Generated by All in One SEO v4.9.2, this is an llms.txt file, used by LLMs to index the site. # Trisha Torrey is Every Advocate's Advocate ## Sitemaps - [XML Sitemap](https://trishatorrey.com/sitemap.xml): Contains all public & indexable URLs for this website. ## Posts - [Smart Practice Blog](https://trishatorrey.com/blog/) - Trisha began blogging in 2006 about patient empowerment and patient advocacy, medical consumerism, safety, pharma, politics, and more. Searchable. - [Be An Open Enrollment Hero. Help Older Clients Sail This SHIP](https://trishatorrey.com/2025/11/older-clients-ship-programs/) - Learn about SHIP programs, then refer your older clients to SHIP to help them save money and prevent insurance problems in the future. - [Growing Your Long Tail Attracts More (and Better!) Clients](https://trishatorrey.com/2025/10/long-tail-more-clients/) - Use the long tail approach to help your perfect potential clients find you on the web. It will distinguish you from other advocates and make it easier to find YOU. - [Accept Medicare Reimbursement? 3 Reasons It's a Bad Idea](https://trishatorrey.com/2025/07/medicare-reimbursement-bad-idea/) - Health /Patient Advocates have an opportunity to be reimbursed for their work. There are reasons that is a terrible idea, detrimental to patients and advocates. - [How to Acquire Better Web Reviews to Attract Prospective Clients](https://trishatorrey.com/2025/06/how-to-acquire-better-web-reviews-to-attract-prospective-clients/) - Online Reviews are a crucial part of an advocate's ability to attract new prospective clients. Take these steps to maximize your successful new client outreach. - [These 2 Important Words Keep Your Practice Humming](https://trishatorrey.com/2025/06/two-words-referrals-busy-practice/) - Referrals in private advocacy have specific rules. So how can you continue to invite referrals, and let the referring advocate know they're appreciated too? - [Use Research Facts To Keep Your Clients Safe and Your Advocacy Indispensable](https://trishatorrey.com/2025/05/research-facts-safety-indispensable/) - As you learn facts from recent research, you can share them with clients to help make their medical journeys safer and easier, and your practice indispensable. - [Marketing Magic for Mother's Day in 3 Easy Steps](https://trishatorrey.com/2025/04/mothers-day-marketing/) - Advocates have a unique opportunity to do some successful marketing during many holidays during the year. Mother's Day is an excellent time to do this outreach - [How's Your Website Working? 21 Ideas for Improved Results](https://trishatorrey.com/2025/03/health-advocates-website-checklist/) - This free checklist will help you build a new website for your practice, or to update an existing website to maximize its effectiveness in the marketplace. - [You Offer Apples, But They Ask for Oranges. Now What?](https://trishatorrey.com/2025/02/apples-oranges-services-you-dont-provide/) - When potential clients ask you to provide services you can't (or don't want to) provide - here are 4 steps to help them, and improve your business success, too. - [2024 in the Rear View Mirror! 3 Life Lessons Learned](https://trishatorrey.com/2025/01/2024-rear-view-mirror-lessons-learned/) - [Instill Trust - Open Enrollment Can Boost Your Marketing](https://trishatorrey.com/2024/10/open-enrollment-trust-marketing/) - Open Enrollment time is a perfect opportunity for marketing an advocate's practice even if you don't know much about choosing the right health insurance. Here's how. - [Whoa! This Time It WAS Cancer. 5 Lessons for Smarter Healthcare Navigation](https://trishatorrey.com/2024/09/this-time-it-really-was-cancer/) - 20 years ago, my advocacy work began because of a cancer misdiagnosis. But now the "C" word reared its ugly head. What have I learned thru this journey that can help you? - [Don't Lose Your Shirt When You Go Out of Business!](https://trishatorrey.com/2024/05/dont-lose-your-shirt-when-you-go-out-of-business/) - If you fail to plan, you'll be planning to fail, and who wants that? Advocacy practices need an exit strategy. Here's why - and how - to get started with yours. - [The ONE Question to Ask Yourself](https://trishatorrey.com/2023/07/the-one-question-to-ask-yourself/) - How can you know if you will succeed as a health or patient advocacy professional? - [Trisha is BACK! (Sharing a personal update.)](https://trishatorrey.com/2023/04/trisha-is-back-sharing-a-personal-update/) - #Trisha Torrey has come out of retirement to continue supporting patient and health advocates and care managers. - [Motivate for Social Proof – An Advocate’s Very Effective Marketing Tool](https://trishatorrey.com/2024/04/social-proof-for-patient-advocate-marketing/) - Learn more about how social proof effects your practice success, and how to maximize its effect on potential clients. It's all