Networking Within the Podiatry Profession
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In this episode of Podiatry Marketing, Tyson Franklin and Jim McDannald, DPM, delve into effective networking strategies for podiatrists. Discover why networking is essential for career growth in the podiatry profession, and learn practical tips for making meaningful connections at conferences and meetings.
Whether you're a new graduate or a seasoned podiatrist, this episode offers valuable insights into how to build lasting professional relationships and stand out in your field.
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Jim McDannald, DPM:
You're listening to podiatry marketing, conversations on building a successful podiatry practice with Tyson Franklin and Jim McDannald.
Jim McDannald, DPM:
Welcome back to podiatry marketing. I'm your host, Jim McDannald. Joining us always my trusty cohost, Tyson Franklin. Tyson, how's everyone today?
Tyson E. Franklin:
Fantastic day, Big Jim. Good to be back on here for another episode of Podiatry Marketing, sharing sharing experiences probably. I think most of what we talk about is our past experiences, clients we've worked with. So I think it's always good just to give stuff back, and we're not just making things up like some places do.
Jim McDannald, DPM:
We've got this is episode number two eleven. So we have
Tyson E. Franklin:
It's lot, isn't it?
Jim McDannald, DPM:
211. We've shared a lot of different experiences, but it's been fun journey. And they like you said, I always enjoy sharing kind of best practices and things we've learned along the way.
Tyson E. Franklin:
Yeah. Should we tell people we got a book coming out in the not too distant future?
Jim McDannald, DPM:
Yeah. Sure. Why not?
Tyson E. Franklin:
Yeah. We have a book coming out in the not too distant future. Stay tuned. You will hear more about it. I'm quite excited about it myself.
Tyson E. Franklin:
So it it should be a good read.
Jim McDannald, DPM:
Yeah. Working hard on it now. So hopefully, early in 2026, some of you will get
Tyson E. Franklin:
a chance to get
Jim McDannald, DPM:
your hands on or get your eyes on it.
Tyson E. Franklin:
Yeah. Even just saying that out loud makes it seem more real because you you put it out there that we're telling people that's what we're gonna do, and now we must follow through and complete the task.
Jim McDannald, DPM:
That's fine.
Tyson E. Franklin:
Okay. But before we get to that, let's get on to today's topic, which is networking within the podiatry profession. They're not outside within. So I'm not talking about networking to attract new patients to your business. It's about networking to build your podiatry career.
Tyson E. Franklin:
So it's a little bit different.
Jim McDannald, DPM:
Yeah. That's this sounds like a good one. I'm looking forward to hearing what you have to say on this topic.
Tyson E. Franklin:
People might be thinking, yeah, why should I network or why should you network? So networking, I think, is one of the best ways to accelerate your growth in life overall. Whether you're a podiatry business owner or even if you're just working nine to five, you're working for somebody else, it's one of the best ways to actually build your career. By building relationships with people, you'll actually accelerate every aspect of your career, and you'll do it faster. That's the main thing.
Tyson E. Franklin:
Networking speeds up career progression, I think, in in all areas.
Jim McDannald, DPM:
I think what they say, if you wanna if you wanna go fast, go alone. Don't know how it goes. Go far if you wanna go fast, go alone. If you wanna go far, go together.
Tyson E. Franklin:
Oh, I like that.
Jim McDannald, DPM:
I think that's yeah. I think it's I I definitely didn't make that up. It's I've heard it somewhere before, but I definitely think your topic kind of resonates with it with that quote.
Tyson E. Franklin:
That's a fantastic quote. Make sure you put that in the show notes. Will do. Yeah. I'll I'll I'll take it.
Tyson E. Franklin:
It's good. So the first part I wanna talk about is just networking at podiatry conferences and meetings. Before you go, you need a strategy and a plan before attending the conference. Don't just rock up to a conference. It's not the best way to get the get the most out of it.
