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New Patients, Inc. has a world-class internet division. Here, we share our thoughts as you consider which company you will choose to build and manage your future internet marketing strategy. Feel free to check out the Website, SEO, Mobile Website & Web Video links as well. They are all related to internet marketing.
Social media and the exploitation of this rather new marketing medium is a “hot topic” in dentistry these days. So much so, there are new service providers popping up all over the place. There are even whole seminar events being promoted, just on the topic of social media marketing.
Social Media: It’s just not that complicated
Social media (and the exploitation of it for the purposes of promoting a dental practice) is a viable new marketing vehicle. But please, don’t let it all confuse you. Let’s explore the most common possibilities.
Social Media to gain search engine ranking and position
This is the very first, quickest benefit to a dental office. Imagine for a moment that you already have a great website with great optimization. Your website link comes up on the first page of almost any Google search for almost any key word or phrase related to dentistry in your area. Now imagine your blog, your Facebook account, your Twitter account, and your YouTube channel are all active and populated say once a month with new content. BOOM! Now, instead of having just your website link show up once in a Google search, your practice may have three or four of the top ten positions! Clearly, the biggest short-term advantage of building and managing your social media presence is going to come from more dominant search engine positions.
Is this hard to do?
To put it into perspective, NPI charges our SEO clients a $100/month premium to set up and manage their social media on an ongoing basis. Exploiting social media for this benefit does not require a class, a course, a book, or a seminar. If you are like most dentists, you just want the benefit without the overhead of learning everything yourself. That’s why the vast majority of our SEO clients have us build and manage their social media presence.
Social Media as an advertising vehicle
If you haven’t heard already, you can build ads for Facebook and promote dental services to the other Facebook users in and around your dental practice. These are very simple to set up on your own. You do not need a marketing firm or computer expert to set up a Facebook ad. If you are already a Facebook user, just go to your account and click the “create ad” link. The Facebook tutorial is robust and easy to follow. We can give you tips on what to promote there, but this is one of those “do it yourself” projects that really requires very little outside assistance. It works identical to a pay per click campaign. You set your price, set your daily budget, place your ad, and hope people click the ad and go to your website to learn more. Very simple.
Social Media as a practice management tool
Imagine it is noon on a workday and your 2:30 patient cancels their one-hour appointment. If you have Facebook & Twitter followers, you can give them a quick note to call if they would like to take that 2:30 opening! That would be an incredibly efficient way to reach out, not only to those who are connected directly to your social media account – but you would be reaching out to everyone connected to them as well!
Key point: With this last benefit, you need followers. The easiest way to gain volumes of people who “like” your practice or who follow your “tweets” is to simply put an iPad at the front desk or in each operatory and ask your patients to “friend you” or “follow” your tweets as they exit your practice. Some of your patients will, and some of your patients won’t. That is ok. Ultimately, in a year or so, you’ll have 500 people who like you or follow you. Those 500 people will be connected to 50 people each. Your reach at that point is 25,000 people, most of whom are geographically desirable as marketing targets! Does it take time? Sure. Is it worth it? Eventually, yes, it will be.
How can I learn more?
Feel free to give us a call at 866.336.8237
Have NPI build a free marketing plan for your practice – click here to take client survey
Order our latest book – Unlimited New Patients – Volume 3
Attend a Marketing Summit
SOCIAL MEDIA
New Patients, Inc. has a world-class internet division. Here, we share our thoughts as you consider which company you will choose to build and manage your future internet marketing strategy. Feel free to check out the Website, SEO, Mobile Website & Web Video links as well. They are all related to internet marketing.
Social media and the exploitation of this rather new marketing medium is a “hot topic” in dentistry these days. So much so, there are new service providers popping up all over the place. There are even whole seminar events being promoted, just on the topic of social media marketing.
Social Media: It’s just not that complicated
Social media (and the exploitation of it for the purposes of promoting a dental practice) is a viable new marketing vehicle. But please, don’t let it all confuse you. Let’s explore the most common possibilities.
Social Media to gain search engine ranking and position
This is the very first, quickest benefit to a dental office. Imagine for a moment that you already have a great website with great optimization. Your website link comes up on the first page of almost any Google search for almost any key word or phrase related to dentistry in your area. Now imagine your blog, your Facebook account, your Twitter account, and your YouTube channel are all active and populated say once a month with new content. BOOM! Now, instead of having just your website link show up once in a Google search, your practice may have three or four of the top ten positions! Clearly, the biggest short-term advantage of building and managing your social media presence is going to come from more dominant search engine positions.
Is this hard to do?
To put it into perspective, NPI charges our SEO clients a $100/month premium to set up and manage their social media on an ongoing basis. Exploiting social media for this benefit does not require a class, a course, a book, or a seminar. If you are like most dentists, you just want the benefit without the overhead of learning everything yourself. That’s why the vast majority of our SEO clients have us build and manage their social media presence.
Social Media as an advertising vehicle
If you haven’t heard already, you can build ads for Facebook and promote dental services to the other Facebook users in and around your dental practice. These are very simple to set up on your own. You do not need a marketing firm or computer expert to set up a Facebook ad. If you are already a Facebook user, just go to your account and click the “create ad” link. The Facebook tutorial is robust and easy to follow. We can give you tips on what to promote there, but this is one of those “do it yourself” projects that really requires very little outside assistance. It works identical to a pay per click campaign. You set your price, set your daily budget, place your ad, and hope people click the ad and go to your website to learn more. Very simple.
Social Media as a practice management tool
Imagine it is noon on a workday and your 2:30 patient cancels their one-hour appointment. If you have Facebook & Twitter followers, you can give them a quick note to call if they would like to take that 2:30 opening! That would be an incredibly efficient way to reach out, not only to those who are connected directly to your social media account – but you would be reaching out to everyone connected to them as well!
Key point: With this last benefit, you need followers. The easiest way to gain volumes of people who “like” your practice or who follow your “tweets” is to simply put an iPad at the front desk or in each operatory and ask your patients to “friend you” or “follow” your tweets as they exit your practice. Some of your patients will, and some of your patients won’t. That is ok. Ultimately, in a year or so, you’ll have 500 people who like you or follow you. Those 500 people will be connected to 50 people each. Your reach at that point is 25,000 people, most of whom are geographically desirable as marketing targets! Does it take time? Sure. Is it worth it? Eventually, yes, it will be.
How can I learn more?
Feel free to give us a call at 866.336.8237
Have NPI build a free marketing plan for your practice – click here to take client survey
Order our latest book – Unlimited New Patients – Volume 3
Attend a Marketing Summit
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Print Media | Radio | Television | Alternate Media | Why Choose NPI? | NPI Team | Contact Us | Books - Unlimited New Patients
Marketing Summit | Client Survey | Testimonials | Articles | Newsletter & Signup | Terms & Conditions | Site Map
Social Media Marketing for Dentists
Facebook, Blog, Twitter & YouTube Marketing
New Patients, Inc. is a full service marketing company that works exclusively with dentists to market their dental practices. Our dental marketing services include: print media marketing, direct mail marketing, dental website design, SEO (Search Engine Optimization), internet marketing, mobile dental website design & online marketing, Social Media Marketing (Facebook, Blog, YouTube & Twitter), radio advertising,
TV marketing, dental web video marketing, dental marketing plans for dentists and radio advertising.
New Patients, Inc.
Dental Marketing Services
5935 Edmond Street Suite 105 Las Vegas, NV 89118
Telephone: 866-336-8237 Email: info@newpatientsinc.com
Copyright © 2011 New Patients, Inc. All Rights Reserved.
[ Designed by New Patients, Inc. ]
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