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What is your greatest referral source

I am interested in what is your greatest referral source? I utilize many different venues and avenues such as BNI networking group, Personal trainers, Students from the classes I have taught, present and past clients, referral contests, and Im working on another that I will share if it turns into something viable.
Thank you looking forward to your input
Respectfully
Eric

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Permalink Reply by Mike Hinkle on October 15, 2009 at 9:48pm

With me it was clients. They brought their friends.

Permalink Reply by rudy m smith on October 22, 2009 at 5:33am

The greatest referral source is the last customer who you worked on. If you did your job right they will enthusiasticaly tell everyone how awesome you were! Period. No other source will build you a bullet proof client base better than word of mouth. This comes from a LMT who has NEVER advertised and makes $160K with just his massage skills every year for year after year. 40 plus clients per week. Focus on therapeutic neuro-muscular massage...leave the fluff stuff to the hair salons and spas. People will return month after month for "therapy" but for "just" a massage they can afford to leave it out of their budget. !!!

Permalink Reply by Mike Hinkle on October 25, 2009 at 12:47am

There you go, Rudy!

rudy m smith said:

The greatest referral source is the last customer who you worked on. If you did your job right they will enthusiasticaly tell everyone how awesome you were! Period. No other source will build you a bullet proof client base better than word of mouth. This comes from a LMT who has NEVER advertised and makes $160K with just his massage skills every year for year after year. 40 plus clients per week. Focus on therapeutic neuro-muscular massage...leave the fluff stuff to the hair salons and spas. People will return month after month for "therapy" but for "just" a massage they can afford to leave it out of their budget. !!!

Permalink Reply by Jessica Weagle on November 18, 2009 at 8:24am

UMass Medical School is near my office. I offer all the employee's a discount

Permalink Reply by Laura Allen on November 18, 2009 at 8:53am

1) Clients 2) MDs 3) Dentists. We do a huge amount of TMJ work in my office.

Permalink Reply by Steve Ibach on December 3, 2009 at 8:41am

Our greatest source of referrals in the Internet with client referrals as our number two source. Our Internet marketing includes; Search Engine Optimization, Google Adwords, our blog, specialty sites, and a lot more. It takes a long time to keep working the Internet but that consistently beats everything else for us. Of course, client referrals are also a very high source for us and that is a lot cheaper.

Permalink Reply by Alicia Dale, NCTMB on December 16, 2009 at 4:02pm

my clients and Professional Referral Organization of KS which is similar to BNI but less than half the cost.

Permalink Reply by Kelly Grounds on March 24, 2010 at 7:07pm

I loved BNI at first, but after 1 year, I noticed I was getting the same 'referrals' over and over.
I do many presentation to groups like Fibro Support Groups, American Red Cross and these have really paid off for me.

Permalink Reply by Rodney R. Geren on March 31, 2010 at 10:52am

Eric,

My greatest referral source is medical doctors. I average aprox. 250 medical doctor referrals per year. My practice is very limited to medical and orthopedic massage and neuromuscular therapy. My clinic does about 85% personal injury and workers comp. Take a look at what I give physicians on my website www.medassisthealthcare.com.

Thanks,

Rodney Geren