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Marketing a Family and General Practice Physician Group
At Gaebler, we've seen what great marketing can do for a small business. But if you own a family and general practice physician group, exceptional marketing may well be the determining factor in your long-term survival and success.
For every family and general practice physician group winner, there many more family and general practices physician groups calling it quits.
But with the right combination of resources, techniques, and strategies, any family and general practice physician group can achieve greater marketing dominance through strategic marketing and robust value messaging
Industry Resources
Lone rangers don't survive long in a family and general practice physician group. Most leaders are oblivious to the fact that the marketplace shows no favoritism - for every marketing challenge your business faces, there are hundreds of other businesses and leaders struggling to solve the same problem. Trade associations, business networks, and other venues usually offer resources to help you improve your marketing skills. If possible, establish a mentoring relationship with an experienced industry veteran.
Sponsorships
Event and team sponsorships are a proven method for raising the public profile of family and general practices physician groups. Successful sponsorships create connections with customers; ineffective ones alienate customers and drain your marketing budget. A strategic sponsorship targets actual family and general practice physician group patrons. To minimize costs and multiply outcomes, consider teaming up with a complementary business to co-sponsor targeted events.
Media Monitoring
Some marketing initiatives lend themselves to simple measurement while others are more challenging. Direct mail can be evaluated by tallying the cost of inputs (e.g. a premium mailing list, printing, postage, etc.) and measuring the number of customer responses you receive from the campaign. However, measuring the amount of influence your brand has in the marketplace can be trickier. With the help of marketing professionals, media monitoring can provide up-to-date assessments of the amount of influence your family and general practice physician group has in the public sphere. If executed properly, media monitoring can help your brand get ahead of negative messaging and exert greater influence over news cycles.
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