Friday, November 28, 2014

Sunday, October 26, 2014

It is definitely THAT time of year again! - October 2014 Newsletter

It is definitely THAT time of year again!
  
Every year, during October, November, and December, our advisors spend a great deal of time helping our clients build their marketing plans for the upcoming new year. If you are a current client, it doesn't matter if you are in the middle of a campaign (a good example is a mail campaign) that might not end until the middle of next year. All of you should still review 2014, run the budget numbers for 2015, subtract the costs of what is working, and plan to continue to build upon the effective promotions you already have in place.

If you are not a client yet, give us a call or log onto our website and complete the online client survey. Our advisory group will build and deliver a marketing plan via email, then follow up to discuss the plan in detail. 

Here are our advisors and how to reach them. 

Senior Advisor Group at NPI:

Jay Ostendarp - jay@newpatientsinc.com  
Jane Kriensky - jck@newpatientsinc.com   
Lee Buzard - lee@newpatientsinc.com  
Rebecca Palmer- rebecca@newpatientsinc.com   

All of the senior advisors can be reached by calling 866.336.8237.

What's the big deal about changing years? 

It's not that it is a big deal. But, it certainly could be a big deal depending upon your specific situation. 

The old 179 deduction has all but evaporated (see reference below). We are not CPA's. But we are getting many dentists (mostly clients) calling us and letting us know their CPA said they should plan out next year's marketing expenses and pay some of those in this tax year. Well, any time you promote anything, there are always costs prior to deployment. So, if your CPA says it is in your interest to pay for design/production this year, and pay for deployment next year - we can help. 

In an effort to avoid a potential back log, if all of you call us during the last two weeks in December (procrastinator alert!), we won't be able to help everyone maximize their CPA's recommendations. So, please plan to reach out some time between now and the beginning of December. That way we can give everyone the time and attention they deserve. 

This has been another record breaking year at NPI. Our firm doesn't grow simply by selling more new clients. Our firm grows by retaining existing clients. This year, over 70% of our clients have been with us for 5 years or more. This is another record. Yes, we are proud of our team, but our pride is also shared with dentistry as a whole.  

Promoting dentistry properly requires understanding, consistency, time, and let's face it - a little bit of faith! We tip our hats to the segment of dentistry which has taken the time and energy to learn, the faith to maintain consistency, the devotion to understand/monitor/measure results properly, and the tenacity to continue to build onto your successful promotion foundation, year after year. 

Everyone at NPI is proud of all of you!

Do you have a topic you would like covered in an upcoming newsletter? Ask here. 

Just email either Howie Horrocks (whh@newpatientsinc.com) or Mark Dilatush (markd@newpatientsinc.com) with your topic. We will get them into the newsletter.

If any of you need us, just call 866.336.8237. We will be here for you.


Got questions? Want to learn more?   

You can reach Mark & Howie at:
   

Monday, August 25, 2014

Marketing Goals


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Dental Marketing Services
5935 Edmond Street Suite 105 Las Vegas, NV 89118
Telephone: 866-336-8237    Email:  info@newpatientsinc.com

Thursday, August 14, 2014

Best Marketing - Think like your customer!



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New Patients, Inc.
Dental Marketing Services
5935 Edmond Street Suite 105 Las Vegas, NV 89118
Telephone: 866-336-8237    Email:  info@newpatientsinc.com

Wednesday, August 6, 2014

How to market content

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Dental Marketing Services
5935 Edmond Street Suite 105 Las Vegas, NV 89118
Telephone: 866-336-8237    Email:  info@newpatientsinc.com

Thursday, July 24, 2014

A thrilled customer is the most....

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Dental Marketing Services
5935 Edmond Street Suite 105 Las Vegas, NV 89118
Telephone: 866-336-8237    Email:  info@newpatientsinc.com

Tuesday, July 15, 2014

Traditional methods of marketing...

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5935 Edmond Street Suite 105 Las Vegas, NV 89118
Telephone: 866-336-8237    Email:  info@newpatientsinc.com

Monday, July 7, 2014

Halfway point of 2014 - Where are we? - July 3, 2014 Newsletter

Halfway point of 2014 - Where are we?

 A year ago, in this newsletter, we reported a flattening (some folks would call it bottoming) in the slow total revenue slide which impacted dentistry from the beginning of 2008 until last year. We counseled everyone to begin thinking about allocating a small percentage of your marketing budget (10% to 20%) toward advertising the more elective dental services you offer. For your particular market, we recommended looking at the local housing market (when it bottoms and begins building gains again) as an indicator for when you should potentially reallocate your marketing budget. You can find those numbers for your community online, or, through any real estate agent in your immediate area.

