Building Your Practice Through Marketing

By Elizabeth Baxter

The five resources featured this month provide expert guidance on marketing private practices to aid you in drawing in new clients so that you can better serve your community.

MONTHLY MARKETING TOOLKIT

By PPS

The members-only monthly Marketing Toolkit is assembled by PPS volunteers who have extensive experience in private practice physical therapy marketing. The fully customizable materials provided in the kit are sent to your inbox every month and include monthly newsletters, social media posts, shareable images, and press release templates. You can share the materials as-is or update them with your own text and images.

Get it here: ppsapta.org/practice-management/marketing-resources.cfm

THE FIT FACTOR

By PPS

Developed in 2013, the Fit Factor is an online survey individuals can take to assess their current overall physical health and receive personal feedback on ways to improve it. As a PPS member, you can register for a Fit Factor Clinician Code to customize Fit Factor to help draw patients to your practice.

Get it here: bit.ly/3qYXRrZ

99 MARKETING IDEAS

By PPS

This series of bite-sized videos features marketing tips from physical therapists that you can use to inspire your own marketing strategies. Topics covered include personal and direct marketing designed to reach both new and returning patients, and there’s even a series on how to tackle marketing your practice with COVID-19 considerations in mind.

Get it here: https://bit.ly/3grKURw

MARKETING 101 ONLINE COURSE

By PPS

Addressing everything from best practices to developing a budget, this five-part module will help you define and engage your target audience. The modules cover marketing, planning, and budgeting; the planning process; referral source marketing; internal marketing; and consumer/community outreach.

Get it here: bit.ly/3fYMo5G

LET’S TALK POPULATION HEALTH

By PPS

This marketing webinar offers insight into how population health can add to the value of care you provide and how to recognize opportunities for payment, and it will also familiarize you with a range of population health-related tools and resources, including the Fit Factor, Monthly Tool Kit, 99 Marketing Ideas, and relevant Impact articles.

Get it here: bit.ly/3qYcN9Z

Elizabeth Baxter, MS, is a staff writer for PPS located in New York City.