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Medical Marketer's Guide: Website Design

Across all industries, web design can make or break a user’s experience with a brand. Visitors’ perception of your website is directly related to their perception of your business. Poor web design can drive away customers, while innovative and user-friendly design can convert them.

MDC - The Medical Marketers Guide to Web Design

Medical Marketer's Guide: Website Design

MDC - The Medical Marketers Guide to Web Design

Smart Design Creates New Patient Opportunities 

Across all industries, web design can make or break a user’s experience with a brand. Visitors’ perception of your website is directly related to their perception of your business. Poor web design can drive away customers, while innovative and user-friendly design can convert them.

Download our guide to web design to learn about:

  • Why web design matters for medical practices and hospitals
  • Best practices for modern medical websites
  • How to develop and implement a new website

Creating a strong website is a complex process, but with the right tools, your site can both engage new visitors and encourage them to schedule appointments within your hospital, clinic, or medical practice. Download our white paper today to learn more.

Medical Marketer's Guide: Converting Calls Into Consults

Without a well-thought out phone strategy, your advertising dollars may be going to waste. The simple, actionable steps laid out in this guide will help ensure you maximize your marketing ROI.

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Medical Marketer's Guide: Converting Calls Into Consults

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Optimizing Your Phone Experience to Boost New Patient Appointments 

Competition in local healthcare markets has reached an all-time high — with no shortage of options, patients who experience undue friction during their path to treatment typically don't stick around long. As the first live interaction with your medical brand, a patient's experience when they call can often be the deciding factor between you and another provider. 

Download our guide to phone optimization and learn how to:

  • Properly structure your interactive voice response (IVR) system
  • Train your reception staff to keep patients on the line and generate more new appointments
  • Optimize your digital presence to maximize your rate of conversion and ultimately, your ROI

Without a well-thought out phone strategy, your advertising dollars may be going to waste. The simple, actionable steps laid out in this guide will help ensure you maximize your marketing ROI.

 

Medical Marketer's Guide: Google Advertising

Today’s patients are more proactive and empowered than ever before. Increasingly, patients are turning to the internet to conduct their own health-related research and make their own decisions about treatment. And where are they finding that information? Google!

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Medical Marketer's Guide: Google Advertising

Medical Marketers Guide Google Advertising

Using Google Advertising to Drive New Patient Acquisitions

Today’s patients are more proactive and empowered than ever before. Increasingly, patients are turning to the internet to conduct their own health-related research and make their own decisions about treatment. And where are they finding that information? Google (well, 70% are — the other 30% use Bing).

Download our guide to Google advertising to learn about:

  • The “new” digital marketing funnel as it relates to the modern patient
  • How to target patients who are actively seeking treatment, thereby improving your digital marketing ROI
  • The three basic components of building a high-performing, cost-effective search advertising campaign

Despite the ever-increasing level of competition for new patients in the local healthcare search market, there’s still plenty of opportunity to reach your target audience without blowing your budget in the process.

 

Medical Marketer's Guide: Search Engine Optimization (SEO)

The right search strategy can help you reach potential patients at every stage of the conversion funnel, generating valuable leads without breaking the bank.

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Medical Marketer's Guide: Search Engine Optimization (SEO)

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Online Visibility Creates New Patient Opportunities 

When it comes to medical marketing, there's no question that search reigns supreme. According to Pew Research, 80% of American internet users have conducted health-related searches online – up nearly 20% since 2001. Approximately 77% of patients conduct an online search before scheduling an appointment with a healthcare provider. Since healthcare searches make up 5% of nearly two trillion queries a year, the size of this audience – and the opportunity it presents – is huge.

Download our guide to search engine optimization to learn about:

  • Landing on the first page of organic search results
  • Targeting patients actively seeking treatment with high-value keywords
  • Building SEO clout on- and off-site 

The right search strategy can help you reach potential patients at every stage of the conversion funnel, generating valuable leads without breaking the bank.

Medical Marketer's Guide: Website Conversion Optimization

At MD Connect, we've worked with thousands of physicians and healthcare professionals in more than 30 different specialities. In that time, we've identified several components of a website that have a major impact on how well your traffic converts into new patient contact.

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Medical Marketer's Guide: Website Conversion Optimization

Website Conversion Optimization

Website Traffic Needs To Convert

Increasing website conversion rates by 1% can have a dramatic impact on new appointments scheduled.

At MD Connect, we've worked with thousands of physicians and healthcare professonals in more than 30 different specialities. In that time, we've identified several components of a website that have a major impact on how well your traffic converts into new patient contact. 