As a whole (clients), we are seeing more elective treatment being accepted than the previous 6 years. This is good! This doesn't mean you reallocate your whole budget to one or two of your preferred service offerings! Don't go overboard with your allocation. But if you haven't yet, now would be a good time to begin thinking about it.

On the flip side, we are seeing more and more people (patients) with money as a primary (and seemingly deeper) concern. This makes total sense. Combine inherent health/dental care procrastination with the worst recession in 80 years, and you get lots of people concerned about cost (they always were) and emergent needs (now it hurts). We can confidently say, all of you will see an uptick with this type of new patient interaction over the next several years.

Looking forward, we are very optimistic. We are not saying there is a 6 year rebound ahead, but all indications point to the industry flattening at the bottom and beginning to make gains. This is good! If your marketing was working while things were on the way down, they'll work better on the way up!

Websites - Traditional & Responsive - Uncluttering the confusion

For those of you unfamiliar with the two website development styles, we offer the following very basic definitions.

Traditional - Separate website for viewers using full size computers along with a traditional mobile website for viewers using tablets, phones, and other devices with smaller viewing screens.

Responsive - One website that morphs its design depending upon what device is used by the viewer.

There are many advantages and disadvantages of BOTH website design styles. If you participate in some of the dental internet forums, you will probably hear overwhelming commentary when it comes to which style is best. Technology people are funny like that. Whatever they use seems to be the best at the moment, until something else comes down the road.

New Patients, Inc. develops both website styles. If you are confused by the nerd rhetoric, your NPI advisor has a very easy to understand pro/con list for both website styles. Just ask them for the website pro/con list, and set up a time to chat with them about it. Here is how to reach your advisor.

Jay Ostendarp -  jay@newpatientsinc.com
Jane Kriensky -  jck@newpatientsinc.com
Lee Buzard -  lee@newpatientsinc.com
Rebecca Palmer -  rebecca@newpatientsinc.com      

New Patients, Inc. moves to larger headquarters



Our company continues to grow. So much so, we ran out of room for new employees in our old building! So, off we went to find a new home which will absorb current growth as well as our anticipated future growth. Our new address is:

New Patients, Inc.
4966 S. Rainbow Blvd
Suite 110
Las Vegas, NV 89118

If you are ever in Las Vegas on business or pleasure, please feel free to set up a time to stop by. Howie can be reached at whh@newpatientsinc.com. The NPI team enjoys having clients and prospective clients stop by. So much of our business is via voice, Skype, or email - it is really refreshing to sit down with people face to face.
The whole team at NPI would like to wish you and yours a wonderful July 4th holiday weekend!

  
Do you have a topic you would like covered in an upcoming newsletter? Ask here. 

Just email either Howie Horrocks (whh@newpatientsinc.com) or Mark Dilatush (markd@newpatientsinc.com) with your topic. We will get them into the newsletter.

If any of you need us, just call 866.336.8237. We will be here for you.


Got questions? Want to learn more?   

You can reach Mark & Howie at:
Check out our latest dental marketing book

Marketing without data....

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New Patients, Inc.
Dental Marketing Services
5935 Edmond Street Suite 105 Las Vegas, NV 89118
Telephone: 866-336-8237    Email:  info@newpatientsinc.com

Friday, June 27, 2014

Connecting with your Customers

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Dental Marketing Services
5935 Edmond Street Suite 105 Las Vegas, NV 89118
Telephone: 866-336-8237    Email:  info@newpatientsinc.com

Thursday, June 19, 2014

Build Relationships NOT Links


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Dental Marketing Services
5935 Edmond Street Suite 105 Las Vegas, NV 89118
Telephone: 866-336-8237    Email:  info@newpatientsinc.com

Friday, June 6, 2014

Our New Corporate Headquarters!!

Our New Corporate Headquarters!!
4966 S. Rainbow Blvd.
Suite 110
Las Vegas, NV 89118

If you are in Las Vegas, please be sure to stop in to say hello!

Wednesday, June 4, 2014

Marketing Quotes for Business


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Dental Marketing Services
5935 Edmond Street Suite 105 Las Vegas, NV 89118
Telephone: 866-336-8237    Email:  info@newpatientsinc.com

Sunday, May 25, 2014

Gaining Trust - Business Marketing


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Dental Marketing Services
5935 Edmond Street Suite 105 Las Vegas, NV 89118
Telephone: 866-336-8237    Email:  info@newpatientsinc.com

Friday, May 16, 2014

Dental Marketing Quote


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Dental Marketing Services
5935 Edmond Street Suite 105 Las Vegas, NV 89118
Telephone: 866-336-8237    Email:  info@newpatientsinc.com

Monday, May 5, 2014

Dental Marketing - Marketing Message!



