November 27, 2018 by bettyhayden

Marketing Tips and Ideas for Pediatric Dental Offices

Hello Friends,

Are you looking to improve and grow your pediatric dental office? The other day I shared some pediatric office dental practice management tips and ideas to implement once the patients are in the practice, today, I’m sharing some marketing tips and ideas to attract new patients to your office.

Here you go, Dental Marketing Ideas for the Pediatric Office…

Open House Kids Day (In Office) –

Choose a theme: Carnival, BBQ, Luau, Movie/TV/Book Characters, Decades, Sports, etc.
Activities: Face Painting, Balloon Twisting, Hula Hoop Contest, Karaoke, Crafts, Carnival-like games, Photobooth/props, Bounce house, etc. (Depending on if the event is inside or outside the office)
Prize: Have a drawing to win a gift basket, gift card, bicycle, or team up with a local business for a donated prize.
Food: Hot dogs, Chips, Ice Cream/Popsicles, Water, Popcorn, etc.
Advertise: Promote via social media sites, local newspapers, in-office fliers, on continuing care postcards, and emails/texts to your current patients.
Option: Book appointments in hygiene only, this way, you’ll have production for the day and the doctor(s) will be free to visit with guests and still do the exams.
Memories: Take lots of pictures during the event to share on your social media sites, newsletters and media press release.

Host Patient Appreciation Events (Outside of office)

Skating Rink, Indoor Bounce/Trampoline, Movie Theater, Public Pool, Bowling, Local Park, etc. Invite your patients to bring a friend. Be sure to have imprinted give-aways and information about your office at these events. Encourage all attendees to visit and like your social media pages.

Fun Dress Up/Theme Days –

What: Decorate the office, team dresses up, small prize giveaways and snacks.

Theme Ideas: Luau, Superhero, Disney, Western, Carnival, Sports teams, Pajama Day, Silly hats/hair/socks, Etc.(visit party & dollar stores or orientaltrading.com for a ton of theme ideas)

Children’s Dental Health Month –

In-Office –

Charity – Host a Give Kids A Smile Event (See Children’s Dental Health Month and GKAS Day Ideas )

Field Trips – Invite local schools and daycares in for a free field trip to the dentist. Serve a Healthy snack such as grapes, apple slices, string cheese and small bottled water, Present Education stations/demonstrations -visit the ADA website and Pinterest for great ideas for presentations. Toothbrush bags for the students and teachers/parents. Show a short Video while the kids eat their snack.

Outside the office –

What: On-site Short Dental Education Presentations/Demonstrations and Toothbrush gift bags for the kids and teachers/parents.
Where: Schools, Daycares, Library, Mom groups, etc.

Participate in local Family Health & Wellness Fairs –

See Health and Wellness Fairs for some great ideas.

Community Involvement – Visit local farmers market, art/street fairs, Races/Run/Walk for-a-cause, Fundraisers, Parades, Etc. Be active in your community. Have imprinted freebies ready to pass out at these events.

Visit Local Businesses –

Where: Pediatricians, Dental Offices, Children’s stores, Dance studios, Salons, Etc.
What: Introductions, Referral pads/business cards, Small Gifts (Imprinted toothbrushes, flosscards, lip balm, etc.) Food (Bagels, Donuts, Fruit, Pies, etc), Contest/Drawing for Prizes, Lunch-n- Learn, etc. TIP: When visiting general dentist and pediatrician offices, always treat their reception team wonderfully… if your goal is to meet the doctors and get patient referrals, you want/need the front office team (gatekeepers) to like you. 😉
SEE Dental Marketing Ideas for your Local Library
Consider sending a food/drink/ice cream truck to local offices/businesses.

Back-To-School/School Break Visits –

Set aside some back-to-school and/or breaks from school special days in the office. Special pricing or promotions on Sealants, Ortho, Fluoride, Mouthguards, etc. Consider doing a drawing for a Backpack filled with school supplies. Contest: nominate your favorite teacher (use social media sites to promote), prize ideas for winning teacher: Breakfast/Lunch at the school, free teeth whitening, or team up with local businesses for prize donations.

SEE Dental Ideas for Local Schools

Book Drive –

Collect new or gently used books to donate to your local library or schools. Promote via social media sites, local newspapers, in-office fliers, on continuing care postcards and to your current patients.

Incentive: Gift Basket (put together a fun themed gift basket). Every person that donates books can enter a drawing to win a gift basket. You do not need to be a patient of record to donate books.
Once you have collected all the books:
Take pictures of the books
Put together toothbrush gift bags w/office information and special offer to deliver to the employees of the library and or school.
Deliver books and gift bags to the library and or schools.

Host a Candy Buy Back –

For tips and ideas on successfully hosting a candy buy back see: Dental Marketing Ideas for October

Sponsor local sports teams – Offer free or a reduced rate for mouthguards for local sports teams.

Reminder, keep track of your events, the businesses you visit, any donation requests, etc. Put specific referral source codes into your software system, this way, when you ask “How did you hear about us?” you have the correct referral code to enter in and you’ll be able to acknowledge that source with a thank you as well as know what marketing is working to bring in new patients.

