6. Marketing efforts to convert and increase your patient volume

With Mike Shoun

You may have the best practice in town, but without a proper marketing strategy, your business may not grow to the levels you envisioned. After all, your practice is a business, and like any business, you have to get word of your services out to your existing and prospective patients. That's why a smart marketing strategy must be a part of your path to ownership.

Meet our guest

Strategic communications might not be every doctor's strong suit, so that's why Mike Shoun is here to give a crash course on how to successfully market your healthcare practice. As President and CEO of Affordable Image Marketing Agency, Mike knows how to answer the most pressing questions about how to start building a strategy to convert and increase your patient volume.

In this episode

Why you should (and must) market your practice
Which tactics are most effective, from tried-and-true direct mail, to new and innovative digital efforts
How to cater to specific demographics based on the type of practice you have or are building
How marketing to prospective patients differs from marketing to existing patients (and why both are important)
What practice owners should expect to pay for marketing and what they should plan to budget for ongoing campaigns
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