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Category Archives: Healthcare marketing
Selling at Your Healthcare Website
A great healthcare website sells to visitors naturally. Your patient comes to your website for information and realizes she should make an appointment for a checkup. Someone looking for a […]
Social Cause Certification at Facebook and Twitter
Do you run ads at Twitter or Facebook? These social media platforms are among the least expensive advertising opportunities around — digital or traditional. Even if you’ve run ads before […]
Social Media and Medical Misinformation
In an essay in Nature, Heidi Larson, director of the Vaccine Confidence Project at the London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine, wrote: “The deluge of conflicting information, misinformation and […]
Stopping Bad Robocalls Act
The House Energy and Commerce Committee is working on a new bill called the “Stopping Bad Robocalls Act.” The title is interesting, because it seems to assume that there are […]
Healthcare Grade Sites
Review sites — from Yelp to Travel Advisor to Amazon — are an important part of most consumer’s purchase journeys now. With slight variations from one industry to another, more […]
SEO for Urgent Care
If you offer urgent care, even if you also offer other services, you want to show up when people in your area search for “urgent care.” SEO for urgent care […]
Fear and Hope in Healthcare Marketing
Getting health information out to consumers is an important, even an essential task. Research shows that U.S. consumers want and need health information. But U.S. consumers also fail to take […]
Alexa Goes HIPAA-Compliant
Amazon is very supportive of robots and AI, and very interested in the health and wellness products space. So it was only a matter of time till Alexa began to […]
Patient Search Journey: Problem to Solution
Google tells us that people looking for a healthcare solution usually start by Googling their problem. As they learn new terminology, they narrow their search. Then they begin to look […]
Influencers and Inaccurate Information
A UK study checked out 9 popular influencers who shared information on weight loss. Each one had multiple social media platforms, 80,000 or more followers on at least one social […]
Health Information Online: Battling Sleep Myths
Sleep Health, the journal of the National Sleep Foundation, features a myth-busting article this month. A group of researchers from a number of institutions checked out 8,000 websites sharing information […]
10 Tips for Effective Doctor Profiles
Finding a doctor can be frustrating for healthcare consumers. They’re most likely to turn to Google to start their search, often looking for a physician in their neighborhood who takes […]
Competing with Dr. Google
At least 72% of American adults use “Dr. Google” to self-diagnose. While most go on to call or visit their doctors, some 35% (according to a Pew Research survey) are […]
New Year’s Resolutions and Marketing
Plenty of conversations this week have centered on good plans for the new year, if not on resolutions. This is the year Braden is going to eat healthy and Maya […]