The Ultimate Marketing Guide for Medical Practices
By Ali Asadi
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About this ebook
As recently as 10–15 years ago, medical offices rarely looked at advertising and marketing seriously. Patients usually came through referrals and personal networking.
Times have changed. With enormous competition in the market, medical offices are finding it necessary to invest in advertising and marketing to promote awareness about their services. While the basic principles of advertising and marketing management remain the same, certain modifications may be needed to create strategies that will specifically benefit medical offices.
What I have attempted to do in these pages is to present some things that have been tested and proven to work. Rather than go into detail, I have put together those tips that have been successful. Put them to use in your own ventures and you will find that they simplify your marketing efforts and put you on a faster path to success. That is why I have called this book The Ultimate Marketing Guide for Medical Practices
I continue to learn every day, and I hope you will too. If I have missed something or you know something that works better, please let me know. I will be grateful.
After all, marketing is a constantly developing discipline.
Ali Asadi
Business Success Expert
www.aprofitmaker.com
Ali Asadi
Ali Asadi is a well-known and respected author and professional business consultant. As the owner of Asadi Business Consulting, a management consultancy firm, he specializes in helping small and medium-size businesses achieve success in today’s highly competitive business environment. He has more than fifteen years of business management experience and focuses on all aspects of business management consulting, coaching, and marketing. Ali is particularly knowledgeable and exceptionally skillful in analyzing your particular business needs and developing innovative techniques and proactive processes that can add value to your organization and increase profit potential. He takes a personal, hands-on approach, working directly with owners and senior executives to fine-tune business strategies for maximum benefit to you and your business. This one-on-one personal relationship with clients ranging from start-ups to well-established firms has served him well in many different fields, including medical services, transportation, construction, agriculture, technology, interior design, and retail. People truly appreciate his caring and sincere approach to helping them achieve success in their business ventures. Ali holds a B.S. degree in civil engineering and master’s degrees in business administration and information technology. He currently lives in Los Angeles, California, and is frequently active in community affairs and enjoys helping business owners and others across a wide range of private, public, and nonprofit organizations. Ali Asadi is truly a man of the people.
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The Ultimate Marketing Guide for Medical Practices - Ali Asadi
The Ultimate Marketing Guide for Medical Practices
By Ali Asadi
Published by Ali Asadi at Smashwords
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Preface
As recently as 10–15 years ago, medical offices rarely looked at advertising and marketing seriously. Patients usually came through referrals and personal networking.
Times have changed. With enormous competition in the market, medical offices are finding it necessary to invest in advertising and marketing to promote awareness about their services. While the basic principles of advertising and marketing management remain the same, certain modifications may be needed to create strategies that will specifically benefit medical offices.
What I have attempted to do in these pages is to present some things that have been tested and proven to work. Rather than go into detail, I have put together those tips that have been successful. Put them to use in your own ventures and you will find that they simplify your marketing efforts and put you on a faster path to success. That is why I have called this book The Ultimate Marketing Guide for Medical Practices
I continue to learn every day, and I hope you will too. If I have missed something or you know something that works better, please let me know. I will be grateful.
After all, marketing is a constantly developing discipline.
Ali Asadi
Business Success Expert
www.aprofitmaker.com
Table of Contents
Section 1: Marketing in a Changing World
Who is Responsible for Marketing?
New Trends and Challenges of Marketing
The Importance of Knowledge
Section 2: Situation Analysis – Where Do You Stand?
Conducting Situational Analysis
The 5 C’s
Company Analysis
Customer Analysis
Competition Analysis
Collaborator Analysis
Climate (Market) Analysis
PEST Analysis
SWOT Analysis (Strengths, Weaknesses, Opportunities, Threats)
GAP Analysis
Chapter Summary
Section 3: Strategic Market Planning
Goal Setting
Mission Statement and Strategic Marketing Planning
Marketing Decision Making
Budgeting for Marketing
The 4 Ps of Reliable Strategic Marketing Planning
Chapter Summary
Section 4: Implementation & Control
Hiring the Right Marketing Staff
Marketing Staff Performance Management
Marketing Project Management
Using Online tools and Cloud Computing
Productivity Software and Online Tools
How to Control Your Marketing Effort
Chapter Summary
Section 5: Practical Tips to Improve Marketing
Web-Designing
SEO: Get the Search Engines to Find Your Website
On Line Marketing Tools
Google Analytics
Google AdWords
Google Places
QR Codes
Google +
Foursquare
Social Media and Offline Marketing
Brochure Designing and Distribution
Referral Marketing
Tracking Your Business Reputation Online
Using Video to Market Your Product
Email Marketing
Text marketing
Chapter Summary
About the Author
Section1
Marketing in a Changing World
No business, no matter how innovative its product or service can function in a vacuum. A great many factors contribute to the success of your business. They can be a great product, good strategy, superior implementation, as well as great employees and a good IT environment. While companies can vary individually, successful ones have one thing in common—they are all customer focused.
Any successful medical practice is absolutely patient focused, must know patient needs, and then fulfill that need better than anyone else can. Successful medical offices know that if they look after their patients, everything else will follow.
Eventually, marketing comes down to delivering customer satisfaction while making a profit. Its goal is to attract new customers while retaining present ones. Many people still think of the old definition of marketing—The process or technique of promoting, selling, and distributing a product or service.
The focus, if you notice, was on selling and products or services.
Today, marketing is understood to be a set of activities and processes undertaken by different sections of a company that create, communicate, deliver, and exchange products and services that have value for customers, patients, partners, and society at large. The focus now has become more organizational and customer centric.
Regarding the modern definition of marketing, responsibility is placed with the organization rather than with a few individuals or with the marketing department. We now consider marketing as a fundamental function of the organization rather than as an add-on to manufacturing. There is a great need to integrate marketing with all functions of the company. Marketing today is now all about delivering value and creating great communication links both inside and outside the company and is not confined to selling alone.
All professionals need to market their skills. How else will your prospective customers know about your superior skills unless you tell them? Accordingly, marketing is as important for individuals as it is for companies. Medical business professionals like other business groups such as lawyers can also benefit by marketing their services and capabilities.
Who is Responsible for Marketing?
The modern definition of marketing implies that the entire organization is responsible for marketing itself. It is not confined to just a few individuals alone. In this context, marketing becomes a strategic function, and its purpose is to create, communicate, and deliver value. Most of the work you do in your company has something to do with marketing. If you are networking socially, you are marketing.
Even when you interact with your employees, an element of marketing is involved. You are selling your point of view to them. You are telling them how you want them to interact with customers and how they should project the image of the company. If you treat your employees well, you will establish a well-deserved reputation, and you will not have problems in attracting top talent (that is why publications put out the 100 Best Places to Work lists).
Is a great Return
policy good marketing? If you address customer complaints with maturity and give them back more than they expected, it is easy to see that you will be able to retain those customers for longer than if you had not served them well. What about the courtesy extended to customers by everyone who meets them? Why do some stores have people greet customers? Economic conditions are making some companies scale back a little, but you still see