Congratulations on the purchase of your new dental office. Now that you have gone through all the appraisal, legal and financial matters, the fun begins! To ensure a successful patient retention rate and a new patient acquisition, consider the following marketing strategies below:

Patient Communication

Professional communication with your existing patient file to communicate exciting updates in the practice and start building long lasting relationships. Done in print and email format for maximum impact.

Professional Photography + Video

Photos for the website, new doctor and team photos displaying togetherness will build trust and confidence.

Take it a step further by having a practice introduction video used to create a welcoming image of the practice and help acquire new patients.

Website Design

Website update or re-design will be required to introduce the new changes within the practice while ensuring the image reflects the new vision of the purchasing doctor.

Social Media Manager

Use Facebook and Instagram to start a two-way dialog with your patient file and the local community around the practice. We have a variety of social media packages to suit your business goals and budget.

SEO – Search Engine Optimization

We will help you determine the best website optimization plan to boost your online visibility and help you grow.

Give us a call to request a practice transition check list and create a carefully planned practice transition plan. Vitamin D Marketing & Design is here to assist with all your dental practice marketing needs.

It’s no secret that video marketing can provide great benefits for a dental office that wants to engage with their patient file and the local community around them. In today’s day and age, people are glued to their phone screens with a very short attention spam. A professionally produced, short video is a great way to connect with your audience.

If you are a dental office owner and want to invest some of your marketing budget into video content, here are top 4 content ideas for you to consider:

#1 Professional Introduction Video – this is a short introduction to your office and new patient experience. A walk thru the office to showcase your office look, environment, technology and communication approach. It will help your audience get a good feel for your practice. Better yet, it will be the push to get them to pick up the phone and book their first dental appointment. Upload the completed video to your youtube channel and share it with your audience on the landing page of your website, Google My Business and Social media.

#2 Showcase your technology and the key benefits to patient care and comfort. Whether it’s digital scanner that eliminates standard impressions, cerec restorations or lasers – it’s your opportunity to show the benefits that impact patient’s comfort and lifestyle. More importantly, you have made a significant investment in your practice so why not show it off.

#3 Promote the key services you’d like to grow within the practice. For example, if one of those treatments is Invisalign, shoot a short 1-2 minute video that demonstrates the process of getting Invisalign treatment and answers some commonly asked questions.

#4 Introduce your new team members in a more engaging way. A great example is doing a short interview with a new associate dentist that joined your practice. Along with asking them about their professional background, make it fun and ask more lifestyle questions. This will allow to showcase the person’s personality and start building long lasting relationships with your patient file.

For more dental marketing tips, be sure to subscribe to our youtube channel at Vitamin D Marketing & Design. Whether you are starting a practice, transitioning or getting ready to sell, give us a call. We would love to work with you.

If you are looking to improve your online credibility, grow your brand, boost your organic local search results and grow your dental office, Google Reviews are a great place to start.

Google is the most popular search engine platform and a place where most people go to in order to look up a business or find desired information. Making sure that your dental office has a well optimized website and an active Google My Business listing are the foundation pieces to help you with your local search results.

If you don’t have your business registered and verified with Google My Business, do it now. Upload your logo, photos, address information, contact info and the scope of your services. Once you have done that, start actively asking for authentic Google Reviews from your happy patients.

Online reviews have evolved and it’s no longer enough just to watch them come in. You must ask for them, send out Google Review links, respond to them and review your results with your team.

Vitamin D Marketing & Designed launched Patient Reviews platform to help dental offices acquire more Google reviews and to help manage them. Here is how the platform works:

1- Go to patientreviews.ca and sign up for 1-month free trial. We will set up your office account and add a website widget to your website.

2- We will schedule a short video zoom call to go over the program and train your admin and clinical team that will be using it.

3- Using the patient review platform, you will be able to send custom patient survey links to your patients and ask them to share their experience with the office. Following a complimentary ranking, the survey system will automatically re-direct your patient to your office Google Reviews.

4- You will have access to your office dashboard to track your results

Getting Google Reviews requires team involvement and consistent effort but with a simple system in place, your dental office will start to experience the benefits of having a strong online presence.

To grow your dental practice online and in the local community, contact Vitamin D Marketing & Design for a complimentary consultation.

As marketers, we constantly hear about the importance of video to a successful content marketing strategy. Online consumer behaviour has proven that people are more likely to consume and engage with video content than written content in most cases, and it’s likely that your VP or CMO has asked you to ramp up your video marketing strategy.

A successful video marketing strategy includes creating great video content that is easily searchable and distributing it in a way that gets it in front of as many viewers as possible. Here are some tips to help set your video marketing efforts up for success.

1. Optimize the video

There are four elements of a video that Google uses to understand and rank your content. These are on-page text, referral links, structured data and the video file itself. Before you start posting your video anywhere, make sure its creators have considered each of these elements.

2. Make your videos public

Make it easier for Google to find your videos by making them accessible to everyone. Each video should have a web page that corresponds to it, and these pages should have publicly accessible URLs. Create a YouTube or Vimeo account for your business and house your videos there. This makes them easy to link and share to and makes them easier for Google to find. Amplify your video by adding it to your Google My Business page.

3. Help Google find you

Embed your videos into custom-built, accessible website pages, and use proper structured data to help Google find your videos and understand what they’re about. Make sure your website schema markup that includes information like the video title, description, length, thumbnail, URLs and more. It’s important to make it as easy as possible for Google to find your content.

4. Use good thumbnails

A high-quality thumbnail should be on the list of elements needed for every video you create. Thumbnails need to be accessible to Google in order for the page to appear in video features. Make sure there is nothing blocking Google from accessing the thumbnail.

5. Content files

Ensuring that Google can find your video content files is key to making your pages eligible for helpful search features like video previews and key moments. Video previews are when Google takes a few seconds from your video to use as a click, which can create more engagement than a thumbnail image.

6. Share, share, share

Share your videos with the world by posting them on your social media accounts and using a budget to amplify the posts. Creating content that is interesting and engaging will encourage others to share it. Use the videos in your email marketing efforts and continue driving traffic to the pages that house the embedded videos on your website.

If you need help with your video content creation or distribution strategy, reach out to the team at Vitamin D Marketing & Design. We can work together to build a video marketing strategy tailored to the unique needs of your business.