This post should knock your socks off; if it doesn’t, I don’t know what will.

I am going to show you how to find the names, addresses, contact information, number of employees, and yearly income of any type of medical company—whether it be a hospital, clinic, doctor’s office, etc.—that you want.

Sounds like a tall order, doesn’t it. But it’s a cinch with the Internet. You don’t have to leave home, and it won’t cost you a dime, either.

First, I need to introduce SIC Codes, which you will come to see as a very beautiful thing. I kid you not. SIC is an acronym meaning Standard Industrial Classification. SIC codes are used to classify business types. The specific SIC codes we are interested in belong in the Health Services category.

I am going to give specific instructions to do this, so at this time, please open a new window so you can access the following website: www.selectory.com.

Once you have accessed the aforementioned website in a new window, sign up for the 7-day free trial. After signing up, you will receive an e-mail with an activation link; click on that link.

Now log into your account at www.selectory.com. Enter your username and password to access the site. Click on the ‘Continue’ button.

If successful, you should see the Selectory page that says: Welcome to Your Selectory Online Free 7-Day Trial. To the right of that, you will see a yellow box that says, ‘Pick Your Geography.’ To the left of that you will see a list of radio buttons followed by specific regions. Since I live in California, I clicked on the radio button corresponding to the “Pacific – All Businesses (CA, OR, WA)” region.

So now it’s your turn; click the radio button corresponding to the region you wish to search; then click on the ‘Submit’ button.

Now a Selectory page entitled ‘Build A Search’ appears, with a yellow box to the right that says ‘Pick Criteria.’ Scroll down the entire page and have a good look at it. Notice the information section, ‘Current Search Criteria,’ below the aforementioned yellow box.

Now look in the middle of this page. There is a section called ‘Industry Criteria.’ The first link under that section header is ‘SIC Code.’ Click on the SIC Code link now.

Now on the left of the page you will see a section called ‘Browse a Tree Structure of SIC Code(s) by Clicking on a Category.’

There is a subsection called ‘Services (70-89)’ with a check box and a plus sign next to it. Click on the plus sign; DO NOT click the check box. You’ll notice that the tree structure of SIC codes expands to reveal even more SIC codes with check boxes and plus signs.

Look for the ‘8000: Health Services’ section. Click on the plus sign to the left of the check box. DO NOT click the check box.

Now we’re cooking! Now you see a list of all the SIC codes with corresponding industries, such as Offices and Clinics of Doctors of Medicine, Office and Clinics of Dentists, Offices and Clinics of Doctors of Osteopathy, etc.

Now click on the plus sign to the left of the check box corresponding to the 8011 SIC code to expand that. Whoa! Now we can see there are SIC codes corresponding to Offices and Clinics of Medical Doctors, Internal Medicine Practitioners, Cardiologist and Cardiovascular Specialists, etc. In short, information about each specialty is now within our grasp.

Now for an example of how to use this: Let’s say that I am looking for all the orthopedists near my home. I scroll down the list and I find the entry ‘80110514: Orthopedic Physicians.’ Note the SIC code. DO NOT click the check box.

Now scroll back up to the top of the page. Under the Search Designer tab, you will see a link that says ‘Back to Criteria List.’ Click on that link.

Again, in the same area of the page (Under the Search Designer tab), there are two radio buttons, one for a basic search, and one for an advanced search. Click on the Basic Search radio button.

We’re getting there….not much longer, and the fruits of our efforts will pay off.

Scroll down and enter the city and state for which you want to search (e.g., Orange, CA).

Scroll down and enter the zip code and radius of search. (I entered 92869 as the zip and a 5-mile radius in my search.)

Scroll down and enter the eight-digit SIC code (in this example, I chose 80110514).

If you want to find a large company, you can indicate the number of employees (greater than or equal to) that you want the company to have; the same goes for the amount of sales the company has made in the past year. (In my search, I chose greater than three employees and did not provide any sales criteria.)

Now click the ‘Run Search’ button. If you have followed this particular example, you will see a list of 12 orthopedists.

Now we’re on the ‘Get Results’ page. Click on the hyperlink of each entry to see the information about each office. Eureka! You’ve just hit pay dirt!

Now, you can get all the information you need to contact this office. In addition to the name, address and phone number, you have the all-important contact information: the names of the doctors who work there, as well as the office manager’s name. Also, you can see how long this entity has been in existence and how many employees work there.

Now use the back arrow to return to the ‘Get Results’ page (where all 12 entries are listed). Scroll to the top of the page and look in the upper right corner.

Find the ‘Download Records’ section. Notice that the radio button corresponding to ‘All Records’ is filled. Underneath that is the ‘Build Files’ button. If you press that button, you can generate a report, in PDF format, of the information you just generated; and that report is a beautiful thing! There is a Table of Contents for each entry included in the report, followed by the data you requested. Since the information is copyrighted, I cannot produce it here, but go ahead and generate a report just for the practice.

Please note that since Selectory offers a 7-day trial period, you can only generate a report with a maximum of 30 records. I don’t know what the fee is for this service (I do not get anything for promoting this; I simply use it as a tool). However, now that you know how to use it, there is no reason why you cannot get all the information you need during your 7-day free trial.

So did this information knock your socks off, or what?!