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Instead of using expensive doctor and dentist advertisement, email marketing reaches a lot more prospects at only a fraction of the price.

Sure, some of the emails may arrive in the spam area of your recipient’s email box but there are strategies where many of your emails would arrive correctly - besides, most of your postcards and flyers mailing are considered junk by your recipients and they are often thrown away without being opened.

Few medical and dental marketing companies utilize this inexpensive marketing method.

Marketing dental practices and other healthcare practices do not have to be expensive if you know how to use existing technology to assist you.

Email marketing can be used for all professions including specialists like orthdontists, oral surgeons, endodontists, periodontists, podiatrists, opthalmologists, plastic surgeons etc

Use it to create a strong referring network with other doctors and use it to have your message ‘go viral’.

Or just use it to market a specific service. For eg, marketing dental implants or marketing teeth whitening or marketing for lasik services or cosmetic services could all be done through a series of well-planned email campaign.

However, learn to flank your email marketing with other effective healthcare and dental marketing campaigns as well.

One thing is for sure, and that is that business marketing for any product or service is even more problematic during any recession, such as the current low consumer spending, on/with discretionary items.

I remember a saying I have learned about 20 years ago in the real-estate business: “other people’s money” (OPM). Even if you do not use other people’s money for a down payment, or the renter’s money to cover the mortgage payment, you probably still use the bank’s money to get the loan, right?

You see, OPM is more present than you might think at first glance.

Of course - use other people’s money for your marketing. Why didn’t I think of that?

But how do you go about that is the big question.

First of all when I say OPM, I must point out that getting money only for your marketing is extremely limited thinking.

To make the choice a bit simpler – advertising is less and less believed in bad economic times and it hardly has any pull at all. If you having a dental practice and is doing some dentist advertisements, a dental ad can cost thousands of dollars (for some cosmetic dentist marketing) and yet the moment you stop the running of the ad, your audience will not remember you.

Other companies and organizations promoting you is called endorsements. It is equivalent to referrals, just on a much larger scale. People remember you much better than a traditional ad.

One of our new clients, a doctor who some years ago was even a consultant for a national practice management consulting company, realized the truth of the lesser pull on advertising when he put out 6000 direct mailers and paid $1700 for it. Even when he had used all the marketing knowledge he had learned, and taught the doctors when he was a consultant, he got not even a call, never mind a patient.

He made (and was teaching) the king of all mistakes in marketing. He is trying to build a marketing system by his own without the help of organizations which have already built such a system and are actually willing to put his message on.

Besides, do you really think that anyone will ever give you $100,000 for marketing which you do not have to pay back? I know you don’t.

So, the key is to get the same $100,000 and more, in legwork, support, distribution of marketing materials and endorsements.

You see, most business people try to re-invent the wheel when it comes to building (marketing) their business.

Most doctors and small business owners try to build a full marketing infrastructure from scratch with their own money. Doctors, all over the country, soon realize that this is very expensive and does not bring much results (simply because the effort to create such an infrastructure is usually too big for the small business to amount to anything).

The next step doctors usually take is to stop marketing or cut it down even more (even though one of the reasons it did not work in the first place was the insufficient amount of marketing despite the doctor thinking it was a lot). Trying to create your own marketing infrastructure can easily be compared with trying to build your own car or for a person to try to “reinvent” the root canal without going to school and using already invented tools.

There is a lot of money lost – never made – because of trying to build a marketing infrastructure from scratch and on your own. Marketing for dental or medical offices need not be expensive if you know how to use other organizations’ resources to reach your audiences.

 Don’t be upset at medical and dental marketing companies for charging you lots of money in marketing your dental practices. Lean how to use other organizations’ power to reach lots of people with their existing infrastructure and audience.

Why build roads and trucks when you can put your message for free on big trucks, which are already running down the highway towards your destination at great speed?

Why try to invent a car (despite the fact that you are not a car builder) which is already invented and offered for free?

What if you could get the corporate world as well as the non–profit world, and the media sponsoring and endorsing you, your services and your practice?

What about if those entities will be endorsing you as an absolute expert and a community leader?

What if well-known companies and non-profit organizations start carrying your messages?

By the way, I mentioned at the beginning of this article that those companies and non-profit organizations, as well as the media, are actively looking for your message.

You probably wonder, “Why would they be looking for my message – I am just some small unknown guy?”

Giving you those needed details would take too much space in this article. But they do look for your help.

You see, just as there is a precise technology for pulling a tooth, getting rid of a cold, building a bridge etc, there IS a technology on how to get the sponsorship of corporations, non-profit organizations, media, other medical practitioners etc.

Contact us and we will show you how to hook onto a high speed train.

You can also reach us at 800-625-2002 for the best free medical and dental marketing tips and strategies!

Helmut G Flasch
Founder of “Un-Advertising” Marketing Strategy
Author of “Double Your Business But Not Your Troubles”

P.S: Does this concept applies to specialized fields like cosmetic dentistry marketing (cosmetic dental marketing) dental implant marketing or dental big case marketing in general?

Yes - 100%. You do not need to put out expensive dental advertisements or pay lots of money for a fancy dental office website to reflect your high end services, you can use the concept of “using other people’s money” just as easily. 

Even if you are a dental specialist like orthodontist, periodontist, endodontist or a oral surgeon, if you want to have an effective orthodontic marketing campaign ( or any campaigns to increase referrals from other doctors) you must learn how to have a larger word-of-mouth campaign that is spread by the entire community rather than depending on only a handful of general dentists in your area.

Contact us at 800-625-2002 or enroll in our FREE CEO briefing for a personalized medical or dental marketing consultation.

A dentist have talked to me about the time-consuming nature of dental social media marketing and he wonders whether dental internet marketing is even worth its while.

Social media marketing is a powerful tool, however it can become a worthless time-consuming tool if you do not know how to use it correctly.

Below are two PDF documents which you should download to learn more about how to use social media towards business success, instead of only ‘kid’s play’ and spending lots of time for nothing.  

I am also having our social media engineers stand by to help you to figure out how to use this powerful tool correctly. Click here to register for your free marketing consultation.

If you call 800-625-2002, you can also speak to us directly.

1. Social Media and Relatives.pdf

2. Email Marketing.pdf

Helmut Flasch
CEO
Doctor Relations