about trust! - [A Long and Difficult Illness Leads to a Peace Deserved](https://trishatorrey.com/2024/03/long-difficult-illness-peace-deserved/) - [Create Advocacy Practice "Fitness" Goals for the New Year](https://trishatorrey.com/2024/01/advocacy-practice-fitness-for-the-new-year/) - Let's go beyond fitness for our bodies, and look at the tactics we can use to improve the health and fitness of our advocacy practices. - [5 End-of-Year To-Dos Will Save Money and Grief Next Year](https://trishatorrey.com/2023/12/5-end-of-year-business-tasks-help-save-money-and-grief-next-year/) - Taking these steps in December to prepare for next year will save you money and grief. They help you start the year right. Save money and grief, too! - [4 Steps to Creating Holiday Marketing Gold for Advocates](https://trishatorrey.com/2023/11/4-steps-to-holiday-marketing-gold-for-advocates/) - [Where Advocacy Rubber (Data) Meets the Road - The CHCAO Report](https://trishatorrey.com/2023/10/where-advocacy-rubber-data-meets-the-road-the-chcao-report/) - [Customer Service Nightmares? Improve Your Approach, Get Better Results](https://trishatorrey.com/2023/09/customer-service-nightmares-improve-your-approach-get-better-results/) - [Rev UP Your Practice Marketing Mojo with Open Enrollment](https://trishatorrey.com/2023/09/rev-up-your-practice-marketing-mojo-with-open-enrollment/) - Advocates can use Open Enrollment and knowledge of health insurance usage for marketing their practices and expanding their outreach to potential new clients. - [This AI Conundrum Can Put Clients in Peril](https://trishatorrey.com/2023/08/this-ai-conundrum-can-put-clients-in-peril/) - AI can generate content of interest to our clients, or to us professionals. But what if it's harmful information? How can we protect our clients and ourselves? - [Do You Need to Be a Certified Professional?](https://trishatorrey.com/2023/08/do-you-need-to-be-a-certified-professional/) - Advocates and care managers should understand the reasons for earning professional certification. It's not required, but it is necessary! - [An Effective USP Attracts New Clients to Your Practice](https://trishatorrey.com/2023/07/an-effective-usp-attracts-new-clients-to-your-practice/) - A USP, Unique Selling Proposition can help prospective clients understand how they can benefit from working with you. Here's a clearer explanation and how-to. - [What Do YOU Want to Know?](https://trishatorrey.com/2023/07/what-do-you-want-to-know/) - [How to Find the Right Coach or Mentor for Your Practice](https://trishatorrey.com/2023/06/how-to-find-the-right-coach-or-mentor-for-your-practice/) - Find the Right Coach or Mentor for Your professional advocacy or care management Practice - [Time for a Pricing Review (Are you charging enough?)](https://trishatorrey.com/2023/05/time-for-a-pricing-review-are-you-charging-enough/) - Take the time every year or two to raise, or at least review, the pricing for your advocacy or care management services. - [How to Choose the Right Mentor or Coach for Your Professional Practice](https://trishatorrey.com/2023/05/how-to-choose-the-right-mentor-or-coach-for-your-professional-practice/) - Hire the right mentor or coach for your health advocacy or care management practice. - [How Can Coaching or Mentoring Help Your Practice?](https://trishatorrey.com/2023/05/how-can-coaching-help-your-practice/) - Coaching / Mentoring can help you build your professional advocacy practice. - [Who ARE You? Jason Makes the Case for a Name Tag](https://trishatorrey.com/2023/07/who-are-you-jason-makes-the-case-for-a-name-tag/) - Learn why wearing a name tag can improve your status and appreciation from clients, medical professionals, and others you'll deal with. ## Pages - [Trisha Torrey, Every Advocate's Advocate and Every Patient's Advocate](https://trishatorrey.com/) - [Smart Practice Newsletter](https://trishatorrey.com/newsletter/) - [Resumé: Trisha Torrey](https://trishatorrey.com/about/resume-trisha-torrey/) - [Checklist Download](https://trishatorrey.com/advocate-services/website-reviews/checklist-download/) - [Request Checklist Download](https://trishatorrey.com/advocate-services/website-reviews/request-checklist/) - [Terms and Conditions](https://trishatorrey.com/terms-and-conditions/) - [Contact](https://trishatorrey.com/contact/) - [About Trisha](https://trishatorrey.com/about/) - Learn more about Trisha Torrey and her journey to becoming Every Patient's Advocate - [Website Reviews - Form One](https://trishatorrey.com/advocate-services/website-reviews/form-one/) - [Website Reviews](https://trishatorrey.com/advocate-services/website-reviews/) - [Success!](https://trishatorrey.com/newsletter/success/) - [Subscribe - Smart Practice Newsletter](https://trishatorrey.com/newsletter/sp-subscribe/) - [Let's Talk! 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