Where To Look To Find Patients Before They Call Their Network And Even Get Close To A Physician

Let’s chat about “Media”… (One component of the “Message – Media – Market”, Marketing Triangle). Because you need to know precisely which one you’re going to use to locate your “WHO”. Or, in reverse, you’ve got to know which media your “WHO” is tapped into – so that you can serve them highly specific messages…

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What “Avatar” Has To Do With Running A Profitable PT Clinic (One That Makes A Profit With Out Knowing Any Doctors Or Physicians)

In today’s “episode”…. Let’s talk about what you need to create a *profitable marketing piece* using Direct Response Marketing – something that if you master, will let you put an end to your worries of no doctors referring to your clinic. So, let me introduce you to something I call the “Marketing Triangle” which forms…

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Why People Choose Physicians Over Pt’s In The First Place – And What To Do To Reverse Engineer The Referral Process

So if I’m going to help you to defeat your number one business challenge – getting patients to your clinic in-spite of where doctors send referrals too – and achieve your business goals… …then “Direct Response Marketing” is something that I need to teach you some more about. So, off we go: First, think about…

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Marketing Tips For Physical Therapists Frustrated By A Lack Of Physician Referrals (And POTS)

If you’re anything like most of the other PT’s who I help, one of the challenges, (maybe even *threats* to your business), is from physicians and doctors. (Either setting up against you, or just not referring regularly enough). And I understand, how, if you’re a small town or independent physical therapy clinic just trying to…

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How To Write A Marketing Piece That Can’t Fail To Get Your PT Clinic Phone Ringing “Off The Hook”…

Pull up a chair…. And let me give you a REAL marketing lesson… …So I’ve told you all about the three different components of the *Marketing Triangle* that you need to know about to sharpen up your marketing tools and get more patients… (Market – Message – Media). And a couple times I mentioned something…

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Attention Physical Therapists : Why Marketing Your Services Doesn’t Work.

Over the last year, I’ve been hearing this term a lot: “Market your service”. I first heard it from a practice management “guru” I watched at a seminar in San Diego and I’ve continued to hear it ever more from companies advising PT’s on how to Market. Sounds easy, doesn’t it. Just, “market what you…

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Marketing Ideas For Physical Therapists: Why Offending Doctors And Drug Companies Is Often Profitable

Trying to figure out this marketing game is difficult enough… But if you’re doing it with no real idea about who you want to attract as a result of running your ad’s or messages, then it’s the equivalent of playing a marketing version of “Blind Archery”. Which, is a very dangerous (and costly) game. Now……

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PT Marketing Ideas: Why Newsletters Don’t Always Work

So everyone’s telling you to “market to physicians for more referrals”… And it seems that everywhere you look for advice on how to do that… Some company or other is “advising” you to send a monthly newsletter and promising you “85 more patients every month” if you let them do it for you. But here’s…

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PT Marketing Ideas: “What A Frustrated PT Sounds Like After A Lack Of Progress When Trying To Reach Local Doctors And Physicians For Referrals”

Frustrated PT (and email subscriber of mine) “Brian” writes: === “Paul… I’m growing increasingly annoyed by the lack of progress I’m making with trying to reach out to surgeons and physicians. And what frustrates me more is that everyone I talk to just seems to tell me to “market more” to them. But I’ve tried…

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PT Marketing Strategies: Getting Money Back In the Bank Quickly After You Invest In Advertising Or Marketing Activities

Let’s chat about “getting money in the bank quickly”. Because if you’re a “small town” clinic owner (like me), you’ll know the speed at which cash flows TO YOU, is one of the biggest challenges you face. And I wanted to bring it up with an example. Because what a lot of PT Marketing Companies…

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Marketing Strategies: How To Make Even The “Worst” PT Website Deliver More Patients – And Your Clinic More Profitable

I know many PT’s feel this same way… They’ve been sold a “fancy website” by a Marketing company or an expensive Web designer, paid a lot of money for it, and promised that they’ll get more new patients because of having it. Some are even told a BIGGER lie. Something that goes like this: “The…

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