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Inbound Sales for Healthcare Practices

July 19, 2016 Janet Kennedy 00:32:33 1 Comment

Digital Marketing and Inbound Sales

If I said “inbound sales for healthcare practices” would you know what I meant? Digital marketing has provided many new ways for physicians to attract new patients but with dozens of platforms and hundreds of choices to embrace online marketing is not for the faint of heart. Garett Smith, founder of the digital startup InboundMD knows the struggles of trying to tackle inbound marketing for healthcare. As a startup entrepreneur, his team has created a platform to help the independent healthcare practice manage the complex process of online digital marketing and inbound sales. Find out more by listening to the podcast or dropping in at the time stamps below.

00:00 Introduction
00:55 Meet Garrett Smith – Founder of InboundMD
01:25 Too many choices in marketing, not enough time
02:54 Independent Healthcare – 25% of medical practices still don’t have a website?
05:24 Old websites are just a billboard
07:01 Physicians just want to be physicians – Resistance is futile
09:40 Negative reviews are driving experience
12:30 How do you help the “digitally clueless”?
19:22 Is this an “all-in” platform? InboundMD
20:32 Is InboundMD a social management platform?
22:35 How do you teach social media? “Smart Hands”
24:53 If clients are not in social media, how are you reaching them?
26:57 How does your Startup weekend experience impact your platform?
31:21 Patty Enrado, HIMSS Media “Use Multiple platforms”
31:59 Please leave a review!

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Dental Digital Marketing Tips

May 10, 2016 Janet Kennedy 00:32:42 1 Comment

We haven talked about dental digital marketing in a long time so I reached out to Heather King, Social Media Director at Infinity Dental Web. Heather manages everything digital from strategy to social media execution. I promised at the beginning of the year I would bring more small practice marketing experts to the podcast. Heather was full of great tips and suggestions and we had an enjoyable conversation. Listen to our conversation or drop in at the time stamps below:

00:00 Introduction
01:15 Meet Heather King, Social Media Director, Infinity Dental Web
02:00 Dentists “get” marketing
03:20 Dentists tend to be “social IRL”
04:02 Dr. David Hall, Founder of Infinity Dental Web
05:20 Tech savvy healthcare entrepreneurs
07:00 Mobile friendly websites
09:00 What happened to m.website addresses?
09:28 Hard-coded websites send an “outdated” image
10:00 Are you proud of your website?
11:01 What does a high-converting website have?
12:40 How often should a dental practice be blogging?
14:27 Not every post has to be clinical
15:21 Sharing an “inside look” into the practice is interesting
17:55 Dental practices are more informal in social media

The Zombie Apocalypse

20:00 Patients in social media
21:43 HIPAA and patient posted photos
22:55 What platforms are dentists using?
24:55 Using video (Shoutout to Dr. Isaac Porter)
27:00 Facebook Live – with video tips!
28:48 Advice for social media
29:50 Don’t post cartoons. Watch for copyrighted material.
30:40 Social Media Tip: Jared Johnson of the Health IT Marketer Podcast – Share the social love
31:15 Social Content Solutions – Social Media content for the small healthcare practice. A new program from Get Social Health Academy.

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Humanizing Your Brand – UNC Healthcare

February 24, 2015 Janet Kennedy 00:50:18 1 Comment

Jason Papagan is well-known in the healthcare marketing field as the Digital Marketing Director for the UNC Healthcare System. For those that know him, they know he is a real “free-spirit.” If you don’t know Jason, get ready for a spirited and fun conversation about humanizing your brand, managing multiple hospitals and being “in the moment” in social media. We chatted longer than usual so drop in the conversation by following the time stamp of our conversation below:

00:00 Introduction
00:45 Meet Jason Papagan
01:50 UNC Healthcare & REX Healthcare
04:23 He’s a free spirit
05:20 What has changed in digital marketing?
07:07 Shopping center brand transitions
08:20 How many hospitals in UNC Healthcare system?
09:58 Does marketing operate independantly at hospitals?
11:40 What DO you do for a living?
12:50 How far ahead to you plan your strategy?
15:40 UNC/REX Social Media Top 10 in Axial/Becker’s List
17:50 Daily management of social media
19:50 Rogue websites strike again! Chris Boyer
23:37 Facebook changes impact engagement
27:45 Platform changes are a constant factor
29:50 Better late than never?
34:02 Marketing vs. digital budgets
37:00 “Humanizing your brand”: Push marketing vs. engagement
40:50 Analytics
43:35 Responding “in the moment”
49:30 Social Media Tip: Josie Salzman “Keep your eyes and ears open”

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Consolidating 80 Websites: Chris Boyer

December 23, 2014 Janet Kennedy 00:38:10 3 Comments

In January of 2013, Chris Boyer accepted a massive challenge; join the North Shore LIJ Health System to create a unified digital presence. The challenge? There were at least 80 websites, known and unknown, that related to the health system and affiliated entities. In our conversation, Chris and I walked through some of the challenges he and his team faced in creating a unified presence for his healthcare system.

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Christening the new website

00:00 Introduction
00:45 80 websites!
01:18 First Steps: January 2013
02:29 Digital presence was fragmented
02:49 Website as the hub
04:04 Branding = Logo
05:28 New website is beautiful
06:33 Web traffic
07:55 Lessons from North Shore LIJ could be applied anywhere
08:15 “Our website is not an org chart”
09:57 Who is the website for?
10:01 Gap analysis – Project Management – Content Creation
10:50 Redundant content
12:30 Rogue websites
16:45 Emergency Department wait times
18:13 11 Top Tasks that people want to accomplish on your website
20:20 Web Usability Neo Insight. Personas help from Cooper.com
21:27 How can you create enough content?
25:38 Word count and SEO are not the goal
27:42 SEO and targeting medical keywords
29:05 Web traffic affected?

North Shore LIJ Health System

31:42 Who is on the team
33:15 Marketing Automation
33:50 Web redesign tips
35:20 Don’t try to eat the whole elephant at one time
36:54 Social Media Tip: AJ Montpetit – Video needs good audio

Alan Cooper: The founder of Personas (Start at 11:50) YouTube Interview

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