Support the Addiction Professional Referral Group by Attending Our Addiction Conferences
Let’s welcome the 100 new members below to our outstanding group of addiction professionals by introducing yourselves, and making them comfortable.
Please help support our time and effort of providing this group by attending or participating at our Addiction Conferences Executive EMP Series next event on 5/21/19. These conferences provide proven business and marketing strategies by proven industry Executive Thought Leaders. These events are in a unique talk show host, town hall forum. We look forward to seeing you there.
As always, you guys ROCK!
- Randall Moss,
- Kenny Gonzalez,
- Jerry Truelove-Summers,
- Kevin Carnahan,
- Gail Humenik Morin,
- Cindy Johnson,
- Kay Sack,
- Joanne Truglio Steffin,
- Kelli Halford,
- Cole Baxter,
- Mike Elewaut,
- Darrell Gilliam,
- Traci Bauer Schwab,
- Tammy Day Tabb,
- Cesar Rodriguez,
- Nancy Fletcher,
- Karin Smith Lawson,
- Emily Bockenstette Svoboda,
- Shane Johnson,
- Blake MacDiarmid,
- Branch Atkisson,
- McCruz Heather,
- Kevin E. Harp,
- Matthew Dunphy,
- Austin Travis Berry,
- Kevin King,
- Andrea Nudelman Kurzner Lcsw,
- Candy Carlsen Buffa,
- Amanda Greenberg,
- Britton H. Turkett,
- Stephanie Gimeno,
- Monica-Lynn Collins,
- Stephanie Tyson,
- Michael Johnson,
- Sarah Judd McGuiness,
- Cheryl Scott,
- AJ Simon,
- Kaley Lowry,
- Mike Simmons,
- Brian Roller,
- Haley Farnsworth,
- Vicki Martin,
- David Luichinger,
- Susan Street,
- Tristen Lara,
- Marcie Lynn,
- Lyndsay Gasser,
- Terri Smith,
- Don Adams,
- Brigitte Nicole Weilert,
- Carol Wolf,
- LC Schaefer,
- Angela Mastori,
- Sara Fuller,
- Pilar Garcia,
- Thomas Hayes,
- Guy Watkins,
- Jason Baumgard,
- Darlise Baron,
- Emily Schade,
- Mitch Bryant,
- Addison Dean Wightman Jr.,
- Aaron Domingue,
- Tiffany Rogers,
- Chris Sperrazza,
- Scott Granberry,
- Jeanne Munsell,
- Michael Stanislavsky,
- Tyler Forte,
- Stephanie Smith,
- Jess Schmitz,
- Matt Thayer,
- Lyndsey Vroman,
- David Neuendorff,
- Eddie Fischer,
- Damian Calmett,
- Natalie Martin,
- Cb Cabrera,
- Jrmy Cmpbll,
- Drew Russell,
- Jessica Sylvia Barbee,
- Jayme Quick,
- David Zumwalt,
- Chatsworth Pavilion,
- Sean Stowers,
- Nathaniel Smith,
- Alfred Dicioco,
- Joseph Andrew Young,
- Soo Borson,
- Michelle Weaver-Lepire Icon,
- Robyn Smith,
- Raymond Cody,
- Ellen Marie,
- Jeremy Miller,
- Elissa Castillo,
- Chris Mackintosh,
- Kenneth England,
- Jamie Johnson Abner,
- Adam Finley,
- Kenneth Cantwell
Get Involved, Be the Addiction Professional of the Month
Get active in the addiction professional referral group. Every month we will be highlighting one member as the addiction professional of the month. That member will receive exposure across our 60 social media groups. We will highlight their organization and services. A remark, like, and share posts in the group. The more active you are will increase your chances of being rewarded with this title.
In any job, position or role getting out of your comfort zone enables you to grow personally and professionally. This can be difficult because human nature gravitates us towards our comfortable circles. At many substance abuse conferences, you see the same professionals forming in the same groups. Yes, it’s wonderful to chat with our familiar circles, however, it should not dominate your time at these events. Getting outside of the comfort zone, obtaining new tools, business education and forcing yourself to meet everyone in the room is paramount in the state of our industry.
One of the best ways for addiction conferences preparation is to connect prior to the event. Most professionals in our industry do not do this. You should at least reach out to your A’s and B’s through LinkedIn prior to the event. Say you want to visit their booth or meet with them at the conference. This soft introduction says you are a professional and you are interested in meeting them. You will also get an idea of who this new potential referral source is and have some background information to reference when you chat at the event.
Behavioral Health Network resources have been an addiction conferences provider for the last four years. In that time we have put on over 14 conferences attracting 150-200 at each event. They have gained the attention of CEO’s and Executives with over 150-200 attending each conference. This unique talk show host, town hall forum has become extremely popular. These addiction professional conferences cover “HOT” topics and provide attendees a chance to “ask the experts” any questions on better business practices, billing, drug testing, licensing, DCF, Accreditation, treatment, sales, marketing, and any other aspect of the addiction and behavioral health industry.