Tyson E. Franklin:
And then you and your goal is to build friendships and authentic relationships. Don't overcomplicate it. The whole time you're going there, you're really just going there to meet people, build friendships over a period of time. And you're not gonna become super close friends with somebody maybe at that first conference. It might be something that builds up over time.
Tyson E. Franklin:
And don't become that person remember someone mentioned it to us, networking Ned or something, that goes bolting around just trying to put business cards in everybody's hands and then just basically running off to the next person. Everybody sees that at conferences, the the new eager podiatrist is there, and they just wanna meet everybody, and everyone knows they have an attention deficit problem. They just they're they're here one minute. They're they're gone the next. But you also don't wanna be that other extreme where you're the person that's too scared to actually hand out your business card.
Tyson E. Franklin:
So you wanna be that somewhere somewhere in between that is the best way to do it.
Jim McDannald, DPM:
Yeah. I've I've seen that happen at, you know, different networking events as people are kinda learning how to network. There there is that kind of two extremes. There's the people that just that are running to every booth. They're talking to every person.
Jim McDannald, DPM:
They're really kind of, I would say, like, shallow surface level
Tyson E. Franklin:
Yeah.
Jim McDannald, DPM:
Conversations. And, you know, I think it's better to to go deep with people. So maybe didn't meet everyone he wanted to at a at a conference or things didn't happen, but you really should have a plan going in. And sometimes it it can be beneficial to know, you know, are there people that went to your residency or went to your school or someone that you know, another podiatrist in profession, one of their best friends or a colleague. You know, ways you can make, like, a deeper connection if you do have some of those kind of previous connections with people or some some some common, you know, people kind of in common with other folks, kind of kind of mining those relationships, I can I can be very helpful when you're going to different meetings and conferences?
Jim McDannald, DPM:
But I think, yeah, doing a little bit of homework beforehand and really focusing more on kind of that middle ground where you're not trying to become somebody's best friend Yeah. At the same time. You're not you're not jumping from booth to booth.
Tyson E. Franklin:
Yeah. But and that's why it's important to figure out, yeah, what are your expectations? And networking at a conference starts way before the meeting ever happens. It's yeah. You need a list of things that you want to accomplish at the conference.
Tyson E. Franklin:
Don't just turn up blindly. Yeah. Are you there are you going to the conference just for further education? That's why some people will go to conferences. There's a topic, there's a speaker, that's the only reason there.
Tyson E. Franklin:
They wanna learn something, which is fair enough. You might be there because you want a career move. You might be looking at maybe going from a private practice to a hospital, or going from a hospital to a private practice, or you want to just meet some other people that you're thinking of changing. Do you wanna meet you might have your expectation, I wanna meet three podiatrists in a specific niche. So you might have an interest in podiatry, it might be sports podiatry.
Tyson E. Franklin:
You go, oh, I know there's gonna be a few sports podiatrists at this event. I wanna connect with them, get to know them a little bit more, and ask them questions about how they built their their podiatry practice in that niche. Or are you just well, like I say, is you are you just digging the well before you need the water? You're getting to meet people. You're getting known in the profession.
Tyson E. Franklin:
You might wanna meet, I don't know, the people who run the event, the the association members or the committee members. You go, I'm I'm going because I wanna meet them. I want them my goal by the time I finish this conference is for every committee meeting or committee member to know who I am because one day, I might wanna apply to speak at this conference. And if they don't know who I am, they'll never know. So you're digging that well before you need the water.
Tyson E. Franklin:
So if you have ambitions on speaking at different conferences in your own country and around the world, you wanna connect with the right people at the conferences, and you wanna do it multiple times. You want them to see that you're actually you're a serious podiatrist. You're not someone who's just flying in and flying out again.
Jim McDannald, DPM:
It's a good point. And kinda be deliberate and kinda preplanning these goals, I think, is important. Like you said, sometimes you just wanna you know, when you're first getting to your first conference is something where you're kind of learning the lay of the land, what it's like to be at a conference. But after you've been to a few, having some more deliberate goals about what you wanna you know, maybe if you're in residency, you're looking for Joel places to practice or people to practice with or to learn about an area or there's just so many different kind of ways you can go into a conference or podiatry meeting to to get the most out of it, to be on where you're what stage of, you know, your career you're in, but also kind of what you wanna get out of that event.
