Running a business is the same as running a practise. Only a small part of what it takes to start, keep up, and grow a good dental practise is working directly with patients. As with any business worker, dentists must also put a clear and effective marketing plan at the top of their list of priorities. This is in addition to regular checkups, complicated procedures, managing staff, and running the day-to-day business.
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Every employee has a role to play in good dental marketing, so whether your practise already uses some digital marketing strategies or is just getting started, the tips below can help you improve your team’s marketing efforts.
Digital Marketing For Dentists
There is always a need for oral health care, and new possibilities for new ways to do things keep competition high in the dental space. Digital marketing that works well helps dentists meet with the right people at the right place and time. Here are some essentials for starting or improving your internet marketing today.
Improve your site.
We are way past the point in business where having a website is a nice addition to offline and online marketing. Your website shows what your practise has to offer 24 hours a day, 7 days a week. This important tool for both potential and current patients should be:
Informative and educational – Online users won’t find what isn’t on your website, so make sure to include important information about your practice, services, and tools for patient education.
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Easy and fun to use: People who go online today have a lot of options, and there isn’t much stopping them from leaving a website that is too hard to understand or badly made. Think of your website as a virtual version of your business, and optimise it as such.
Search engine optimised – Just having a website doesn’t ensure that people will visit it or make an appointment. A good website is made for both people and search engines. These days, the more it is tailored to the way people use the internet, the more search engines will value what you have to offer your online audience. This includes making sure your site is optimised for the local area, so that search engines and locals know that your dental practise is the right business in the right place to meet dental needs.
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A space for referrals: Just like potential patients might visit your site to learn more about your practice, current patients who want to share this information with others can do so in this area. Set up a place on your website where happy customers can tell others about you. This could be a page where customers type in the name and email address of a friend or family member. This would give you a new lead and give their friend or family member information about your practise. (either sent manually by your team or through an automated system if you set that up).
Make your digital marketing efforts more personal.
74% of marketers say that targeted emails and texts increase the number of people who read them. In marketing, personalization means using data to send appropriate content and messages to each person. Some examples of how to do this are:
Personalization in email marketing can look like calling a person by name in an email. HubSpot says that this is the number one thing that email marketers do to improve engagement rates.
A recent Centra study found that 77% of people are more likely to buy from brands that offer personalised experiences from start to finish. In an online ad, this can look like sending the right message to the right people at the right time. From there, sending people to a personalised home page will help make sure they find what they’re looking for.
Personalizing your website: 74% of people (potential and current patients) say it’s annoying when website material isn’t personalised. Today, designing and building websites is a dynamic process that lets you use personalised content, landing pages, and other tools to get in touch with your audience as quickly and easily as possible.
Get patient feedback and use it
Marketing isn’t just about getting people to see your message. The best businesses and brands also know how important it is to listen. This is also true for promotion for dentists. Patients can leave direct questions, comments, and reviews on a dentist’s website, but many patients also use other online platforms, such as industry listing sites and social media, to read and share questions, comments, and concerns.
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The ADA says that social media can affect choices about health care. Keeping an eye on real-time social chatter can give you useful information about what your patients think and feel about their experiences, your competition, and current dental trends. Don’t forget that getting this kind of information doesn’t have to make you feel like you’re out of control. Email marketing is a good way to get honest feedback from the people who know you best.
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MouthWatch will help you keep learning.
Every kind of marketing is always changing, which is why MouthWatch thinks that it is important to keep learning to help practises and programmes succeed.
The goal to improve oral health around the world is strengthened when dentists have the knowledge, tools, and resources they need to reach new patients, help current ones, and grow their practises.
