The Exact Weekly Checklist I Give New Dietitians to Start Getting Clients
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[00:00:00] Welcome. Today I'm talking about the exact weekly checklist that I give new dietitians to start getting clients. If you're not a new dietitian. But you're new to getting clients, whether cash pay or insurance. This episode can really help you accelerate your progress. You're probably trying to book your first few clients and you feel like you're doing a lot, but seeing very little return, or you haven't started yet and you wanna avoid seeing little return.
This episode will help. Today, I'm giving you the exact weekly checklist that I hand to beginner dietitians inside of the Dietician Boss library. That's our monthly membership. Now, what I'm sharing with you isn't theory. It's the step-by-step game plan that helps you take focused action in just a few hours a week so you can start building momentum, confidence, and income.
So let's get into it. Clients come. From clarity and consistency. So before I break down the checklist, [00:01:00] I wanna make something clear. you don't need to go viral, but you do need to be findable, meaning people need to be able to see. And you have to show up. You don't have to be perfect and your content doesn't have to be perfect, but you do want to create consistent conversations.
Those conversations are what's going to help lead to actual sales. So in the checklist I'm sharing, it's gonna be built around two things, showing up where your ideal client already is, and then creating a simple path for them to take action. So let's go ahead and walk through it. There are five core tasks.
In the weekly checklist that I'm giving you today, so the first task or task one includes posting two to three times on Instagram per week. Now, this could take you 45 minutes total, maybe up to an hour, but try to stick within under an hour and you can use this post rotation educational, like why you recommend Protein First, for example.
Relatable. You can always start with why I became a [00:02:00] dietician or something about being a mom, share or for those of you that have like gut issues and you like sharing your story, that also would fit into the relatable category. Invite would be the last rotation, meaning you're inviting them, you're asking them to DM you the word plan, to chat more, to book a consult, et cetera.
So Amara, who, is one of our clients, she helps postpartum moms. She posted just three times a week with this structure and booked two calls by week three. So keep in mind that if you have a system in place and you're not obsessing about how long each post takes, you'll prioritize consistency over perfection, and that's what helps you get booked.
So the second task would be to send five direct messages or dms to new or engaged followers. Doesn't have to be a new follower, especially if you're not growing super fast. This can take up to 15 minutes, but keep it simple. You don't have to write a long paragraph. You can say, Hey.
Thanks for following. Are you working [00:03:00] on, and then insert your niche or your specialty right now.
And so you're not selling, right? You're starting a conversation, and this is how our most successful clients are able to get started, is they just start engaging in conversations. Lewis a diabetes dietician sent five direct messages a week and booked three clients within the first month, all without spending hours on social media, right?
The third task would be to research before you engage. Now, this is really important, but you don't wanna get sucked into the vortex of research. I do want you to explore five niches or specialty accounts.
You could look at hashtags, but just think about people in certain spaces, right? Prenatal, perhaps it could be, diabetes, right? Weight management, et cetera. Or, DISORDERED eating and spend 10 minutes on this. And instead of jumping into engagement blindly, you can spend a few minutes doing research.
It's really important. So you might be looking at hashtags that your clients might follow, like PCOS support or pre-diabetes journey, and you can browse top [00:04:00] posts within that hashtag, or just search a concept like diabetes, renal, et cetera. And so you wanna ask, you wanna look at what types of questions are people asking.
Now you can do this outside of Instagram. You can do this on TikTok, you can do this on YouTube, you can do this on Google. But I would start use doing it on the app that you're engaging in, right? And so look at what posts and are generating likes and comments and what's really generating traction.
And use that insight to guide your own content ideas and comment meaningfully right on one to two posts. So this is gonna make your engagement more intentional and help you stay visible and relevant, right? Even with a small following. When you're engaging consistently, after you've done that research, you really have a strategy in mind, and it's gonna help you prevent burnout.
Remember, 10 minutes is sufficient, and if you're spending hours doing this, that's where you get sucked in. Task four would be to review your [00:05:00] bio and call to action. Now that can take five to 10 minutes. You wanna make sure that your bio on Instagram says who you help, what result you support, and what action to take.
For example, people with IBS. What result you support symptom management, Bloat management to be specific and what action to take. So that could be DM plan to book a call or DM plan for a free checklist. You can swap whatever niche and result you offer.
that's gonna be how you get started. Keep it simple. Don't do more than three lines. Do not stuff the bio, because it's hard for people to navigate and read through. Another example would be, I help women with PCOS balance hormones without restriction, right? DM me PCOS to learn more.
And so you can also check. Often, I'd say at least once a month or once a quarter to make sure that your bio is aligned with what you're posting. Just having an audit on your own content strategy and on your own profile is important. The fifth and last [00:06:00] task would be to track wins and questions.
So this is really important 'cause you can probably look through conversations you've already had with clients in the past. and if you don't have those yet and start paying attention to what people are asking and you can use, we offer you, tracker inside of the library or a monthly membership where you can document these wins and questions.
This can take you 10 minutes a week, maybe 20 minutes depending on the volume. So at the end of the week, you can ask yourself like, what posts got the most reactions? What questions did somebody ask? Or if you have questions and conversations from past sessions and you don't yet have engagement from your posts, you can look at that.
If you've got emails from clients or just conversations that you've had, you can reflect on some of those. You might not have captured them, so it might take a little bit of critical thinking, but having that strategy in mind will help you focus in a new clear direction. You could also ask yourself, what did a client say out loud that could become content?
That's a really [00:07:00] good rule of thumb because oftentimes if you're paying attention to what people are saying and thinking, that can some in some way turn out to be a good piece of content. So another gut health dietician that we worked with, in the past, she built three weeks of content just by writing down client questions.
So writing down what people were saying. So you might be thinking I don't work in this space yet, and that's fine. That's where you're gonna look online and see what are people saying. So you can look a, it'll be not as personalized, but then the more clients you get in the space that you serve, the more specific your content will be.
So you wanna make sure to pay attention to the struggles and the goals that people are talking about. If you're ready to try out this checklist this week, right? Any of these five steps, I want you to DM me and let me know, that this is something that you're committed to getting started. And if you also wanna join the library, check that [email protected].
That's [00:08:00] our monthly membership where
You have access to hundreds of templates and resources that we've created for you in addition to simulations for sales, Case studies, right? So you will have the confidence to engage in different situations, different symptom management, different stages of change, and that'll help you build confidence and retain your clients, which ultimately is a, business tactic that we all need to survive in business
If it feels like a lot to start with all these five tasks and you're listening saying, I wanna get started, but my goodness, this is too much. Just start with one task. Choose your favorite from the list above. You can always replay this episode, and then you can tack on another task next week. So maybe you start with task number five this week, and then next week you're like I'm gonna add task number three.
And then slowly with time, you'll start to integrate all five tasks into your regimen. It might just take three to four weeks, And you're saying I can do this. Then I want you to challenge you to see how many weeks you can sustain this with the timeframes I gave you. I told you the amount of times, the upper limit, maximum time [00:09:00] per task per week, and then shoot us a DM to chat about your progress over a dietician boss on Instagram, and we'd love to talk to you about how you're doing and what support you might need, or just giving you a shout out for the great work that you're doing.
I want you to know that getting clients doesn't start with a full schedule or a perfect funnel. It starts with simple, repeatable actions and conversations. This checklist is how beginner dietitians go from invisible to in demand. It's how people who you admire got started. With just a few hours a week of focused work, you can be heading in the right direction of making sales and creating more impact as a dietician.
All right, we'll see you next time.
