Viable Strategies In Chiropractic Marketing
Chiropractic marketing refers to the various steps that are taken by chiropractic practitioners
, or their agents, in a bid to improve their (the chiropractic practitioners') revenues, and by extension, profits. The chiropractic practitioners in question, by the way, are health professionals who specialize in the prevention and treatment of the problems that emanate from that which is referred to as the musculoskeletal system. The musculoskeletal system is, in turn, the bodily system that enables us, through the coordinated effort of both the muscles and bones (the skeleton), to move about. The coordinative center of this system is the spine, and that is where most of the chiropractic practitioner's work revolves.
Chiropractic practitioners are therefore viewed as medical practitioners, meaning that the principles and challenges of medical marketing apply to chiropractic marketing as well.
Chiropractic marketing has two major dimensions. The first is where it involves the marketing of various chiropractic equipment to the chiropractic practitioners and their patients. The second is where it involves the marketing of the actual chiropractic practitioner services to potential clients. We may pause here for a moment, and take note that there has been debate on whether to classify chiropractic practitioners as being alternative medicine practitioners or as being conventional medicine practitioners. They seem to prefer the latter reference. But were they to be referred to as being alternative medicine practitioners, many of the advertising prohibitions that apply to conventional medicine practitioners wouldn't apply to them.
The particular chiropractic marketing strategies deployed will, naturally, depend on whether one is trying to market chiropractic equipment or chiropractic practitioner services.
One of the strategies employed in marketing chiropractic equipment to practitioners is that of giving them free samples, in the hope that they will use them in their work, like them, and start buying them.
Sometimes, marketers of chiropractic equipment have been known to go to great lengths, to ensure that their products' brands get very deeply etched onto the chiropractic practitioners' minds. Strategies that work in this regard include the gifting of the practitioners with every day use items' bearing the brand names, so that every time the practitioner sees the item in question, the brand gets more deeply etched in his mind. This is an effective strategy, because people have been known to fall in love with stimuli they are repeatedly presented with.
Sometimes, advertising especially in the sorts of journals read by chiropractic practitioners, as well as websites they tend to visit, can be very useful in the marketing of chiropractic equipment. Establishment of a good distribution chain for the products is another marketing strategy that works very well because, when all is said and done, people will only purchase the usable products available to them, regardless of their finer merits and demerits.
With regard to the marketing of chiropractic practitioner services, viable strategies are those that revolve around creation of awareness on what chiropractic practitioners do (which many people don't know). The idea is to make the marketing message speak directly to the needs of the people. Then (as a chiropractic practitioner), you need to show them, towards the end of it all, that you can help them with those needs and that your services are affordable. The latter step is very important, because many people seem to be under the false impression that chiropractic services are beyond their reach. Word of mouth marketing, on account of good quality services rendered, is another marketing strategy that can work wonders in an area like this.
Viable Strategies In Chiropractic Marketing
By: Barbara Davis
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