Going mobile – dental marketing

From Rosemont Media A recent study from comScore, Inc. provides a breakdown for the composition of smartphone owners by age in the U. S. As the demand for mobility continues to expand, mobile website design and mobile dental marketing is quickly becoming an essential ingredient in a successful online presence for your cosmetic dentistry practice. … Read more

Veritas – If it seems too good to be true, it most likely is.

All I want is the truth, just gimme some truth – John Lennon (1940 – 1980) Endodontics is once again careening towards technologic revisionism – and the marketing by the companies veers as always towards corporate hegemony and their advocates as always are out in solipsistic full force; the question is, does technology improve the … Read more

Evidence based marketing – Office centric APP for your website

Trends come from sifting data and watching how processes evolve. The following addresses Facebook Places, Gowalia and Foursquare, all of which relate to location based mobile check in services. Ask yourself the obvious, will this impact on you in the next year, 3, 5 re; your practice growth. Image by Anthony Quintano via Flickr Almost one … Read more

The mother of all dental internet marketing mavens….

Was doing a search on the topic of SEO/Search Engine Optimization for a blog entry and came across a website that truly encompassed every conceivable facet of web based marketing and landing #1 or #2 on a GOOGLE search.  We seriously ain’t in Kansas any more Toto….this is the new world of being a dental … Read more

No Man’s Land

From AH HA Insights  Introduction:  Dentistry 2.0 For many Americans the Internet has become a credible source of health information.  Medical sites like WebMD, MayoClinic.com, Vitals.com, Healthgrades.com and others offer unprecedented access to health information to feed this growing consumer appetite for health information.  According to a recent survey by Pew Research Center‘s Internet and American  Image … Read more

Mobile phone usage is exploding world wide

The implications this holds for dentistry, for patient education, for collegial education, for obtaining information on new products and pricing is limited only by one’s imagination….to say nothing of the impact that all this has on practice marketing through social networking….. Read more

Officite Selected as First Corporate Provider of ADA Online Patient Education

March 17, 2011 – Press release Downers Grove, IL -Industry-leading dental website and Internet marketing expert, Officite, has been selected by the American Dental Association (ADA) as the first corporate provider to offer web-based ADA patient education brochures and Toothflix videos. Through the new collaboration, dentists can educate patients with trustworthy and respected, ADA-branded online … Read more

Bring your “A” not “Eh!” game……

Between singing and dancing websites (ease up on the text folks, it’s a visual medium, social networking as a marketing tool, a new piece of digital equipment hitting the marketplace daily and the fact that you want to choke one staff member a day, life can be arduous for a dentist. What’s even worse is … Read more

Taking it to the streets – start a revolution in your reception squarea….

Facebook is reframing it’s look; it was never intuitive or user friendly, but it was long overdue for a visual overhaul and that is launching……..the use of newsletters is old hat in dental marketing…..what Facebook and Twitter offers is 24/7/365 newsletters and customer service and familiarity which builds and brands loyalties………….check out the following article. … Read more

It’s the singer, not the song

NEW YORK, Jan. 25, 2011 /PRNewswire/ — A new nationwide study by Verasoni Ah Ha! (The Research arm of Verasoni Worldwide), of how dentists use Facebook to promote their practice reveals that dentists are at a loss on Facebook. Data from the study reveal that dentists do not yet understand how to leverage social media channels such … Read more

Are you getting the Vibe?

by DentalVibe A savvy marketing guru has joined forces with Dr. Steven Goldberg, the inventor of DentalVibe. DentalVibe, a comfort injection system, utilizes patented VibraPulse pain blocking technology to send a message to the patient’s brain, intercepting the pain and sensitivity associated with a traditional injection. Scott Mahnken has helped companies such as SS White, … Read more

5 tips for marketing your dental practice

I’m old enough to remember, two early dental entrepreneurs who were excoriated and taken to court for appearing in an ad related to the Holiday Inn.  My how the times have changed. From Dental Tribune international – No matter what size your practice is, reaching out to new and prospective patients is a must for every … Read more

Meet the new deal, same as the old deal…

By Jay Goltz (Editors note:  Marketing , good or bad,always comes to dentistry. We are prime targets for a “sell”.  Groupon is a new age manifestation of barter on one level and AMWAY on another. It’s worth checking into,however, CAVEAT EMPTOR.)  I have been reading with great interest (especially here) the stories of retailers sharing their … Read more