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Dental Marketing Mastery

Dental Marketing Mastery is brought to you by New Patients Inc.com. In this podcast, Howie Horrocks and Mark Dilatush share their 30 years of experience in bringing quality new patients to thousands of dental practices across the world.
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Dec 26, 2016

Allow patients to schedule their own appointments online? MADNESS!

Or is it?

In this episode of Dental Marketing Mastery, we explore the pros and cons of online scheduling and debunk the myths surrounding this controversial subject.

 

Podcast highlights:

  • The two crowds in this argument
  • Parallels between other uses of this technology
  • The proper implementation
  • Argument #1: "I don't want to lose the connection I have with my patients"
  • Argument #2: "We need time to talk to the patient beforehand"
  • Argument #3: "I don't want to lose control of my schedule"
  • Closing statements
Dec 19, 2016

What's this? It's the holiday season, and we are giving away four free gifts for your practice.

 

Here are the gifts:

 

1. [Book] Unlimited New Patients, Volume 3

 

2. [Score Card] Marketable Attributes Score Card

  • A card for planning your marketing. Use this card to find out what your practice should be displaying in your marketing assets.
  • This score card shows what patients actually care about, discovered 20 years of client results and millions of dollars of independent consumer research
  • Can be found here: http://www.dentalwebcontent.com/marketable_attributes.html 

 

3. [7-Hour Video Series] New Patients Inc. Marketing Summit

 

4. [Marketing Plan] Have a Marketing Plan Created for You

  • Get your FREE plan, created by one of our experienced advisors, here: http://newpatientsinc.com/dental_marketing_survey.html 
  • Establish your new patient goals
  • Includes radius analysis around your practice, looking for high-quality new patient targets
  • A reasonable budget will be created
  • Recommendations to make your practice more marketable
  • Specific deployment instructions
Dec 12, 2016

Have you reflected on your marketing year? What plans do you have for the next year? In this episode, Mark and Howie discuss how to make a marketing plan that works, and how to stick to it.

 

Podcast Highlights:

  • Assessing your marketable assets
  • Assessing your website, text & email, appointment software
  • Are your brochures and print material up to date?
  • What are your liabilities?
  • Which assets are working, and which are not?
  • Setting a marketing goal
  • Do you need to increase capacity or marketing?
  • Setting a budget
  • Budget allocation
  • The fundamental channels you should be marketing in
  • Sticking to the process
  • Conserving resources
Dec 5, 2016

What is the niche trap? How can you avoid it? 

 

Podcast Highlights:

  • Cosmetic Dentistry's past niche trap
  • A budgeting error that can lead to the niche trap
  • Spreading your message across your marketable attributes
  • Radio spots
  • Is reduced price a niche trap?
  • The right messaging in your take-home pieces
  • Breaking out of the niche trap with your existing ad pieces
Nov 28, 2016

In this episode of Dental Marketing Mastery, Mark and Howie discuss the changes that went forth for Google and how it handles reviews, and go further into depth about website and practice management software integration.

Nov 23, 2016

Online reviews -- how do you manage the flow of the good, and address the bad? How can you prevent the bad from even going out in the first place? In this episode of Dental Marketing Mastery, we introduce NPI Crusader. NPI Crusader is review management software that can fully automate the process of getting reviews, posting them to the right places, and addressing bad reviews so that they can be resolved before going out to the public.

 

Podcast Highlights:

  • The amount of staff needed to run this software (it's none)
  • Staff interaction is icing on the cake, not the cake
  • Where reviews should be for maximum exposure
  • Email vs. texting to get reviews
  • Practice management software integration
Nov 22, 2016

In this episode of Dental Marketing Mastery, we introduce NPI Concierge, our new software that allows new and existing patients to schedule their own appointments from your website, their social media pages, or their insurance provider's website. You can learn more about NPI Concierge on our website at http://www.dentalwebcontent.com/concierge_patient_scheduling.html 

 

Podcast Highlights:

  • Existing patients, specifically recare and overdue recare, can make an appointment when it is convenient for them, without making a phone call
  • The history of NPI Concierge
  • Uses YOUR scheduling rules: Dentists DON'T give away control of their schedule as patients can only schedule based on the criteria you set
  • Online marketing opportunities with this software -- paid CPC campaigns that lead prospective patients directly into scheduling an appointment
  • How does NPI Concierge integrate with practice management software?
Nov 21, 2016

In this episode of Dental Marketing Mastery, we tell dentists that it's not all about you... when it comes to your marketing. So, what should you promote?

