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Helping Search Engines Understand Your Site Better with Schema

Helping Search Engines Understand Your Site Better with Schema
What was discussed?
Quote of the day: “A dream doesn't become reality through magic; it takes sweat, determination and hard work.” - Colin Powell A long time ago, Schema.org brought some of the top search engines in the world together to create a method that would make it easier to identify important information on a website. At a high level, this means that there’s code placed in a certain way on your site that helps the search engines read your site better. By implementing this, search engines can better understand stuff like what your customers think of you, what it is that you do, what kind of payment you accept, and more. If you’ve ever typed in a movie that you wanted to see, and there are times listed down in the search results, that’s Schema! If you’ve Googled a business and are shown stars by a listing (like a review of something), that’s also Schema.
How can you use Schema?
The first thing you should do is to make sure that you’re marking up your Schema with your local business information. You’ll want to make sure that you include that markup on your site. This will identify what your site is whenever you show up in the search engines. Add the ‘Same As property’ to your site as well. If you don’t already know this (and you probably do), citations are a large part of SEO. When you create citations, search engines might have a difficult time associating that citation with your site and some other properties that you might have. The ‘Same As’ Schema makes this process a lot easier. This code tells the search engines that the business on your website is the same business as the one on your Facebook, Yelp, and Google My Business page. It tells them definitively that those sites are your property and that they’re all the same business. It helps search engines to better associate these relationships between the sites. Schema will help you show up better in the search engines (visually), and you can help the search engines understand your business much better. It’s definitely recommended that you pick up Schema as very few companies use it, and it can make a big difference! For more information on Schema, check out the following links: Schema.org Generator For SEO (Microdata Generator) Schema Creator (Wordpress Plugin) Why Your Local Business Schema Sucks and How To Make it Better (WhiteSpark Article) If you need assistance with setting up Schema, contact us today so we can see if we're a good fit for each other. Be sure to follow us on Twitter @TitanWebAgency if you enjoyed this podcast!
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The Dirty Truth About SEO Companies

The Dirty Truth About SEO Companies
What was discussed?
Quote of the day: “If you try and lose then it isn't your fault. But if you don't try and we lose, then it's all your fault.” - Orson Scott Card Searching for a new SEO company? Here are some scummy SEO tactics that you should look out for:
Using Old Techniques
If companies are talking to you about getting lots of forum links, mentioning how they’ll create web 2.0s, or if they start talking about spinning content – don’t continue the conversation. These are outdated techniques that aren’t in practice anymore. They can also cause your search engine rank to drop significantly.
Not Optimizing Your Site
If they don’t mention on-page SEO, run the other way! Optimizing your on-page SEO can significantly increase your search engine rankings. Often, a bad SEO company won’t even look at this even though it’s one of the first things that you should do.
Using Sales Tactics
If they’re using sales tactics that revolve around pressuring you into a decision, they’re most likely not a great fit. Sales tactics like this involve telling you that there’s only one spot left, pressuring you into buying their product, telling you they can only take on one more client, or lowering the price even more after you’ve rejected them. If they lower the price and use these tactics just to try and close you, how much effort will they put forth on your campaign? Ask yourself where you think their priorities lie.
Not Asking for Access
You have to trust your SEO companies to give them these logins, but your SEO company should be asking for logins or access to these sites. If they don’t ask for this information, they won’t have the information necessary to work on your campaign and are most likely using outdated tactics. There’s a lot of valuable information on Google Analytics, Google Webmaster Tools, Google My Business, and Google Adwords (along with any other sites that you use in reference to your site) that SEO companies need access to make adjustments. If they don’t mention any of the above, steer clear.
Saying You Need a New Site
If they tell you that you have to build a new website and it’s going to cost X amount of money, don’t just do it. Seriously consider why you would need a new website, and be sure to ask pointed questions to get this information out of them. Often, you won’t need to build a new website. If they don’t have a good reason for why you should build a new website, you should probably avoid them. If your website is properly optimized, you most likely don’t need to build a new website. If you have an older website that’s not properly optimized, you can consider it, but definitely, look into it. If they’re just trying to get you to build a new website so they can get paid more, it’s probably time to find a new vendor. Head to http://titanwebagency.com/seo and pick up our free report that talks about some of these tricks and others that SEO companies will try to pull. It’ll educate you on what to look for and what to ask so you can ensure that you’re hiring the best business to reach your goals. If you need assistance with finding the right SEO company for your needs, contact us today so we can see if we're a good fit for each other. Be sure to follow us on Twitter @TitanWebAgency if you enjoyed this podcast!