Tyson E. Franklin:
Yeah. Like, I I know some people go to conferences, and it's purely catch up with colleagues I used to go to, you know, podiatry school with. Some go there more just for the social aspect. It's a it's an excuse to get away from work for a few days. Some people I've heard them say it's an excuse to get away from their family for a few days.
Tyson E. Franklin:
Yeah. Everyone's got different reasons, but I think what I'm talking about here is you you are going with the intentions of wanting to network, to get to connect with people for your career. And I think if if they're if you wanna meet someone specifically at an event, you need to prepare a few months out because at the event, they are gonna be swamped by other people. Especially if there's someone that is a renowned speaker. They're have heaps of people coming up to them afterwards.
Tyson E. Franklin:
You wanna prepare beforehand so you can actually stand out. You might send them an email and you might go, oh, sorry. I hear you're gonna be speaking at this event. I'm really looking forward to your topic. Here's an email.
Tyson E. Franklin:
Now, that's really easy, but and it's also a bit impersonal. So I think you can take it up a level. You might send them a handwritten note or even a card that just say, hey, I'm really looking forward to seeing you at this conference. I know you're talking about this. I I hope we get a chance to have a coffee or something afterwards.
Tyson E. Franklin:
The handwritten note or handwritten card is gonna mean a lot more than just an email that comes through with the other 150 emails I received that day. Although I said, I have a drawer that I keep here where I keep letters, cards that I receive from people, And every now and then, I'll go through it and I just read through them. It just makes you feel good. Or if there's something you know that they like, and I've broke down an example here. A t shirt, for example.
Tyson E. Franklin:
Yeah? I am a large, in case anyone's wondering. But I've gone and done things, and there's been people there who know I I like t shirts, and they might be say, example, it was Toronto, that all of sudden, they've sent me a Toronto t shirt. They go, oh, here you're gonna be at the Toronto conference. Here's a Toronto t shirt.
Tyson E. Franklin:
I heard you're a large. And the thing is, I'm not saying that that you you must do that with every speaker who's gonna be at an event. But if there's someone specifically you wanna meet, you might know they know somebody else. Dig deep. Go to their social media pages.
Tyson E. Franklin:
Scroll through what are they like doing. Always tell people, if you come into Cairns and you wanna connect with me, just invite me out for a hamburger. If you don't know I like hamburgers, then you don't know me. Then when you go the thing is though, if you've sent a handwritten note or a card, when you go up to them at a at a meeting, I will guarantee you 100% they will know exactly who you are, who you are, because most people don't do it. And don't just connect with them on social media.
Tyson E. Franklin:
So I've had a lot of people that'll reach out to me, and they'll send me a friend request. Oh, look at that. Yep. You know this person? Yeah.
Tyson E. Franklin:
I always connect with them. But once again, it's really easy and it's a bit impersonal. If you're going to connect with them through social media, then try and spark a bit of a conversation prior to the event so that once they're there, they're going to be looking out for you or you've already agreed, hey. Can we have a coffee and talk about this? And it's it's a great way of doing it.
Jim McDannald, DPM:
It's like you said, it's it's really about standing out. Yeah. You know, like a quick email is gonna be, you know, something that's probably gonna be more of a hindrance to kind of catalyze this relationship or to get it off the ground or at least catalyze a meeting. So, yeah, if you can do something that's kind, differentiate yourself, like said, they're they're gonna guarantee not who you are because not everybody does something like sending a card or, you know, a large t shirt in your case. So I think it's a great opportunity to kind of build a personal connection, like you said, even weeks or months before the actual conference happens.
Tyson E. Franklin:
Yeah. One of the things somebody did to me years ago, which I thought was fantastic, and they all of sudden, I got I got a book in the mail. They went, oh, that's unusual. Didn't didn't know who it's from. I opened up and then inside the book, it said click on this QR code and all shall be revealed.