In this guide, we'll discuss key items to consider when designing or optimizing your website and provide you with a printable 60 point checklist to use as a resource along your way. Topics include:

  • Photo Usage
  • Contact Forms
  • Mobile Optimization
  • Testimonials & Reviews
  • Video
  • Content

If you are looking for ways to increase the amount of leads you're generating through your website, it may only require a few minor changes. 

Download the guide and use the checklist to get a head start on improving your website's conversion rate. 

Med Device: Patient Portals vs. Local Microsites

Medical device marketers pursuing digital direct-to-patient (DTP) or patient advertising must determine both where to send the digital traffic they generate, as well as their desired program outcome (e.g. targeted patient lead generation or general brand awareness). 

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Med Device: Patient Portals vs. Local Microsites

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Destination of Paid Media Traffic Impacts Lead Conversions

Medical device marketers pursuing digital direct-to-patient (DTP) or patient advertising must determine both where to send the digital traffic they generate, as well as their desired program outcome (e.g. targeted patient lead generation or general brand awareness). In this newly released study, MD Connect analyzed and provided:

  • 15-month Evaluation Period
  • 9800+ leads tracked
  • 3800+ appointments
  • Cost-Per-Lead Comparison
  • Cost-Per-Appointment Comparison

If you are considering your next DTP digital strategy for your medical device, check out this new research study first.  

SEO vs. PPC: Empirical Analysis for Online Medical Marketing

Many healthcare advertisers are aware of search engine marketing and the need to ‘optimize’ their rankings, but fewer are clear on the distinction between (nor the relative cost and power to generate actual referrals of) its two predominant marketing strategies; search engine optimization (SEO) and paid search (PPC) marketing. This empirical analysis explores SEO versus PPC for medical online marketers and presents a valid case to why overly focused SEO efforts yield 70% less actual patient inquiries than a blended campaign.

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SEO vs. PPC: Empirical Analysis for Online Medical Marketing

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Empirical Analysis for Online Medical Marketing

Many healthcare advertisers are aware of search engine marketing and the need to ‘optimize’ their rankings, but fewer are clear on the distinction between its two predominant marketing strategies; search engine optimization (SEO) and paid search (PPC) marketing. Fewer still understand which is more cost effective, generating the appointments or procedures that truly power your business.

This empirical analysis explores SEO versus PPC for medical online marketers and presents a valid case to why overly focused SEO efforts yield less actual patient inquiries than a blended campaign.

US Physician Practice Marketing Audit

This 4-page marketing research study (conducted cooperatively with and published by a leading medical society) contains the results of a detailed online survey of marketing investment and return for 219 physician practices across the United States. Data was assimilated to construct a picture of which media were utilized most by physician practices, what relative return each exhibited (as measured by cost-per-referral) and how these investments correlated with practice revenue. Other data on metro population effects, program tracking techniques and phone coverage benchmarking are included as well.

US PHYSICIAN PRACTICE MARKETING AUDIT

US Physician Practice Marketing Audit

US PHYSICIAN PRACTICE MARKETING AUDIT

This 4-page marketing research study (conducted cooperatively with and published by a leading medical society) contains the results of a detailed online survey of marketing investment and return for 219 physician practices across the United States. Data was assimilated to construct a picture of:

  • Media utilized most by physician practices
  • What relative return each exhibited (measured by cost-per-referral)
  • How these investments correlated with practice revenue.

Other data on metro population effects, program tracking techniques and phone coverage benchmarking are included as well. Marketing spending during the recession has not diminished significantly, and, given increasing competition, may be more necessary than ever. Download your copy today to see where Physicians are spending their marketing budgets and the effects it has on their practice.

8 Steps to Converting a Phone Lead Into a Consultation

MD Connect has audited thousands of phone calls for medical practices, and has seen firsthand the qualities of phone reception that help to drive conversion. Conversion on phone 'referrals' varies from 15% to 70% and the difference is largely due to technique. This best practices guide contains 8 critical requirements to insuring maximum conversion with interested, calling patients.

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8 Steps to Converting a Phone Lead Into a Consultation

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MD Connect has audited thousands of phone calls for medical practices, and has seen firsthand the qualities of phone reception that help to drive conversion. Conversion on phone 'referrals' varies from 15% to 70% and the difference is largely due to technique.

This best practices guide contains 8 critical requirements to insuring maximum conversion with interested, calling patients, including:

  • Your front line sales person
  • Knowing the objections
  • Phone Etiquette
  • Asking for the appointment

As your first, live interaction with a prospective patient, it creates that valuable first impression, and (more often than most realize) helps the calling patient decide whether they will visit your practice. Download your copy today to optimize how your front desk converts phone calls into appointments.

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Medical Marketer's Guide: Website Design

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