1. Are you Plugged In?
Marketing Your Practice with 21st Century Strategies
2. The percentage of consumers who
are using some sort of online
media to research local products
and services.
97
*User View Wave VII, BIA/Kelsey, 2010
3. Your Website is Your Most
Important Marketing Tool
How do I make the most of it?
• Attract Visits
• Not Largely the Website’s Responsibility
• SEO: Most Important Factor
• Retain Visitors
• Maximize Time Spent on Site
• Maximize Content Views
• Convert Customers
• Capture Information
• Attract Return Visits
• Measure
4. The percentage of people who
use search engines to find
information about products and
services on a monthly basis.
92
*Search and email still top the list of most popular online activities, Pew Research Center, 2011
5. The Secret to Search Engines
What Do Search Engines Want? Money!
How Do They Get It?
• Give search users GREAT search and ad results
(relevant, valuable, fast, usable)
• Attract return search users
• Give return search users GREAT search and ad results
• Search users click ads & search engine gets paid
$59+ Billion/Year Globally (Google Only)
• Repeat, repeat, repeat
• When was the last time you used Google?
6. The Secret to Search Engines
A Great Search Result Dissected
• Relevant to the Search Query
• Contains Lots of Mixed Content
• Text Content Is Easy to Read
• Loads Quickly
• Is Up-To-Date
• Is Mobile Friendly
• Has Clean Code
• Is Popular on the Web
• Is Popular in Social Media
7. The percentage clicks that go
to the top five results on a
SERP (Search Engine Results
Page).
65
*Google Organic CTR Study 2014, Advanced Web Rankings
8. The percentage of Internet users
who click on the first unpaid result
on a SERP.
53
*Seeing Between the Lines...of the Search and the Click, Compete.com
9. Elements of Successful SEO
• Content
• Titles/Descriptions
• Paragraph Text
• Multimedia
• Word Length
• Page Count
• Links
• Inbound
• Outbound
• Internal
• Social Relevance
• Mobile Compatibility
10. Other Ways to Attract Visitors
• Local Listings
• Ensure Accuracy
• Get Reviews
• Paid Search Ads
• Hyper-Targeted Facebook Ads
• Display Ads
• Video Ads (YouTube Preroll)
• Press Relations
11. Elements of an Effective Retention Strategy
• Clear Value Proposition
• Clean Design (Not Too Much Clutter)
• Representative Images (Ideally of People)
• Video
Retaining Your Visitors
12. The percentage of conversions
a typical website receives.
1-3
SteelHouse
13. Conversion Optimization (CRO)
Whywould you
invest so much time
and so many resources
into driving traffic to a
website that is not
optimized to turn more
visitors into customers?
15. Elements of Successful CRO
• Features & Benefits Marketing Language
• Trust Factors (Reviews, Guarantees, Trustmarks)
• Strong Call to Action
• Measuring Tools
• A Plan!
Conversion Optimization
17. Ways to Turn Anonymous Visitors into Marketing
Prospects
• Contests
• Free Resources
• Ebooks
• Whitepapers
• Videos
• Webinars
• Newsletter Sign Up
Information Capture
18. How to Get People to Come Back Again and Again
• Be a Resource
• Consider Using a Client Portal
• Utilize Social Media
• Share Website Content
• Send Email
• Newsletters
• Promotions
• Event Invites
• Purchase Retargeting Ads
• Visual Web Ads
• Visual Facebook Ads
Attracting Return Visits
x
19. Why to Use It. How to Use It.
• Traffic Tool
• Listening Tool
• Relationship Tool
• Public Relations Tool
• A Window Into Your Company’s Culture
How Social Media Fits In