Dental SEO is the process of optimizing your website for Google search with the goal of ranking higher for relevant keywords and phrases. Whether you are trying to rank for cosmetic dentistry keywords, dental implant keywords, or more general, location based dental keywords, SEO can help you become more visible online. In order to optimize […]
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3 Tips to Increase New Patient Conversions on Your Dental Website
What can your dental practice do to ensure that the visitors on your website turn into conversions? Here are three tips that will make it easier to convert website visitors to new patients.

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Live Chat: A Conversational Marketing Solution for Dentists
Many dental marketing strategies are designed and implemented to improve patient retention, patient satisfaction, and conversion rates. One thing these three metrics/goals have in common is that they measure how engaged your patients are with your dental practice—and there’s no better way to boost patient engagement than using Live Chat.

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10 Reasons Your Dental Practice’s Google Reviews Matter
As more patients make their decisions this way, more dentists position their dental practice to have the reviews needed to capture prospective patients’ attention. With that in mind, we will highlight ten more reasons you need to prioritize getting more Google reviews as part of your dental marketing strategy.

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Top 5 Reasons Patients Choose Their Dentists
Choosing a dentist isn’t easy and it could be down to several factors. From relocation to insurance coverages, patients can decide to stop booking appointments with a dentist for many reasons. But it’s important to know why and how they choose to work with certain dentists more than others.

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How Dental PPC Marketing Attracts Local SEO Traffic
Dental PPC marketing campaigns go hand in hand with Local SEO techniques. Read this article to learn how one informs the other.

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How to Increase the ROI of Your Dental PPC Campaign
Dental PPC campaigns are great for attracting and converting patient leads. Learn how you can improve them and increase your marketing ROI as a result.

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2021 Local SEO Statistics Every Dentist Should Know
Discover ten statistics that emphasize the importance of Local SEO for dentists and learn the stories behind each one of them.

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10 Steps to Improve Your Dental Practice’s Patient Acquisition Strategies
Discover ten steps you can take to boost your dental practice’s patient acquisition strategies and rate.

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6 Google Ads Optimization Tips for Dental Practices
Learn Google Ads Optimization tips to help your dental practice attract and retain more patients in a competitive dental landscape.

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How Live Chatbot Improves Your Dentist-Patient Relationships
With a Live Chatbot, you improve the quality of dentist-patient relationships. Learn more about how this tool can win your patient’s trust and business.

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How Patient Referrals Can Attract More Local Patients to Your Dental Practice
Learn how to gather more patient referrals and leverage them to attract more local patients to your dental practice

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Dental Patient Communication: Live Chat vs. Chatbots
Learn the similarities and differences between Live Chat and Chatbots and discover the best tool you need to improve your dental patient communication.

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Email Marketing Tips for Dental Practices
Emails are great for engaging and retaining your dental patients. Learn tips on how to make your email marketing strategy work for you.

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Website Accessibility: How to Make Your Dental Website More Accessible
Learn all you need to know to improve your dental website accessibility and patient engagement with your web content.

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A Guide to Local SEO for Dental Practices
Learn all you need to know to improve your dental practice’s Local SEO and attract more nearby patients.

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A Guide to Google Maps Local Search Ads for Dentists
Local search ads on Google Maps can get you closer to the patients you need to advertise your dental practice to.

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How to Generate More Patient Leads Through Your Dental Practice’s GMB Profile
Struggling to attract more patient leads to your practice? Try optimizing your dental practice’s Google My Business Profile. Learn tips to do just that.

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Google My Business: How to Boost Your Practice’s Local SEO
Your Google My Business profile is essential. It’s the key to showcasing your dental practice online and improving your Local SEO performance.

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The Benefits of Running Dental GeoTargeting Ads
With dental geotargeting ads, you can target and attract your ideal patients to your dental practice. Learn the benefits of running these PPC ads.

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Dental Marketing 101: Top 20 Local SEO Keywords in 2021
By integrating Local SEO Keywords into your dental marketing strategy, you can attract more prospective patients to your website and practice.

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Dental Marketing 101: How to Boost Conversions on Your Appointment Page
Your dental website’s appointment page is a crucial stage in your patient journey. Learn six steps you need to take to boost conversion on your appointment page.

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Dental Marketing 101: Why Dentists Should Run Remarketing Campaigns
Remarketing campaigns are great for your re-engaging past patients. Learn all you need to know about these dental marketing campaigns.

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Dental Marketing 101: Google Analytics for Dental Practices
Google Analytics is a free tool that helps you understand your patients better. Learn how to set up Google Analytics for your Dental Practice.

