Hello all,

Well, a fun week for me in the “getting the word out about hypnosis” department.

Last Monday's talk seemed to go over OK. One important lesson there – never pre-judge your audience. The average age was very much on the “mature” side, as their coordinator had told me to expect leading me to wonder prior to the talk how they would react to hearing about an alternative therapy. I had accepted with the idea that some would have younger relatives etc. who they might pass the word onto.

Turned out that when asked, 3 of the 25 present to my surprise had already experienced hypnosis and stood up to tell the rest of the group about it. Result – appointment requests from both those present as well as later from their younger family members to whom they had passed the word on to.

Also completed my first Hypnosis Video for my web site (ask-the-hypnotist.com). I am planning a series of short videos to explain Hypnosis to my web site visitors. The contents will not be news to anyone here but I have uploaded it as an example of what you can do with a simple camera and some free software. I still have lots to learn in terms of presenting style but from it you can see that no one here should be intimidated by the technology. I think video will be another great tool for letting your potential clients get to feel comfortable enough to pick up the phone to call you. I was also surprised that people are already actually finding it among the millions of videos on Youtube! Any constructive feedback (thank you Celeste – she saw a preview!) always helpful and welcome.

Stephen