 

The marketable attributes score card featured in this podcast can be downloaded for free here: http://www.dentalwebcontent.com/marketable_attributes.html 

 

Podcast Highlights:

  • Are you promoting the right services?
  • Do you HAVE the right services?
  • The pitfalls of using an introductory price
  • How to determine your marketable attributes with our score card
  • What do consumers ACTUALLY care about?
  • Did you know... that only 36% of customers care about price?
  • The score you should aim for in marketing
  • Creating a balanced marketing plan
Nov 8, 2016

Is your online reputation important? YOU KNOW IT! So, how do you manage your online reputation? How do you get more reviews? How do you stop bad reviews and leave patients satisfied? Mark and Howie Explain.

 

Podcast Highlights:

  • The importance of online reviews
  • Control triggers for online reputation
  • How your dental demographics view reviews differently
  • Texting vs. Email to get more reviews
  • How to integrate with practice management software
  • What to write when asking for reviews
  • Reputation management software
  • The sites you want to be reviewed on
Oct 31, 2016

Mark and Howie explain PPC, how to get the most out of your money, and more.

Podcast highlights:

  • PPC definition and examples
  • Which search terms should you bid on?
  • How bidding works
  • Switching up phrases instead of abandoning PPC
  • How to go from $20 per click to 45c per click
  • Facebook PPC
  • Facebook targeting basics
  • Measuring results
Oct 17, 2016

Dentists commonly introduce a new service to their practices. But how should they approach it? Mark and Howie explain.

Podcast Highlights:

  • Where to start
  • Costs and statistical analysis of success
  • The first mediums you should explore
  • The first people you should target
  • The second medium to approach
  • Where do you go from there?
Oct 10, 2016

EDDM vs. Bulk Mail is a question many dentists ask. In this episode of Dental Marketing Mastery, Mark and Howie break down the differences, when you should use EDDM, which demographic is better, and more.

Podcast Highlights:

  • What is EDDM?
  • When should you use it?
  • The right budget for EDDM
  • Why EDDM is best for price-incentive-based marketing
  • Which demographics work best for EDDM?
  • When Should You NOT use EDDM?
  • Income targeting
  • Carrier rates
  • How some households will skew EDDM targeting
  • When to use Direct Bulk Mail
  • Ad types for Direct Bulk Mail
  • Advantages of Direct Bulk Mailk
  • Budgeting
Oct 3, 2016

In this episode of Dental Marketing Mastery, Mark and Howie discuss phone coverage, how to do it right, and how to maximize it.

Podcast highlights:

  • The best times to have your phones covered
  • How to get the most out of voicemail
  • How to screen between new patients and returning
  • When new patients are most likely to call
  • How to accommodate existing patients
  • How patients view who answers the phone
  • How to improve phone call conversions
  • Connecting your website to your phones and practice management software
  • The importance of reviewing your calls

 

Sep 26, 2016

In this episode of Dental Marketing Mastery, Mark and Howie discuss how to get out of a PPO contract.

Podcast Highlights:

  • What IS insurance participation, really?
  • What do you get out of it?
  • Comparing insurance participation rates to an effective marketing budget
  • How long does it take to get to the point where you can transition out of insurance participation?
  • What NOT to do when transitioning
  • Why going cold turkey is a bad idea
  • How to motivate your team during this process
  • How to keep some of your insurance patients
  • Promoting to the right half of the market
Sep 19, 2016

In this episode of Dental Marketing Mastery, we discuss call tracking ROI. Why is it important? How do you get the actual numbers?

Podcast highlights:

  • Do patients lie to you?
  • "We don't need call tracking"
  • Gaining actual insight into patient sources
  • What is the EXACT source of a new patient?
  • Call tracking budget
  • Listening to calls
  • Dealing with staff pushback on call tracking
  • Increase ROI for less than a penny
  • Evolving systems and communication
  • ROI ancestry trees
Sep 12, 2016

Mark and Howie discuss the value gap in dentistry. What is it? Which moms respond to advertising that doesn't rely on a price incentive? If they don't respond to price, what WILL they respond to?

Podcast Highlights:

  • What is your target demographic interested in?
  • How is your target market learning about dentistry?
  • Cable TV's value gap and how it relates to dentistry
  • What do dentists believe is the value gap? Why is this wrong?
  • Will moms ask if you are a good dentist? Not exactly. So how do you let them know?
  • The value gap and why dentists are not changing the narrative
  • What is the consumer supposed to think about other than price?
  • Patients only ask about price and insurance because it is the only question they KNOW to ask. How do you change this?
  • What if 80% of your patient's questions had nothing to do with price?
  • Website creation guide
  • Fighting the commoditization of dentistry
  • Why dentistry is NOT a refrigerator!
Sep 6, 2016

In this episode of Dental Marketing Mastery, Mark and Howie talk about the one thing that can make or break your advertising: design.

