Smart Local Marketing Starts with Local Business Directories

Local business directory listings are popular for several valid reasons. One, the old "Yellow Pages" book is dead. It's collecting dust or holding the door open!  Your customers are now using their smart phones to get local business information.

If your prospective clients are going to find you, you must be found online. Two, business directory listings are very affordable. These two simple facts make local internet marketing a must for any mental health business.

Therapy Insider offers an affordable and automated way to get your practice or program listed in 50+ local and national business directories. Our service is hassle-free, fast, and affordable. We call it "Insider Directory Listings." Our automated software makes local and national online advertising affordable and easy!

"Looking for an affordable marketing option? No marketing experience? Want an easy marketing tool that is mostly automated? We have your solution."

Understanding The Problem Most Mental Health Businesses Face

Is your business, practice, or program not showing up on the first page on Google? That is a problem! The good news is that we have the solution. But before we jump into the solution, let's understand the problem that you face, and how to over come this problem.

Let's say you own a mental health business and you want a greater presence in Google. No problem.. (Just kidding.. That was a hint of sarcasm. It actually can be very problematic). The way to get your business to show up on the first page of Google is "optimization." You must optimize your name, your businesses' name, and be seen as a credible business authority. Or, you won't be found in Google.

"The best way to gain credibility with Google is to get listed in ALL the business directories."

If you want to bolster your local online advertising, then your business must be listed in ALL the local directories in your area. Getting listed is the first step of optimization. Are you listed? You can check by using our easy tool...

There are over 60 standard online business directories with which your company should be listed. 60 Directorys? Are you kidding me? No, we are not kidding. But don't worry, we have a solution... just hold on a minute.

Realize that you have competition. Meaning, if you are in San Antonio, Texas, or San Diego, California, there are over 200 mental health professionals vying for a high ranking in Google. Even in small towns, mental health practices are lumped into one category. In a small town you might be in competition with 25 or more mental health related businesses.

The major problem with getting listed in 60+ business directories is two-fold. One, it takes a lot of time. Two, organization and management of your listings.  You'll have to keep track of all the directories, their URL's, and your login credentials. If you ever have to make a change or edit, you will have to go back to each directory, login, and make the update.

The Solution - "Insider Local Listings"

Therapy Insider's "Insider Local Listings" service enables you to post, from one convenient place, all of your small business advertising information, which might typically exist over multiple websites.  Business information constitutes your busines name, logo, address, hours of operation, phone number, featured messages with a link to your site, and of course videos or photos. All of this info must be exactly the same across all spectrums of the Internet, or you degrade your credibility on Google.

"Insider Local Listings is an easy-to-use Local Listings software made with mental health businesses in mind."

According to Nick Wilson, an SEO expert with audiencebloom.com, having consistent contact info across the web is vital to your business. "If Google detects even the slightest formatting inconsistency, such as displaying 'Rd' in one area and 'Road' in another, it could penalize you with a lower ranking."

Taking Ownership Of Your Local Business Directory Submission

Advertising for your start-up company can be an exciting adventure ripe with opportunities; Local online marketing involves an often challenging and confusing set of tactics for any experienced business owner. Our Local Listings service addresses the time-consuming dilemma of managing and updating the plethora of business information stored in countless online data sources.

Our service provides you with a centralized "Yellow Pages" type location; Which in turn "casts a wider net," encompassing a vast online customer base that legitimizes your online marketing strategies.

"Ultimately, Therapy Insider has created a way to make the process of updating and submitting information to all the business directories much easier for mental health professionals like you!"

In essence, our Directory Listings tool condenses and consolidates the otherwise tedious processes of submitting and managing all of your local business listings. This, of course, can free up hours of time for a practitioner to be more focused on other areas of your practice.

Although essential for SEO and Geo-targeted search, many mental health business owners will not take the time to maintain 60+ online directory listings manually. And I don't blame them. However, our business directory listings service instantaneously scrubs the internet for all the potential sites your business could and should be listed, and provides an instanteous update with a single click.

In the end, while your time is better spent elsewhere, our time is spent promoting your company by getting your business out there to your local customer base.

For more information about signing up with "Insider Local Listings," click here.