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So you know we always have these accounts that typically they were in that history where the maybe they’re referring four to five patients, a month to you.

And then, all of a sudden, they dry up there’s no business coming from those accounts and when this happens, hopefully, you catch it really fast,

the first month that you don’t see them referring you’re able to jump in, but if it has been that full 90 days before you catch it you want to immediately start to do an investigation.

So typically one of the first things I love to do is just ask everybody in my office, start with my nurse managers, was there any complaints that came in that maybe we’re tied to patients that came from that account.

Ask intake, did they have any interaction with the account and find out if anything negative could have happened. I may even pick up the phone and actually call

one of the nurses or the clinicians that we’re providing services to the patient that was last referred and make sure that everything was good that they had a good experience with our agency.

Once I’ve done my internal investigation again, talking to intake, talking to the clinical leadership, looking at that complaint log,

I’m speaking to the clinicians that service, the last two or three referrals that came from there, I would then take the steps of going over and meeting directly with the account,

and meet with my contacts there and ask them, hey you know I just spoke to some of the patients, it seems like things went really well with the last several referrals,

and yet I haven’t gotten any over the last 90 days.

And then be as quiet as a church mouse and wait to see what is their response, right. Find out what is actually the reason that they haven’t referred.

But do your homework, first because you don’t want to get caught surprised or not knowing that there was a customer service failure. If you do learn when you’re doing your investigation that a customer service failure did occur,

make sure that you then take the next steps to identify how can you make sure that that’s not going to happen again.

And once you have that understanding now go back to the account and explain, yeah hey I heard about the customer service failure, and I want you to know that my leadership has taken these three steps to make sure that this never happens again.

And can I ask you to trust me one more time with your next patient that needs services?

Process is key and as we always say at HCS, “With Structure Comes Freedom.” Now more than ever, it’s important to make sure your accounts are bulletproof. The High Performance Sales Academy is designed to help build lasting relationships that lead to consistant, predicable referrals.

If this is speaking to you, reach out to Mike for a quick consultation with the contact info below.

Mike@homecaresales.com

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https://calendly.com/mike-home-care-sales

Thank you for all that you do to serve seniors!

Home Care Sales

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You know, we have an incredible program called Community Calls.

Community Calls is one of those programs where, if you could figure out, ask yourself this question, think of it this way.

If I could talk to myself my 20 year old self my 25 year old self to be honest, when I was just getting ready to open my first agency, and I could tell myself,

how to get to success faster, it would be to use the Community Calls program. And what I mean by Community Calls program is,

we each have in our service area one of those wonderful big large Assisted Living or personal care facilities that we absolutely want to work with.

You know they’ve got the best the best location in town, the best parking they’re clean they’re bright they’re new they’re shiny and they have a wonderful reputation and we know that we could get staff to love being in that building.

Yet they’re not referring to us. So one of the ways that you can break in there is that every single one of these buildings is filled with seniors and these seniors are bored.

They are lonely they get to go play games and have fun with some of the activities people.

But other than that they’re just sitting around and the pressure is on the staff at the Assisted Living facility to keep them engaged to keep them happy to keep them feeling part of involvement.

Imagine now you are the facility owner and somebody comes to you from in home care or from home health or hospice,

and says hey we would love to be able to come in and least once a month and for an hour bring all of your residence together and give them a conversational talk,

just about home health and hospice services and,

you know we’re going to have a little bit of a conversation too about maybe how to make the most of their next doctor’s appointment, or how to keep your brain healthy and smart.

How to eat choose the right foods to eat and the good news is is that we will even provide them with a flyer and a handout.

And now we even have the opportunity, if you would like you could offer some tours at the end, we could put a couple posters up at the local, you know pharmacies.

Maybe, even at like you know target at the return area who knows anything that’s local to the building where we could say hey we’re doing these health talks for seniors.

And for caregivers and we would love you to attend and we’re also offering free tours of the facility at the end.

This could be an opportunity now for the building to take care of two problems. One is, they’re taking care of the bored people that live in the building,

that are looking for something new to do. Now if you do a great job with this talk, which we do teach how to do this, by the way, in our Master’s Program.

But if you do a great job of giving a presentation, meaning you engage the audience, you know you could maybe have a couple of gifts from the dollar store that you said, who can share with me, one of the reasons that people fall.

And they raised their hand and they say Oh, they tripped over there sneaker or they fell over their dog or they couldn’t see where they were going, because it was nighttime and they tripped over something, whatever their answer is.

You give that little dollar store gift to these people that are in the audience keeping them engaged.

And they’re excited they’re happy they love your talks they’re going to tell their neighbors and their neighbors from the building are going to come down to the next month’s talk

if you give away little prizes like that. Now if you also have posted the signs and you put them up at the local pharmacies, you are attracting people to come into that building and be able to have a tour.

Now you are a business partner to that Assisted Living personal care home that you want to so desperately serve patients at.

If you were bringing in people to have a tour of the building every month,

do you think they’re going to want to partner with you to be their provider? Absolutely. In addition, if you have already done, for your salesperson,

this is a script and the script is written on a ninth-grade literacy level anybody can do this presentation it’s not in high language. I mean

let’s be honest, I do not have the broadest vocabulary in the world and thank God I don’t need it right, I could just talk to you in common sense and you understand what I’m saying.

