Physician career networking follow up done brilliantly

Every now and again, I encounter physician career networking done so well by doctor business owners and those doctors in career transition that I have to remark (and blog) on it.

This morning presented another opportunity for me to highlight a job really well done by one of the physician attendees at the MedicalFusion conference I attended this last weekend in Las Vegas.

Here is the email (slightly modified to preserve anonymity) that awaited me in my Inbox, before I dissect it for you:

Hi Philippa:

How are you doing?  I met you at Medfusion in Las Vegas over the weekend.  

It was a pleasure meeting you.  You have a very good energy about you and I could see why you went into coaching.

I see patients one day/week but I schedule one hour visits and I essentially do a combination of coaching, psychotherapy and integrative medicine.  I also am a commercial pilot and fly ....

Hope to see you soon.  I will pass your contact to physicians I know who may be interesting in your coaching.  I may need it too :)

I attached a picture to help keep all the people you met organized. (A nice clear photo was attached to the email).

Name

Contact information with website

All the elements of excellent follow-up are there:

• Immediacy - he emailed me today having left the conference yesterday!
• A friendly greeting
• A reminder about who he was (even adding the nice touch of including a photo)
• A nice comment about me
• A "give, give, give" (I will pass your contact to physicians I know who may be interesting in your coaching.)
• Contact info.

All very important in creating a lasting impression that will make sure he is memorable. And I bet it didn't take him more than 3 minutes to write the follow-up email. I wonder if he has read the Bob Burg "Endless Referrals" networking "bible". This is a classic example of physician career networking done with great elegance.

Will you do the same?

Oh, and a big warm WELCOME to all new MedicalFusion Conference readers!