Monthly Archives: September 2011

SEO Drug Rehab – Now is the time to optimize your web site

Tis the season to be jolly, now in the time to prepare. January is undoubtedly the busiest time of year for drug treatment centers. It seems like everyone wants to start a new leaf when the new year comes around.

Since SEO takes time to index content and have it rank between now (Fall of 2011) and the end of the year is the best time to optimize your drug rehab center website(s). The reason being is it takes time to get the content indexed in the search engines, it take times for the social media networks to spread it around. it takes time to create the content.

Drug Rehab website traffic grows by at least 30% at the first of the year every year just like clockwork. If this is so, why not invest and plant the seeds now so you can have a great start to the new year?

I work with EminentSEO and one of our strongest verticals is Drug Rehab. We’ve been doing Drug Rehab SEO for over 8 years now and collectively have over 15 years experience in Drug Rehab Website Search Engine Optimization.

12 Step Program – Where did the Name 12 Step Program Originate?

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I couldn’t sleep last night and I’m not 100% sure of this but I stumbled across this Astro – Theology video on Youtube and this guy Jordan Maxwell said something interesting at about the 8:00 minute mark. He said that during the Egyptian times when the Sun came up in the morning it was called Horus, Horus walked across the sky in “12 Steps” and this is where the alcoholics got the “12 Step Program” from.

He goes on the say that the kids get the “12 Step Program” grades 1-12. He also said that this is where we get “hours” from by changing the name Horus to hours and this is where we get the 12 hours from. He says that the number 12 is “everywhere” in the bible and he is right. For example, how about a few of these 12.

Jesus had chosen 12 disciples/apostles plus him = 13 (13 that’s an interesting number too!)
12 Jurors bring the truth to light
12 houses/signs of the zodiac
12 tribes of Israel
12 months of the Year
12 Days of Christmas

and so on.

And we have the 12 Step Program to Recovery (According to Wikipedia)

These are the original Twelve Steps as published by Alcoholics Anonymous

We admitted we were powerless over alcohol—that our lives had become unmanageable.
Came to believe that a Power greater than ourselves could restore us to sanity.
Made a decision to turn our will and our lives over to the care of God as we understood Him.
Made a searching and fearless moral inventory of ourselves.
Admitted to God, to ourselves, and to another human being the exact nature of our wrongs.
Were entirely ready to have God remove all these defects of character.
Humbly asked Him to remove our shortcomings.
Made a list of all persons we had harmed, and became willing to make amends to them all.
Made direct amends to such people wherever possible, except when to do so would injure them or others.
Continued to take personal inventory and when we were wrong promptly admitted it.
Sought through prayer and meditation to improve our conscious contact with God as we understood Him, praying only for knowledge of His will for us and the power to carry that out.
Having had a spiritual awakening as the result of these steps, we tried to carry this message to alcoholics, and to practice these principles in all our affairs.

In some cases, where other twelve-step groups have adapted the AA steps as guiding principles, they have been altered to emphasize principles important to those particular fellowships, and to remove gender-biased language.[11][12][13]

What do you think? Is this where the name 12 Step Program originated?

Drug Treatment Marketing – How addiction treatment has entered into a new phase

In 2011 I have been approached by a handful of companies who are in the “traditional lead generation” business. The handle leads for “For Profit Education” businesses, mortgages and insurance. Since drug rehab is in a similar space because we have a “big ticket” product that can cost upwards of $10,000 per month and in some cases $50,000 per month we have now attracted “the professionals” in the big time lead generation space.

What does this mean for the mom and pop treatment center with 20-40 beds? It just means that your cost of generating leads online might have just gone up and/or it just might have gotten a little bit more difficult. It also means that you will want to continue to diversify your lead sources and refine them so that you are not constantly having to scramble to keep your census full.

It also means “opportunity” to get onboard with a “professional lead generation” provider and establish the relationship early. The reason you want to do this is because the cost of the leads will start to go up. They will go much higher as time goes on and the more that the leads are qualified.

Know your customer. Just having a lead come in that is someone who needs help for drug rehab is not enough. We need to find out where they are located, if they have cash money, if they have insurance if they are ready for rehab and drug treatment. Too often I see leads that are what I call “tire kickers” who aren’t really serious about getting addiction treatment and just want i9nformation on the next nearby AA or NA meeting.

Think about it for a minute, if you have a prospect who has raised their hand and says they have $20,000 and that they are ready to go into detox in the next 3 days and they have insurance this is probably a person many treatment centers want to speak with. Then there are the other considerations like dual diagnosis and their gender and their history and age etc. If you want help with generating leads for your business visit Addiction-Rep for a comprehensive list of services. Also know that I can bring you professional drug addiction treatment leads in abundance.

Alcohol Treatment – University of Wisconsin takes a different approach

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Whether you agree or disagree this is one approach that seems to work in some other areas of society, make ’em pay if they want to play.  What do you think?  Do you know which University or College has the best Alcohol and Drug Treatment programs in the nation?

The University of Wisconsin at Madison will require students cited for underage drinking to attend counseling sessions and pay a fine. Ana Kasparian and Jayar Jackson discuss on TYT University.