North Texas Dentistry Volume 4 Issue 2 | Page 11

certain your marketing investment is actually working? Who is visiting your website? What services are they looking for? And how can you turn those website visitors into actual patients? How can you “turbocharge” the effectiveness of your marketing to extract even better performance from your effort? 1. Stop marketing in the dark. Fortunately, competition drives innovation. “Through a powerful new program known as BOOST, we can offer dentists a way to identify potential patients that they may not even realize weren’t being reached,” notes Robert Zimbro, owner and founder of National Target Mailing. “BOOST transforms your website into a Patent Pending Hi-tech Geolocation Other apps and websites request location. Only BOOST turns location into new patients. tracking, which can then be displayed in a spreadsheet and mapped for visual reference. Rather than marketing blindly, the data provided by BOOST lets dentists see exactly where their potential patients are located. Precisely identifying the residential addresses of ‘fencesitters’ – those individuals who have already demonstrated their interest by visiting your website but have not yet responded by calling your office. You can reach out to potential patients who do not respond to the website or to direct mail with a personal letter inviting them to your practice. No other direct mail company offers this service, at any price. much more effective marketing tool and maximizes the return on your investment by giving you useful information about your website visitors.” Information is power, and BOOST gives dentists the information required to get results. 3. Understand where your patients are. BOOST enables dentists to upload and map both their active and inactive patients’ addresses. “If you can identify a concentration of patients in a certain area who are now inactive, you can re-direct your mail campaign accordingly,” notes Zimbro. “Mapping can also help to identify geographical barriers, like a park or a freeway that might affect the likelihood of recruiting patients, which can dramatically magnify the impact of a mail campaign.” Patient information is uploaded by dentists to their own BOOST spreadsheet, and no patient health information is included, so HIPAA requirements are not relevant to the BOOST program. Rewarding Value BOOST will help grow your dental practice by providing new patients. 2. Turn clicks into leads. BOOST not only lets you track daily visits to your website, but also captures the residential address of each visitor who enables geo- 4. Identify your potential patients’ needs. BOOST allows you to see what pages were visited and the specific services your website visitors were interested in. If a visitor clicked on “dental implants”, you can address that interest in your advertiswww.northtexasdentistry.com | NORTH TEXAS DENTISTRY 11