Creating a Successful Medical
Marketing Agency from Scratch
Are you a skilled marketer looking to start your own medical marketing agency? Well, you’re in the right place.
A medical marketing agency helps in converting prospects into customers and generating more income for your practice. Even though many people want to start a marketing agency, they don’t know where to begin.
This article will discuss 11 ways of starting and growing your medical marketing agency from scratch.
Choose Your Niche
You must know your target niche. There are a lot of options to choose from in the medical field. You may decide to work with dentists, medical suppliers, doctors, hospitals, medical spas, telemedicine, etc.
Identifying a niche helps you focus and direct all your efforts into that niche. It also reduces the time you spend looking for clients because you know where to start.
Focus on Social Media
Once you have identified your niche, social media is an excellent place to get more sales and drive traffic to your page. You should optimize your social media pages to be lucrative and engaging. Also, edit your content regularly to make your posts relevant.
You can use social media to target potential clients in your niche. Look for the little things your clients are missing and exploit that niche.
Social media is also a good way to know about your competition. You can track them via their newsfeed to know what they are doing to grow their agency.
Grow Your Clients List from Within
Why did you decide to start a medical marketing agency? The answer is probably to attract more clients. Why not use your previous clients to win more clients for your agency? Request some of your best clients to make written or video testimonials for you.
Secondly, use your friends and family and referrals. The trick here is to do good work for your current clients.
Additionally, try to solve your target clients’ problems even before they hire you. The way to this is simple, identify a bugging problem that your potential clients’ company or business has and offer a solution. This increases your chances of getting hired. You can also create a name for your agency by volunteering or charging less than expected.
Create Packages
Got your clients? Well, and good. Now create different packages for the various clients you have. Each package should contain certain products or services at a specific price. Some clients may prefer limited packages while other regular packages. The benefit of this is that you can accommodate each client’s needs.
These packages should also include offers and discounts for different clients.
Track Results
All clients want to see actual good feedback from your agency. Track the results of your marketing to get the real statistics and derive feedback from the results. Tracking helps your agency draft new marketing strategies according to results.
For example, PracticeBloom uses its results for retargeting potential customers for your website.
Add Stories
Don’t be a boring agency; use stories to engage your customers. Everybody loves a good story. Stories make business more interesting. Don’t major on the same old traditional tactics of pushing sales, have fun, and add compelling stories or narrate the daily happenings in your life.
Stories in an agency may come from different areas. For example, behind the scenes, your journey before the agency, client’s testimonial, and many more.
This method is helpful and makes a client want to interact with your agency.
Hire More Staff
Every agency needs to be running smoothly. Hire more staff to ease your workload and people who can monitor the agency even when you’re not present. This converts the time you do in managerial duties to problem-solving duties.
You should also have an accountant to manage finance in the agency.
Start Small
As a startup agency, be willing and ready to start small. Don’t put a lot of pressure on yourself. Yes, every agency’s goal is to grow, but be patient and take your time.
Take your time, especially when it comes to hiring staff, don’t rush to do so. When you rush through the hiring process, you may have many unproductive staff who will negatively impact your agency. Get a small group of staff that is highly productive and grow slowly.
Gather Enough Content
Before building a website, make sure you have enough content to put in it. How do you get the content for your website? You can use your past experiences to build evergreen content (relevant content), start a blog, write FAQs, etc.
Evergreen content is educational and problem-solving. Consequently, evergreen content channels the correct flow into your website and has a high potential for conversion.
The secret of having evergreen content is continually updating your information.
Be Consistent
For an agency to grow, it needs to be consistent. Consistency refers to offering high-quality services. It’s similar to having a reliable process in place. One way to build strong solid processes and maintain consistency is through specialization.
This involves workers knowing what to do and how to do it. Workers need to have a simple formula to make things work. When workers use a different process to handle clients, it will create confusion in the organization. Inevitably, this will produce different results every time.
The main aim of being consistent is to:
- Increase customer satisfaction
- Allow you to step away from the business
- Make it easier to sell
Channel Partners
Partners bring in more capital, and they will help you in running your agency. Seek and engage supportive medical companies and partners in starting or executing some projects in your agency. Also, look for web designers to partner with for long term projects.
Partnerships create good bonds and help an agency’s reputation. These are the bonds that will help you grow your agency. Partnerships also help in channeling clients.
Conclusion
The process of having a good medical agency is a dream for many. Achieving the dream is a process that requires a lot of research, patience, and aligning yourself with the right people. Be willing to start small and watch as your agency grows from scratch.