{"id":1824,"date":"2012-12-28T10:37:08","date_gmt":"2012-12-28T15:37:08","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.privatepracticemarketingroundtable.com\/ppmr-members\/?p=1824"},"modified":"2014-11-26T19:22:39","modified_gmt":"2014-11-26T19:22:39","slug":"still-waiting-for-clients-to-show-up-on-your-doorstep","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.privatepracticemarketingroundtable.com\/ppmr-members\/archives\/still-waiting-for-clients-to-show-up-on-your-doorstep","title":{"rendered":"Still Waiting for Clients to Show Up On Your Doorstep?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-1829\" title=\"Spinning Your Wheels\" src=\"http:\/\/www.privatepracticemarketingroundtable.com\/ppmr-members\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/12\/spinning-wheel300.jpg\" alt=\"Spinning Your Wheels\" width=\"300\" height=\"300\" \/>I&#8217;ve noticed that some folks take the approach that, having hung out their shingle, the next thing to do is wait for the clients to &#8220;show up&#8221;. They make the rounds to visit traditional referral sources, dropping off brand new brochures and business cards. They spend time networking with colleagues&#8230;and they wait. And, wait.<\/p>\n<p>These also tend to be the people who shudder at the thought of promoting themselves.<\/p>\n<p>Sometimes they call former employers and ask for referrals. Sometimes they talk to their ministers about getting referrals from the church. Sometimes they even get a little creative and do a talk or presentation to a group that has no potential clients or referral sources, but since their purpose is just to &#8220;get the word out&#8221; about their practice, to them that&#8217;s okay.<\/p>\n<p>In short, these folks do everything but get serious about marketing their practice by learning what it takes, doing the planning and then implementing a series of strategically selected steps to promote their business.<\/p>\n<p>Instead, they keep spinning in the same place and going no-where.<\/p>\n<p>Aren&#8217;t you glad that&#8217;s not you? Go ahead and login and take a look at the resources here. You&#8217;ll find plenty of information to help you get started marketing your private practice. You can build the practice of your dreams with a little planning and then taking the right action.<\/p>\n<p>Kudos to you for being here!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;ve noticed that some folks take the approach that, having hung out their shingle, the next thing to do is wait for the clients to &#8220;show up&#8221;.  Sometimes they make the rounds, dropping off brochures and business cards.  This approach doesn&#8217;t work for most people, yet many continue to do it.  Are you spinning around and around but going no-where?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":3289,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1824","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-musings"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.privatepracticemarketingroundtable.com\/ppmr-members\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1824","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=1824"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.privatepracticemarketingroundtable.com\/ppmr-members\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1824\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3290,"href":"https:\/\/www.privatepracticemarketingroundtable.com\/ppmr-members\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1824\/revisions\/3290"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.privatepracticemarketingroundtable.com\/ppmr-members\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/3289"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.privatepracticemarketingroundtable.com\/ppmr-members\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1824"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.privatepracticemarketingroundtable.com\/ppmr-members\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1824"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.privatepracticemarketingroundtable.com\/ppmr-members\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1824"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}