Tag: Facebook Ads

In this video, I share some tips on how to avoid getting your Facebook ads or account banned when marketing healthcare services. With Facebook’s strict policies around healthcare advertising, it’s easy to inadvertently break the rules and face penalties.

Facebook’s Monitoring Bots Are Sensitive About Healthcare Ads

Facebook depends on people having a good experience on their platform. They hire bots as monitors that look for any ad content that could upset users. These bots are extra sensitive when it comes to healthcare ads. Just one wrong word can get your ad or even entire advertising account banned. I’ve seen this happen to chiropractors, laser therapy practices, neuropathy treatment centers, dental chiropractors, and spinal 

Follow Facebook’s Published Rules Carefully

While Facebook has general rules published, they also have many unpublished rules specifically around healthcare advertising. To avoid problems, carefully study their terms of service and advertising policies. Read between the lines to understand their goals – they want advertisers but not ones upsetting their users.

Avoid Spammy, “Salesy” Style Headlines and Ads

Anything that looks overly promotional or resembles a sketchy sales pitch will get flagged. Stick to talking about the solutions you offer rather than big claims or money-focused language.

Don’t Use Images of People in Pain

Illustrations of people clearly suffering or in pain tend to disturb Facebook users. Use images that communicate health and healing instead.

Don’t Say “You” or Ask Questions

Two big no-nos are using “you” statements directly addressing the reader or asking questions, especially related to symptoms. This comes across as invasive to people.

Watch Your Landing Page Too

Facebook will check the page your ad links to, so don’t include anything there that violates their policies either. Scammy-looking pages will also get your ads shut down.

A Few Banned Ads Can Suspend Your Account

If you get just a few ads disapproved, your entire advertising account can get suspended temporarily. Consistent infractions can lead to a permanent ban.

By understanding Facebook’s approach and avoiding common mistakes, you can successfully advertise your chiropractic practice, dental chiropractic office, neuropathy clinic, laser therapy or spinal decompression center without risking your account access.Check out my guide on Facebook marketing for healthcare practitioners.

Conclusion

Facebook provides a powerful platform to reach potential patients for healthcare practices. But their strict, complex policies mean you must tread carefully to avoid account bans. By steering clear of overly promotional language, disturbing images, and directly addressing readers, you can market your services effectively and safely. With the right approach, Facebook ads can become a trustworthy patient acquisition source for your practice.Book a discovery call today.

If you’ve tried paid advertising to generate new patient leads before without much success, the problem likely wasn’t bad leads – it was how your practice followed up on those leads. With a strategic follow-up process in place, the same leads that previously fell through the cracks can drive double bookings.

I recently consulted with a chiropractor who was frustrated that multiple marketing companies had failed to deliver quality leads. However, when I examined his process, I realized the issue wasn’t the leads themselves. Here were the problems:

• No single staff member was dedicated to working new leads. Whoever randomly got to it first would follow-up.
• Leads were contacted within 1-2 days, sometimes longer. This time lag drastically reduces conversion rates.
• Little effort was made to schedule non-responsive leads or no shows. They were simply written off.
• No scripts or training were provided on properly qualifying and booking leads.

Without a structured lead follow-up process, even great leads go to waste. So here are some best practices to maximize lead conversion:

Assign Responsibility to One Person

Give a single staff member ownership over all new lead follow-up during their shift. This ensures leads get immediate attention from someone motivated to convert them into appointments.

Contact Leads ASAP

Speed is critical. Contact leads within 5 minutes when possible. The quicker you reach out, the higher the chances of scheduling. Allowing hours to pass greatly reduces conversions.

Persist With Unresponsive Leads

Just because a lead doesn’t reply right away doesn’t make them a bad lead. Follow-up multiple times via phone, email, and text over several days before giving up. The most reluctant leads sometimes convert at higher rates once engaged.

Incentivize Your Staff

Consider offering a small bonus (like $5) to staff for each lead that books and shows up. This motivates scheduling staff to go the extra mile to get new patients in the door.

Provide Scripts and Roleplay

Train staff on how to properly qualify, educate, and schedule leads. Write out scripts and practice roleplaying to polish their skills at addressing common questions and overcoming objections.

Work Leads After Hours

Have staff bring leads home on evenings and weekends to contact. This allows you to connect faster with late night web searches and weekend appointment requests.

With the right follow-up process, those old “bad leads” suddenly transform into booked appointments. Don’t leave it to chance – put these lead conversion best practices in place to double your new patients overnight through paid advertising.

Conclusion

By optimizing your lead follow-up process, you can dramatically increase your new patient conversion rates and get far greater return from your marketing spend. Don’ forget can’t wait any longer – put these strategies into action for the health of your practice. Implement a rapid response system, leverage persistence, train your team, and use incentives wisely.

When top-quality leads and a high-performance follow-up process unite, you’ll be enjoying the benefits of a steady stream of new patients excited for your life-changing health care treatments. Schedule a Discovery call with us today to discuss optimizing your marketing and conversions.