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What is Call Tracking? How Can it Help Your Business?

What is Call Tracking? How Can it Help Your Business?
What was discussed?
Quote of the day: “The difference between ordinary and extraordinary, is that little extra!” – Jimmy Johnson
What is it?
Call tracking is using software as a way to track the phone calls that come in. Sometimes this software can also record the calls that come in (if it’s legal and available in your area). For example, it’s useful when you want to get an excellent grasp on how many calls and potential patients that you’re generating from your postcards or other specific marketing efforts.
How do you use it?
You create a call tracking number through whichever service you choose, and you assign it to the campaign. You put the number on the postcard and each time someone calls that number, it’s forwarded to your main line. You can have a whisper tone before the caller is on the line that notifies you of the lead. You can then record exactly how many calls you get from these specific numbers. If you do this over time, you’ll be able to understand exactly how much revenue you got from the campaign and compare that to how much you spent on it. You can also use call tracking for online methods of tracking. For example, you can use it for email marketing campaigns, SEO services, and more! Whenever someone visits your website through one of those avenues, they’ll see a unique phone number.
What are the benefits?
One of the best ways to implement this is by using Dynamic Call Tracking. The phone number on your website is the same that you usually use, but when someone visits your site from a Google Adwords click or a regular search in Google, they’ll see a different number based on how they got to your site. This is recommended because we know that Google thinks it’s important that businesses have a consistent name, address and phone number (NAP). If you have a bunch of different numbers on your site, then Google can’t trust the information on your site. Dynamic Number Insertion eliminates all of those issues, which is why it’s highly recommended. You can also record form submissions to get a better picture of where your potential clients are coming from. Call tracking is useful instead of just putting out $2000 a month for marketing and not understanding if specific marketing expenditures are achieving an actual return on your investment. You want to ensure you’re maximizing every single dollar when you’re spending on marketing, and understanding how effective your campaigns are is a huge part of that. This effort can also help you in identifying holes in your marketing campaigns by showing which methods are most effective and which methods aren’t. It offers you insight that you otherwise wouldn’t get.
Check out WhatConverts, CallRail, and CallFire for call tracking.If you need assistance with setting up call tracking for your marketing campaigns, contact us today so we can see if we're a good fit for each other. Be sure to follow us on Twitter @TitanWebAgency if you enjoyed this podcast!
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How to Effectively Market Your Drug Rehab Facility

How to Effectively Market Your Drug Rehab Facility
What was discussed?
Quote of the day: “Genius is 1% inspiration, 99% perspiration.” – Thomas Edison The lifetime value of one new patient can be worth tens of thousands of dollars. It’s important to consistently attract new clients or patients and be able to retain them. The drug rehab industry is a 35 billion dollar industry, with more than 14,000 facilities in the US. It is expected that behavioral disorder counselor employment will grow by 35% over the next 10 years. This is a great opportunity for you to entrench yourself as a leader in your market or niche because the need for rehab services is growing. Here are a few concepts on how to effectively market your drug rehab facility:
1. Brand Your Rehab Center
You should be known for something unique. Develop a unique selling proposition that is evident in your different marketing efforts. Communicate your unique selling proposition in all of your marketing and have it be a primary focus of your marketing. The goal of this is to be the go-to facility for whatever need that you’re filling.
2. Avoid Shady SEO
Make sure that you’re not buying SEO from a cheap vendor or from someone that isn’t up to date on the current practices in SEO. Falling for cheap SEO can ruin your online reputation and make it difficult to recover. Be sure to pick up our free report on what to look for when hiring your SEO company.
3. Start a Blog
Blogging is a great way for you to connect with your target audience and for you to be discovered more in the search engines. Write in a conversational and friendly tone, host the blog on your site, and use different keywords as appropriate. Back up your ideas with data and statistics from reputable sources. Write about real people and topics and share how your company has been able to help people struggling with addiction. You can always outsource your work but make absolutely sure that you know and trust your writers. Make sure they’re writing things that are in line with your beliefs, your values, and your vision. Don’t forget to share these blog posts on social media!
4. Convert Your Visitors
Your website is the first impression that most people have of you. Ensure that it loads fast, properly portrays who you are and what you do. Make sure your unique selling proposition is on your site and include photos and testimonials of your current clients. Your visitors should not have to think through a difficult design so be sure to hire professionals who understand a good user experience.
