Tag: marketing to physicians
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What’s Inside Your House?
Which do you want filling your practice? Patients gained through… Benefits of This Type of Patient Patients referred by family and friends: Spend 10x more money out of pocket than those gained by marketing/advertising. That’s why cash based practices primarily pursue this type of patient. Oh, and btw, the physical therapy private practice of the future…
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How Do I Compete Against Hospital-Physician-Corp Monopoly Attempts?
It sucks when Goliath doesn’t play fair. In every industry, there will be bigger players trying to leverage their resources to gain an advantage–this is not new. So it is with our industry. Corporations, hospitals and physicians will try and steer patients to their therapy services, and rightfully so. I acknowledge that there is an…
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Is Physician Marketing Dead?
Let me start by saying I DON’T LIKE PHYSICIAN MARKETING. I remember when my first practice was failing and, as a last resort, I went door-to-door to physician offices almost every day. I always had a sinking feeling in my stomach when marketing to physicians. Not enough to make me vomit but definitely enough to…
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A Physical Therapy Marketing Plan to Consumers Directly
Physical Therapy Marketing Plan Secrets to Consumers Directly A physical therapy marketing plan that doesn’t target consumers directly isn’t a plan at all. One cannot sit around waiting for physicians to refer any longer. You must get up and take action! Why? Physicians are referring less due to the increased patient co-pays and deductibles (and lack of…
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Physical Therapy Marketing to Physicians in 2013
Physical therapy marketing to physicians: SECRETS in 2013 Physical therapy marketing to physicians today is very different than it was even 2 years ago. Long gone are the days where you went door to door to physician offices every six weeks and that was enough. Long gone are the days where you simply got on insurance panels and…