Podcast highlights:

  • Proper margins, fonts, graphics, picture density, size
  • What will customers say? Does it matter?
  • What are the professional standards that should be met?
  • The design philosophy that has worked for us for the past 26 years
  • How to incorporate benefit-driven design into your advertising
  • Incorporating emotional concepts
  • Making the most of your marketable attributes
  • How to properly rotate ads
  • Design 101 vs. Dentistry design
  • The importance of teasers
  • Logos -- how important are they really?
Sep 5, 2016

In this episode of Dental Marketing Mastery, we discuss the importance of design, our philosophies on design, and what has worked for our clients over the years.

Podcast Highlights:

  • The importance of fonts, size, graphics, picture density, word density, and size
  • What do professional standards mean?
  • Why everyone has an idea of what is a good ad
  • Utilizing benefit-driven design
  • The importance of emotional concepts
  • Design as it relates to marketing medium
  • Ad rotation
  • Logos: are they as important as you think they are?
Aug 29, 2016

What makes a good website? What should you do when it comes to things such as hosting? What shouldn't you do? In this episode of Dental Marketing Mastery, Mark and Howie explain.

Podcast Highlights

  • Ownership of your site's domain
  • The page most moms will visit
  • The importance of your "meet the dentist" page
  • How to properly do a "meet the dentist" page
  • What to highlight, how to be approachable
  • How to do a personal video
  • Services: Which ones are important?
  • How to appropriately mention pricing
  • How to display technology and conveniences
  • Social media and SEO
  • The importance of attracting vs. educating
  • Why your site shouldn't be a dental journal
  • Show off your operatory? No way!
  • How much should you invest into your website?
Aug 22, 2016

In this episode of Dental Marketing Mastery, we go over the best practices for Pre-appointing Hygiene, what costly mistakes are made, how to categorize your best customers, and more.

Podcast Highlights:

  • The black plague of dentistry: pre-appointing everyone in hygiene!
  • The fantasy of pre-appointing versus the reality of who will show up
  • How if you can't get them in within 8 days, your chances of them coming in drop drastically
  • How to make your hygienist's life easier
  • The types of customers who will show up for hygiene and the types who won't
  • How do you pre-appoint?
  • How to reward your great patients
  • Categorizing patients who don't show up, and how to get them in down the road
  • The best appointment slots for patients in category A vs. those in categories B and C

 

Aug 15, 2016

In this episode of Dental Marketing Mastery, Mark and Howie continue their discussion of common mistakes they see Dentists make when marketing their practice. This episode focuses on custom vs. cookie-cutter advertising.

 

Podcast Highlights:

  • Understanding how your promotions look and sound
  • Is originality preferable to something that isn't?
  • Left brained and right brained dentists
  • Why going with something new is not an ad campaign... it's a test
  • Why cookie cutter does not mean bad, and original does not mean good
  • The right amount of customization in an ad
  • How most practices don't have the time or money to do testing
  • The battle is NOT cookie cutter vs. customized
  • The power of templates
  • Evidence-based dental marketing
  • how the population perceives your practice based on its marketing
Aug 8, 2016

In this episode of Dental Marketing Mastery, Mark and Howie continue their discussion of mistakes that Dentists often make when marketing their practice. 

Podcast Highlights:

  • Why using what you "like" can be an expensive pitfall.
  • Taking input from non-professional sources on your marketing.
  • Realizing that what you "like" and what works can be completely different things.
  • What really matters is RESPONSE!
  • Using individual, subjective judgements when making media decisions.
  • Focusing too much on price incentives.
  • The learning curve of marketing your practice.
  • What dentists like to advertise is different than what consumers like.
  • How marketable is your practice? You can find out by downloading our marketable attributes scorecard at www.dentalwebcontent.com
  • Marketing services makes sense. Except it doesn't.
  • Consumers care more about conveniences than services.
  • How to properly advertise technology. 
  • Collecting data about what works.
Aug 4, 2016

Are you making some of these mistakes when it comes to marketing your practice? 

Podcast Highlights:

Mistake 1: Not calculating or adhering to a marketing budget.

  • Definition of a budget.
  • Percentage of revenues that should be dedicated to marketing.
  • An example practice and its marketing spend

Mistake 2: Starting and stopping

  • The value of staying consistent.
  • Under and overspending.
  • What to do when your practice is doing well.
  • How peaks and valleys can be stressful.
  • Slow and steady wins the race.

Mistake 3: Budget Allocation

  • Not letting yourself be the dentist who has to work on a full set of veneers you didn't do.
  • Which mediums to spend your budget on.

Mistake 4: Impatience

  • Understanding that your practice's success depends on a ratio of dentists to population.
  • How year 2 looks compared to year 1.
Jul 26, 2016

What are your passive and aggressive media types? Why do you need both? Mark and Howie explain in this episode of Dental Marketing Mastery.

Jul 7, 2016

In this episode of Dental Marketing Mastery, Mark and Howie explain how and why all dentists should be using direct mail. Direct mail is not only extremely targetable, but did you know that it is the lowest-risk option for dentists seeking new patients? All this and more in Dental Marketing Mastery.

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