Don’t worry when the phone doesn’t seem to ring, there’s much you can do:
1. Clean up database. If you don’t have one, start one now. Type all contacts into program.
2. Design postcards or write letters to send to health professionals other than physicians: psychologists, social workers.
3. Mail merge contacts with labels or letters. This can take days to figure out.
4. Investigate ways to cut costs for mailings.
5. Look into credit card machines (see archives on NE website)
6. On www.nedpg.org, add your free business listing in 2 specialties.
7. Sort out your reading material and get your reading up to date.
8. Do your accounting on a program like QuickBooks.
9. File and throw out anything that can be found online, including old JADA issues.
10. Update forms, handouts and stationary.
11. Take on interns to help you clean up or create new handouts. There’s a possibility you can get CEU’s from this.
12. Update website or design one.
13. Clean up computer folders.
14. Write a book proposal.
15. When shopping at supermarkets, volunteer advice if you see someone reading a nutrition label. One RD got 2 clients this way.
16. Increase your CEU’s from JADA articles.
17. Complete and submit portfolio. It’s easier online but if it doesn’t work due to goal numbers not correlating, call ADA. Having MNT as a code helps as you can throw a lot of seminars under that heading.
18. If you want to take insurance, apply through CAQH.org. You will need to complete approximately 10 pages of forms, send insurance information, degrees and internship proof. Being accepted could take 6 months to a year.
19. Write an article for Ventures.
20. Clean out wardrobe in preparation for a busy fall.
21. Take a holiday.
