How to Construct a Health Care Marketing Plan
Creating a plan is essential to the success of a marketing campaign, particularly in the health care industry. It allows you to focus the efforts of your marketing team in an organized way, such as tracking your primary competitors.
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How to Construct a Health Care Marketing Plan
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Identify your target customer--the person most likely to use your services. Using a chiropractic center as an example, the typical target consumer may be middle-aged men with back injuries, or even pregnant women.
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Write out your overall goals, which should be specific, measurable and realistic.
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Briefly describe what is going on in your market and any broad challenges you face. For example, you may want to mention that your biggest competitor just launched a major television ad campaign to promote its new spinal decompression procedure.
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Conduct a S.W.O.T. analysis of each of your primary competitors. This involves identifying the strengths, weaknesses, opportunities and threats for each. Think about advantages that your competitors have over your business, and vice versa.
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Identify your unique selling points for each target market, your potential barriers and how you will approach each segment.
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Your strategies and tactics should reflect your overall goals. An example of a strategy for a chiropractic practice is to improve patient satisfaction to encourage repeat business. Possible tactics are implementing a patient satisfaction survey and offering an incentive program or discount for repeat customers.
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Tips & Warnings
Marketing plans are best created using input from different people, and even different departments. Individuals not directly involved in the marketing process frequently have feedback that can provide valuable insight.
Build in some flexibility to reduce the stress you feel if you find yourself needing to revamp your plans.