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Dental Marketing 101: How to Improve your Dental PPC Campaign
PPC marketing can increase your dental practice’s brand awareness by 80%. Learn 8 tips to help you get the most out of your dental PPC campaign strategy.

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Dental Marketing 101: Reputation Marketing for Dental Practices
Reputation marketing builds your dental practice’s brand perception and enables you to attract more patients leads.

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How Online Reviews Impact Dental Practices: The Statistics
Online reviews impact your dental practice’s patient acquisition and patient leads. Learn how patients use them to decide on their choice of a dentist.

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10 Frequently Asked Questions (FAQs) About Pay-Per-Click (PPC) for Dentists
PPC campaigns are essential for patient lead generation. Learn the fundamentals of running PPC campaigns as we address all your FAQs about PPC for dentists.

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Dental SEO vs. PPC: Which is Better For Your Dental Practice
You will learn how to define these two strategies, which strategy is better suited for your dental practice, and how you can benefit from implementing them, which is better suited for your dental practice.

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20 Tips to Grow Your Dental Practice in 2021
2021 is an opportunity for dentists to continue recovering and growing their dental practice. Use these 20 dental marketing tips to position your dental practice for success in 2021.

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Why Your Dental Practice Should Avoid Review Gating
Review gating is the process of filtering patients’ reviews to funnel only positive reviews for publication on dental review sites. As such, review gating misleads prospective patients by giving them a false impression of the dental practice.

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10 Dental Review Sites Your Patients Visit
Online reviews help dental practices rank higher on Google’s search engine result pages (SERPs) and generate more leads. You must have a system in place that encourages your current patients to share their reviews on the dental review sites that your prospective patients will likely visit.

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10 Tips for Running Paid Ads at Your Dental Practice
In an era of widespread usage of digital services, platforms and devices amongst dental patients, dentists must implement digital marketing strategies to reach their patients exactly where they are. Paid advertisements, or paid ads, are an important aspect of digital marketing that allows dentists to maximize their reach, learn more about their patients, run targeted marketing campaigns and analyze their marketing insights.

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How Content Marketing Strategy Improves Dental SEO
Most dentists aren’t privy to effective dental marketing strategies—much less, content marketing strategies. These strategies aren’t taught in dental schools but they are essential to the sustained growth and productivity of dental practices. With a comprehensive content marketing strategy, you can position your dental practice’s website to be an important resource for current and prospective patients.

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8 Patient Acquisition Strategies for Dentists
8 in 10 Canadians have a dentist and 64% of American adults between the ages of 18 and 64 have at least one dental visit in a year. These statistics show that patients need dentists. That said, several dentists are vying for the attention of these patients.

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20 Tips For Growing Your Dental Practice In 2021
Below are 20 tips to help you and your practice have a successful, profitable 2021. Most of our suggestions don’t require you to spend any money, but rather require you to look back at 2020 and reflect on the good, the bad, and the ugly. Even though 2020 was an exceptionally unusual year, it’s important to ask yourself the following questions…

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Automation Is The Key To A Better Dental Patient Experience
The nature and quality of your patient experience have an impact on your dental practice’s reputation and productivity. If your current patients aren’t satisfied or happy after an appointment with you, chances are they may be unwilling to return and hesitant to recommend your service to prospective patients.

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Your Dental Practice Needs A Mobile-friendly Website
Many dental practices have websites that aren’t optimized for mobile devices. The dentists, who run these practices, are unknowingly losing leads and patients by the day. Even worse, they are being left behind by the rapid changes in digital marketing and consumer behaviours.

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The Top 9 Local Ranking Factors for Dental SEO in 2020
Local SEO has never been more important for dental practices and dental marketers. If you want to give your dental practice the best chance of boosting its brand reputation online and attracting new patients, you have to prioritize your local SEO strategy. In its recently released Local SEO industry report, Moz outlines the top 9 local ranking factors that impact SEO in 2020.

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How Online Reviews Positively Impact Your Dental Practice’s Local SEO
The quantity, frequency and diversity of online reviews shared about your dental practice accounts for 15% of signals that Google’s search engine optimization (SEO) algorithm uses to update its ranking and listings. Your online reviews allow Google to learn more about the service you provide and the value you offer dental patients.

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12 Ways to Improve Your Dental Website
A high-converting and well-curated website should bring you new patients. It should consist of essential design features, effective call-to-actions and industry-specific content that attracts, retains and converts web visitors to active patients. You can get a better ROI for your marketing investment by reviewing, updating and optimizing your dental website from time to time.