5. Use Social Media
Social media is a great way to build your name up and strengthen your online presence. Try posting motivational quotes that will have a positive influence on your current clients and prospective visitors.
6. Use Local SEO Alongside Community Outreach
Actively participate in your community and online to create a connection between the two. Spread the message that addiction is a disease and that these people need help. This will help to improve your reach and will prompt more people to search for you. This creates a mutually beneficial relationship between you, your community, and other professionals.
7. Updated Google My Business
Make sure your Google My Business page and all of your directories are clear, consistent, and correct. You want to ensure that your visitors can trust that the information they see online is current and correct. Use the same phone number, address, and website across all directories. This allows the search engines to trust that the information is correct and ensures that accurate information is displayed in searches. Search engines don’t want to publish something if it conflicts with the proper information. If you need assistance with choosing a reputable and efficient SEO company, be sure to check out our free report or contact us today so we can see if we're a good fit for each other. Be sure to follow us on Twitter @TitanWebAgency if you enjoyed this podcast!
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How a Drug Rehab Center Can Use Content Marketing to Get More New Patients

How a Drug Rehab Center Can Use Content Marketing to Get More New Patients
What was discussed?
Quote of the day: “Don’t wish it were easier, wish you were better.” – Jim Rohn
1. Identify Your Ideal Patient
You need to know who you want to come into your rehab center. This includes: who will make you the most money? Who is the easiest to work with? Who has the best chance of success? Who is the least amount of work for you? You need to develop and understand this data as your facility grows. Keep statistics on this type of stuff by checking patient records and patient management software. Identify your ideal patient and who you want to build your business with.
2. Consider the Buyer’s Journey
When we’re searching for something online, we become aware that there’s an issue and a potential problem that needs to be solved. Next, we consider a potential solution to that problem. Third, we make a decision. We do more research and find out a good fix for the problem that we have. During the first step, when someone becomes aware of an issue and is looking for a solution, they might find your website. Your website needs to have a lot of useful information to answer the many questions they might have. The information needs to include success stories, educational information, facts about rehab facilities, facts about success rate, and more. When they’re searching through rehab centers, they’re narrowing down which center they’re going to choose for their rehabilitation experience. You need to provide value for them in this stage. When they’re in the decision stage, be prepared to have customer testimonials, perhaps an onboarding process, and everything they’ll need if they choose to use your facility.
3. Focus on Your Audience
Understand that content marketing is about your audience, not about you. Often times a company’s idea of content marketing is a weekly post promoting their services. You’re not going to do this! You’re going to develop content that’s relevant to your audience. Figure out what types of topics are appropriate for your ideal obvious. Here’s a list to get you started: 1. Talk about the services you offer. 2. What does each service treatment entail? 3. Do you specialize in a specific treatment? 4. Do you cater to a special industry? 5. Is there anything family members want to understand? For example, what to watch out for or how to help someone in recovery. 6. Provide drug information. 7. Provide first hand experiences to help those who are considering heading to rehab. 8. Post the latest news in your industry. 9. Answer questions. The big 5 include: the cost or price, problems or things to be aware of, comparison, reviews, and best-of awards.
4. Decide the Type of Content You’ll Produce
Blog posts, e-books, podcasts, photos, infographics, videos, powerpoints, and so much more. Know who your ideal patient is so that you can communicate with them in a way that suits them.
5. Create a Content Schedule
If you can map out when you’ll create content, it makes the process a lot easier. Work with your online marketing company or create a team and assign some responsibilities. Figure out if someone in-house or outsourced will create the content for you. Have someone that’s just in charge of social media and promoting the content. This will remove a lot of headaches and frustration from the marketing process. Decide on the frequency of your posts and content. Generally, it’s good to post a couple times a month at a minimum. Consider national and local events, such as The National Alcohol and Drug Addiction month is a great way to produce meaningful content. You can use this to post content for not just your blog but also post guest posts on other people’s sites! For more information on how to create a Content Calendar, check out this blog post on Buffer.
6. Promote Your Content
No matter how beautiful, amazing, and attractive your content is – it doesn’t matter if no one is seeing it. Keep an email list, update through social media using tools such as Buffer or Hootsuite, and provide value. You want to provide value for your visitors and make sure that you’re not spamming social media with updates. Use third-party sites like Medium or LinkedIn to get some more exposure.
