Our first Website

December 23rd, 2011

When we first started as hypnotherapists’ I must admit the internet was something I had not really used. I knew that I had to have a website and I had no idea of how to go about it. I started asking friends for advice particularly the friends that were very into computers and IT. The confusing thing is that everyone’s advice was different and still is. In my opinion, the best thing to do is take everyone’s ideas keep the ideas you like and ignore the rest then DO SOMETHING. It does not matter what just do something. Fortunately, Pete likes doing things on the computer so for us it was simple. Pete would shut himself in the computer room and type away about all the wonderful things we learnt and all the wonderful techniques we know to help clients with giving up smoking, losing weight, fears phobias, anxiety, depression and as you know as hypnotherapists the list goes on. Now we needed some help in getting the website online a friend of a friend offered to do it for us at a small cost and so the first website www.hypnotherapyandtrainingthenaturalway.co.uk was born (WOW what a long name) we still have that name today along with others. The first website I think was good it did quite well for us and Pete was proud of our logo he designed it.

Now with the web so much more advanced it is much cheaper and easier to put up a web site, but of course, you will have all that advice to get through. All the should and should not’s. My advice is just do it; you can do it free. Whilst at a hypnosis conference this year I attended a talk by Jo Dodd’s www.jododdssocialmedia.com and there is lots of free advice on how to build your own web site. Jo specialises in social media and her site has lots of useful information. Go on have ago, one of the things is to start no one will read it, it takes time for your site to be recognised by Google You can make mistakes move things around see what you like and before you know it, you are on the net how cool. Then will come your first inquiry and that feels good an email from a prospective client.