Theres been a huge change in chiropractic marketing online just within the last 2 years. Chiropractors one-by-one are flocking to the internet to tap into its unbelievable marketing power for their practices. But first know that theres a right way to utilize the web 2.0 powerhouse, and theres a wrong way. A whopping 95% of chiropractors are making this one mistake that is branding them poorly and getting them completely lost in the internet shuffle.
So, to uncover this mistake, lets begin be asking whats the most important goal with online marketing for chiropractors? The answer is clearly to get new patients walking through the doors, because theyre the lifeblood of your practice. When you have a solid and time-tested blueprint that you follow to attain this goal, then getting new patients should be almost effortless.
However, if you truly want to be successful with your chiropractic marketing online, then something much more important needs to happen. You need to become a reliable and visible chiropractic expert in your home town. This doesnt mean haggling people on Facebook in your home city. You need to find new and better ways online to stand as a leader in the chiropractic field, empowering people to heal and reach their healthy potential. This means that your advertising isnt about you, but about your future patients.
One of my mentors always said, if you want to have a booming business, you need to learn to “move the free line.” What he meant by this is not to necessarily give away a free consultation. He was referring to the fact that you must get in the habit of giving away a fortune in use value to the potential new patient. Give them something that can help them immediately, making their quality of life better than it already is.
When that person begins to apply your information and sees it’s helping them, you now have established credibility in that their eyes. That alone is priceless and how to get-off on the right foot with your chiropractic marketing online. It’s really not about marketing in their face like the vacuum cleaner salesmen of the 1980′s anymore. Online, it has to be more subtle and indirect.
All of us are geared toward instant gratification and want to see new patients today. You must keep in mind that not seeing new patients the very day that you start chiropractic marketing online means nothing. Sometimes it takes time. When I went through this process it was subtle at first, a trickle that became a tidal wave of new patients coming through my doors thanks to the internet advertising.
After I gradually and consistently built a solid reputation for myself on major sites and search engines like Yahoo, Google and Facebook, I was then able to see the kind of success that I set out to achieve. You can literally be your own PR person, using Web 2.0 to become the leader in your chiropractic niche in no time. Youre saving money, and youre seizing your success into your own hands.
Lastly, don’t be afraid to give away some of your best tips and health information to potential new patients. For the longest time, it seems chiropractors have held back fearing that a particular person may be less inclined to come and see them if they shared health optimizing strategies that worked. This is a flawed way of thinking that will actually hurt you in the long-run.
Its important to show as much of who you are as you can in your chiropractic marketing online. Again, in a world with so many options, people are naturally drawn to who they trust and feel a kind of familiarity with. That means that you want to show who you are, and show how you can help these future patients with their health struggles. They will respond to this gift of generosity by trusting you and ultimately becoming your patient.