That’s the same thing about these presentations, they are written on a ninth-grade literacy level.

And so, these presentations are just enough to engage with the audience and then each of them have a little tiny gift that they give, and that is what we call the call to action.

Where during this little fun interaction with the community and by the way, sales reps, when they are asked who used the Community Calls program, how do you like it?

Nine out of 10 times the sales rep says, I absolutely love it. Some of our car companies that we work with that have used this program,

they actually have a dedicated person who is now just doing nothing but the Community Calls program every single day going to different facilities in their drivable areas and delivering it. That’s how much some sales reps love this

program or this package I should say. So now you go in you do your little presentation, but the gift is that at the end you have an amazing call to action.

Meaning, something that is taught that asks the people that are attending the program,

who needs care, who would like to receive services? But it’s done in a way, without saying “who needs care?” And so that’s the thing that’s inside the program.

So if you want to break into a facility, go and have a call with Mike. Mike@homecaresales.com.

Figure out if the Community Calls program is for you, try it at a couple buildings you’re going to love doing it. The seniors are going to love you and the building is going to love you because

they get paid to keep us in bed, and if you’re providing them butts to come in and get toward to potentially move in.

As well as you’re providing them with services that keep people from falling, keep people out of the hospital, it’s a win win for them. So they want you there, they want these programs, they want these activities for their bored seniors.

I use this program not just to do it as a live session, I even did it for radio. So I got on my local radio station using the Community Calls programs, I call it the Health Matters series.

And every single Friday did a live radio show for 15 minutes talked about the lesson and for 15 minutes took calls.

And I did that for a couple years and talk about stress. These programs can be your example of how you’re giving back to the community.

It is marketing without you paying to market it is free marketing where you are getting in front of hundreds of people at the facilities and being able to share your message about your organization. So thank you so much.

As Cheryl discussed, connecting directly with seniors and facilities can be challenging but super rewarding. We have created a full program with handouts, scripts, and presentations made for you and ready to be edited/individualized for your usage. 

We call this program Community Calls. You can learn more about it here: homecaresales.com/community

Looking for deeper solutions to growth? Reach out to Mike for a quick consultation with the contact info below.

Mike@homecaresales.com

or

https://calendly.com/mike-home-care-sales

Thank you for all that you do to serve seniors!

Home Care Sales

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You know I love getting this question because a lot of times this is when we really have to analyze what’s happening with our sales reps.

And I want to share with you, when a rep hasn’t brought in those referrals you’re not the only one, as an owner,

who or as a sales manager, who was feeling the pinch trust me the person themselves are also usually panicked about not delivering their numbers.

And the first thing that you got to do is check to see what are they saying, because obviously their sales message, whatever words they are using,

they are not really doing the job right, and so we have to always remember there’s usually four things that make a big difference with your sales rep success.

One is that they have to make sure that they are communicating with the mind of their prospecting accounts

needs being in their mind right.

Meaning if I know that a doctor is concerned about patients that have CHF not going back to the hospital,

I’ve got to be able to get there, and have a conversation with him about that right. So I very quickly, I have to realize what’s important to the prospecting account.

And if it’s that the CHF patients have a high risk for hospitalization I’m going to want to focus my conversation on what’s important to them.

How do you get to that is by asking the right questions right what is top of mind for you right now.

What’s important, what’s happening for you, what are the metrics that you guys are following every month or every year, what are you working towards this year, as far as metrics that are being observed from maybe at the hospital systems.

Those are conversations that are going to help you identify what’s important to your prospect.

You’ve got to think of it this way, your sales person has to be able to answer questions that are in your prospects mind already, and the only way that you’re going to uncover them is by asking great questions.

And we can’t just think that we know what they need and just say well home health is great, in home care is great, hospice is free, so give us a patient.

It’s really that we’ve got to understand

what they need for their patients and the only way to do that is by asking these questions.

So find out what is your salesperson saying, look at their schedule, where they traveling, are they seeing people with enough frequency, and are they asking?

The best way to do this is to role play.

If your salesperson does not have a high performing sales academy you absolutely got to get it for them, because it’s going to help them learn that language of love.

To be able to tap the person in the brain, to get them to actually give you a referral.

And most importantly, if they don’t have the roadmap to referrals you better check it out, I would be doing a disservice if I didn’t tell you how this can change your results.

Because it takes away the guess of what your salespeople have to say every week, and it gives them a valid business reason to see an account and the right way to ask for a patient using a vignette. So check those products out if you haven’t gotten them yet.

You know managing a marketer or liaison can be hard. In the midst of staffing issues and an extremely competitive market, some owners don’t have time to provide the direction that their sales team needs. We want to help. Contact Mike Masciccio (info below) or hop on his calendar to discuss getting you the tools your need or having Home Care Sales coach and manage your team for you.

Mike@homecaresales.com

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https://calendly.com/mike-home-care-sales

Thank you for all that you do to serve seniors!

Home Care Sales