Tyson E. Franklin:
There was something like that. So I clicked on the QR code. It went through to like a YouTube video and it said, hey, Tyson. If you're watching this video, that means you got the book. How you doing?
Tyson E. Franklin:
I saw this, came across it, thought you'd really enjoy it. I'm gonna be at such and such conference. I look forward to seeing there. We'll catch up and have a coffee. Now, I already knew who they were, but when I got there, I went, that is a brilliant idea.
Tyson E. Franklin:
That is a great way of standing and then also sending a personal message. Remember when I went to the Foot and Ankle Show last year, and there was a couple there, and I I shot that video, and they were saying hello to Big Jim Mac. Do you remember that?
Jim McDannald, DPM:
Yeah. Absolutely.
Tyson E. Franklin:
Yeah. Now, if that couple, for example, who were in that video, if they had just shot that video themselves and just forwarded you on social media and say they knew you were gonna speak at a conference, And they said, hey, Jim. How are doing? This is such and such here. We just wanted to say we're looking forward to your talk, and this coming up.
Tyson E. Franklin:
Anyway, see you later. Big Jim Mac. And they did that at the end. You would definitely remember who they were if they came up to you at a conference. So, yeah, it's been a little bit unique.
Tyson E. Franklin:
Now, there's something else you touched on this before too about getting a conference buddy. If there's two reasons to have what I call a conference buddy. One, it makes introductions so much easier because your conference buddy may know some of the other people that you wanna talk to, but it also means you're never standing alone. And especially if you're a little bit nervous, it might be your first podiatry event, you're not sure. If you got a friend there with you, there's nothing better than at least you got someone to talk to, then you're just then standing around by yourself, especially if you're going to event where you may not know a lot of people.
Tyson E. Franklin:
You might be attending something overseas. A conference buddy is fantastic.
Jim McDannald, DPM:
Yeah. It's always fun to go, you know, have someone there to go grab a beer with after the conference or hang out in sessions. Like you said, it makes networking a lot easier when you have a wingman with you.
Tyson E. Franklin:
Alright. A wing woman. A wing person. A wing person. So but also, like, if there's smaller special interest meetings, yeah, it might might be a big conference, just a smaller group meeting.
Tyson E. Franklin:
Once again, having a buddy will help. As soon as as soon as you can this is what I usually say to people. If you go to a small group meeting, as soon you can, try and identify the most confident podiatrist in the room. And they're usually the ones that are asking really good questions to the speaker, putting their hand up, asking questions, without being arrogant. They're not the one going, oh, look at me.
Tyson E. Franklin:
I know more than you. I should be up there speaking. They're not the ones you wanna try and connect with. But during the first break, when you identify these people, first break, go and introduce yourself. Walk up to them and say, hi.
Tyson E. Franklin:
I'm such and such. I thought it was a really good question that you asked, and they said this, but can you elaborate on that? Get them talking about it. It's a really good way. They'll remember who you are because not everyone does this.
Tyson E. Franklin:
Then ask if they personally know the speaker. They might know them. And then if they do, ask for an introduction unless you've already reached out to them beforehand and you sent them a card or a t yeah. Or just something. So you may already have connected with the speaker that way.
Tyson E. Franklin:
And the other thing I think when you're meeting these sort of people is do something that makes you stand out even further. Giving a compliment is always good, and you might say, hey, that was a fantastic talk. No one's gonna come up and say, hey, Jim. That was a real shit talk. No no one's ever gonna come up.
Tyson E. Franklin:
They're always gonna come up and say, hey, Jim. That was a great talk. Even if they thought it was bad, they're still gonna say it's good. But if you wanna stand it, you're gonna tell them it's a good talk that everybody else does, but then give another genuine compliment. If they're wearing a shirt that you think is a great shirt, go, hey, by the way, I love that shirt.
