Three Tips for Better Attorney Referral Meetings

What I want to focus on today is the three things that you need to think about in order to get attorney referrals. A lot of you spend a lot of time working to get an introduction so you can start a relationship with an attorney, and then do not know what to do from there. Today what I want to do is talk about three easy things to think about when you are actually with an attorney trying to get referrals. Let's face it, what you're trying to do at this point is trying to meet an attorney and get them to send you injury referrals that don't have a doctor on the case. It's an injury referral where maybe the injured patient has contacted an attorney, maybe been to the emergency room or to a medical doctor, and now they are needing help and a referral and you want to become part of their referral service.

One of the biggest things that you should be thinking about when you meet an attorney and you spend a lot of time setting up calls to meet an attorney. Remember, the attorney is a human being just like you are, and they do and like the same things a lot of times you do. One of the first big clues or big hints or big tips that I'll give you is no matter what you're doing, no matter what you're presenting, no matter what information they've seen about you, no matter what they've seen on your website, no matter what videos they might've watched, no matter what YouTube channel thing they might've watched, when they meet you, one of the goals that you should have in meeting them is for them to walk away and really like you, right?

Tip number one is that you want to be likable. People do business with people that they like, plain and simple. They will be less prejudiced on price, less prejudiced on quantity, quality if they like the person that they are buying the service from. Likability is huge. Again, people only do business with people that they like, so one of the first things that you need to do is to really think about the fact that you want to be likable, no matter what you're presenting. In my SmartInjuryDoctors program, one of the things that I say over and over again is you're not going to load up with too much information. You're just going to make that first meeting about something that makes you unique, and that's tip number two.

Tip number two is that you want to have something unique that makes you unique, right? It used to be that we would have these things called a unique selling proposition, and that is a unique benefit that you would get if you purchase the product, right? One of the things that is really interesting as you have this thing in sales called features and benefits. Features are like saying you do Gonstead. You do CBP. You do Diversified Adjusting. You do Activator. You have acupuncture. You have herbal nutrition. These are all different techniques. The benefit of which is that you get everything in one shop and we easily diagnose your condition and get you back on the road to recovery. You have all of these various things that are features, the benefit of which is when a patient comes in, you know very quickly which tool to apply to get them out of the condition that they are in, very inexpensively and very quickly, that's the benefit of the features.

You have got to have something that is unique that you are now offering that attorney. The biggest thing that you can offer an attorney that makes doctors really, really unique is in the SmartInjuryDoctors program; one, we train doctors not to miss injuries. That is absolutely humongous in the market today, because the majority of spinal ligament injuries especially are not documented and they're completely missed. We teach you to be able to do great diagnostic work-ups, do fantastic physical recovery results for the patients and document in such a simple way that it makes the attorney's job simple.

The simple thing that you have that makes you unique is you have great documentation. One, you don't miss any injuries again, and two, you have great documentation and that great documentation translates into far less work for the attorney. If I'm in with an attorney group, one of the things I talk about is one of the biggest problems you have as a group that costs you a lot of time and therefore costs you a lot of money is poor documentation. That poor documentation that is received from the majority of doctors that you work with is slowing you down and you are making less money as a result of it.

One of the things that we have is really, really good documentation. We don't miss injuries, we document all the injuries the patient has. We document any permanent condition the patient has as result of these injuries. We document anything that the patient can no longer do without duress, and we document anything that the patient can no longer do, whether they have dress or not as a result of the injuries and we document any future care needs that the patient may have at the end of our care. That's the simplicity of what you're doing. 

• Tip number one is you want to be likable, no matter what you're presenting you want to be likable, you want to be confident and competent in what you're presenting so that you come across as likable. 
• Number two, you want to have a benefit that is unique, something that's unique to what you are offering that attorney. 
• The last thing you want to do is you want to ask for the business.

Now this last step is one that a lot of doctors stumble on. In sales this is called, "The close." It's really interesting because selling is making a person aware of your product. The close is when there's an actual exchange for your product. My friend, Grant Cardone, taught me that nothing of value is exchanged unless there is a close. Nothing really valuable happens until there is an exchange. You can have this great likability. You can have this great product. You can have great results in your clinic. You can have great documentation that makes the attorney's life a lot easier, but none of that is experienced unless the attorney refers the patient into you.

"The Close," is where you want to ask the attorney for their business. Check out this dialogue:

"Hey, John, after everything you've seen, is there any reason why you wouldn't start referring patients that don't already have a doctor into our clinic?" 

"Hey, Bill, after everything you've seen here today, is there any reason why you would not start to refer clients into our center?" Great, his answer is "no,".

"When could we expect the first referral? I really want to start doing business with you, and I want to show you how easy it is, how much easier we can make life for you. I want to get it started." 

Now the attorney may ask, "Well, okay. Do you have any patients that you could refer to us?" I would respond with "I'll tell you what, when we have an unclaimed patient that does not have an attorney, we can take a look at making the referral over to you. But my primary reason being here today was to make life a lot easier for you. And the best way I can do that is by getting a referral from you, so you can see how easy our process is. When can we expect that first referral?"

I know that may sound a little bit pushy, but I'm pushing because we are that good, and I want you to experience our service. Doctors, you want to be that pushy with it. You're not going to push the attorney away. By somebody being aggressive, you only walk away and say, "Okay, great. They're aggressive." If some attorney came to you and said, "Look, I want to be aggressively looking to make your life a lot easier as a doctor, and I want to take patients. If you have denials right now, I can actually go after denials of the insurer and I can get you paid. I have this great service that does it, and I'm really aggressive about it and I want you to send me over your denials so I can actually get you paid. I get paid because I get attorney's fees adjudicated if I win."

If they had a service, which they do have services like that in the state of Florida, you wouldn't think it was pushy that the person was trying to push you into doing this great service, so don't feel like you're pushy when you're actually asking somebody for their business.

Another way that I ask for business, when I'm in with attorneys, is to say, "Hey, look, we're so good at what we do. We're the place that if you had someone that you absolutely loved or cared for, we're the place that you would refer into. If your son or daughter got hit with an auto accident now had migraine headaches and they were getting 12 migraine headaches a month and they were getting an aura and they felt like they were going to throw up, or even sometimes they did throw up, You're not thinking about how much money you can get from the injuries that your son or daughter picked up. What you're looking for and you're most interested in is a doctor that can fix this, a doctor that can take and get rid of these symptoms. That's my clinic. That's who we are. That's why I'm so aggressive about wanting to get out here and get known by you and start doing business with you. Whether it's a client or somebody that you know personally that needs great care, we're the clinic that you'd want to send to."

Then, no matter how it ends, at least you asked for the business. Now you can do all kinds of things and follow up is key. But what is key is three things: 

1. You are likable

2. You have something unique to offer

3. You ask for the business. 

A lot of doctors spend all kinds of time, and I know I used to as well, trying to market and trying to get in front of somebody, and then you never ask them for the business. What I wanted to do was give your three quick tips on things that you should be thinking about when you are in the process of getting an attorney or medical doctor referrals, same goes for medical doctors. 

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