{"id":1767,"date":"2011-11-15T11:40:44","date_gmt":"2011-11-15T16:40:44","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.bigcasemarketing.com\/?p=1767"},"modified":"2019-10-23T17:58:35","modified_gmt":"2019-10-23T21:58:35","slug":"dental-practice-marketing-13","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/themcanallysellingsystem.com\/dental-practice-marketing-13\/","title":{"rendered":"Dental Practice Marketing-What to Know about Social Media Like Facebook"},"content":{"rendered":"

Dental Practice Marketing-What to Know about Social Media Like Facebook<\/h1><\/div>
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Why Social Media is NOT the starting point for dental practice marketing.<\/p>\n

Every practice has a limited amount of energy, dollars, and, one very finite element that is precious and non-renewable-Time!<\/p>\n

The reality is every \u201cnew patient\u201d strategy, every strategy that creates prospective patients and patients for silos of business in the practice (cosmetics, sedation, dental implants, TMJ, apnea, etc.) must all be looked at from the standpoint of how many of these resources are devoured.<\/p>\n

Currently Facebook\u2122 is something that a fair number of dentists use in dental practice marketing.<\/p>\n

Far too much is being written about it in various publications and diverting practices from what\u2019s truly important and better use of limited things like money and time in dental practice marketing.<\/p>\n

Yes, \u201cinternet marketing\u201d via Facebook is enticing; especially since it\u2019s “free.\u201d\u00a0 But, what you don’t know is that virtually all of the internet marketing that really works costs money and a lot of it.\u00a0 We spend a LOT on SEO just so we\u2019re on page one for \u201cdental case acceptance\u201d there is simply no free way to go about this\u2026\u2026<\/p>\n

There are lots of big companies wasting money on this but they can afford to do so.\u00a0 AND\u2026.some of the extremely unique national online businesses attract traffic and business with FB but most businesses don’t.\u00a0 Another category that benefits a lot from social media are performers, entertainers and celebrities because \u201cfans\u201d can be crazy and rabid about those individuals they identify strongly with and as a result do and buy whatever comes across the \u201cfeed\u201d or the \u201ctweet\u201d to the fan.\u00a0 Now\u2026..guess who won\u2019t\/don\u2019t benefit from this type of dental practice marketing ?— local dental practices.<\/p>\n

Free strategies virtually never make money… and the why SHOULD be obvious to you as a business owner concerned about the bottom line.\u00a0 If they did, the social network companies would ultimately find some way to charge for it AND be profitable.\u00a0 An example–I use (pay) for a social media site called SoundCloud where a lot of folks in the music industry congregate and it\u2019s profitable because almost everyone is a paying customer\u2014up to $300 per year to have unlimited server space for your production work.<\/p>\n

Somebody’s gotta\u2019 get paid.\u00a0 Another truth—most internet product only marketers share lists and split up the profits, or they buy ads on Facebook\u2122 and target their customers…and this strategy for National Businesses CAN work.<\/p>\n

What works for National companies (like mine) won’t always work for local businesses (like yours).<\/p>\n

(But, don’t think that the grass is greener!…there’s a lot of things that you can do that I can’t which includes buying big mass media which I can\u2019t do in every market where we have members\u2026..<\/p>\n

Okay back to Facebook\u2122…<\/p>\n

If you have a Facebook\u2122 account and reveal in some way in your profile that you are a Dentist, you’ll notice that the ads you see are probably Dentist Specific… Targeting Dentists.\u00a0 Someone is paying Facebook\u2122 to put their ads on YOUR page…and if you click the ads, you’ll go to their website. (But even that step is just one of many steps that have to happen right in order to make money. It’s not easy to make this work and it gets complicated especially when you analyze the behavior and \u201cattention span\u201d of those congregating and spending time on social media sites.)<\/p>\n

But, your real market is approximately a 30-60 minute commute radius around your practice …VERY dependent on how strong of a case you\u2019ve made for your unique \u201cmethod\u201d and the type of patient you are promoting for in big media.\u00a0 Targeting enough viable prospects using Facebook\u2122 to justify the expense and the time is extremely difficult, if not impossible, as a local small service business.<\/p>\n

Does this mean that you shouldn’t open up a Facebook\u2122 account and post comments and photos?\u00a0 Not necessarily…but be careful. If you say or share the wrong information or photos, it can repel prospects and\/or patients.<\/p>\n

But more importantly, you must realize that you aren’t going to get much traffic (visitors to your Facebook\u2122 page) without marketing it….and THAT’S why, based on spending plenty of test dollars on Facebook\u2122 ads and even more on getting \u201cvisitors\u201d to our national website, for attracting deep disability patients, there’s far better strategies to employ that do not include Facebook\u2122 or any Social Media marketing at all…<\/p>\n

To see what we do on Facebook\u2122 click this link…<\/a><\/p>\n

By the way, this site does NOT make us money… I need to do a lot of things before and after this page to attract business and this page isn’t a big part of my marketing efforts.<\/p>\n

I’m only showing you this so you can have access to more free information\u2014if you want it.\u00a0 In exchange, feel free to hit the “Like” button for me…and also hit “Like” for any of the articles or videos that you visit on the page. This will help other Dentists get valuable free information that will save them time, money, and stress.<\/p>\n

The next time you hear someone bragging about all of the business they are going to build from FB in their dental practice marketing, you can smile and know the truth\u2026\u2026..<\/p>\n

Want\u00a0 to learn more…………Visit my website here <\/a>or check out my top selling book on Amazon.<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>

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