Ignite Digital Marketing Podcast
Hear the latest performance marketing strategies, industry news, and innovative tactics that will help grow your healthcare organization.
Hear From The Nation's Top Healthcare Marketing Experts
How to Build The Perfect Healthcare Marketing Team
Structuring your marketing team is a huge undertaking. Marketing is an ever-changing industry, and as the industry changes, so do team structures and job roles. Depending on the size of your healthcare organization, it might make sense to keep certain roles in-house. Others might need to take some in-house marketing struggles and outsource them to an agency. But how do you decide what to keep in-house and what to outsource?
12 minsTop 3 Marketing Mistakes Healthcare Organizations Make
Too often, healthcare organizations waste time and money on the wrong digital marketing strategies. They focus on the wrong channels, use outdated best practices, neglect to test, or chase the latest hyped-up marketing strategy. Here are the top three mistakes healthcare marketers commonly make—over-segmenting their Google Ads account, investing too much in organic social, and halting their SEO investment—and how to avoid making them again.
9 minsBuilding Your Patient Pipeline Beyond Referrals
The pandemic disrupted the hospital and doctor referral pipeline, and a once steady pipeline of referrals dried up. While referrals have resumed, the pandemic revealed the vulnerability of relying on one patient source. Our hosts discuss how defining your USP, diversifying your marketing strategy, and investing in other digital marketing channels can help you build a more robust patient pipeline.
8 minsHow to Create Transformative Patient Experiences
In fiercely competitive healthcare markets, your patient experience can differentiate you from other providers. Healthcare consumers expect the same level of convenience and service they find in other aspects of their lives. Our hosts discuss how healthcare providers can create exceptional experiences across the patient journey, in both digital and in-person interactions. They dig into the technologies that reduce friction, the types of educational content patients seek, and how to craft communications that connect with patients, build trust, and deepen relationships.
14 minsThe CRO Process
If you’re generating a steady flow of website traffic, but your lead volume is low, your website experience might be to blame. Healthcare consumers have high expectations and will quickly bounce if they don’t find what they need. If you want to improve your conversion rates and generate more leads, you should consider conversion rate optimization (CRO). By aligning your user’s goals with your website experience, you can remove barriers preventing them from taking action.
16 minsHow Link Building Can Help You Claim Page One Ranking
Why does link building matter for your healthcare organization? You don’t just need patients to find you; you need Google to find you and source you as a credible, trustworthy, and authoritative site. Here are a few strategies and tactics healthcare marketers can use to develop their link building portfolio, boost their rankings, and increase their visibility on Google.
11 minsWhy Being The Best Isn’t Enough: Finding Your USP
Defining your unique selling proposition (USP) is the first step in determining what makes you different and why patients should choose to visit your practice. If you can't identify your USP, you'll have a hard time convincing patients to visit your practice instead of your competitors.
14 minsAI and The Future of Digital Advertising
To improve campaign performance, Google’s algorithmic strategist developed Smart Bidding. It uses machine learning to analyze millions of signals to predict which auction will lead to better conversion rates. With that insight, it can set the right bid for the auction and help you get more from your marketing budget. While Smart Bidding has been around for several years, many advertisers have resisted adoption. But we believe Smart Bidding is the future of digital advertising.
10 minsBuild a Foundation for Better Marketing Measurement
Why are you sending a request for proposal (RFP) to a marketing agency? Your healthcare organization is probably looking for a quality partner to enhance your strategy and help you get patients the care they need. Here's how to create a solid RFP, what research you should do before looking for a partner, how an agency can detect a genuine RFP, and how to find an amazing marketing agency who fits your needs.
12 minsHow to Create a Marketing Agency RFP
Why are you sending a request for proposal (RFP) to a marketing agency? Your healthcare organization is probably looking for a quality partner to enhance your strategy and help you get patients the care they need. Here's how to create a solid RFP, what research you should do before looking for a partner, how an agency can detect a genuine RFP, and how to find an amazing marketing agency who fits your needs.
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