{"id":1759,"date":"2010-12-19T10:46:56","date_gmt":"2010-12-19T15:46:56","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.privatepracticemarketingroundtable.com\/ppmr-members\/?p=1759"},"modified":"2010-12-19T10:46:56","modified_gmt":"2010-12-19T15:46:56","slug":"ask-this-question-before-dec-31st","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.privatepracticemarketingroundtable.com\/ppmr-members\/archives\/ask-this-question-before-dec-31st","title":{"rendered":"Ask This Provocative Question Before Dec. 31st"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-1766\" title=\"dec31-2010\" src=\"http:\/\/www.privatepracticemarketingroundtable.com\/ppmr-members\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/12\/dec31-2010.jpg\" alt=\"dec31-2010\" width=\"300\" height=\"300\" \/>I recently saw a question someone posed that caused me to pause. In so many words, it asked: <strong>Are you \u2013 <em>right now<\/em> &#8211; where you expected to be with your business this year?<\/strong>\u00a0\u00a0 Did you achieve what you intended when you set your goals and made your plans at the start of 2010?<\/p>\n<p><em>What a question! <\/em><\/p>\n<p>The value of this &#8220;to the point&#8221; question [firstname],\u00a0is that it keeps you from proceeding down the same path as before \u2013 and ending up in this same place again next year.<\/p>\n<p>If your business didn&#8217;t grow as much as you expected; if your income is stagnant, if you aren\u2019t where you intended to be, this question forces you to examine the things you did \u2013 or didn\u2019t do \u2013 in 2010 that got you to this place.<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Did you serve as many clients this year as you planned?<\/li>\n<li>Did you reach your income goals? Maybe surpass them?<\/li>\n<li>Did you launch the services that you planned, make the connections, get the referrals, retain clients long enough to really be of help\u2026<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>If not, <em>why not?<\/em>\u00a0 Where did things get off track?\u00a0 If your business isn\u2019t where you thought it would be by this time, if you find yourself setting the same goals and reviewing the same plans, then [firstname], maybe it\u2019s time to do something different.<\/p>\n<p><strong><span style=\"color: #0000ff;\"><em>Make 2011 the year your practice takes off!<\/em> <\/span><\/strong>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>I invite you to join us here at the Private Practice Marketing Roundtable. <\/p>\n<p><script src=\"http:\/\/forms.aweber.com\/form\/10\/754710.js\" type=\"text\/javascript\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p><em>This time next year your practice could be booming and you could be taking the holiday vacation of your dreams!<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I recently saw a question someone posed that caused me to pause. In so many words, it asked: Are you \u2013 right now &#8211; where you expected to be with your business this year?   Did you achieve what you intended when you set your goals and made your plans at the start of 2010?<\/p>\n<p>What a question! <\/p>\n<p>The value of this question is that it keeps you from proceeding down the same path as before \u2013 and ending up in this same place again next year.  Keep reading to find out how you can make 2011 the year your practice takes off!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[13,42],"class_list":["post-1759","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-musings","tag-getting-new-clients","tag-rainmaking"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.privatepracticemarketingroundtable.com\/ppmr-members\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1759","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.privatepracticemarketingroundtable.com\/ppmr-members\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.privatepracticemarketingroundtable.com\/ppmr-members\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.privatepracticemarketingroundtable.com\/ppmr-members\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.privatepracticemarketingroundtable.com\/ppmr-members\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1759"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.privatepracticemarketingroundtable.com\/ppmr-members\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1759\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.privatepracticemarketingroundtable.com\/ppmr-members\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1759"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.privatepracticemarketingroundtable.com\/ppmr-members\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1759"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.privatepracticemarketingroundtable.com\/ppmr-members\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1759"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}