Email and Video Marketing for your Chiropractor’s Clinic by Robert Williams
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Your Chiropractor’s Centre and Video Email Marketing
Welcome to the technology corner for this month. In a recent issue we addressed the significance of email and especially video email marketing. In this article we want to expand on that idea and give you tips on how to set up your master email lead list.
We all see monthly or weekly email advertisements from popular retailers marketing product specials ranging from computers to furniture and even airline flights. These are businesses that spend millions in print media and TV advertising. Now these organizations have become experts in email advertising. We can create a “chiropractic recipe for success” in email marketing and lead generation by simply observing what these companies are doing and why they are doing it.
Simply stated, email is the most affordable form of advertising today. Companies are now shifting advertising campaign money and expending energy developing their prospecting email lists. Have you ever noticed that some retailers will ask for your postal code and email address every time you purchase something? Especially when you make an online order, an email address is obligatory. Businesses are able to generate a huge email database from what we call warm leads. These are clients that are already using their products or services or have enquired about their products. Email lists are bought by some organizations but they would be classed as cold leads. Why would you want to buy a list and advertise health products or services to someone that isn’t and may never be health conscious?
There are rules and regulations related to buying an emailing lists. Before you spend your hard earned cash on cold leads, do your homework. As chiropractors, we have so many possibillities to collect warm leads to create an email wave in your community. Only a small group of chiropractors are doing it so be the first in your community to master the internet via email. Let me tell you about some of these gems that so few chiropractors are tapping into.
In order to build a chiropractic community awareness and promote their practice, a good number of chiropractors do outside talks or outreach events. You should be gaining valuable email addresses at all of these events. For example, if you do a screening, the possible new patient is interested enough in your service to stop and participate in the screening. Many times we are disappointed that they didn’t accept your offer for a discounted examination. What you do with that name will make all the difference in the world. Most chiropractors at best will send them a letter or a newsletter. If they weren’t interested then what makes you think they’re going to respond to a letter in the next two weeks? In order to keep that lead viable you need to stay in constant contact with them every single month until they do one of two things; sign up or ask you to stop sending them information.
The key is sending them suitable information that is communicated with cutting edge technology sent right to their home. We live in a world that is spending most of their leisure time watching TV, movies and surfing the internet and email. If you don’t have a big advertising budget you need to communicate with them via email. A great video email campaign will not only keep you in front of your warm leads it will help you change them into new patients.
If you’re interested in a product but not ready to buy it could take months before you decide to make that decision and buy that item. The same concept applies to healthcare especially if they are in tune with crisis care. Potential patients might comprehend the whole concept of wellness as of yet, and until they have a crisis they might not be ready to use your chiropractic services. What happens if you lose contact with that warm lead and they have a health problem and decide to try chiropractic eight month or a year down the road? They might come to see you but your chances increase exponentially if you have been in contact with them over the previous months.
Collecting emails at screenings, corporate talks and outside events is a fantastic way to grow your database of warm leads, but what if your practice style is driven mostly by internal marketing? Let them know you’re beginning a new patient education initiative that involves email and they are going to be forwarded high quality cutting edge videos on the chiropractic lifestyle that arrive in their inbox. If you communicate the importance of helping you forward these emails to friends and family you create a viral component to your email which is another topic in itself.
Asking your patients for emails is another great way to get hundreds of emails. Generate a huge buzz over a draw you’re going to have. The more email names they provide the more times their name is entered into the draw to win a brilliant prize. By simply having a draw in your clinic, imagine how many emails you’re going to gain. You can take it one step further and have your patients email their friends information introducing your new video email plan. What a way to reach out into your community to spread the word about the chiropractic lifestyle and what an even better way to convert those leads to new patients.