Thu. Mar 28th, 2024

When looking at the most successful private practices you will see that most are having the most success with a mix of 75% online and social media (a blog, an ezine aka an email news/magazine with an opt-in option, upcoming social media sites) and 25% direct mail marketing.  But you must track the numbers with a goal that a successful marketing campaign targeting your target patient population should increase your referrals by significantly over the next six months.

Time to Test

The least amount of time you should spend testing a marketing campaign is a month. Though, a month is just a snapshot. Six months is far better. At the end of that period, you should have enough data to tell you if it’s a success. The key here is watching the data and collecting the numbers.

The online data is easy for you to collect when someone opts in to receive your ezine or the number of people who like your Social Media page increases.  Direct mail is a little more difficult, and that’s where your staff needs to be involved.  Make sure that when a new patient calls in for an appointment that your staff asks how they heard about your practice.  Get the name of the referring patient or physician. Set up a spreadsheet to track the results.

Analyze

Once you’ve tested your marketing campaign over a six-month period (and tweaked it where needed), gather all your results. Look at your ad spend vis practice revenues.

Compare which marketing tool produced the best results and calculate the return on your investment.

Did your practice grow? Did it stay the same? In either case, the question to ask is why?  

Keep what worked and throw out what didn’t.  Build on your success with a new mix of marketing tools for your practice and start another six-month trial.

Share Your Results!

Share the good news with your staff and the rest of the DPC community.  Let them know what worked and what didn’t.  

And if your staff knows that their efforts were rewarded with success, they’ll understand why their extra effort was needed and be more willing to help in the next campaign.

Consider marketing your practice the way you think of treating your patients in your practice.  You wouldn’t keep treating a patient in the same way if you weren’t getting the results you expected.  Do the same thing with each marketing campaign, and you’ll be that much closer to living and practicing by design.

I wish you the best along your journeys!  Marketing can be fun, and it is something I have been passionate about for years! 

Please each out with questions and comments so we can help you the most!

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By John Hayes, Jr., MD

John Hayes, Jr., MD spent years working primarily with family physicians and surgeons helping their pain and surgery patients with chiropractic, clinical nutrition, and lifestyle coaching. His work with the sickest lead not only to further his training in Family & Lifestyle Medicine but more importantly the development of patient systems, tools and books to better help those patients suffering neuropathy & chronic pain. He is the inventor of the NDGen® neuropathy and pain treatment device. Frustrated with the changes in healthcare and concern about increasing physician demands he published the EVVY nominated book “Living & Practicing by Design”. Along with his wife Patti they developed simplified EMR, practice business platforms, and systems. In addition to his DPC practice in Marshfield Massachusetts he also consults with Physicians and PTs in private practice personalization, neuropathy and pain protocols. https://www.drjohnhayesjr.com/perfectpractice

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