EverythingTree

Anyone know how to find doctors opening a new practice?

admin — Wed, 10 Mar 2010 21:57:21 +0000

Several of us here at ET see the same “newly minted” doctor.
He’s working hard to build his practice so he can pay off his med school debt.
We rarely wait more than a few minutes for our scheduled appointments and he always makes sure that all our concerns are fully met. No getting rushed out the door at his office.

Partially based on his feedback, we implemented a “primary care” category on ET so that patients looking for a new doctor could find him.

We always thought that doctors would welcome a new way to find patients.

Turns out we were wrong. Most doctors have more patients than they can handle… they don’t need more patients, they need better deals with the insurance companies for the patients they already have. (And we sure as heck aren’t going to tackle that problem.)

Anybody have any idea how we can find doctors with new practices that might be interested in ET?

Whoops

admin — Thu, 04 Mar 2010 22:03:54 +0000

Coming from the corporate world, we didn’t realize that many small businesses run from the owner’s cell phone.

And, we further didn’t realize that as many as 20% of electricians in Omaha are good and liquored up by 9:30 PM on Wednesday nights.

Sorry guys.

Who knew?

admin — Wed, 03 Mar 2010 19:19:14 +0000

So we’ve been “up” for a little while now, and we’re starting to get a steady flow of consumer requests. We’re really pleased.. most of the requests are very well written and give exactly the kind of information we imagine providers would want to know before deciding whether or not to respond.

All in all, that part is going quite nicely.

If we don’t have any providers in the system for a given request, we actually pick up the phone and start calling around to see who wants the business.

We never figured this part would be at all challenging… “Here’s a potential customer in your area, looking to spend money on your service.. do you want their information?”

Amazingly, we were wrong. Giving away opportunities is actually much harder than getting them.

I guess because so many sites charge such ridiculous prices for consumer referrals, people have a hard time imagining that anyone would be crazy enough to give them away for free in hopes of sending the kids to college on ad revenue.

Well, we’ve got 6 kids left to send to college between us and we’re sure as heck going to try!

And so begins the adventure.

admin — Thu, 12 Nov 2009 19:50:00 +0000

Let’s hope it’s a good one!