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Attracting New Dental Patients

12/2/2022 6:20:25 PM   |   Comments: 0   |   Views: 141

There are many benefits to implementing a dental membership program in your practice, including the ability to target new demographics, offer incentives, and create an easy sign-up process. By following these tips, you can develop a highly successful dental membership program that will help you attract more patients for your dental practice.

 

When thinking about starting a membership program, first brainstorm what services or products you want to offer as part of the package. Are there any additional discounts or perks that could sweeten the deal and encourage patients to sign up? Offering percentage-based discounts on already existing services or products is usually pretty popular among patients. For example, many dental membership plans look something like this:

 

Afterward, construct a straightforward sign-up process that is simple for new members to join. Explicitly describe how the program works and how they can obtain their membership advantages. You could also provide bonuses or referral rewards as additional encouragement, which tends to be successful in attracting new members.

 

Targeting Small Business to Attract New Patients

 

After you establish your program, begin targeting small business owners and their employees. A significant marketing opportunity exists with small businesses since they commonly lack dental benefits programs. By reaching out to local companies and emphasizing how much money they could save on dental costs by joining your membership program, you increase the chances that they'll show interest. You may even want to extend a special offer to them, like discounted rates or free services upon signing up for your plan.

 

Lastly, once you have your membership program set up, don't forget to advertise it across social media. This is an expeditious way of notifying local businesses and thier employees about the benefits of joining. To make sure individuals are seeing all that your membership has to offer, include visuals along with a detailed description of how the program works so potential members can understand what they would gain by signing up.

 

Attracting new dental patients with 55 and up communities

 

Attracting new patients doesn't have to be difficult--target 55 and up communities. Get in touch with local senior centers or retirement homes and propose discounted rates or unique services to them. Also, persuade their members to join your dental membership program by tempting them with gifts, for example free services or products.

 

                                            
  1. To market your dental membership plan to a new neighborhood, try the following methods: 
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  3. -Reach out to the HOA and offer to give a presentation. 
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  5. -Use direct mail marketing. 
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  7. -Attend local networking events and drive referrals from your new contacts.

 

By being a little creative and doing some research and planning, you can create a dental membership plan to draw new patients to your practice. You can even target small business owners with employees or those who are uninsured.

 

People do Business with Friends

 

Creating a warm and inviting environment should be one of your top priorities as it is the key to success in the dental industry. Your patients will only want to do business with you if they like and trust you, so making sure that your office culture creates positive experiences for both employees and customers is essential. Offering discounts through a membership program can help bring in new patients, but maintaining relationships with current patients by making them feel valued is necessary to keeping them coming back. In order for this harmonious system to work properly, it's important that everyone on your team shares the same core values. 

 

Use Digital Marketing to Attract New Patients to your Dental Practice

 

Get the word out about your dental membership program to as many people as possible! Inform them through online ads, social media posts, emails, flyers and more. You can even invite current patients who might be interested in joining and ask them to share the news with their friends and family. The wider your net is cast, the merrier (and bigger!) your membership program will be.

 

With these tips in mind, you can create a dental membership program that will attract new patients to your practice. It doesn't have to be complicated or expensive - just keep it simple and focus on how you can make it as easy as possible for potential members to join! Good luck! 


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