Showing posts with label seo. Show all posts
Showing posts with label seo. Show all posts

Friday

Online Patient Communication Systems

Keep in touch. Stay connected. Communicate for success: yours and your patients. Online dental practice communication systems are all the rage. The dentistry marketing secret you will only hear here. Listen close... They work!

Oh yah, most communication works. Is online any better? In some ways, maybe. The lack of conversing with your patients is what does not work. Internet and cell phone based communication is just how many of get our information now. Humans need communication to do anything. Technology merely adds a digital layer to it.

Use the telegraph if it means you will present your dental brand and health information consistently. Just converse and then converse again whether it is tooth-saving root canals in Traverse City or dental implants on Long Island. Communication will heal many dentistry problems. Including being filling out another pillar of your dental marketing strategy.

Find out more at - Read Dick Chwalek's Dentist Coaching Blog (the first entry)

Tuesday

Website SEO For Dentists: Exposed!

SEO is working for some dentists and dental practices. But be wary of the HYPE! Dental website SEO is a 'well' of potential that cannot be fully understood or controlled – even by the dentist website SEO experts – because it is always evolving and not necessarily doing more for the money spent.

Make sure the dental website SEO well you are lowered into provides enough financial liquidity to pay back your investment not just a very long rope wrapping around your dental marketing budget.

Website SEO is NOT like dental treatment that has an upward trend of improvement over time – it is more like shifting sands of value with many areas of quicksand for your marketing dollars. Make sure you get the whole picture for your dental website strategy not just a service with a bunch of over-hyped promises. Your dentist web site strategy should focus on what YOU need, not mostly what SEO needs!

Your dentistry has a value that should standout from the GIMMICKS dental SEO firms have in their quiver. Make sure the dental practice Website SEO firm’s belief in their own service is not more overblown than their knowledge of other dental marketing services that might be more valuable to you.

Secondarily, dental SEO merely WAITS for new patients to search… so you end up fighting for the same limited patient base your dentist competitors are. Plus it is getting even more difficult to get those new dental patients as more of your dental practice competitors join in the online and SEO fray.

This means rather than enhancing the overall supply of patients, you are paying more and more dental marketing dollars for fewer patients than the first dentist that did SEO. While I do see issues with its SINGULAR potential for driving patients to your dental practice, SEO can help you gain a foothold in the dental advertising environment.

SEO – search engine optimization – the “free click” concept – is very seductive for many dentists. It is the “Free” dental PR of the web. However, there is REAL WORK involved. Either you do the dental web site search engine optimizing or your dental Webmaster does.

Dental SEO is an ongoing process. You also need to be wary of the many pitfalls and gimmicks that might hurt the high ranking potential of your dental web site. Think of effective dentist SEO as keeping ahead of periodontal disease with your patients. There are good days where you feel good about what has been done – but if nothing is done for months – much of the value is lost. Search engines change their rules and algorithms, and the basic technology of tracking results transforms constantly.

Effective dental website SEO is a matter of valuable content, updating, and some technical formatting and structuring. This is not all about “meta tags” as it was in the early days. Some SEO groups can even get your site blacklisted: using various schemes like “link farming” and “keyword slamming”. These are very shallow dental SEO strategies. Be sure the strategy is also about valuing your dentist expertise not just finding “a dental website”.

The most vexing dentist web SEO issue: there is no way to really quantify the value of any specific strategy that will get you at the top consistently because of all these variables. Unless they assess many aspects of their dental marketing, dentists will just pay more until “it happens”.

Finally, to gain the upper hand in this online dental advertising environment, it makes sense to have a decent offline proactive dental marketing campaign. Use SEO to gather up dental patients who are already out there searching for a dentist, but make sure you are ALSO introducing more people to the value of your dental practice brand through an external marketing strategy, a dental direct mail program for example. Even sending a few hundred or a thousand dental postcards a month, which direct consumer directly to your dental web site not to search for any dentist.

Remember dental SEO is a regressive strategy unless you are priming the pump with a proactive – get more consumers to log online – public (and patient) dental marketing communication campaigns. Avoid the quicksand of one trick pony dental advertising strategy. Get the right dental communication mix, Integrate!
Sincerely, Dick Chwalek - Niche Dental President
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Monday

2008 • The Year of Dental Communication Integration

This year we will figure out The Theory of Everything Dentistry Communication! It will provide THE simple answer to building super practices. Then we will offer 100% guarantees…

This ONE amazing strategy will rack up unbelievable sales. You will never need anything else. The success balloon will inflate continuously and never burst…

Almost without fail, this one strategy outcome is unlikely. Results will undulate, dissipate, or evaporate. This is when I usually get the call. “It worked for a while, but now everyone else is doing it.” Or “I had many years of growth with no ‘marketing’ and now things have started to slip.”

Building a business and the successful “marketing” of it requires ongoing adjustments and accompaniments. Reality has to be faced and no one thing keeps doing it. As in dentistry, whitening is great, but performed on a crooked smile that is not cared for regularly is less than viable.

In dental marketing, touting the latest thing is de rigueur. For example, get a website and then you will be successful. Achieve a top search engine spot with SEO and then you will make it. Send out email newsletters and then amazing things happen. Do PPC and then life is perfect.

Let’s start by debunking the SEO urban legend of web lore. First, only about ten web addresses show up per search results page. Therefore, when ten dentists in your area are doing SEO – attaining #1 is very costly if not impossible. This means only in the SEO guru’s short window of make believe is there any guarantee of success with this one strategy.

While this idea of ONE thing will get you to new patient nirvana is tantalizing, it is often its evil cousin––tantalying––spewing hot air. Once in awhile someone wins the convenient store lottery ticket of success, but most end up being in line behind them with a big gulp of almost nothing.

Yes, a dental website, brochure, SEO, PPC, direct mail, advertising, PR, and the next great thing can help improve your marketing position. However, what business would expect anything less than stagnation and future irrelevance without doing many of these things and improving them as time went by?

There is nothing wrong with trying new things. We just believe tying them together to strengthen your dental marketing is better for the long-term. I am sure you have had patients that wanted the quick fix and later realized there really was more there, there. This is where Niche Dental comes in…

Niche Dental is focused on communication integration. It wraps your brand around a niche so you are more agile to bypass the slumps and better leverage the booms.

Be wary of dental marketing made out to be effortless, free, or forever. Some day there might be one solution to the theory of everything dentistry, but right now there is more there, there.

In conclusion, dentistry is counter-intuitive. It’s needed, prevents pain, enhances health, improves confidence… But people avoid it, have pain because of it, live a less than satisfactory life, and spend more money on things worth less. Dental marketing has similar qualities. Most of us intuitively desire a simple solution, but Niche Dental is ready to show you how to turn counter-intuitive into success.

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Really want a Theory of Everything? Meet Garrett Lisi: maybe the next Einstein. He shows how a counter-intuitive approach (surfer scientist) and thinking (no strings attached) can make big things happen. His theory showcases the elegance of conquering complexity with a not so common viewpoint.

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Want to learn more about dental communication integration? Join me in Las Vegas, NV in February.
Find out more by visiting my dental marketing website or by visiting this website: Dental Practice Management/Coding Institute Conferences.

Call to get more information on the seminar and workshop or to schedule a dental marketing consultation: 866-453-1026

Sincerely, Dick Chwalek - Dental Communication Consultant
Integrating Your Dental Brand Around A Powerful Niche Strategy