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How to Ask Your Patients for Feedback
Patient feedback plays a crucial role in the long term growth and success of a dental practice. It is as simple as this: you can’t get better if you don’t know what you are doing wrong. In the dental industry, your patients are the best indicators of what you are doing wrong – or right.

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Duplicate Content Can Affect Your Dental Practice’s SEO
Duplicate content refers to substantial blocks of text that appear on different pages of one website or different websites. When the same content is linked to different URL domains, it becomes difficult for Google’s search algorithms to establish the origin of the content and this can have adverse effects on the website that originally published the content.

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How Live Chat Improves Your Dentist-Patient Relationship
With developments in social networking and patients communications, dentist-patient relationships have evolved in recent times. Patients – just like everyone else – want to have easier and direct access to their connections and the information they need.

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Dental Economics: How To Sell Your Dental Practice During A Pandemic
In this article, we will discuss common questions dentists have about dental practice sales during the ongoing economic downturn and Coronavirus pandemic. You will also learn about four tips to keep in mind when preparing to sell your dental practice.

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How to Respond to Online Reviews While Maintaining HIPAA Compliance
Regardless of the kind of reviews you receive – positive or negative – a good rule of thumb is to always respond to your reviews online. By responding to a review, you let prospective patients know that you are authentic and able to handle criticism when necessary. The challenge, however, is responding to online reviews while maintaining HIPAA-compliance. In this article we go through some useful tips on maintaining HIPAA-compliance when responding to reviews.

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How to Build an Online Reputation Management Strategy for your Dental Practice
In this article, we will discuss four steps that you should implement as you build an online reputation management strategy for your dental practice.

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Your Dental Practice’s Website Needs Live Chat
In this article, you will learn the benefits of having live chat on your dental practice website. You will also learn why Connect the Doc’s live chat technology is a great option for your practice.

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How to Attract High-Value Patients to Your Dental Practice
In this article, you will learn the five steps you need to take to attract high-value patients to your practice. These are action steps that you can start taking, today. When put in motion, these steps can help your practice attract and retain your ideal patients and guide you to become a better dental service provider.

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How to Manage Your Online Presence During the Recession
The landscape of the dental industry is evolving. The pandemic and recession have forced dental professionals to rethink the way they provide services and operate their dental practices. Although this evolution is still ongoing and there are a lot of changes that we are yet to see, it is important to suit up and have a plan in place to manage your online presence and engagement.

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Dental Economics: How to Prepare Yourself and Your Dental Practice for Retirement
This is the second article in our dental economics series. Over the course of the series, we will discuss the measures dentists can take to manage their wealth and achieve their financial goals. In the first article of the series, we discussed the ways dentists can navigate ongoing recession. That article recommends studying the times and making key decisions for the future – and this is exactly the kind of mindset that is needed as you plan for your retirement savings. In this article, you will learn some of the steps that you can take to start planning for your retirement now or in the future.

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How Dental Practices are Recovering from the Pandemic
In this article you will learn about active measures you can take as a dentist to ensure your dental practice can survive the impact of the pandemic over the next few months.

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20-Point Google My Business Checklist for 2020
As Google continues to improve the features of Google My Business, it is important that you have a process for ensuring your business profile is optimized and updated. Read this article to learn the key items you need to stay on top of when you regularly update your Google My Business profile for your practice.

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Teledentistry Could Help Your Dental Practice Thrive in the Post-Pandemic World
As our world slowly recovers from upsets caused by the ongoing pandemic, dentists must consider their role as contributors to the wellbeing of our society. Dentistry is part of our health care system and the smooth running of dental practices can help keep our communities healthy. As such, it is important that dentists adapt quickly to the times. Teledentistry might just become an essential part of dental services even when the pandemic is long gone.

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5 WordPress Plugins For Your Dental Website
We dive into how WordPress plugins work, why they’re so important for optimizing your content management system (CMS) experience, and which are the must-have WordPress plugins that you should start using for your dental practice today.

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The Definitive Guide to SEO for Dentists
Learn how to put the right strategies in place to increase your dental practice’s chances of being seen online through search engine optimization (SEO).

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Why Dental Practices Should Invest in Paid Ads after a Pandemic
Learn about the value of investing in paid ads following a pandemic as well as become familiar with current Google Trends and dental-specific keywords that could be applicable to your marketing strategies.

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What are the Factors Google Uses to Rank a Dental Website #1?
In this article, you will learn some of the top criteria or ranking factors Google uses to rank websites. By considering and applying these ranking factors to your online marketing strategies, you will be giving your dental practice’s website the best chance at ranking as #1 on Google.

