In this fifth alumni check-in episode of Marketing Therapy, Anna answers two thoughtful questions from Confident Copy alumni about the “other” elements of a therapy website — the things beyond the copy itself that still deeply influence connection, trust, and conversion. From colleague endorsements to website imagery, this episode explores how therapists can make intentional choices that support both credibility and emotional resonance online.

Anna breaks down how to ethically and strategically use colleague testimonials, where to place them for maximum impact, and why Google Business Profile matters more than ever for visibility in both Google and AI search results. She also shares a grounded framework for choosing website imagery that helps clients envision hope, healing, and transformation — instead of reinforcing the pain they’re already carrying.

Here’s what you’ll learn in this episode:

1️⃣ How to use colleague endorsements on your website in a way that builds trust and credibility

2️⃣ Why Google Business Profile reviews matter more than website testimonials for SEO and AI visibility

3️⃣ How to choose website imagery that emotionally connects with ideal clients

4️⃣ The difference between traditional stock imagery and environmental imagery — and when to use each

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Marketing Therapy is the podcast where therapists learn how to market their private practices without burnout, self-doubt, or sleazy tactics. Hosted by Anna Walker, a marketing coach, strategist, and founder of Walker Strategy Co—each episode brings you clear, grounded advice to help you attract the right-fit, full-fee clients and grow a practice you feel proud of.

Hi there.

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Welcome back to Marketing

Therapy episode 72.

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This is our fifth alumni check-in.

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So if you're new around here, our alumni

check-in sessions are designed in the same

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way that you might have a check-in session

with a client after they discharge.

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It's a way for our Confident Copy alumni,

so anyone that has graduated our Confident

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Copy program to ask follow-up questions.

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So after they've graduated, after they've

perhaps written their copy and gotten

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their website out there, other things that

they're thinking about in their marketing.

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And what I would recommend to them.

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So this is exactly what I would

say to these clinicians if we were

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sitting down together one-on-one

and you just get to listen in.

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We've heard from many of you that

these have been incredibly useful,

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both our Confident Copy alumni

and those who have never joined.

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So I hope that this one is helpful.

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Today we're talking about the other

stuff you put on your website.

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I've got two questions, one from Becky

Wilson and another from Noor, and both

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are wondering about the kind of non copy

things that you put on your website.

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So Confident Copy of course, is

all about helping you identify your

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niche and then write really, really

compelling optimized client friendly

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copy for every page of your website.

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So your homepage, your about page,

your specialties, your fees, your

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methods, whatever that might be.

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Well, these questions are

about, okay, the other stuff.

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So Becky's is about colleague

endorsements, right?

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Testimonials from colleagues, and

then Noor's question is about imagery.

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So I'm excited about both of these.

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And like I said, the through

line here is the non copy things

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that get added to your site.

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What do we do with that stuff to

make our sites work even better?

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And how do we make sure that

they're doing their job?

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So our first question

is from Becky Wilson.

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And Becky asked, do you recommend

including colleague endorsements

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or testimonials on your website?

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And if so, what would you

ask colleagues to include?

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Where would you place them?

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You know, should you spread

'em out across various pages?

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Should you put him on your about

page, a completely separate page.

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What to do with them now to give you some

context, Becky shared that I'm trying

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to attract self-pay clients by building

trust, authority, and credibility.

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Dang, straight.

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I love that.

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Yes, you are Becky, and

you're doing great job.

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She said as therapists, we're also unable

to request reviews from clients, right.

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But I want them to understand what

it might be like to work with me

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through my C Colleague relationships.

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I've also been learning that AI is

changing the marketing game and wonder if

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this could help to show up in AI searches.

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Clients have been funneling to

my website through Psych today,

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but I'd also like them to be able

to find me more through Google.

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Excellent.

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So, Becky, lots of good things

happening in this question.

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You are doing a fantastic

job thinking about this.

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You're thinking about it in the right way.

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I love that you are being

mindful of AI and Google because.

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We're not asking clients

for reviews of your work.

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If you were a traditional

service provider, those would

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be included on your website.

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We call that social proof, and

it's incredibly valuable because

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people get to hear from people

who actually know you, right?

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That's why testimonials

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In therapy, it's different

because that's not an option.

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So colleague endorsements are a great way

to still get a little bit of that feel

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while staying within all of the necessary

ethical boundaries and guidelines.

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Now I love colleague endorsements.

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I think they are a really nice

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they're in general underused.

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I think that's something that anyone

who has good, solid professional

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relationships should be leveraging.

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But one thing that I would just straight

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here, is having a separate page for them.

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If I'm an interested client coming

to you, Becky, for, you know, OCD.

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I'm not going to click over

to your endorsements page and

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scroll through a list of what

therapists have to say to you.

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These are gonna be a lot more

valuable in context, right?

