Where Do Your Patients Come From?
Patient Referrals
Still the best source of new patients. Existing clients tend to refer other people who will also find success with your approach. And they're so easy to market to - it's a captive audience whose contact info is (or should be) at your fingertips.
Professional Referrals
These are the clients that come to you via your colleagues - other naturopaths, chiropractors, RMT's, homeopaths, MD's etc. - as well as related professions like health food stores and personal trainers.
The best part about many of these referrals is that they're in similar industries, so they tend to refer people that may already "get" what you do.
Personal Referrals
This is a catch all for the friends, family and acquaintances who come to see you because they know you. Also includes anything you generate from networking.
Promotional Referrals
Anyone who finds you via traditional advertising, phone directories, newspaper and magazine articles, signage, the internet, etc.
Purchased
Files/patients acquired by buying a practice or buying patient files.
from AlternativeHealthPractice.com