25 Feb 2013
Recognised!
I went to a cash machine today for the usual reason. Whilst there a woman said to me:
“Excuse me are you a physio?”
Why yes.
“Thought so I’ve been on your website.”
Excellent. “Do you need any physio?”
“No.”
Ah well.
04 Feb 2013
Self-whorage
Hi all. I’m just looking at getting my work website up the rankings a bit and one of the wotsits they suggest is getting people to link to said website. Here’s a linky then:
http://www.friargatephysiotherapy.co.uk/
Feel free to clicky and even copy the link somewhere if you like. I know the site’s not great but it’s being worked on too. If anyone has any other ideas of stuff to tweak to get me higher up google then feel free to point me at it.
Cheers.
26 Oct 2012
Job news
Whee! I have just been offered a job in Nottingham doing Occupational Health physio for one of the universities (one day per week). Regular work and income puts me on a very sound wicket in terms of overall income. Really quite pleased.
10 Oct 2012
Busier
So far this month I’ve gone from one Pilates class weekly to running four per week (three at the mo, 1 more starting in November), patients have started coming through the door and feedback has been pretty good if I say so myself. All those Pilates classes are not in Derby so I should be able to find a venue and punters locally as well quite soon.
Fingers remain firmly crossed but the signs seem good so far.
29 Sep 2012
Getting Going
It’s certainly been an odd month. Work is coming is dribs and drabs. Some from other places some via google ads and the website. Organising stuff seems to take much longer than I expected. To get on google places takes at least a fortnight but at least I should be on the front page map if you google for “physio derby” now. Ads are expensive but at least you can track them to see how many clicks you’re getting.
Now I’ve finally got my business cards too. Took far too long via a major net based printer so will try elsewhere next time.
And then we come to payment systems. Urgh. At the moment I’m stuck with cash or cheque (or bank transfer I suppose) because getting a decent card payment system seems to take an age. It’s all ongoing but if anyone can point out a very good one that doesn’t need a card machine then I’d be very grateful.
But fingers are crossed. Early patients have particularly liked the stuff I always felt was missing from existing services (the use of video, more information than they’ve ever had before, more time for appointments etc) so I’m hoping word of mouth (and judicious spreading of further business cards) will bring a few more to me.
The surgeons who own the place now want me to do their website for them instead of charging me rent for the first month. Not sure that’s a great deal for me as the rent is very low at the mo but at least I can link the sites so we could get some cross-traffic. And to be honest I’m not rushed off my feet quite yet.
All terribly exciting.
08 Sep 2012
Worst job advert ever
As in many professions there is a journal for physios in the UK. At the back there are job adverts etc.
One of these in the most recent one stuck out somewhat.
“An opportunity has come up for a passionate, proactive physio…”
It’s in Derby too, great. But nowhere in the ad does it mention which clinic it is. Hmm.
“A sense of humour is non-negotiable”
Oh dear. This is up there with the “I work hard, but I play hard” school of thought only ever mentioned by morons. Whenever anyone says sense of humour important you know that their sense of humour is going to be rubbish. It’s like a manager saying “Now I like a laugh like anybody and we all have a bit of fun” you just know instantly that they will then insist on tedious tick-box management.
Ok so far so bad. Next bit:
Hours required will be mainly evenings and Saturday mornings.
So the rubbish hours then?
And to finish:
Please email a CV, motivational cover letter and a photograph to:
CV I get. What the hell is a “motivational cover letter”? Can you imagine the screeds stuffed with key words that people will be sending in? Horrendous.
And a photograph? Isn’t that generally frowned upon? What do they need that for? To pick a pretty, thin and sporty young female physio? To weed out the fatties and munters? Really not best practice at best, opening themselves up to discrimination claims at worst.
The final bit is the email address which is none other than:
passionatephysioapplicant@…..mail.com
How depressing.
27 Aug 2012
New World
Right we’re up and running now.
www.friargatephysiotherapy.co.uk is my new business’ website. It’s on twitter n’all (@friargatephysio) .
Could people have a look and give me some constructive feedback? The more the merrier. It’ll be very useful, cheers.
Now how do I get bumped up google and bing and etc? Feel free to search for physios in Derby, on Friar Gate, etc and click. Doesn’t that zoom people up the rankings?
Any advertising or search engine optimising tricks gratefully accepted.
If anyone local wants a free physio assessment in the next couple of weeks then do let me know as I need to test my systems (notes, camera stuff etc).
02 Aug 2012
Well this is interesting
It’s all getting a bit exciting now. I finished my NHS work a couple of weeks back and have been working on setting myself up in Derby. So far, many thanks to R, I’ve got myself a venue, a treatment couch, new PC, video camera and website’s on the way.
Other work is hard to come by unless I locum miles away (the whole point of not doing the Leicester work so hardly a great option). Fingers are well and truly crossed at the mo. Hopefully within a couple of weeks things will kick off.
29 Jul 2012
More help!
After the spectacular success of my last request for help here’s another.
I need a cheap domain name seller who includes email in the deal. I found one or two but they are telling me that I’ll have to pay extra to get email included. Is this right?
I was sure that it was usual that email was included but I’m not so sure now. Help!
25 Jul 2012
Video camera?
This is a plea for information from anyone who knows owt about digital vid cameras.
The set up I want is video camera to TV. I need the TV to show live video from the camera whether or not the camera is recording. I’d have thought this was normal but after ages searching online and discussions at a major UK retailer I can’t find out whether any cameras in my price range do this.
Any ideas?
Cheers all.