You love your dedicated dental patients. You can always count on them showing up to their appointments, paying in a timely manner and referring you to their friends and family. If you could only clone those patients and get more of them in your door, you’d be set! But, all hope is not lost; you may not be able to fast forward to the future and replicate them, but rest assured, you’ll attract high-value patients to your practice by following some simple recommendations.
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Growing Your Dental Practice to $1 Million
Want More Patients AND Better Staff? Extend Your Office Hours.
Your patients have a hectic life. Between work, family, and everything else they’ve got going on, they then have to fit in appointments, and that goes for scheduling time to come into your dental practice. I mean, put yourself in their shoes. With all that you do, you have to think: when is the best time to make time for things like the dentist office?
By taking the time to think of your opportunities, you can develop a full-fledged strategy for office hours that will please your patients and set you apart from competitors.
So, when do your patients want to go to the dentist?
Why Dental Marketing is More About Results than Contracts
You’ve got a lot on your plate – you run a successful dental practice, taking care of not only your patients, but your team members each day. Between pulling Ms. Jones’ tooth and making sure all the bills are paid, you don’t have a lot of downtime to focus on other services, such as marketing your business. You decide to take the step and find a dental marketing firm that can take that load off your plate. What they are selling sounds good, and just as you’re about to commit to them, they pull out this caveat – you need to sign a long-term contract for their services. This begs the question, you want good marketing help, but at what price?
Getting the Right Kind of New Dental Patients: 3 Invaluable Tips
You have a steady stream of patients, and you love those loyal customers. They are the ones who will always be there. They never miss an appointment. They tell other people about your practice. They pay on time. If every patient was like them, life would be easy! But, are you measuring your success by those loyalists?
What defines success to you and your dental practice? Are you assessing that by the number of new patients you have or by the number of good new dental patients?
If you aren’t struggling with it already — a common marketing challenge you’re sure to face is balancing new dental patients you bring into your practice with the right patients for you.
How to Get 5 Times More Patients to Keep Appointments
You’ve taken your practice into the 21st century; your website is up-to-date and ready to convert visitors into patients, but you’re still struggling with getting new patients in the door. You can use the latest tactics to draw in potential patients, but you can’t forget one thing – the importance of the phone call! That’s right – that mobile phone people use for surfing the Internet and texting still provides its initial function: calling.
You need to make sure you’re recognizing the power of a phone call and what it can mean for your practice. It’s important to record your calls from your front office staff, listen to them, and then walk through the process of converting calls into appointments.