Unity: The Key to Successful Doctor Practice Marketing

BusinessMarketing & Advertising

  • Author Philippa Kennealy
  • Published November 4, 2010
  • Word count 504

When it comes to physician or doctor practice marketing, there are many factors that people hold important. Some say that a big budget is the key for success, and others believe that success is based on the people who create the marketing materials (your marketing partners).

While these answers are not wrong, there is a far simpler solution. The key to successful doctor practice marketing is actually unity.

Unity among your doctor practice marketing partners

Usually, when a doctor practice marketing project is started, many teams that would be working on the different aspects of the strategy would be available. One team works on the online part of the marketing plan, another works on more traditional marketing methods, while yet another labors on the more mundane tasks involved in marketing. All of these people must be able to unify and have one goal and do all tasks in a coordinated manner.

The design vision of a team must match, fit or complement the design of another project piece. This also goes for the tone and the image that the company wants to project. If they are not unified, then you risk having your company go into different directions while promoting its brand.

Unity among your marketing staff

Aside from the different teams involved in doctor practice marketing, ensuring that the members in those teams are unified is a matter of paramount importance. Having a non unified team would lead to various inefficiencies and incorrect choices that degrade the success of your marketing plan. Having some discord in the teams leads to poor performance and execution of what you have previously planned on doing.

On the other hand, a team that strives on working well with others helps by opening up innovative ideas for the doctor practice marketing strategies as well as doing more efficient work.

Unity between your practice’s top management and the doctor practice marketing team

As you may well understand, having a marketing strategy for your doctor practice is dependent on several factors ranging from your practice’s goals, mission statements, and of course, it’s budget. These are the factors that need evaluation while your top management actually develops its doctor practice marketing strategy. You have to ensure that the plan goes according to what the management has decided.

If a practice fails to unify the goals of top management with the marketing team, then many misguided actions will result. The problems could range from simply not having enough budget to run the strategy properly, or the marketing plan going in a direction that is completely opposite of what the top management of your practice had in mind.

As you can see, unity in all the aspects of the operation is critical to the complete success of doctor practice marketing. Of course, there is no perfectly unified team, but you would have to discover ways to approximate this close knit perfection of ideals, members, and strategy, if you would want to achieve triumph in your plans of marketing your practice.

Philippa Kennealy MD MPH CPCC PCC of medical practice marketing site and medical practice marketing plan blog. A business coach whose passion is helping her physician and medical practice clients thrive in their businesses.

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