Attract & Increase More New Dental Patients

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How long do you plan to have your dental practice in its current location? Dental marketing for your practice is an investment for the long-term security and profitability for your dental office. Successful dentists know that their name needs to be present in area households consistently and over the long term and they commit to dental marketing that is customized to them and helps them become a household name in their community.

Consumers perceive that all dentists offer basically the same thing. You may not feel that other dental offices and their dental marketing campaigns are a threat to your dental practice, but in the dental consumers' minds they are an option and therefore competing for the same dental patient dollars that you are after. You’ll want to have a close eye on all dental practices that operate within or just outside of your draw area. All patients in that area can choose your practice or another one within a certain distance. That distance varies on location, rural, suburban and urban – so know your area and target your dental marketing campaigns precisely to minimize competitor draw.

When it comes to dental marketing, the strategy that we see most dental offices underutilize is a multi-channel approach. It’s important to have a strong new patient acquisition strategy and a comprehensive patient retention game-plan. The dental marketing plan that hits all marks on the patient journey, print, direct mail, digital, social media, that’s the one that is most successful – and can be very manageable with the right dental marketing partner.

Attracting new dental patients is a function of practice success and security. If you’re not planning to move your location in the next five years, your goal is to be visible to the residents that live around your practice. This requires a long-term marketing plan that will build recognition. The practice situation, competitive landscape, practice reputation, staff engagement, practice status (ie no active marketing for some time), plateauing or declining revenues all reflect the investment of the practice management and will all play for or against success. Dental offices that have been actively engaged in dental marketing will achieve success more quickly than those that have been silently doing OK but now want to amp up production to get ready for sale. Every dental office can achieve success some just may take a stronger commitment to the strategies implemented, from direct mail, to web, to social but as long as a good investment is made to those strategies including team training to improve conversions and reviews, then every practice has the ability to achieve a 6:1 or higher ROI. The message is to do it right. Listen to the experts. Implement the training. Stay the course.