Marketing: How Patients Make Decisions And Why “Free Screen” PT Adverts And Promotions Rarely Work For Attracting New Patients

Lets do a little “psychology” lesson today… Following is a typical conversation that people have, most nights. In a nut shell, it explains away how each and every one of your potential patients make their decisions… …and when you read it, you’ll soon realize why it’s near impossible to make “free screen” advertising work (unless…

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Why The Physical Therapy Clinic Next Door Is Hurting Your Profits – Marketing Ideas.

There are many reasons why people won’t choose to see a Physical Therapist. One is, they’ve been let down by another, less than satisfactory therapist who did not much to earn their “copay”, except for some “ultrasound” and a couple of minutes of exercise that could have been done in a local gym anyway. Another…

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Omni-Presence – Why Most PT Marketing Fails.

In-cometh’ a question from “Long Beach” this week from a PT Owner interested in working with me. Word for word, here’s what she said: === “I have to be honest with you Paul, I am being a little gun shy from my past experiences working with other PT business coaches and marketing consultants. I spent…

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Why Most PT Clinic Marketing And Referral Programs Don’t Work

Comes a question from “Florida” about getting referrals: === “Paul – how would I go about firing up a referral program primarily online?”… – Ramon, Miami. === The answer? Start “off line”! Let me explain: See, a few years back now there was a distinct difference between advertising media that was primarily “online” (…Facebook, google…

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Email Marketing: What They’re Not Telling You About How Easy It Is To Get Referrals From Past Patients.

Comes an email from a PT Owner asking about my email strategy: === “Paul… I’ve been following your emails for sometime now… I look froward to reading what you have to say and consider you to be very generous with information you give away. I note recently you have mentioned “email marketing” as a means…

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Another MD Who Won’t Be Sending Referrals To ANY PT Clinic

Ever pulled into a “Truck Stop” for diesel or fast food and had the opportunity to get an appointment with an “MD”?… Not something you’d expect to have the chance to do, right? Well, you would if you were travelling up and down the I-81 of Virginia. See, there’s a small town doc over there…

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Confessions Of A Loss Of Sales From My Own Physical Therapy Clinic

Ever noticed a drop off in the number of people who don’t follow through on your POC?… Ever blamed “they don’t have the money” or heard your therapy staff saying “they say it’s too expensive” as the reason why it’s happening?… Well, I noticed something similar beginning to creep into my own clinic these last…

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Relationship (…And Marketing) Advice For Physical Therapists.

Let’s talk about “relationships”. No, not the “romantic” kind… …but the ones that you (should) be building with the endless number of people in your community, currently “suffering” with something that you can help. And I’ll do it at the same time as sharing with you some extra-ordinary results (just in!) from members of my…

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The New Way To Market And Grow A Physical Therapy Clinic

Did another “Radio” interview yesterday. My third in 7 days. And the exposure that I’ve gotten… and the “expert status” that is perceived from doing such live, on-air interviews – has been nothing short of “explosive” for my clinic. This one was BIG. I made it onto the “BBC”… (Turn on images to see your…

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