Running a Halloween candy sweet swap campaign is a simple and effective way to create social media content, connect with your patients and community, and establish yourself as an oral health leader. In this blog post from Adrian Lefler of My Social Practice, you’ll learn everything you need to run an effective candy swap campaign.
Dental website ownership vs. control: Know this before you spend a dime on a new website
Dental website ownership is a tricky subject. There are parts of your website that you own and others that you do not own. Adrian Lefler of My Social Practice shares his best tips to avoid some of the biggest mistakes regarding website ownership; saving you time, stress and money.
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Write a captivating dental blog post in 15 minutes [templates included]
Blogging is one of the best ways to help your website rank high in search engines. It’s also one of the most effective ways to educate patients about what really matters to your practice, their oral health. Adrian Lefler of My Social Practice shares how to get started with dental blogging.
Want to rank higher on Google Maps? Follow this local dental SEO guide
This comprehensive guide from Adrian Lefler of My Social Practice includes valuable information, effective strategies and step-by-step instructions on how to optimize a Google My Business account for a local dental practice.
12 Ways to Grow Your Practice Using Social Media
Are you looking to grow your dental practice without spending a fortune? According to research by acclaimed marketing and sales platform Hubspot, 92% of marketers in 2014 claimed that social...
Social Media Photos Can Express Appreciation and Help Practices Grow
We monitor, analyze and obsess over dental marketing posts all day long. The goal? To determine what content is most effective in helping practices thrive. We learn a lot –...
Smile Whitening Marketing Materials for Social Media
Have you been looking for a fresh approach to marketing whitening in your practice? My friend and prominent dental practice consultant, Gary Takacs, often refers to teeth whitening as a...
Invisalign Marketing Materials For Social Media
One of the things that I really love about my job is the opportunity I have to visit face-to-face with so many dentists, orthodontists, and team members around the country....
Get More Facebook Likes, Comments and Shares With These Challenges
These days every dental practice using Facebook is looking for more effective ways to get Likes, comments, and shares on their posts. Download These 5 Free Challenges… They Work! These...
Yelp and Your Dental Practice
Yelp is a touchy topic to tackle. Emotions and opinions about Yelp’s platform are all over the map. I’d like to cover one little sliver … how Yelp can help...
The “New” Facebook: A Two-Part Effectiveness Strategy
As most of you know by now, Facebook has undergone (and continues to undergo) a huge transformation in the way it handles business pages. Facebook has moved aggressively to a “pay-to-play”...
Enhance Your Twitter Profile Image For Better Engagement
There is no perfect strategy that fits for every social media platform. That’s why we encourage our clients to understand the subtleties of each social media tool and think about...
A Turnkey Charity Program That Promotes Your Practice AND Helps Kids
Have you heard of Smiles For Life? Each year, March through June, over 500 dental practices throughout North America whiten teeth to raise donations for seriously ill, disabled, and underprivileged...
The ADA Releases Practical Guide to Internet Marketing
This week the American Dental Association released their new book, The Practical Guide to Internet Marketing. I was flattered that they asked me to author one of its chapters. The...
Top 10 Blog Posts of 2014
If you’re a frequent reader of Off The Cusp, then you’ll know we cover a lot of topics and hear from a lot of different contributors who have a huge...
See How 5 Dental Practices Are Using Instagram Marketing
Are you utilizing Instagram to help market your dental practice? If not, now may be a great time to start! There are only a few simple DOs and DONTs to...
10 Recommended Boards for Your Practice’s Pinterest Page
Are you pinning yet? Hope so. Pinterest can be a useful tool in your dental marketing toolbox. If not, here’s an important concept to remember: Your first question should NEVER...
Is Your Social Media Supporting Your Marketing Funnel?
For five years now, we’ve been coaching hundreds of client practices and thousands of other dental practices on the merits of nurturing patient relationships online. Doing so is certainly a...
Learning About Dental Marketing From A Bucket Of Ice
How does social media marketing help spread the word about your practice? Often, it starts by doing good—then, sharing those “stories that spread”. And here’s an awesome example happening as...
Social Media Helps Move Your Practice Away From Commodity Dentistry
A Costco cup of coffee costs $0.50. Down the street at Starbucks you’ll pay six times that much. Have you ever heard people walk into Starbucks and ask them to...
Today, All Dental Marketing Is Digital Marketing
I was recently impressed with a blog post authored by Giselle Abramovich at Adobe entitled, “Make the Shift from Digital Marketing to Marketing in a Digital World.” Here’s a quote...
Marketing Sluggish? Go One Arc Deeper
I learned an important marketing lesson once from marketing guru Seth Godin. It seems to me that it has great application to dental marketing. Marketing is such an inexact science...
“Yes, I’m Busy. And Yes, I Care.”
Chris Brogan wrote a book last year entitled, “The Impact Equation” in which he introduced the term “Echo” as part of effective social media marketing strategy. For a dental practice’s...
Effective Dental Social Media Marketing DOESN’T Start Online…
Sound crazy?! Doesn’t social media take place online?! Hold on, Bucky... I’m getting there! ...It Starts In Your Practice! That’s right. Effective dental social media marketing doesn’t start online—it starts...
Re-Sharing Important Wall Posts on Your Facebook Page
Your practice is likely already harnessing Facebook’s power as part of your marketing efforts. Congratulations! As you do so, here’s an important thing to keep in mind... Facebook’s content stream...
Raise Practice Awareness Through Post-Halloween Sweet Swap
One-Click Download Your Complete, Turn-Key Program Have you ever sponsored a candy buyback program right after Halloween? If not, this is the year to try one! If so, here are...
Building Dental Practice Value Through Social Media Marketing
Where are you in the life cycle of your dental practice? Are you a start-up? A mature practice? A preparing-to-transition practice? In every case, there are important, easy-to-execute strategies that...
Facebook for Dentists Engagement Idea #174 – Community Questions
Always on the lookout for fresh Facebook post ideas that elicit great engagement from your patients and prospective patients? Here’s an idea that seems to work every time. Think about...
The #1 Secret For “New Marketing” Success
The temptation in dental practice marketing is to always be looking for the latest, greatest tool or trick – the silver bullet that will attract herds of new patients, eliminate...
Facebook Engagement Idea #133 – New Cover Image
If you’re like most dental practices (or any business) using Facebook, you’re likely always looking for fresh ideas to better engage with your fans. Here’s one that’s super simple, yet...