Foot Care Nurse

Editorial Team / Admin · Feb 19, 2012

I agree the Yellow Pages are very expensive.

Are you able to go to conventions, workshops, seminars and exhibit your business? I do that with my Medical-Legal consulting business.

Have you considered creating brochures and/or newsletters and sending to current/potential clients, outlining what your business has to offer?

Are you a member of your local Chamber of Commerce? You can normally get great deals on advertising with what they send out in the County.

If you have already established contact with your client(s), you could utilize email updates/interesting information regarding your line of business.

You could try sending "discount" flyer services to current/potential clients.

Have you tried luncheons for clients? Get in the door and do a presentation of your business.

We do not have the same business, but are Entrepreneurs and can share similar ideas.

bizi · Feb 19, 2012

Thank you sir1,

I appreciated your feed back.

I am such a small business.....and money is tight right now.

I think I am regretting taking out the ad in the yellow pages now.

I will look into the chamber, see how expensive it is.

I have done health fairs in the past with out any luck...

I still do one because they are so nice to me.

I give out mini manicures while there, the ladies love it!

I look at it as community service really.

bizi

Editorial Team / Admin · Feb 19, 2012

I tried the Yellow Pages for a couple years and was a bust plus very expensive.

Do you belong to a local/state/national chapter for Foot Care?

Once you do initial design of brochures/newsletters, the expense is minimal.

I'd certainly stick with Health Fairs, etc.

I like doing luncheons for clients/potential clients. Once you have your presentation created, not all that expensive. Sometimes, when doing a luncheon, that's all it is. No "shop talk", but I'm visible.

Wish I could help you a little more. I totally understand the decline in business. I'm having to re-invent myself, too.

bizi · Feb 19, 2012

Thank you for your reply.

I think I will try to donate items for bingos at one assisted living place

that I used to have a lot of clients but not any more.

I am really hoping that the pharmacy bags generate new clients.

bizi

I am the only person in this state that I know of doing this business.

I think there are other forums out there that are specifically for foot care nurses...

I will have to research that.

Editorial Team / Admin · Feb 19, 2012

I wish you luck in all you do. Hope you find a way to generate a lot of business. :)

Flockone · Feb 21, 2012

What state are you in?

bizi · Feb 21, 2012

louisiana, lafayette....Happy mardi gras!

Race Mom, ASN, RN · Mar 13, 2012

thank you
I wonder how other foot care nurses generate new clients?
I am having a hard time.
thanks for any input.
bizi

Bizi,

Don't forget to go to your local diabetic shoe stores! Pedorthists could be a good source. Funny story...we just sold our RV to a pedorthist. I didn't know he was a pedorthist, but the conversation came about when my hubby told him he could "buy the RV, but you have to leave your shoes" (haha). His shoes were orange and blue running shoes and my hubby is a long distance runner so he loved the shoes. They said they could give us a good deal on shoes since he works at a shoe store. When I asked which one, he said "I'm what they call a pedorthist". (my grin inserted here). I asked him for some cards since I'm only a few weeks from opening my foot care business. He said they are looking to open their store on Mondays to do foot clinics and the last foot care nurses they had lined up backed out. He told me to go see the manager about doing it! Woot Woot!

yrmajesty3 · Jun 3, 2012

Hope you're out there Bizi.

I'd love to know how your marketing is going.

Mine is very slow. I will be doing a health fair this week. If it goes well,

I'm planning to create a better brochure and do a few more health fairs

in the fall. As for now, I only have a few clients found by word of mouth.

Now if I could only find about 75 more!

yrmajesty3 · Jul 29, 2012

:cheers:PASSED!!! CFCN box now checked off! YAY!:w00t:

Race Mom, ASN, RN · Jul 30, 2012

I knew you could do it! Awesome!!

dawnma · Sep 12, 2012

I am an RN in Texas. I have recently completed a course at Emory University in Atlanta on Foot Care and plan to take the CFCN exam in the near future. I have been providing Foot Care for the Diabetic Population at a large hospital in the outpt setting. I have received many requests from friends and family to help with their elderly family members nail care. I am considering going in to business for myself. The majority of the information I have found is from Canada. Seems this is a big business there. Are any of you guys in the states and doing this self employed? I have only found a couple of people in the states via the internet. Not sure if I am looking in the right place......

I would love to hear any advice, tips or anything else that may be required to start this business. If there is an organization for Foot Care Nurses I would love that info as well. Thanks, Dawn