7. Measure Your Return
Are you tracking the amount of traffic that your content is generating? If you have a call to action, add it to the end of the posts and direct people to where you’d like them to go. Use the calls to action to create unique URLs to see which calls to action are getting the most clicks. This is easily done with Google Analytics, which lets you use their URL builder to track where traffic is coming from. Google Analytics also lets you see where your referrals are. If you’re using marketing software such as Act-On, ActiveCampaign, and HubSpot, make sure you’re getting the most out of it!
8. Use Retargeting
Retargeting is when someone visits your site and leaves your site, they’ll see your ad on other sites they visit. Retargeting for drug rehab centers is difficult since it’s not always allowed by certain ad platforms (like Google Adwords). You might have to do some workarounds to get it approved. The reason for this is because if people are looking for a confidential service such as a drug rehab center, then they don’t want ads for it popping up on other pages they visit. If you need assistance with using effective content marketing, contact us today so we can see if we're a good fit for each other. Be sure to follow us on Twitter @TitanWebAgency if you enjoyed this podcast!
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How to Help Potential & Existing Patients Understand the Value of Your Practice

How to Help Potential & Existing Patients Understand the Value of Your Practice
What was discussed?
Quote of the day: “Once you have commitment, you need the discipline and hard work to get you there.” - Haile Gebrselassie
1. Use Your Waiting Room
Try using your waiting room as a way to differentiate your office. If you want to create a luxury atmosphere, consider some massage chairs and flatscreen TVs. If you have a sports centered community, transform your waiting room into a sports centered area. An example is a pediatric office that had a huge fish tank and a large treehouse for kids to play in while they waited. Put some brochures and newsletters in the waiting room to show some value.
2. Use Target Marketing
Target marketing is when you know exactly who your ideal patient is and you go after them in a way they want to be communicated with. How much more effective is it for your advertisements to be seen by your ideal patient which is, as an example, a 35 year old business owner making 100k a year, who owns a home and has a family versus having your ad seen by everybody in Las Vegas? Cater directly to your ideal patient’s needs and wants.
3. Use Email Marketing
This is a great way to directly target a specific market and a great way to implement marketing campaigns! Email is a great way to remind patients about appointments, but it’s also a great way to keep your name at the front of your patients’ minds. It can be an avenue for you to show that you’re human and that your office cares. If you make it easy for your patients to come in and set up an appointment or you’re able to accommodate their schedules, they’ll remember it and value it.
4. Engage & Market To Your Existing Patients
You should know who your existing patients are and should be able to develop some demographics from them (such as areas of town, things they’re coming in for, etc.) and target that. Use that information to directly market to them. Ask them what’s most important to them and use that information to influence your blog posts and more.
5. Attract Referrals
Build more relationships with other medical professionals. Establish more relationships and get in front of more doctors and more patients. As you do this, your potential patients will see your relationship with a doctor that they might already be comfortable with which will positively influence their decisions. Try sending holiday cards or gifts, providing lunches, sending thank you notes, and other methods to establish more relationships with other medical professionals.
6. Use Internet Marketing
There’s a ton of potential in internet marketing! If you don’t have a digital marketing strategy in place, you’re going to have a hard time in attracting the patients that you want. You need a strong website, strong social media presence, and you should be easily searchable for your potential patients. Online presence might be all that a potential patient knows about you before setting up an appointment. Don’t take it lightly!
7. Always Maintain Positivity
Make sure that the attitude in the office and appearance of the office is positive. Make sure your patients are greeted in a friendly manner and by name. Ensure that the office is clean and has a warm atmosphere. You want your patients to go back home and be wowed by the experience they had in your office. Ideally, you want them to write a glowing review! Positivity in your office will make a difference. If you need assistance with communicating value to your patients, contact us today so we can see if we're a good fit for each other. Be sure to follow us on Twitter @TitanWebAgency if you enjoyed this podcast!
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What You Should Know Before Naming Your Dental Practice

What You Should Know Before Naming Your Dental Practice
What was discussed?
Quote of the day: “Hard work without talent is a shame, but talent without hard work is a tragedy.” – Robert Hall
1. Consider Any Potential Legal Issues
Search in the US Patent & Trademark Office Website before deciding on a name. This is a really important step as you don’t want to be deep in the process of your rebranding efforts only to find out that someone else has already laid claim to your name. Another way to search is just by doing a Google Search! Searching for your perfect name in Google can often reveal that what you initially thought was a perfect name might be associated with some really negative stuff online.