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How To Restart Your Dental Practice When COVID-19 Restrictions Have Been Removed
As the impacts of the COVID-19 panic have begun to manifest themselves on a large scale, uncertainty has become the next big hurdle that local dental practice owners will have to deal with. We don’t know what the future holds, but we do know that we will have to keep going as best we can, and try to make the most out of a bad situation by being prepared to take on the major challenge of our time.

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COVID-19 Website Announcement Banner Now Live!
Keeping your patients and prospective patients up to date on how you are handling COVID-19 at your office is extremely important. Some offices are completely closed. Others are open for emergencies only. Many of our clients who have their websites powered by Connect the Doc have asked us to add a website banner to the […]

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Solutions to Making Your Practice Survive & Thrive During This COVID-19 Crisis
The COVID-19 pandemic has caused huge changes to your practice. This blog post outlines some things you can do to help your practice survive and thrive during this crazy time.

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Digesting The Fine Print Of Google And Yelp’s Ever-Changing Review Policy
It’s a little scary to embrace the fact that people can say whatever they want about your practice on a public platform, but that’s exactly what you have to do. Thankfully, there are some simple strategies you can use to help manage the review process and ensure that the reviews you receive are as high-quality as possible.

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How To Set Up A Paid Ad Campaign To Get 20 New Patients Every Month
A paid ads campaign is when you pay to have links to specific landing pages placed at the top of the results when users search for specific terms in a search engine. Of course, there are many distinct elements that go into a successful paid ads campaign, and we’ll delve into each of them as we go along.

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Tips For Creating An Optimized Landing Page For Your Paid Advertising Campaign
Every effective paid ad leads to a well-designed landing page that reinforces why a prospective client should take action, ultimately leading to a conversion. If you’re getting consistent clicks on your ads but your conversions are lagging behind, here is how you can optimize your landing pages to ensure you are engaging your website visitors every single time.

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What Is Google My Business And Why Is Maps Visibility So Important?
Google My Business (GMB) is a tool developed by Google to help its users get more accurate information more quickly about businesses that they are searching for, without necessarily having to navigate to the business’ website.

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Why We Use Google Chrome Plugins and Which Plugins to Use to Boost Efficiency?
In this article, we’ll talk about some of the best productivity Chrome extensions that you can use to improve your practice’s online marketing, and we’ll discuss how plugins fit within your broader marketing strategy. But first…

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Marketing Trends For Your Dental Practice In 2020
In this article, we’ll learn about what’s going to drive the online marketing conversation for dental practices in 2020 and beyond. But first, let’s explore the origins of digital marketing for local businesses and see how we got here today.

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How Will Google’s New BERT Update Affect Your Dental Practice’s Online Presence?
Google recently introduced a major update to their search algorithm that has small business owners and SEO experts in a tizzy. So what has the update changed exactly, and how will it affect your dental website SEO? Let’s take a look…

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How The Stereotypical Millennial Is Going To Impact The Growth Of Your Practice
The dental landscape is changing. Are you keeping up? While eating a burrito yesterday at a hipster taco joint, I overheard a very interesting conversation. The lady beside me (let’s call her Samantha), who I’m guessing was in her late twenties, was complaining to a friend that she had to buy a single transit ticket…

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How to Spy on Your Competitor’s Dental Practice
Ever wonder how other dental practices manage to improve their page rankings, run effective digital ad campaigns, and consistently reach new patients on social media? You don’t have to wonder anymore, because there are dozens of different tools online that will give you an inside look at your competitors’ digital marketing tactics. Competitor analysis is…

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5 Ways To Increase New Patient Conversions On Your Website
Your prospective patients’ digital experience with your practice is made up of a series of interactions that form the beginning of your relationship with them. It’s absolutely crucial that each of these interactions is handled with care, because any interruptions during the process can cause them to quickly navigate away from your site in search…

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3 Ways To Get More Referrals From Your Patients
Why referrals can be your most powerful marketing tool. Your dental practice can have beautifully-produced video ads, a fantastic content marketing program that delivers real value to patients, a sophisticated SEO strategy that has you at the top of all the relevant searches in your area, and a honed email marketing plan that engages users…

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Tips For Making Your Dental Practice Stand Out When Answering The Phone
Even though we are firmly established in the digital age, you most likely still see your analog telephone as an important communication tool for your dental practice. However, what you may be overlooking is that telephone conversations are vital opportunities for you to add value to the patient experience. In order to succeed in this…

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Why Dentist Should Invest In Paid Google Ads
The need to stand out has never been greater. It is harder than ever before for dental practices to get noticed. The landscape is vastly different than it was 25-30 years ago when most people stuck around their family dentist for the majority of their lives. Corporations with marketing cash to burn are buying smaller…

