams of Income | POP 835
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- Apply to work with us — a decision-making matrix for your next steps
Meet Joe Sanok
Joe Sanok helps counselors to create thriving practices that are the envy of other counselors. He has helped counselors to grow their businesses by 50-500% and is proud of all the private practice owners that are growing their income, influence, and impact on the world. Click here to explore consulting with Joe.
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