Wednesday, December 1, 2010

How can medical marketing tastefully market without hurting reputation?



The answer: It's all in how you do it.
It is no secret that many doctors and healthcare organizations remain "marketing-shy". Many doctors still feel uncomfortable because they are worried about coming across as "needy, cheesy or greedy."
If that sounds like you, we certainly understand your concern. After all, your most precious asset is your reputation, and you certainly wouldn't want to jeopardize it through distasteful or unethical marketing.
What's important to remember, however, is that the way you market your practice or business — and therefore the reputation you build — is completely up to you. Think of it this way:
Hong Kong Medical Marketing is an important channel for positive influence in shaping how others think of you. You're telling patients, prospective patients, colleagues and others what you do, and reminding them when, how and why to think of you and your organization. The message that's received depends entirely on the message that you send, so you want to control and direct this process.
Medical marketing—done professionally and using the right strategies and tactics will produce professional results in measurable growth, and actually enhance your reputation in positive ways. (And, of course, the reverse would also be true.)
The starting point for marketing is like a blank canvas: people who don't know you are completely unaware of what you do and have no image of you at all. The professional marketing messages of your practice communicate your credible, impressive, ethical and highly professional image and reputation.
Medical marketing is a positive tool to inform and influence people toward a better quality of health and life.
Unfortunately, like most tools, marketing can deliver a disastrous outcome if you don't know what you are doing or understand how to use it properly and effectively. So, you'll want to do proper homework and then seek out expert guidance prior to embarking upon a new marketing program.

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What kinds of problems can medical marketing help us solve?


 

The answer: Plenty...let's list just a few.
The bottom-line objective in healthcare marketing is usually—but not exclusively—to grow the practice. Often this means attracting more patients, but a well-rounded marketing plan will achieve much more for the provider. Effective and ethical marketing opens the door to benefits for providers to:
  • Attract cases that the doctors either enjoy or have special expertise for;
  • Protect and grow share of voice (SOV) of patients;
  • Build the professional reputation of the provider with the community and peers.
These high-level objectives also translate into answers for challenges and opportunities such as:
  • Attracting better paying or more profitable cases;
  • Reaching "ideal patents," directly and cost-effectively;
  • Changing the mix of patients or types of cases;
  • Winning more professional referrals;
  • Supporting a new location, provider or technology (or all of these);
  • Transitioning to a "all-referral" practice;
  • Standing out from the crowd in positive ways;
  • Answering competitive challenges;
  • Finding more personal time and greater professional enjoyment; and
  • Tastefully building and extending your reputation.

For more enquiries, please call us at 852-25801058 for more information.