Let’s say you have a two-year goal of having 20 referrals per month coming into your practice from professional contacts.
How do you get there?
You get there by asking yourself, “What has to happen first?” and working backwards until you know what to do today.
Let’s say you estimate that you can achieve this goal by having 20 referral sources who send you an average of one referral per month.
You don’t have that now. What has to happen first?
You figure that to have 20 solid referral sources, you need 60 professionals who tell you they’ll do their best to send you business. You know that some will send you a few, some won’t send any, and some will send you more than a few. You can’t possibly know how it will work out, but you figure (for now) that it will average out to 20 referrals per month. (If it doesn’t, you’ll need to change your numbers, find different referral sources, or re-assess your strategy.)
So, what has to happen first?
To get 60 professionals who have the ability to send you referrals and say they will, you figure that, over time, you need to have conversations with 300. If 80% tell you no, that leaves 60 who say yes.
What has to happen first?
Before you can have those conversations, you need to make a list of candidates. Professionals who seem to have the right client base that would be a good match for you. Let’s say that to find 300 who seem to have the right client base, you need to work your way through a list of 2000.
What has to happen first?
First, you need to do some research and find lists, directories, associations, et al, with names and contact information. You also need to work on a script.
And then, you need to schedule the time to make calls.
And now, you have a plan. And you can start working on that plan.
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