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Orthopedic & Pain Management: Best Referral Sources

Who should be sending you clients, and the rooms they are already sitting in. Tell us where you are and we will send the list.

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The rooms for orthopedic and pain management practices, the next meeting dates, and who to ask for when you walk in.

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Your one-page action plan

Five partners, what starts the work for each one, and the three rooms to be in. Print it and keep it in the car.

Networking plan: Orthopedic & Pain Management

The five people who should be sending you clients

  1. Primary Care Physician (They send you work)
    Shared trigger: somebody gets hurt
  2. Chiropractor (Two-way)
    Shared trigger: somebody gets hurt
  3. Insurance Property & Casualty (They send you work)
    Shared trigger: somebody gets in a car accident
  4. Physical Therapist (You send them work)
    Shared trigger: somebody gets hurt
  5. Auto Body & Collision Repair (Two-way)
    Shared trigger: somebody gets in a car accident

The three rooms to be in

  1. Your city or county chamber of commerce: Your partners are in this room: primary care practices, chiropractors, and P&C insurance agents.
  2. State chiropractic association: Your partners are in this room: chiropractors and physical therapists.
  3. Hispanic chamber of commerce: Your partners are in this room: chiropractors and personal injury attorneys.

Don't confuse this with networking: Your county medical society. Learning and supplier access, not referrals.

The people

Who should be sending you clients

Ranked by what starts the job, not by who sounds close to your trade. When something happens that makes people need orthopedic and pain management practices, who else gets a call that same week?

Match strength is how much of your work starts from the same event as theirs, scored out of 100. Higher means you are more often called into the same job in the same week.

  1. 1 Primary Care Physician They send you work Trigger: somebody gets hurt 80 match strength out of 100
  2. 2 Chiropractor Two-way Trigger: somebody gets hurt 76 match strength out of 100
  3. 3 Insurance Property & Casualty They send you work Trigger: somebody gets in a car accident 75 match strength out of 100
  4. 4 Physical Therapist You send them work Trigger: somebody gets hurt 69 match strength out of 100
  5. 5 Auto Body & Collision Repair Two-way Trigger: somebody gets in a car accident 66 match strength out of 100
  6. 6 Attorney Personal Injury Two-way Trigger: somebody gets hurt 65 match strength out of 100
  7. 7 Home Health Care Two-way Trigger: somebody gets hurt 64 match strength out of 100
  8. 8 Real Estate Agent (Residential) They send you work Trigger: an aging parent needs a different living situation 60 match strength out of 100
  9. 9 Towing & Roadside They send you work Trigger: somebody gets in a car accident 60 match strength out of 100
  10. 10 Insurance Health & Benefits They send you work Trigger: an aging parent needs a different living situation 57 match strength out of 100

Knowing the names is half of it. We will send the list with what to say to each one. Send me my list ↑

The rooms

Where those people actually are

Ranked by how many of your best partners are in the room, and how much work each one can send you. Give someone nine choices and they pick none, so we have marked the one to start with.

  1. 1 Your city or county chamber of commerce Your pick Your partners are in this room: primary care practices, chiropractors, and P&C insurance agents. Chamber of commerce · Monthly · Under $500/yr · ~4 hrs/month Chapter finder →
  2. 2 State chiropractic association Your partners are in this room: chiropractors and physical therapists. Your partners' association · Quarterly · Under $500/yr · ~2 hrs/month Chapter finder →
  3. 3 Hispanic chamber of commerce Your partners are in this room: chiropractors and personal injury attorneys. Chamber of commerce · Monthly · Under $500/yr · ~4 hrs/month Chapter finder →
  4. 4 Collision repair association events Your partners are in this room: collision repair shops and towing operators. Your partners' association · Quarterly · Under $500/yr · ~2 hrs/month Chapter finder →
  5. 5 Local Facebook & community groups Your partners are in this room: chiropractors, collision repair shops, and personal injury attorneys. Online community · Always on · Free · ~3 hrs/month Chapter finder →
  6. 6 Independent Insurance Agents (Big I) Your partner is in this room: P&C insurance agents. Your partners' association · Monthly · Under $500/yr · ~3 hrs/month Chapter finder →
  7. 7 MGMA (Medical Group Management Association) Your partner is in this room: primary care practices. Your partners' association · Monthly · $500–$2,000/yr · ~3 hrs/month Chapter finder →
  8. 8 BNI One seat per category, so your competitors are excluded by rule and the seats around you are the partners above. Structured referral group · Weekly · $500–$2,000/yr · ~8 hrs/month · One seat per category Chapter finder →
The competitor trap

Your county medical society

Most orthopedic and pain management practices join this room first. It is also the one most likely to be the wrong pick. Everyone in it does what you do. Join it for the training, the licenses, and the ties to manufacturers. Do not join it for referrals, and do not join it instead of the rooms above.

Let us be straight with you. For orthopedic and pain management practices, a weekly referral group is not the best pick. Your partners gather in professional groups instead, so spend your time there. We would rather say that than sell you a seat you do not need.

These rooms meet on real dates. We will send you the next ones for your area. Send me the dates ↑

Your seat

Is your seat open?

Prime Time takes one Orthopedic & Pain Management per chapter. Put a South Florida ZIP into the form above and we will show you which seats are open.

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Send it to yourself: the partners above, the rooms ranked for orthopedic and pain management practices, and the next meeting dates for your area.

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