Marketing Your Dental Practice in a Recession
I’m willing to bet that nearly every dental marketing company is shouting about the power of marketing your dental practice in a recession. You’re probably thinking all their talk is self preservationist, and that’s true to an extent. The thing is, that self-preservationist attitude is actually about helping and saving YOU and your office. When […]
Time or Money? What Do You Want to Save with Your Dental Marketing Strategy?
Choosing the right dental marketing services to grow your practice often comes down to two factors — time and money. You probably don’t want to spend a lot of either, but prioritizing which of those you want to save can help you choose the right approach for your marketing. You want to save money If […]
How to Differentiate Your Dental Practice from the Competition
The most important marketing move you can make for your practice is to find a way to be unique. When it comes to your dental marketing strategies, being the same as everyone else is just about as good as being invisible. You need to determine what will make you stand out, and creating a dental […]
What You Need to Know About Your Dental Practice Competition
Unless you happen to be the only game in town, you’ll have to deal with dental practice competition. It happens to almost every practice, unless you’re surrounded by farms and a lot of cows. If you think the key to success is beating your competitors at their own game, guess again. In most cases, they’ve […]
Getting Persona(l) with Your Dental Patients
You probably have the demographics for your ideal dental patient figured out already. (If not, read this article.) But demographics really only address “who” those patients are. If you want to dig into the what, where, why, and how of the patients you are trying to attract to your dental practice, you need to develop […]
Choosing the Right Dental Logo for Your Practice
Not to put any pressure on you, but selecting the right dental logo (along with the right name) can be the toughest part of branding your practice. A visual representation of your dental brand, your logo will appear everywhere from signs to stationery to ads to billboards. And, much like a bad tattoo, a poor […]
Why Your Dental Referral Marketing Isn’t Working
Let’s face it. If dental referral marketing was easy, agencies like us would probably be out of business. Think about it. If each of your happy patients told their friends, families, co-workers, neighbors, and complete strangers how great your office was, you’d be turning away an overflow of new dental patients. So, where the heck […]
Dental Reviews by Patients: A Guide for Your Practice
There is no doubt that word of mouth advertising is the best kind of dental marketing you can have for your practice. A patient referral is obviously the best outcome you can get from a satisfied patient, but a positive review for a dental office is also valuable, since it has the potential of reaching […]
A Common Sense Approach to Converting New Dental Patient Phone Calls
In dentistry, opportunity doesn’t come knocking. It picks up the phone. But when you hear that ringing and start getting new dental patient phone calls, are you prepared? It may seem like a common sense process to schedule a new patient, but most of the time that “simple” procedure gets botched, and the opportunity is […]
The Best Call Tracking Software for Your Dental Office
“How did you hear about our office?” As surprising as it may be in today’s digital world, many practices still consider that to be “tracking” their dental advertising. (As a marketer, just hearing that question makes me cringe more than the sound of fingernails screeching across a chalkboard.) Obviously, those dentists are barely scratching the […]