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5 Out of the Box Ways to Market Your Dental Practice in 2019
Far too often, owners of dental practices are content with falling back on the same standard marketing techniques, only to see their growth stall. Dental practices need to look beyond the traditional marketing methods like mailers and banner ads, and utilize unconventional tactics in order to reach new audiences. Form an unexpected partnership with another…

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20 Tips For Growing Your Dental Practice In 2018
Below are 20 tips to help you and your practice have the most profitable 2018 possible. But before we dive into that, let me give you some background on me so you have some context and trust what I am saying. I’m Nadeem, founder of Connect the Doc. If you haven’t seen us at…

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Updated May 2017: Practice Management Software Integration Partners
For a complete list of dental practice management softwares that our review platform is integrated with, click here. To learn about best practices to generate more reviews, keep reading! For the past 2 years, the team at Connect the Doc has been working hard to develop a suite of tools to help dental practices improve…

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5 Reasons Google Reviews Are Important For Your Dental Practice
What does Google have to say about your practice? Google has become the Yellow Pages of our lives. We rely on the powerful search engine for nearly everything, from looking up a recipe to translating a sentence from English to French. Therefore, the first point of contact any potential patient has with your business is…

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What’s Your One Biggest Goal in 2017?
As 2016 comes to an end, you’re probably reflecting on your year and thinking about how you can be better in 2017. You know teeth, but being a business owner means that you should always have your hand on the pulse of your practice. These include your goals, finances, trends, competitors in your area, industry…

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Product Update: Review Integration & Best Ways to Get Google & Yelp Reviews
For a complete list of dental practice management softwares that our review platform is integrated with, click here. To learn about best practices to generate more reviews, keep reading! For the past 2 years, the team at Connect the Doc has been working hard to develop a suite of tools to help dental practices improve…

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How Google Search Engine Updates will Impact Your Dental Practice’s Local Rankings
With the new “Possum” updates to Google’s local search algorithm, the proximity of your patients and the location of your dental practice have never mattered more. Let me preface this post by saying that most of the updates that Google (and every other big technology company) is making is focusing on mobile. Everyone is using…

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5-Step Reactivation and Recall Strategy to Boost End of the Year Production
At the beginning of the month, I read a post on Dentaltown titled “From Sucktember to Bestember.” As you probably have experienced, once the back to school rush is over, many dental practices see a dip in patients until Thanksgiving. To help you out of the fall funk and to prepare you for a HUGE…

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Should Dentists Be Spending Money Advertising on Facebook?
Like most people between the ages of 25-40, I use social media on my computer and phone daily (they should really start a Facebook Anonymous group). When I started doing some research on statistics for this post, I was amazed at some of the results. I’m sure you’ll be too. Internet users have an average…

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2015 Year in Review & Exciting Plans for 2016
Happy New Year! Hope you had an awesome winter break and are ready for an exciting 2016. 2015 was an amazing year for Connect the Doc and 2016 is looking to be even better! 5 Biggest Highlights of 2015: 1. 950% Growth From March 2015- December 2015 In 2015, we managed to grow the company…

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Why Does Yelp Block Reviews and How Do They Get Away With It
Last week I had a prospective client (let’s call him Dr. X) reach out to see if we could help him get positive reviews on Yelp. I responded: “yes, we can do this by…” He interrupted me and explained “I don’t care about the new reviews for now, what I want to figure out…

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Getting Started with Sales
Earlier today someone on a LinkedIn group I am a part of posted a question on how to get started with sales. While this blog generally focuses on marketing and business tips for healthcare professionals, I thought it would be OK to post something for all the entrepreneurs out there that want to grow…

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3 Vital SEO Tips For Your Clinic’s Health
SEO is one of those acronyms that instills confusion into the hearts of the uninformed. This fear could lead to a variety of costly circumstances, however, here are some tips to alleviate some potential stresses: 1) Find the Right SEO Firm 2) Take Advantage of Free SEO Tools 3) Content is King Stop running around…

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Basic Google Analytics Overview
In this video I show you the basics of Google Analytics and what a few of the key functions are…

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Web Analysis
In this video I check out a couple of website and tell you what I like and don’t like about them…

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The Consumer Decision Process
This video will help you understand the process consumers go through when making a purchase decision…

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How to Calculate Patient Acquisition Cost
Learn how to calculate the acquisition cost of a new customer and compare the effectiveness of different marketing practices…

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How to Create a Blog Schedule
Learn how to set up a blog schedule properly…

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How to Install Google Analytics
Google Analytics allows you to track how many visitors come to your website and how they are engaging with it. This post will show you how to install Google Analytics on your Wordpress or HTML site…

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