Tyson E. Franklin:
What's the brand? Or I love that watch you're wearing, or where'd you get that necklace from? Or if it's female. If you like the earrings, I love those earrings. My wife looked good in those.
Tyson E. Franklin:
Where'd you get them from? Something like that. I remember meeting our he wasn't our prime minister at the time, but he was running for it. And somebody introduced me to him. And I'd heard this thing about do something that make you I couldn't think of anything.
Tyson E. Franklin:
And I reached over, and I grabbed hold of his tie, I got a little tug. I said, nice tie. And he just looked at me and went, I've never had anyone do that before. And then there was somebody there who actually knew me and said, don't worry. By the end of the day, you you will know Tyson.
Tyson E. Franklin:
But it was just somebody said to you, just do something or compliment something that makes you stand out from everybody else's there because the faces do just tend to blend in after a period of time.
Jim McDannald, DPM:
I think that's a great point. You really you don't wanna just kinda blend the background. There's opportunities to kind of stand out and just kind of I think it's it's great to take take what they, you know, kind of stay away from the kind of generic compliments that people give and do something memorable. Mhmm. And then you're much more likely to get into a different kind of they're gonna see you differently, and you can kind of take conversations into a different direction.
Tyson E. Franklin:
Yeah. And like I'm saying, this isn't always just about the speakers at events that you want to connect with. It's just other people that the events will be standing there listening to a conversation. And this is what happened to me in the first year I graduated. I remember going to a conference, and there were a couple there was, like one of the main speakers was speaking.
Tyson E. Franklin:
It's about three or four other podiatrists, and I was just listening in to the conversation, and they said something that I felt was something that I wanted to know more about. And I just walked over the table, and here's all these people sitting there, much older than me, and I went, I just overheard you talk about this. That was really interesting. Can you guys tell me more about that? Some of those people are still my friends to this day.
Tyson E. Franklin:
They I went out because when I saw them at other events, they remembered me coming up to them and doing that. Plus, I bought them around beers, which might have helped as well.
Jim McDannald, DPM:
That doesn't hurt.
Tyson E. Franklin:
That never hurts. But this is something you gotta be prepared for too. People are gonna wanna know, who are you? What will you say when somebody asks about your business? Because they're going to ask.
Tyson E. Franklin:
So be prepared. And I reckon be very specific. So, yeah, I own, you say, the business name at Telenwood is, and my main focus is this, and this is why I'm at this conference. If you can be really if you just say, oh, yeah. No.
Tyson E. Franklin:
I love all aspects of podiatry. What? Beige. It doesn't really it doesn't really stand you might do all aspects of podiatry, there's something you really like, which was the reason you went to the smaller group conference, then that's what you need to focus on when someone comes up and introduces himself to
Jim McDannald, DPM:
I think that's a it's a great point. You if you can't say what you do and articulate it in a in a short sentence, you don't you kinda miss that opportunity to write anything more than a sentence is probably gonna people are gonna start, know, kind of dozing off that or just kind of you have that chance to make a quick impact. And if you have that in a rehearsal, you know what you're gonna say, it just makes it slow a lot more easily and gives people a better idea more quickly about who you are and what you do.
Tyson E. Franklin:
Yeah. And then the next thing, this leads on really well to the the eyebrow test. So the eyebrow test is when you tell someone about yourself, if their eyebrows go down, that means you've confused them. And if their eyebrows go up, it means you've actually captured their interest. And and if you talk too long, like sixty seconds, and verbally throw up all over them, they won't have any questions and there'll be less engagement.
Tyson E. Franklin:
So to always keep the conversation flowing, it's best to shut up and actually ask them questions, especially if they're the guest speaker. If you ask them a question about themselves and they start talking, and then they let you say something, and then you say something very quickly and ask them another question. And I've seen this happen where someone's hardly said a word, and the other person has spoken the whole time, and then that person's left, and they go, jeez, they were great to talk to. I'm like, they never said a bloody word. All they do is ask really, really good questions.