Halfway houses, sober homes in West Palm Beach, drug addiction treatment centers have been under great scrutiny for over a year. The Sober Homes Task Force has brought regulations and investigations. The main focus has been to help protect the vulnerable using legal prosecution, heavy fines, felony charges and jail time.
Interpretation of any law should be made by a specialized attorney especially concerning sober homes in West Palm Beach. Relying on second-hand information or information from your peers could cost you dearly. In light of the misinformed emails, we decided to speak with Florida Healthcare Law Firm, a popular panelist at Behavioral Health Network Resources Ethical Marketing Practices conferences. This what they had to say prior to 6/27/18;
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That much is clear. What is less clear for sober homes West Palm Beach and drug rehabilitation centers is whether the FARR position will be used as another way for insurers to drive providers out of business. The sober homes regulation is just one piece of the many business changes for operators. 
We invited Florida Healthcare Law Firm to speak at our addiction conference on June 27, 2108, in the sober homes in West Palm Beach FARR controversy. They took a highly respected stance to clarify the FARR controversy in front of our 150+ attendees. They have accepted our invitation to our addiction conferences EMP Series events on 10/23/18. They will be updating on the new ruling and educating CEO’s and executives on where this ruling will be taking our industry in the coming months.
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There are several reasons why addiction treatment centers do not understand or utilize drug rehab social media marketing correctly for rehab advertising. It is partly due to the many marketing companies that say they offer drug rehab social media marketing. Many just take your marketing dollars and do very little. This is often done by the large 
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Behavioral Health Network Resources does more than say we do social media. We have dominated Facebook and LinkedIn by example for over four years. We founded our company because of social media. We took the time to intimately learn Facebook and LinkedIn. On Facebook, we have five profiles with 25,000 addiction-related friends and own over 60 addiction-related groups with over 200,000 members. This is the best resources for 
Big brother is watching the drug and alcohol addiction treatment industry on many different levels affecting treatment calls. The strict patient brokering laws that were passed on July 1, 2017, for 
For 2020 many addiction treatment centers think they cannot compete with the big players in the sandbox due to their lack of education on proven drug rehab marketing strategies. They see the bigger players spending over six figures a month on addiction treatment marketing and resort to a quick fix . The quick fixes for their drug rehab lead generation include a buy rehab leads strategy from drug rehab call centers, soon to come again Google Ad Words and the 
If the small to medium treatment centers did not waste their time and money on the short-term solutions but instead invested in a long-term organic strategy they would be much better off. It’s an interesting situation if you consider that many of the leads generated from call centers are not a good fit for the treatment centers. In addition, some shady drug rehab call centers sell the same rehabilitation lead to many centers. Once the center starts to complain they are not receiving treatment leads, the drug rehab call centers concentrate on sending a few well-qualified leads. And now in Florida, it is illegal to sell the well-qualified calls which are verification of benefits (VOB Calls.) If you are an addiction treatment center in Florida and are buying VOB (verification of benefits) calls, or if you are buying calls from a call center based in Florida you are at great risk including legal problems, felony charges, high fines and jail time.
It’s unfortunate that the small to medium size treatment centers revert to using AdWords and a buy rehab leads strategy. Consider this, pay per click accounts for 1.91% of the addiction treatment calls from page one of Google. Many of these calls are not a good fit for the drug and alcohol rehabilitation treatment centers. The first three organic listings on page one of Google account for almost 70% of the page one clicks. In addition, they need to be ranking in the Google 3-pack on page one. It takes time and knowledge to rank on page one of Google. Many of the large one trick pony marketing agencies who have a hard time retaining the best marketing talent gloss over these critical elements.
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We have hosted 14 addiction conferences in Florida on ethical business and marketing. These conferences assisted many treatment centers in Florida from closing their doors due to the new laws. California drug rehabs marketing laws were passed on September 27, 2018, with 
Social media has changed the marketing world forever. If you can learn one thing from this post (content is KING) it will put you down the correct path to ensure social media marketing is a big component of your marketing mix. Your business should have a social reach in the millions with your drug rehab marketing strategy. It takes big numbers to generate leads. Many industry organizations do not include social media in their marketing mix making it one of the 
Industry organization’s need to take the reins on these social media platforms and include their own staff to build an audience. If you’re paying an agency to market for you, chances are extremely high they do not have the organic audience in our industry (professionals, or individuals seeking treatment.) Ask them to show you their audience that they have grown for their business. This will show if they are leading by example and truly understand how to perform social media marketing. If you are paying an agency, you better make sure they are growing an audience for you that is yours, otherwise, once you stop paying for paid advertising you will have nothing to show for your marketing dollars.
Drug and alcohol addiction treatment centers expect instant results that they are used to getting from pay per click and call center lead generation. Their addiction center treatment marketing is dependent on the instant calls from these two short-term solutions that they have to pay for over and over again. Before the Google restrictions in our industry, there were about 75 big time players spending $500,000-$1,500,000 a month in that big boy sandbox.
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