There are several ways you can utilize a blog to market your practice. You can start by posting interesting information on your blog that is valuable to your clients and potential clients. There is nothing like quality, fresh content to keep your visitors coming back to your site. Building relationships with your target audience is key to having a successful private practice.

You can also market your practice through your blog by linking to other websites or blogs that provide information that your target market wants or needs. You can be filter for your clients and potential clients, posting up-to-date information on your area of specialization so they can keep up-to-date with their areas of interest.

Posting comments on other blogs related to your topic can increase back-links to your website which is important for your ranking in search engines.

If you have a newsletter, you can have a sign-up box on your blog and/or you can put up a sign-up form so visitors can subscribe to receive notification when your blog has been updated.

Just like a website, you can also sell your services and products through your blog.

Blogging as a method of marketing your practice can be an effective method for building your reputation, gaining credibility, attracting more clients, and gaining more exposure. It can be a great compliment to a traditional website-- or if you don’t yet have a website, a blog can be a first step towards getting one.

If you decide to blog as a marketing strategy for your private practice, you might want to peruse blogosphere (the community of blogs on web) so you can get a better feel for blogging and types of blogs that exist.

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© Juliet Austin, 2005

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Juliet Austin is a Marketing Coach, Consultant and Copywriter who assists counselors, therapists, alternative health professionals, and socially responsible businesses in marketing their businesses.

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5.Professional Help. Don’t try to do everything yourself. When in business of any nature, you need help from others, especially those that are professional to your line of business. Get relevant soft wares, hard wares and even skills and advices.

6.Don’t re-invent wheel. Especially if you are new to internet business, follow what others are doing. Go with flow and don’t try to change how online business works.

7.Interactivity. Don’t ignore feedbacks received. If you ignore what customers say, you are sure to pay for this great mistake.

8.Security. Don’t take security on internet for granted. Guard yourself against fraud and install security measures.

9.Stay within Law. Respect Law of land, or world at large. Breaching Copyright, obscenity and even misleading advertisements can land your and your business in trouble.

10.Spamming. Sending indiscriminating emails, advertisements are a nuisance everyone hates. This is most unpopular mean of promotion. Anyway, it is least effective also. Just Don’t Do It.

In conclusion, before you take action to start an online business, be sure to take necessary time to learn what internet offers, determine how you can best use it, and develop a detailed marketing plan, and conduct necessary research for you to take a well organized approach to your overall marketing efforts.

This is E K Gann. My aim here is to work together and help others

starting business online. Especially beginners who are facing problems

and difficulties getting resources, and those in need for Personal

Developnmen.