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So not just like a trophy wall of all of

you know these compliments of Becky, but

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instead some insight into how you work

as it relates to your specific specialty.

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This is not going to surprise anyone.

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That generic is not

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Becky's a wonderful therapist

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Mm-hmm.

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Not gonna do much for you, Kay.

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So specificity really

is the name of the game.

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You want an endorsement to

actually do some work for you.

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So when requesting an endorsement from

someone, I recommend that you ask them to

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name your specialty or specialties what

they know about how you work what you

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specialize in, what your modalities are.

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That could be a population you serve.

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Like encourage them to be specific

about what they know about you.

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They might not understand the

full scope of your practice.

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That's okay.

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Maybe they know you as an ICBT therapist.

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Okay, so instead of.

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You know, Anna is a really, like

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a warm presence in the room.

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Like something that would really

pull some weight would be something

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like, I trust Anna specifically

with high conflict couples.

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She navigates that dynamic with

real skill, and I've seen couples

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experience incredible growth as

a result of working with her.

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Okay, so the high conflict

couples, or Anna is one of the most

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skilled EMDR clinicians I know.

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I've seen clients experience real

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through their work together.

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So again, what you

treated, how you did it.

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Essentially, you want the colleague to

write some niche relevant copy for you.

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That also happens to be credible

because it's not coming from you.

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Okay, so that's my suggestion there.

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Now when it comes to placement, this

can definitely be added to your website.

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Like I mentioned, I don't suggest a

dedicated page and instead I suggest

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that they be placed into context.

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So specialty or methods specific

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those pages of your website.

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So the EMDR endorsement should go on

your EMDR page or the high conflict

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couples endorsement should go on your

high conflict couples therapy page.

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Because that's where they're going to

be landing with the most relevance.

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If you have something that's a bit

more general, then I would place them

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toward the bottom of your homepage or

about page and you can repeat them.

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You could have, you know, one

endorsement on your homepage and have

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it reflected again on your EMDR page.

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But we don't want them to be a hundred

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'cause then it can sort of start

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So we're talking about sprinkling these

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not dumping them in one specific place.

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Now, like I mentioned, this is good

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it comes to Google and ai, there's

another mechanism at play here.

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So while putting these on your

website is a great move, and there's

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literally no downside to that.

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It's not likely to really enhance

your Google or AI findability.

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What's going to be most helpful

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I've said it before, I'll say it again.

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If you are an in-person therapist,

you need to run over to Google

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Business Profile, create it

and optimize it right now.

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Literally one of the lowest hanging

fruits available to you in your marketing.

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And one of the defining factors about

whether or not you are surfaced in

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Google and AI results right now,

Google Business profile at this

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moment reign Supreme in a lot of ways.

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So the most powerful way to leverage

endorsements would be for those

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endorsements to be added as reviews to

your Google business profile, rather

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than placing their words on your site.

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And you could also do that when

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Those Google business profile

reviews are what are going to

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pull the most weight for you?

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They're third party verified,

and Google's gonna trust that

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a lot more than onsite content.

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They're still gonna treat what you write

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Whereas if it is submitted as a

review, that is treated differently.

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So that can impact your

local search rankings.

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That can impact your ability to

show up in organic results, star

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ratings, snippets, things like that.

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On the AI side of things, like I

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business profile, so that would

be the, definitely the leading.

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Suggestion here.

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The onsite endorsements could still

potentially contribute, but only

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if they're very, very specific.

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Because we know that AI tools are

reading for, as you mentioned,

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authority and credibility.

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Expertise.

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And so a colleague naming your

method, your population definitely

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does add indexable specific content

that is signaling that expertise.

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But it's not like it's gonna launch

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being surfaced in those results.

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This is where those generic

endorsements about having a warm

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presence or being a good therapist

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AI tools aren't impressed by you being

a wonderful therapist nearly as much

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as they are by you being a very skilled

EMDR clinician specializing in phobias.

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So to round out this question, Becky.

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Quality endorsements really great if

they are specific, if they are sprinkled

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throughout your website thoughtfully

and in context, and especially if they

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are placed primarily through Google

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copied that you put on your website.

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That's what I would recommend here.

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Now, if you're asking for a review, I

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Colleagues want to support one another.

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You should have an established

relationship with this person.

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And a lot of people don't

even realize it's an option.

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So give them a little bit of

guidance on the specificity.

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Request it in good faith, let it be.

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And then of course, if you know

how they are clinically, perhaps

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you can do the same for them.

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Don't put a lot of pressure on that.

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All right, Becky, I hope that was

helpful for you and those listening.

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' because I'm seeing more and more

clinicians you know, really thinking

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about this idea of colleague endorsements.

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So some good practical steps there.

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Now let's shift over to Noor's

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So Noor said.