Jim McDannald, DPM:
I think another quick test that's a little bit different is that whenever you're starting to talk to someone at a conference or a networking event, like, you can just, like, glance down real quick and see, like, what what direction their feet are pointed. Oh. I was I was hearing someone talk about this. And if their if their feet are pointing directly at you, it's a sign that they're engaged and, like, they're kinda open to talking to you and are at least interested in maybe hearing what have to say. But if their feet are kinda pointing in a direction away from you, obviously, the the more kinda, like, closer to 90 degrees they are from you, means they're probably, like, they're ready to move on or they got something to do or something's going on.
Jim McDannald, DPM:
That may not be they're not interested, but they have something more pressing.
Tyson E. Franklin:
It might need be interested
Jim McDannald, DPM:
in. So yeah. That could be it as well. So body language, would it be eyebrows or direction people's feet are pointed are definitely two things you can kind of pick up on those cues. This nonverbal communication to help you kind of judge, you know, how the conversation is going or kinda where things are leading to a little bit.
Tyson E. Franklin:
I just it's funny because I I have you just saying that, I have these flashbacks of certain people that I've spoken with different things, not podiatry things, at different events in Cairns, and someone's coming and they started to tell me, and I've gone, ugh. And I do my whole body language must just go, oh, Jesus. And then my feet have turned. I'm sort of like, I'm ready to bolt towards the hors d'oeuvres. Go to the bar.
Tyson E. Franklin:
Make up make up some excuse. I'm gonna keep an eye on that now. I'm gonna watch other people talking. So I always think it's good too to observe other people at networking events and look at conversations that are flowing well and actually use these other tests, what you just said then. Watch people's feet.
Tyson E. Franklin:
If you get two people meet and you see their feet turn, go, oh my god, big Jim was right. You got the foot the foot turning technique. You can actually point out to him go, I noticed your feet are turning the other way. You're about to leave, are you? Make him feel really awkward.
Tyson E. Franklin:
So watch Jim's feet when you talk to him.
Jim McDannald, DPM:
Don't use my strategies against me.
Tyson E. Franklin:
Yeah. It might have really abducted feet. Don't know which way he's gonna don't know which way he's gonna go. So the last thing I wanted to talk about too is just social media is a network opportunity. Always network in podiatry Facebook groups the right way by adding value to the group.
Tyson E. Franklin:
Don't be selfish. Don't join the group just to get free information. I know a lot of people do that. They'll join the podiatry business owners club, for example. They're in there just to see what they can get, but they never wanna contribute.
Tyson E. Franklin:
You could post something, and you can see the people with the same names keep popping up. And they're usually the people that are connected with a lot of other people in group, and they're usually the people when I'm at a conference that you tend to talk to because you know who they are through these groups. So it it you know, be engaging, ask questions, and answer questions in the group. And Facebook groups, basically, be like, attending five different networking events in one afternoon. You can jump around these different groups, ask different things.
Tyson E. Franklin:
When somebody posts something, if you like it, like it. Don't just scroll past and go, I couldn't give a rat's. If you like it, like if you don't like it, give it a thumbs down. Tell them you don't like it. Put an angry face.
Tyson E. Franklin:
But do something. Don't just join a group to take. You you wanna actually participate. And if you're engaging in a Facebook group, only then will you be able to connect further and actually become friendly with people in that group. You can't just reach out to someone in a closer relationship if you're not being engaging over period of time.
Tyson E. Franklin:
And the one of the last things I wanna say is just have a look at your profile photo, your bio, any information you've got written in there. Because if somebody meets you at a networking event and they wanna connect with you afterwards, they're gonna go and check you out. They're gonna check your social profile. They're look at photos. Are they professional?
Tyson E. Franklin:
Have you got a bit of information about yourself? What's the heading on your Facebook page look like? Don't put a photo of your cat. When I get people reach out to me and they go, hey, I wanna be a friend. I look and there's a photo of a dog, a cat, a penguin.