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~Betty

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September 21, 2015 by bettyhayden

Dental Marketing Ideas for your local library – Part 2

Hello dental friends,

If your local library is anything like mine, they get a lot of traffic. People of all ages visiting from within the community. So why not start planting some marketing/advertising seeds at the library?

A while back I shared some ideas on how to market to your local library. Today, I have a few more ideas to share with you. ( I will include the ideas from the earlier post at the end of this one. )

Here are some special dates to help you take advantage of this wonderful way to build a relationship with friends of the library:

National Book Month – October

National Friends of Libraries Week – October 15-21

Library Lovers Month – February

School Library Month – April

National Library Workers Day – April 11

Get Caught Reading Month – May

Children’s Book Week – May 1-7

Reading Is Fun Week – May 14-20

New & Gently Used Book Drive:

Collect new or gently used books to donate to your local library.

Invite patients and non-patients to come by the office and donate books. Promote this event via your social media sites, the local newspapers, in-office fliers, on continuing care postcards and to your patients when they come in for their appts.

Incentive: Gift Basket or Gift Card (put together a fun themed gift basket)- Every person that donates books can enter a drawing to win the gift basket or gift card.

Once you have collected all of the books…

Take a picture of the donated books. Put together toothbrush gift bags w/office information and a special offer for library employees to deliver with the books. Send a press release to your local newspaper with pictures about your book drive and the results.

Library Events Calendar – Check your library’s event/programs calendar to see how you can be involved or help promote upcoming events and programs.

Visit the Library – Offer to come in for a dental health presentation/demonstration/science experiment. Similar to what you might do during Children’s Dental Month.

Or offer to have the dentist come in during story-time to read a dental related book or two.

Library Social Media Sites – Be sure to comment on, like and share posts from your library’s social media sites on behalf of your office social media pages.

Here are the idea’s from the post a few months ago…

Bookmarks – Create fun, interesting Bookmarks for your local library that include your office contact information. Deliver these bookmarks as a gift to the library to give away during their programs and events.

Toothbrush bags – Throughout the year the library hosts several events that bring in people of all ages. Why not make up some toothbrush bags for them to hand out at some of these events. Be sure to use imprinted toothbrushes.

Lip Balm – Personalized lip balm is a great give away! It’s inexpensive too. Lip Balm Express is one of my favorite companies.

Pencils – Imprinted pencils that the children can use to fill in their reading logs.

Prizes – During special library events, they may offer little prizes to the children. Why not donate Little Prizes that they can give away to the children. If you get individually wrapped prizes be sure to place a label on them that says Compliments of your office name. If they are not individually wrapped, be sure to add some type of tag to the prize that includes your office contact information.

Act now to get your name in front of all the people in your community that will be visiting your local library.

Some office’s express concern that they just don’t have time to implement any new marketing/advertising ideas. If that’s true with your office, please contact me. I can help! bhaydenconsulting@gmail.com

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Yours for Greater Success,

~Betty

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June 15, 2015 by bettyhayden

Dental Marketing Ideas for your Local Library

Hello Friends,

Here is a quick marketing idea to help bring in new patients to your practice. At the very least it will plant some marketing/advertising seeds.

Many libraries offer summer reading programs/clubs for the children and adults in the community.

What a great opportunity to get your dental office name in front of these people!

Here are just a few inexpensive yet effective ideas that you can use.

Bookmarks – Create fun, interesting Bookmarks for your local library that include your office contact information. Deliver these bookmarks as a gift to the library to give away during their summer reading programs and events.

Toothbrush bags – Throughout the summer the library hosts several events that bring in people of all ages. Why not make up some toothbrush bags for them to hand out at some of these events. Be sure to use imprinted toothbrushes.

Lip Balm – Personalized lip balm is a great give away! It’s inexpensive too. Lip Balm Express is one of my favorite companies.

Pencils – Imprinted pencils that the children can use to fill in their reading logs.

Prizes – During the reading program at our library, they offer little prizes to the children after they complete so many minutes of reading. Why not donate Little Prizes that they can give away to the children. If you get individually wrapped prizes be sure to place a label on them that says Compliments of your office name. If they are not individually wrapped, be sure to add some type of tag to the prize that includes your office contact information.

Visit the Library – Offer to come in for a dental health presentation/demonstration/experiment. Similar to what you might do during Children’s Dental Health Month.

Act now to get your name in front of all the people in your community that will be visiting your local library.

See Marketing to your local library part 2 for more ideas: Part 2

Some offices express concern that they just don’t have time to implement any new marketing/advertising ideas. If that’s true with your office, please contact me. I can help! bhaydenconsulting@gmail.com

If you have any dental marketing questions that I can help you answer, please comment below.

Don’t miss out on any of the ideas that I share each month! Are you receiving my complimentary Practice Management and Marketing Ideas in your inbox each month? If not, please start following us today. If you prefer, send me your email address and I will send you an invitation to follow my blog.

Feel free to tell your dental friends all about us so they can start benefiting from these dental ideas too. Thank you!

Yours for Greater Success,
~Betty

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