Saturday, November 29, 2008

Free Chiropractic Marketing Alert

By Matthew Loop, DC

It's only been a few years since I introduced Web 2.0 to chiropractors and showed them how social media could revolutionize the way their businesses market themselves. It's hard to believe it's only been three years, because Web 2.0 has already exponentially grown in this short time. And I thought it was impressive before! I started by marketing on MySpace, YouTube, and Facebook, and from there I've expanded all over the web. Web 2.0 has spread like a wildfire, and still does with every passing moment. Even as I sit here, my wealth increases with the power of social media, which never stops working. People are learning to not only expand their chiropractic practices, but also create multiple streams of income.

There was once a time when chiropractors paid ungodly amounts of money on marketing and advertising. Actually, chiropractors are still doing that. But the difference is that those tactics do not work in this age. In fact, they're a huge waste of money and chiropractors are suffering because of it. When you step into the present and embrace the methods that are working today, you're giving your practice a chance to survive and even thrive in these difficult times.

Even though times are really rough, there are people out there who are making phenomenal amounts of money, because they know where to do it! The internet and Web 2.0 are the goldmine at the end of the rainbow, and so few people in the chiropractic business are even looking there for it! Are you going to try, or stay behind in the rain?

Below is a quick-list of a few sites that I readily frequent (and I highly recommend you do as well) in my Web 2.0 marketing endeavors for my chiropractic practice and the other streams of revenue that continue to flow. Begin at YouTube.com, Digg.com, Squidoo.com, EzineArticles.com, StumbleUpon.com, Facebook.com, Twitter.com, Myspace.com, Free-Press-Release.com, Wordpress.com, Photobucket.com, Furl.com, and eHow.com.

There are greater than two-hundred websites that are empty canvases for your marketing masterpiece. For the sake of example, I only named a few. If you really want to tap into the full power of it, you need someone who is knowledgeable in all of these sites, and the specific tactics for how to milk them. The good news is, you don't need to do it alone. Your profession and skill is at being a chiropractor, so you need to find someone who can expertly do these things for you, and teach you along the way.

Even the incredible time saving and leveraged-based tools I use and recommend can be easily shown to a CA or marketing director for use. The most important thing is to be coachable, as this may be a new language to many chiropractic marketing newbies and veterans.

There are even ways to monetize your existing chiropractic practice online with Web 2.0 social media. I can't even begin to tell you how great it feels to wake-up in the morning with consistently more money in my bank account without doing any work. Sometimes I think that I'm dreaming but this is a reality, not just for myself, but for many other chiropractors that are hitting it hard with social media.

When you set-up other ways of accruing passive income while you're marketing your chiropractic firm, you are making your business recession-proof. To achieve this you have to be innovative and think out of the box that chiropractor consultants still think inside of.

Concentrate on providing a large amount of value to your existing and potential patients on the web. This medium allows you to put yourself in front of a local and global audience eager to hear what you have to say. Don't fret, you are an expert in your own right. Trust me, you have plenty to talk about even though you might not see it yet. You could take a specific aspect of your chiropractic practice (nutrition, personal injury, back-pain, etc...) and develop a YouTube video channel around it with a series of weekly videos, as an example.

Be creative and you will find this new, powerful virtual world will bring you boatloads of new patients, build social proof, and allow you to generate multiple streams of residual income.

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