All posts relating to handling patients in consultations, at appointment or during face-to-face sales interactions (not case studies)

Healthcare consultation skills: Warming up cool customers

Very few customers, in a health care marketing environments, want to get right down to business. Usually, a customer wants to "buy" the person first, the company second, and the product third. Hence, there's very little advantage to launching straight into a discussion of either the company or the product/service you offer before the prospective patient is ready to buy you, personally. If they don't buy you, then whatever you say about the company or the product/service will likely fall on deaf ears.

Healthcare consultation skills: Good greetings reduce selling resistance

Are they excited, bubbling with anticipation, positive and open-minded? Wherever they come from, they probably have a little apprehension. Could they be anxious, concerned, guilty, or even hostile? Maybe they’re afraid – of the situation, commitment, salespeople, the unknown. In this state, are they ready to make a buying decision?

Healthcare consultation skills: 13 tips to help your staff make great first impressions

Today's post is one you can forward to your staff or print out and post in your lunch room. We spend about 15 minutes of our consultation skills and teamwork training on this topic alone, so it's well worth a read And if that weren't enough... have a look at this puppy...

How doctors can help sell treatments at the consultation

The number one job of the doctors in the consultation is to perform the necessary clinical examinations to diagnose and recommend a treatment. The number two job involves helping the patient believe in the doctor, the clinic or the company the doctor works for. Doing so, involves selling. The trouble is, even mentioning the word 'selling' to most doctors will cause them to recoil in abject horror.

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