I recently recorded a video to share my top tips for running successful Facebook ad campaigns. I reveal the step-by-step process my agency uses to systematically test different ad combinations until we have a high-converting winner. In this video, I explain:

• The specific ad elements you should test – headlines, images, call-to-actions, targeting, etc.
• How you can use Facebook to test concepts before investing in expensive direct mail campaigns
• The importance of continuously testing new variants to revive fading campaigns

I share my proven framework to help ensure your ad budget is working hard for your practice.

In this video, I explore why campaign tracking is critical and how to do it right for your team, your own team and healthcare practice team.

Running effective marketing campaigns requires more than just spending money on ads. To get the best return on your investment, you need to closely track and analyze and measure the performance of each campaign. With proper tracking in place, you can determine which marketing campaign efforts are successful and which other campaign name are falling flat.

The Importance of Campaign Tracking

John Wanamaker, a famous department store owner in the early 1900s, once said: “Half the money I manage to spend on advertising and sales is wasted; the trouble is I don’t know which half.”

This quote still rings true today. With numerous marketing and communication campaigns running at once across various communication platforms, it’s incredibly challenging to know which ones are working. Relying on patient surveys won’t give you an accurate picture – people simply can’t recall or don’t know how many clicks they heard about your practice.

Without proper marketing campaign and tracking, you’re essentially throwing your own marketing campaign dollars into a black hole and hoping for the best. To make smart budget decisions, you need hard data on the performance and ROI of each marketing campaign.

Implementing a Campaign Tracking System

We make it easy for clients to easily track their marketing efforts with create a comprehensive tracking system. Here are the key steps we recommend easily track them:

1. Use unique phone numbers. This is the most critical tactic. Each ad campaign needs its own dedicated tracking phone number so you can see exactly how many calls and leads it generates. Services like CallRail make this simple and cost-effective.
2. Track website traffic. Use UTM links in your campaigns to see how many visits each one is driving to your site. Google Analytics is invaluable for attributing website traffic back to specific marketing efforts.
3. Listen to recordings. Call tracking services often record inbound calls so you can evaluate lead quality and listen to exactly what prospects are asking about.
4. Monitor campaign analytics. Digital platforms like Facebook Ads Manager provide incredibly detailed [data] on campaign reach, engagement, clicks, conversions, and more.
5. Connect conversions to sources. When you book a new consultation or patient, note which campaign prompted their initial response. This helps complete the picture of ROI by campaign.

With the right campaign tracking protocols in place, you’ll gain clear and actionable insights into conversions, sales and marketing performance. You’ll be able to double down on high converting campaigns and pare back spending on low performers.

Tracking is the Key to Marketing Success

In our experience, most healthcare practices do not have sufficient tracking in place to more easily track and manage this. We often find clients spending 90% of their budget in the wrong areas due to lack of data.

With comprehensive tracking established, we see success when marketers can rapidly optimize their marketing spend towards campaigns with the highest ROI. Many clients see a 200-300% increase in new patients from the same ad budget within just a few months.

Don’t waste another marketing dollar without having the data to inform your decisions. To learn more about campaign tracking solutions for your practice.

Conclusion:

Data-Driven Marketing Equals Results

In today’s digital marketing landscape, you simply can’t afford to have users “fly blind” and create something without tracking in place. Implementing a comprehensive tracking system provides the data you need to maximize and manage your marketing ROI.

We make campaign performance tracking easy through proven platforms, analytics, and reporting. Contact us today to schedule a free discovery call where we’ll evaluate the success of your current campaigns and make data-driven recommendations to generate more leads and patients.

Times have changed and so have communication patterns.

Research indicates, and my experience proves, that if you only give prospective new patients a phone number to call for an appointment, then you are lowering your response rate by a ton!

Here’s what I’m seeing across more than 100 offices nationwide.

A huge part of attracting new patients to your practice is giving them a compelling offer to come see you.

However, you don’t want to be giving away the store and a bunch of freebies or discount services if you don’t have to.

I figured out how you can make the boring old “Free consultation” seem like one of the greatest, most compelling offers ever.

And in this video, I’ll tell you how.

You may have looked at your ads and landing pages on your laptop and think they look good. They represent you well.

However, there’s a very high likelihood that what your new patients are seeing is something different. It could even be embarrassingly bad.

In this video, I’ll tell you what’s probably going on and how you can fix it.

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The data proves it. If you’re sending paid clickers from your new patient marketing directly to your website you are losing 41% or more of the results.

Wowza!

Why? Your website’s gorgeous and represents you well. How could this be true?

It’s because people are people.

The way to fix it is with a properly formatted and disciplined landing page.

In this video, I explain the difference.

This may be controversial to say, but different people are different.

Teenage girls are not as interested in sciatica treatments as old men.

Women, by a survey, tend to make healthcare decisions for the family.

Stereotypes exist for a reason. Ignore them at your own peril.