2. Consider Having Your Own Name
A lot of doctors and dentists do this and it’s perfectly fine but is definitely something you should think about. If it’s a smaller community, having the practice named after you can often be a good step. However, if you plan on selling the practice one day it might detract from the value as the buyer will have to put a lot of time and money into rebranding the practice.
3. Try a Catchy Approach
Many dentists incorporate teeth or smiles in their names which is considered a catchy approach. If you’re considering a catchy approach, make sure that it’s different from others in the area. This can be difficult due to how common this approach is these days. Sometimes you might end up realizing that what you had in mind might not be possible when considering your competition and setting yourself apart.
4. Consider a ‘This Is What We Do’ Approach
It could be something to the effect of “Evergreen Smiles & Cosmetic Dentistry” which tells a little bit more about what you do. It’s descriptive and doesn’t force people to think about what you do. You want to make it as easy as possible for people to know what your practice is about.
5. Take the Location Approach
Try something that has the name of your city or area of town to localize your practice. It has some benefit as far as search engines go, but don’t base your decision off of that alone. If you have a landmark or park nearby, you can decide to incorporate that into your name. A few more things to consider: is the name meaningful? Does it emit positive and warm feelings? Is the domain available? What kind of a logo can I do with this? Will I need a tagline? Is it hard to pronounce or remember? What’s the image portrayed in people’s minds when they think of this? Do I want to attract families and children? Most importantly, is the name going to appeal to your patients? Will they remember it and will it be associated with good feelings? For more information on naming your dental practice, check out our blog post. If you need assistance with rebranding your practice or with finding the perfect name, contact us today so we can see if we're a good fit for each other. Be sure to follow us on Twitter @TitanWebAgency if you enjoyed this podcast!
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6 Landing Page Mistakes You Don’t Want to Make

6 Landing Page Mistakes You Don’t Want to Make
What was discussed?
Quote of the day: “You learn the value of hard work by working hard.” With Google Adwords, you want to send someone to a landing page rather than your homepage. The landing page is a page you’ve created specifically for the ad campaign that you’re running. Conversions are much higher when people are sent to the landing page that was ad-specific versus when people are sent to home pages that aren’t relevant to the ad campaign they were brought in by. Landing pages are valuable tools that anyone who is running a PPC (Pay Per Click) campaign should use.
1. Aren’t Testing Them
You should create a couple different (but similar) versions of landing pages and test out their effectiveness. For examples of small differences, try changing things like the length of the opt-in form, change the fields they have to answer before continuing, and so on. Other tests include the color of submit buttons, background images, page layout, and where you present your information. Google Analytics is great for testing landing pages and gauging how effective your different versions are. A service you could use to test different versions of your landing pages is Optimizely.
2. Stopping After One Test
You shouldn’t stop testing after you have a single successful page. Once you’ve established a winner that works better than your other versions, try improving on that winning version. If you assume that the version that performs better than the other ones is the best that it can be, you’re not doing yourself any favors and are missing out on potential improvements!
3. Only Testing The Obvious
Different headlines, offers, and call to actions are obvious changes. You can test completely different layouts of pages (perhaps one that doesn’t look anywhere near to what the control version looks like) and you might be surprised at the results! Test completely different designs, content, color schemes, and field forms and see what works best.
4. Not Using Analytics
Your measure of testing the landing pages is flawed. If you’re basing success on single factors, you aren’t getting the big picture. For example, if you’re using a tracking number on one of your landing page versions and it’s getting tons of phone calls, you might assume that that page is a clear winner. However, if you’re not using analytics, you could be missing out on other wins on that page or different pages. Maybe people are responding positively to the content on the page, maybe they’re staying on the page for longer than other pages or are rapidly clicking to other pages and are calling you from those pages. Make sure you’re using analytics software to ensure you’re getting the full report.
5. Test Isn’t Long Enough
You need to have more traffic than just a hundred visitors to determine whether or not a landing page is effective. A good number to shoot for is 1,000 visitors or more before coming to a conclusion. You need to test your pages for a long enough to be able to say that your results are statistically significant.
6. Comparing Traffic From Different Sources
You’re saying Landing Page A is the loser and Landing Page B is the winner but Landing Page A is all organic traffic and Landing Page B is all paid traffic or referral traffic from Facebook. Those are two completely different audiences and the conclusion that you’re coming to isn’t on the same playing field. You’ll want to test these as close to apples to apples as possible. Make sure that the traffic source is the same to ensure that the results aren’t being skewed. If you need assistance with creating effective landing pages or are struggling with your PPC campaigns, contact us today so we can see if we're a good fit for each other. Be sure to follow us on Twitter @TitanWebAgency if you enjoyed this podcast!
