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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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Now displaying: August, 2018
Aug 31, 2018

This week, join Mark Dilatush with special guest Lee Buzard, NPI’s VP of Professional Relations, as they explain how they develop marketing plans for the upcoming year. 

Podcast Highlights: 

  • What questions to ask/answer
  • Determining goals for growth
  • What’s your current capacity?
  • Taking stock of current marketing assets
    • websites
    • internal marketing
    • positioning
    • external marketing
    • reviews
    • online scheduling
  • Prioritization
    • What’s not working?
    • What needs the most help?
  • Budget allocation
  • Online versus offline marketing
  • The influence of your location
  • Monitoring results
Aug 28, 2018

In this episode, Howie and Mark talk about your competition. Who are they? How are they promoting their practices? Why does it matter? You can either ignore it, or exploit it to your advantage! Learn how to set yourself apart.

 

Podcast Highlights:

  • Niche vs. price
  • Positioning in the local market
  • What sets you apart?
  • Financing
  • Convenience
  • Public relations assets
  • Technologies
  • Competitors too focused on low prices?
  • NOT using price in marketing to set yourself apart
Aug 21, 2018

Are your new patient numbers staying the same each month? What can you do to fix it without a big investment in time or money? What could be the issue? In this episode, Mark and Howie discuss how your schedule and capacity could be to blame and how to use block scheduling to increase your new patient numbers.

 

Podcast Highlights:

 

  • What issues contribute to stagnation?
  • Taking away availability
  • Fixing capacity
  • “I’m stuck at X new patients/month!”
  • Taking away barriers to creating appointments
  • Apply this strategy that will work immediately 
  • How to do block scheduling correctly
  • How long until you see results?
Aug 10, 2018

In this episode, we continue our discussion of Google Adwords and PPC in general. We discuss high volume vs. quality searches, effective landing pages, the economy of language, and more!

 

Podcast Highlights:

 

  • Website optimization
  • SEO specialists
  • The foundations of PPC
  • Keywords for high volume patients
  • Keywords for high quality patients
  • Effective landing pages
  • Understanding the searcher's mentality
  • Economy of language
  • Analyzing your PPC budget before diving in

 

Aug 3, 2018

Which marketing efforts are generating a return? How can you tell? In this episode, Howie discusses ROI, short term vs. long term returns, tracking, the marketing bell curve, and more!

 

Podcast Highlights:

 

  • Finding out which marketing efforts created patients
  • ROI can be difficult to track
  • Offline Marketing ROI
  • First-Level ROI
  • New Patient Lifetime ROI
  • The Radio?
  • Offline traffic drives online traffic
  • Referral sources
  • Call tracking
  • Referral chains
  • First-level ROI is short-sighted!
  • The marketing bell curve
  • Mail list cross referencing
  • Getting staff to accurately track source fields
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