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I'm wondering if you could talk more about

the feel of our website pictures, should

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they convey how the client is currently

feeling, or how they want to feel.

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Such a good question, Noor and

I have a great answer for you.

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She shared that she's been updating

her specialty page pictures and

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wanna make sure she's not turning

clients away because the, the

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pictures are too depressing.

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Now, my fundamental recommendation when

it comes to choosing imagery for your

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website is that almost universally this

imagery should communicate to clients

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where they want to go, not remind them of

the pain that they're already living in.

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I kind of giggle at the example of, you

know, landing on an anxiety page and

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there being a picture of a woman with

her head in her hands or like pulling

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her hair out, or a depression page and

it's someone staring at a rainy window

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with like their hand on the window.

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You know what I'm talking about?

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Like those really kind

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That's what we're avoiding here.

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When I land on your website, I want to

be able to see myself in the imagery

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as an element of vision casting.

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I want to feel that way.

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Now there is a time and a place to

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where they find themselves right now.

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But the overarching theme in the imagery

that you choose should be positive.

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Your client is already on your

site feeling that way, right?

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We're gonna use the words to

empathize and to prove our

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understanding of what's going on.

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The images don't need to

necessarily depict that struggle

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back to them in that way.

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So instead, show them what's

possible through your work together.

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Not remind them of where they are today.

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I want them to look at your images and

think that's what I want for my life.

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Not, oh yeah, that's what I did yesterday.

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You know, so my thought for you

here, Noor, is that if you feel

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like your images are too depressing,

they're probably too depressing.

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And I would encourage

you to look at those.

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There are two things to sort

of diagnose this one, is it the

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subject of the image itself?

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Like that staring at a rainy window?

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Okay.

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Or is it just kind of the

composition or the aesthetic?

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Could it be a little bit lighter?

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Could it be brighter in terms of color?

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You know, could it be brightened up?

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Composition wise without

changing the subject entirely.

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So those are sort of the

two things to look at.

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Like I said, we're all trying to

stay away from those really standard

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cringey stock photos these days.

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We want things that feel a little bit

more natural, and sometimes it's just

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a matter of finding an image that feels

more positive or light or hopeful, and

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the actual subject doesn't need to change.

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The other thing that I will throw

in here is that not every image on

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your website needs to be of people

when we are kicking off with a done

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for you client in a design project.

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So sometimes we'll work with

a confident copy student to

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build and design their website.

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Other times, you know, we'll, we'll write

the copy for them, whatever it might be.

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But when we're kicking

off the design portion.

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One of the questions we always

ask them is, what types of

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stock imagery feel good for you?

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One is the more traditional stock

imagery that includes people.

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So that would be, you know, a couple

walking on the beach or that woman

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with the hand on the window or

someone writing in their journal.

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Okay?

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Those are examples of traditional stock

imagery that include human subjects, but

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then there's a whole other category of

what we call environmental stock imagery.

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This communicates environment.

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This could be.

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A coffee cup.

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This could be a desk, this could be a

couch, this could be a sunrise, right?

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This is communicating environment.

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Sometimes environmental imagery is

way more powerful than traditional

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imagery, so don't feel like every

single image you choose on your

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website has to include people.

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In fact, we have clients who

said, I don't want any people on

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my website, and so we choose all

environmental, and it still ends up

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communicating the vibe that we want.

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So don't feel like you are bound only

to people imagery, but instead consider

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environmental imagery because sometimes

that can be a great option as well.

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Whatever you choose.

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Noor, I wanna acknowledge how wise

it is that you are asking this.

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Because most people don't

stop to evaluate it.

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Most people don't stop to think about

how impactful the images that they're

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choosing are when it comes to what

people experience on the website.

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Because we know that

design is subconscious.

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We know that visuals, right

pictures are worth a thousand words.

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These are powerful and we need

to be thoughtful about them.

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We need to be thinking about what

it's invoking, how it aligns with

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your brand, what the aesthetic is.

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And so I wanna commend you for

stopping and considering this.

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And now, like I said, if.

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If your gut is saying it's too

depressing, maybe we need to revisit that.

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Alright, that's our check-in

session for this month.

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And like I said, the through

line here is that everything on

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your site is sending a signal.

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So yes, your copy is the driving force

there, but the other stuff you add or

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don't add, also pull some weight for you.

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They're also saying something or

not saying something, and we need

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to be thoughtful about what that is,

whether that's an endorsement, an

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image, or the absence of one of those.

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Okay?

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We've gotta be thoughtful.

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So the question to ask yourself

is, is the signal that this is

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giving off helping someone take the

next step, providing context, or

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is it neutral at best, or

is it potentially hindering

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that decision making?

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That's it for this

month's check-in session.

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If you are a Confident Copy alumni and you

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Whatever you do.

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I hope this one was helpful and I'll see

you for next month's check-in session.

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Have a good one.