Starting a Mobile FEES Business with a Partner with George Barnes and Allie Mataras
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To download your free copy, please visit startyourprivatepractice dot com backslash roadmap to sign up. Now on to the episode. George Barnes and Allie Materis are speech language pathologists who, after years of working in hospitals and feeling like not enough patients were getting access to the instrumental swallowing exams that they needed, friends George and Allie decided to start their very own mobile fees business in January of 2020. Well, then came the COVID curveball. Whether you're interested in offering mobile fees, want to know more about the realities of starting a private practice with a business partner, or just want to hear about how they've regrouped, rebounded, and are ready to truly grow their mobile fees business, you are in for a treat.
So stay tuned. I'm Jenna Castro-Kasbon, speech language pathologist, business coach, and creator of the Start Your Private Practice System. And I'm on a mission to turn stuck SLPs into successful private practitioners. If you're tired of dealing with high productivity requirements, high caseload sizes, and low pay, it's time to take control of your professional, personal, and financial life and finally get the freedom, flexibility, and financial abundance that you deserve by working with private clients in your own practice. Join me here each week as I share tips, best practices, and inspirational interviews on the Private Practice Success Stories podcast. If you're a private practitioner or one in the making, you're in the right place, so let's get started.
I cannot tell you the amount of private practices that were just starting or had just started to take off when the pandemic hit. The two people who you are about to hear from were in that same position. But rather than give up or push off their private practice streams, they found very creative ways to convey the benefits of their services to patients and facilities. Because they have a mobile fees business, they go straight to the patients' homes or facilities, which is very convenient. It's funny, there are some aspects of the pandemic that are going to forever change the way we live and the way that we run businesses. And one thing is clear. Despite all of the inconveniences of COVID, there were some conveniences that people aren't going to want to give up.
One of those is clinicians coming straight to patients and providing services in the home or community locations, and the other is telepractice. Sure, there are some services, providers, and clients who are dying to go back to typical clinical settings. So if you and your clients fall into that category, there are going to be people who want to see you. But before the pandemic, no one really understood things like telepractice or mobile fees. Speech therapy over the internet, how does that work? Now many clients and many practitioners aren't going to want to give up that level of convenience. Same with home-based services. There's going to be a growing market for customized services, boutique therapy, and in-home or on-location services.
Our guests today have a mobile fees business that is based in New York and New Jersey that is poised for growth. I can't wait for you to hear their startup story, where they are now, and their plans for the future. So let's dive in. So before we dive in, can you both share your name, your locations, and the name of your private practice?
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Chapters
5 chapters
1
What is the overall focus of this episode and who are the guests?
0:00–6:11
2
How did George and Allie’s clinical backgrounds lead them to start a mobile FEES business?
6:11–10:08
3
Why is there a growing need for mobile instrumental swallow evaluations?
10:08–15:36
4
How did the COVID‑19 curveball affect the launch of FEESible Swallow Solutions?
15:36–26:52
5
What steps and tools (like SWOT analysis) did they use to lay the groundwork for their company?
26:52–42:09
Speakers
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