Tips for Setting Up Dental In-House Financing
Scott N. McMeen
In-house financing will allow more of your patients to go ahead with treatment that they would otherwise struggle to afford.
In-house financing will allow more of your patients to go ahead with treatment that they would otherwise struggle to afford.
A dental membership plan offers key advantages for both practices and patients. For dentists, it bypasses the hassle of dealing with insurance companies. For patients, it makes dental care more affordable.
Offering your customers an in-house dental care plan can help to retain existing patients and attract new clients – including your share of the million-plus individuals in the States not covered by dental insurance.
A dental membership plan can play a big part in developing patient loyalty and increasing your practice’s revenue. Offering annual in-office dental care plans directly to your patients also avoids the hassle of dealing with insurance companies and will appeal to those who may find it difficult to get insurance coverage – such as retirees and small-business owners.
Without a solid marketing strategy, your dental practice is likely to lose out to the competition when it comes to attracting new patients. Dentistry can be highly competitive with several practices vying for business in the same location. Staying ahead of the field in the digital age calls for an effective online strategy to promote your dental office and generate new business.
With the arrival of fall in September, many people get into the swing of celebrating all things autumn. Folks are back in town after vacation, kids have returned to school, and everyone’s ready for the transition from summer to winter. It’s an ideal time to tap into seasonal activities in order to promote your dental practice to consolidate your business and attract new patients.
When considering digital marketing strategies for your dental practice, it’s important to recognize the huge influence of social media.
SEO (search engine optimization) is the art of making your dental website show up in search results on websites like Google, Yahoo!, and Bing without paid advertising. It's no secret that online search is continuing to grow every day. With more and more devices doing more and more searches, it is crucial that your website is optimized for search. We provide SEO and local search optimization to make sure you target the correct audience, get more traffic, and ultimately get more dental patients.
Video-sharing platform YouTube provides dental practices with a powerful, far cheaper alternative to marketing via traditional television advertising. Besides being extremely cost effective, YouTube advertising enables you to home in on your target audience – prospective new patients – by geographic location, parental status, age and gender.
Your reputation is everything! What are your patients saying about you? Studies have shown that consumers are just as likely to trust online reviews as reviews from friends and family. Managing the reputation of your dental practice is critical to attracting new patients and retaining them. Even the best practices can get an undeserved negative review. Be proactive so that the good reviews outweigh the bad.
