By Tannus Quatre, PT, MBA
Consumers are a funny breed.
Their attention span is short—miniscule even—only about 8 seconds according to a 2015 study by Microsoft.1
Consumers are also distracted, focusing their short attention span across a variety of communication channels in a given day (or even in a given minute).
Those of us wearing a physical therapy marketing hat need to reach our audience where they are. And this is where a good multichannel approach comes in. To properly reach your physical therapy audience, you need a solid multichannel approach that doesn’t allow your message to miss your desired audience. To reach an audience that is everywhere, you need to have coverage everywhere.
Here are 5 tips for creating a multichannel physical therapy marketing plan that will work for your clinic. Be in these 5 areas consistently, and your presence won’t be missed.
By Ben Montgomery
Physical therapy is about people: their goals, their journeys toward better movement, and those who help them to get there. These are stories we cherish as a profession, and they go a long way toward educating people about the power and the value of physical therapy (PT).
But without photos, worthwhile stories about patients and the physical therapists who help them seem impersonal and incomplete, especially since the story is about physical movement!
The best option for making changes to the ACA?
By Alpha Lillstrom Cheng, JD, MA
May 5, 2017
The word of the year for health care policy is reconciliation. This special legislative procedure has been used for decades to pass controversial legislation with a simple majority vote in each chamber of the US Congress. Using standard legislative procedure, a divisive issue such as health care reform or repeal legislation would likely be bogged down and effectively sidelined. This is because, under regular order, the Senate allows for unlimited debate, known as the filibuster, which can be used to block legislative action. While Republicans currently have the majority in both houses of Congress, their 52-48 majority in the Senate is insufficient to assemble the 60 votes commonly needed to cut off debate and pass legislation. Therefore, the Republican party and the White House are now seeking to use reconciliation—a complicated yet useful tool—to pursue the passage of health care legislation that would otherwise not succeed in the Senate.
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By Christine Towey*
For many people social media is how they keep up with friends and family. It’s how they stay in touch with people who live in different states, and even countries. So why not, as a health care company, tap into this market and become like a person they keep up with? Social media may have been created for personal use, but it’s now been cracked wide open for businesses to utilize as well. By giving your health care company a social media presence, you are able to stay in the minds of former patients, advertise services to current ones, and engage potential patients. When someone likes or follows your page, it shows up in their newsfeed along with all the other people they follow and like. So, without much effort, you can directly advertise to them.
