{"version":"1.0","type":"rich","provider_name":"Acast","provider_url":"https://acast.com","height":250,"width":700,"html":"<iframe src=\"https://embed.acast.com/$/65d4445a7e29af00164868b8/6a99e67ea389b713aefd420f?\" frameBorder=\"0\" width=\"700\" height=\"250\"></iframe>","title":"Ep. 138 - How to Build a Referral Network for Your Private Practice (Prompt + Scripts Included)","description":"<p>If you've been pouring your energy into email, SEO, and social while the phone stays quiet, this episode is the nudge to go work the channel that pays off fastest. Whitney revisits referral networking as a follow-up to her conversation with Alex Raymond in Ep. 111, and gets practical about the part most practitioners stall on: figuring out who to contact and what to actually say. She shares the AI prompt she'd use to assemble a list of 20 local practices in minutes, plus a cold email and a voicemail script that lead with how you support the other provider's patients rather than what you want from them. She's also honest about why this one gets skipped — a Canva tab feels a lot safer than a phone call to a doctor's office — and why the discomfort is the point. The whole system runs from a spreadsheet and five outreaches a week, no CRM required.</p><p><br></p><h5><strong>Takeaways:</strong></h5><ul><li><strong>A referral is borrowed trust, and that's why it's faster.</strong> Whitney's framing is that the trust a patient has in their current provider transfers to you when that provider says your name. Someone who found you through a blog post has to build that trust from scratch, which takes weeks or months.</li><li> <strong>Use AI for the list-building, not the outreach.</strong> The prompt below assembles practice names, specialties, addresses, phone numbers, and websites into a table you can export. Whitney is explicit about telling the tool not to invent an email address, because it will happily guess one.</li><li> <strong>Lead with their patients, not your services.</strong> The single biggest fix in the outreach is opening with how you support the people they already treat, and inviting them to a short call with a scheduling link right in the message.</li><li> <strong>A brochure isn't outreach.</strong> Mailing a flyer or dropping off business cards doesn't put you in a provider's mind when they're sitting with a patient who needs you. A face-to-face conversation on Zoom does.</li><li> <strong>Silence isn't a no, and five a week is enough.</strong> Reach out to five new practices weekly, then circle back to the previous week's five. Track it in a spreadsheet and only count it as a no when someone actually tells you no.</li></ul><p><br></p><h5><strong>Resources Mentioned</strong></h5><ul><li>Ep. 111 — The Networking System That Fills Your Practice With Aligned Referrals (Alex Raymond): <a href=\"https://whitneybateson.com/ep-111-the-networking-system-that-fills-your-practice-with-aligned-referrals-with-alex-raymond-rd-ld-ceds-c/\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" target=\"_blank\">https://whitneybateson.com/ep-111-the-networking-system-that-fills-your-practice-with-aligned-referrals-with-alex-raymond-rd-ld-ceds-c/</a></li><li> Free Open Coaching Call — Thursday, September 10 at 12 pm ET / 9 am PT: <a href=\"https://whitneybateson.com/coach\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" target=\"_blank\">whitneybateson.com/coach</a></li></ul><p><br></p><h5><strong>Connect with Whitney</strong>:</h5><p>Follow Whitney on Instagram<a href=\"https://instagram.com/whitneybateson\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" target=\"_blank\"> @whitneybateson</a></p><p><br></p><h5><strong>Subscribe &amp; Review:</strong></h5><p>If you’re enjoying the podcast, don’t forget to follow and leave a review! Your support helps others discover the show.</p>","author_name":"Whitney Bateson"}