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How to Create an Effective Ad for Your Practice

How to Create an Effective Ad for Your Practice
What was discussed?
Quote of the day: “There are no shortcuts to places worth going.” – Beverly Sills
1. Social Proof
Every ad that you have should have some type of testimonial that is relevant to the service that you’re offering. You don’t want to spend money on marketing without social proof that shows that you’ve done what you’re advertising and that people are happy with the results. If you don’t have a testimonial, go out and get one!
2. Use Clean Design with Whitespace
You don’t want to have a cluttered design and be the person that tries to fit every single service, testimonial, and offer on your ad. If it’s a postcard or a money mailer, make it clean. In most situations, less is more. Generally, the more cluttered the ad, the less likely people are to read them.
3. Use Benefit-driven Copy
This lets people understand the benefit that they’re going to get from working with you. You’ll want to portray what services you’ll provide, but you want to show them the benefit that they’ll get personally. If they can imagine how their life will improve from working with you, the ad will be much more effective.
4. Easy to Understand Offers
Every ad that you have (digital or print) should have some type of offer. They should include some kind of obvious special that people don’t have to look for.
5. Test Multiple Offers vs. One Offer
Find out which method works best in your market. Develop different ads with multiple offers and ads with a single offer and test which one works best.
6. Have Photos of Patients
If you can include photos of actual patients (with their permission), your audience will have an easier time imagining themselves in the same position which will increase the success of your campaign.
7. Review the Headline
Make sure your headline is compelling and isn’t just basic and generic. The headline needs to attract people towards the rest of your ad and should generate an interest in your business.
8. Tracking Phone Number
This is crucial to monitor the success of the campaign. The phone number should be unique to the ad that you’re sending out. Later, you can use that phone number to track the ROI of the campaign. From there, you can see how many calls you’re getting and the overall success of the campaign.
9. Have a Deadline
You need to include a deadline so that people have a compelling reason to call you. This has been proven time and time again. If people have a certain time to get something done by, they’ll be more likely to call. You can help them by including the deadline on the ad in many different ways. Examples would include “Offer expires on the 31st of this month!” or “Offer valid for the first 21 patients!”. If you need assistance with developing a great ad or an effective ad campaign, contact us today so we can see if we're a good fit for each other. Be sure to follow us on Twitter @TitanWebAgency if you enjoyed this podcast!
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Standing Out in a Crowded Market

Standing Out in a Crowded Market
What was discussed?
Quote of the day: “Hard work helps.”
How does a business differentiate itself & get customers to choose them over the competitors?
You don’t want to be the cheap alternative, the low-cost provider, or the place that people go simply because it’ll cost them less. That’s not the ideal way to build your brand or the financial stability that you want to build. You need to stand out, which you can do in a bunch of different ways. One of the most important things to have is a Unique Selling Proposition (USP). You can develop this proposition in a lot of different ways, but you do need to develop one. For example, you can be the fun dentist in the area that has video games in the office and provides a fun environment for patients. You can do this by speaking in the community, at conventions, or writing a book. You can volunteer and are known as the business that volunteers in the community, which is a great way to set yourself apart. The best way to develop your USP is to be somebody and be somewhere. The people that make the most money in your market aren’t necessarily the most skilled. They’re not being paid the most just because of their skill. They’re being paid for who they are and the reputation they’ve built.
How do you apply this to the local market level?
Business owners who can apply this to their business are able to be extremely successful. For example, one dentist regularly travels to third-world countries to perform dental surgery on patients who would otherwise not have access to it. This gets him coverage on local news stations and papers and gives the community an insight into his work and his practice. He’s developed a relationship with the press that allows him to get on local news when he needs to. If you can be the person that the press goes to whenever they need a dentist or doctor’s perspective, you’ll have developed a way to stand out. The dentist who has great brand exposure, brand recognition, and has a great community presence will succeed in gaining new business. Think of the thing that you do that can help you stand out in your market. It doesn’t have to be traveling to third-world countries, but it should be unique! Have a specialty and be known for what you do. If you need assistance with understanding metrics, contact us today so we can see if we’re a good fit for each other. Be sure to follow us on Twitter @TitanWebAgency if you enjoyed this podcast!
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