Tyson E. Franklin:
I don't care what it is. I wanna see a photo of them. I wanna know who is it that I'm actually connecting with. And this is the final tip, it's a quote. The shortest runway to your goals is who you know, so get known.
Tyson E. Franklin:
Go there. Be known. Get people to know who you are. Anything you wanna add on that, Jim, before we wrap up?
Jim McDannald, DPM:
No. I think that's great. I think you you brought a lot of kind of important topics, and we, you know, kinda gave away a couple strategies as far as networking goes. I think, you know, you have to put yourself out there a little bit. I think sometimes, you know, you can't just stand in the corner and just kind of you know, whether it be in your marketing or in your kind of career development, if you just kinda stand in the corner and, you know, read your books and hope things are gonna go well, maybe they'll be okay.
Jim McDannald, DPM:
But I think when you like you talked about earlier, you know, when you get to know people, you build a network of people that are invested in you, you've invested in them, you've gotten to know them, you've shared. It's a lot more enriching experience when you do things with other people. I know I always while I was a runner and it's an individual sport, I always enjoyed being on a cross country team and on a track team and
Tyson E. Franklin:
Yeah.
Jim McDannald, DPM:
You know, cheering for other people. And it's not it's the same way in the profession. So when you can build strong relationships in the profession, have other people to cheer for, other people to, you know, have the ups and downs with, it's a lot more rewarding career and professional experience as opposed to trying to go it alone. So you know, because everyone's gonna have up uptimes and downtimes, and you're gonna need some people to lean on during those downtimes. And maybe it's somebody you met at a in school that you've kept in touch with or somebody you met in a meeting or someone you got to know locally as another podiatrist.
Jim McDannald, DPM:
Just get out there, meet people. It's gonna help you in in ways that you can't even fathom right now.
Tyson E. Franklin:
And people don't leave the profession that have friends in the profession. Yeah. A lot of podiatrists I know who I've seen come and go have been the ones who have graduated and have gone to the odd thing here and there, but they really just stuck to themselves and they just disappear. They just they just leave. But the ones that are actually invested in their career that really want to meet people and enjoy it as a profession, they look at they look at podiatry not just a profession but as a career, tend to hang around longer.
Tyson E. Franklin:
That's why I wanted to do this particular topic. So that's it for me, Jim. I got nothing else on this.
Jim McDannald, DPM:
Alright. Well, thanks for a great topic, Tyson. And if if people wanted to to reach out to you to learn other networking techniques or some other ways, some other physical cues to learn some body language when they're out there networking, how should they get in touch?
Tyson E. Franklin:
Easiest way is an email tf@tysonfranklin.com. Go to my website, tyson franklin dot com. From there, you can actually see my postal address. Send me a handwritten card if you really want to have an impact.
Jim McDannald, DPM:
Or or a large t shirt sounds like. So Oh,
Tyson E. Franklin:
t shirt and large. Yeah. Oh, I have I have about 250 t shirts. I love t shirts. My wife just says, no more t shirts.
Tyson E. Franklin:
And the last trip I went on to America, I said, I am not coming home with any t shirts. I didn't buy any, but I still came out with two because some friends over there own a gym. So they gave me two t shirts. But that's alright.
Jim McDannald, DPM:
Here you go. Okay. We'll test some
Tyson E. Franklin:
What about you? How do
Jim McDannald, DPM:
they help next one. Okay? Yeah. If someone has questions about, you know, marketing or how to put some of these things we've, you know, we've talked about into action, they can reach out to me at jim@podiatrygrowth.com or, you on podiatry.marketing, our website, there's a contact form that you can fill out as well.
Tyson E. Franklin:
Okay, big Jim. I look forward to talking to you next week.
Jim McDannald, DPM:
Hey, Tyson.
Tyson E. Franklin:
Okay. See
Jim McDannald, DPM:
you. Thanks for listening to Podiatry Marketing with Tyson Franklin and Jim McAnnold. Subscribe and learn more at Podiatry Marketing. That's the website address, podiatry.marketing.
