

Grow Your Practice Podcast
Grow Your Practice Podcast
Each week, the Grow Your Practice Podcast with Chad Madden of Breakthrough brings you no-nonsense marketing & business growth strategies that deliver new patients and higher profits.
Co-Founder of Breakthrough, Owner of Madden Physical Therapy and Author of "Killer Marketing Secrets for Private Practice PTs", Chad grew his practice 600% in the last five years using direct response marketing strategies. He sees more than 200 new patients each month in his single location Private Practice. Now he's teaching over 800 Practice Owners to do the same.
Co-Founder of Breakthrough, Owner of Madden Physical Therapy and Author of "Killer Marketing Secrets for Private Practice PTs", Chad grew his practice 600% in the last five years using direct response marketing strategies. He sees more than 200 new patients each month in his single location Private Practice. Now he's teaching over 800 Practice Owners to do the same.
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Dec 10, 2019 • 21min
How to Open Your Next Clinic Location
More direct access marketing training: http://learnwithbreakthrough.com
Example of a pro forma for PT: https://breakthroughptmarketing.com/investments-vs-expenses-pt-practice/
If you're an owner who's looking to open up a new location within the next year, here's a look at the process we've implemented at Madden PT. This helped us open up our third clinic about a year ago and get it to full capacity in that time.
This is night and day compared to the last time we did this and this video walks through the lessons I learned that have helped tremendously in making this process easier.
3 Key Things to Think About:
Location, location, location - cliche but important
Pro Forma - making sure the numbers make sense
How to hit the ground running when your new clinic opens
Check out more articles on the Breakthrough Blog: https://breakthroughptmarketing.com/blog

Nov 20, 2019 • 12min
How to Survive the 8% MC Cut
By now you've heard about the upcoming 8% cut in Medicare reimbursements to physical therapy. Now is the time to start planning about what you can do to keep your practice profitable without having to do more work and see more patients for less money.
Watch this video for more info on what you can do to be proactive in your efforts.

Nov 7, 2019 • 19min
Dealing with Declining Reimbursements in PT
What practice owners can do when facing declining reimbursements and increasing costs.
You don't have to increase your patient volume to make up for low reimbursements. Here's what you should do instead to help get paid for the work you are already doing.

Oct 23, 2019 • 20min
Is it possible to grow after losing physician referrals?
"Is it possible to grow after losing physician referrals?"
The Journal of General Internal Medicine reported a 54.5% decrease in physician referrals to PT from 2003 to 2014.
Here's what private practice owners can do to diversify and take control of their new patient flow.

Oct 9, 2019 • 11min
"Just Tell Me What to Do"
When we seek mentorship from people we perceive as more successful, it's easy to fall into the trap of just wanting someone to tell us what to do.
This is understandable...but ultimately a mistake. Here's how to overcome this mindset so that you can grow and create a bigger impact.

Sep 10, 2019 • 13min
How PTs Can Avoid Being "Too Salesy"
Are you afraid of being too salesy?
For many PTs, “selling” is a bad word. It implies that you are putting pressure on someone else to do something that’s not in their best interest.
But is that what’s actually happening when you talk to potential patients and offer them a POC? I doubt it.
In fact, if you do your homework in the way I outline in this video, you’ll see how to make sales one of the easiest parts of the process.
It all comes down to focusing on the patient and what they need.

Aug 28, 2019 • 14min
Investments vs Expenses in a Private PT Practice
Here's a step by step exercise that advance owners use when they're thinking about adding a new member to their team or expanding into a new space.
These are decisions that you shouldn't make lightly, but it's also important to make sure you avoid the mistake of taking something that is an investment in your practice but looking at it like an expense.
This is a key shift in thinking that is vital if you want to grow.
View the video at: https://youtu.be/mgkuqBf_THM

Aug 21, 2019 • 10min
What is Direct Access Marketing?
As private practice PTs, we have the opportunity to go straight to the consumer...now what? In this video I break down what Direct Access Marketing is and how you can take advantage of it to help more people in pain get back to normal naturally.
Doing Direct Access the right way lets you create a mechanism in place to target the people who need you the most and convert them to a POC. This information is for any owner or PT who wants to build authority, celebrity, and expertise in their community.

Aug 14, 2019 • 10min
What's Really to Blame When Marketing Fails?
At Breakthrough, we’ve surveyed hundreds of private practice owners to find out what mistakes they made in their marketing.
And there were a few mistakes that kept coming up again and again (and again):
Newsletters don’t work…
Radio doesn’t work…
Facebook doesn’t work…
Print ads don’t work…
Etc.
On the surface, these all may look like different issues.
But really, all these owners are making ONE big mistake. Here’s what it is and how you can make sure you avoid it in your marketing.

Aug 5, 2019 • 9min
Doing More of What Works in Direct Access
Being a good physical therapist and being a good marketer are two very different skills.
Yes, you can be both. But being one does not make you the other. And like with any skill, if you want to improve you need to find the right mentor to learn from. Here’s a process for making better decisions that I learned from Ray Dalio’s book, Principles. Not only will you learn the process, I’ll also show you how you can apply it to improving your marketing.