Ways to Increase Patient Volume, with Paul Smith

<p><strong>Ways to increase patient volume</strong> is one struggle functional medicine practitioners struggle with. Guest speaker Paul Smith joins us to teach functional medicine practitioners creative strategies to do just that using storytelling. He shares:</p> <ul> <li><strong>Ways to increase patient volume</strong></li> <li>How to engage your audience</li> <li>What questions your story should answer</li> <li>What stories leaders need to know</li> <li>What doctors can do to tell stories</li> <li>Why stories matter to functional medical practitioners</li> </ul> <h3>Why Storytelling Matters</h3> <p>Paul Smith is a leading expert on organizational storytelling, author of three Amazon Books #1 Bestsellers, and storytelling coach. With Paul’s storytelling skills, he helps organizations reach new heights of success.</p> <p>Everything he teaches is based on his years of research and interviewing successful people from all walks of life to discover they all shared the same secret: Knowledge of the Art of Storytelling.</p> <p>Now, on the latest episode of the FM Shift, Paul is joining us to share how functional medicine practitioners can use storytelling not just to grow their practices but how storytelling can best help their patients.</p> <h3>Storytelling and the Human Brain</h3> <p>As functional medicine practitioners, helping people is your job. When patients find it difficult to pay for medical services due to insurance not covering your practice, getting patients to come to you can be challenging, and discovering new ways to increase patient volume can sometimes seem impossible.</p> <p>That’s why you turn to sales and marketing experts to help you get patients through the door. But what if storytelling was all you needed?</p> <p>When you go to marketing and sales experts for help scaling your business, you’re trying to get people to think, feel, and do something they’re not currently doing. Humans make many of their decisions in their subconscious–the feeling part of the brain–then the conscious, logical, brain