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Dental Marketing Services
5935 Edmond Street Suite 105 Las Vegas, NV 89118
Telephone: 866-336-8237    Email:  info@newpatientsinc.com

Sunday, April 27, 2014

Connections for long-term loyalty


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New Patients, Inc.
Dental Marketing Services
5935 Edmond Street Suite 105 Las Vegas, NV 89118 
Telephone: 866-336-8237    Email:  info@newpatientsinc.com

Sunday, April 20, 2014

Internet Word of Mouth...


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5935 Edmond Street Suite 105 Las Vegas, NV 89118 
Telephone: 866-336-8237    Email:  info@newpatientsinc.com

Saturday, April 19, 2014

Time to act on filling in the rough spots! (July, September, December)




About a year or so ago, we communicated two more initiatives that made it through our testing gauntlet with positive results. Many initiatives start out as great ideas, few make it through testing. These two did provide consistent/positive results market to market. The reason we are bringing this up again is because this is the time to prepare.

For many of you, the months of July, September, and December are low production points of your year. What would your end of year production look like if those months were just average, instead of being low? For many/most of you, it would add about 10% to your end of year top line.

Pedo/Ortho in July & September

Pedo and ortho focused advertising in July and August will respond in greater numbers and frequency than promoting general dentistry (all of it) in July. It makes sense. The kiddies are at home. Mom doesn't have to pull them from school to get them to your practice. So, if you reach out in July and August to attract children to your practice - you will be ahead in those months.

This is especially effective if you do ortho. You can get through the initial exams in the summer and start the cases in September (which will make September better). Talk to almost any orthodontist, they will tell you September is one of their best months of the year - consistently.

With this advertising push, you are leveraging weather, convenience, urgency. Mom knows the weather is better in the summer than the winter, she knows it is MUCH more convenient for her to get her children to you when they are off from school, and she certainly knows that eventually - school will begin again. She has a known deadline if she wants to make things easy for herself.

Typically a series of three very specifically targeted rounds of post cards will do the trick. If you hit the streets with them the 2nd week of July, the first week of August, and the 3rd week of August (consult your school calendar and adjust drops accordingly), you have a very good chance of inexpensively capturing a very important segment of the dental market.

We understand many of you who have practiced for a while, aren't necessarily jumping at the idea of bringing a bunch of kids into your practice. But, the kids come first, mom comes second, and dad comes kicking and screaming - 6 months later. You know how it works. If this is something you simply cannot do, or do not want to deal with - don't do it! Just be realistic with your adult new patient numbers if you purposely cut off this proven way of getting more adult new patients.


Insured - between Nov 15th and December 31st

The time between Thanksgiving and New Year's Day requires a time sensitive incentive. Mom has a billion distractions during the holiday time period. She needs an added incentive to respond. Many/most of you already send some sort of "use it or lose it" insurance email or letter to your existing patients. Many/most of you have added production to your schedules by doing so. The same can be done with the general public! You don't have to limit your exposure to just your own patients. Everyone in town is going to have their insurance benefits renew on Jan 1. The general public responds to that sense of urgency as well, especially if you are already promoting to the same targets throughout the year. Many of you are already mailing. For you, we already have a properly targeted mail list, so you won't have to buy another one.


Who at NPI should I reach out to if I want to smooth out my rough spots?

Your advisors are responsible for analyzing your marketing opportunities then setting up the best strategy for your particular situation/market.


Advisors:

Jay Ostendarp - jay@newpatientsinc.com  
Jane Kriensky - jck@newpatientsinc.com   
Lee Buzard - lee@newpatientsinc.com  
Rebecca Palmer - rebecca@newpatientsinc.com   

All of the advisors can be reached by calling 866.336.8237

If you are a client of NPI already, your client services/campaign managers can also help you. They work hand in hand with the advisors.

Campaign Managers:

Kimberly Rivera - kr@newpatientsinc.com  - 702.221.2184
Olive Ashwell - olive@newpatientsinc.com  - 702.221.2184

The whole team at NPI would like to wish you and yours a wonderful holiday weekend!


Do you have a topic you would like covered in an upcoming newsletter? Ask here. 

Just email either Howie Horrocks (whh@newpatientsinc.com) or Mark Dilatush (markd@newpatientsinc.com) with your topic. We will get them into the newsletter.

 
If any of you need us, just call 866.336.8237. We will be here for you.

Got questions? Want to learn more?   

You can reach Mark & Howie at:
Check out our latest dental marketing book
 
   

Tuesday, April 15, 2014

Dental Marketing - There is no Black Magic!



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Dental Marketing Services
5935 Edmond Street Suite 105 Las Vegas, NV 89118 
Telephone: 866-336-8237    Email:  info@newpatientsinc.com

Sunday, March 30, 2014

New Patients Inc. - Marketing Dental Practices



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New Patients, Inc.
Dental Marketing Services
5935 Edmond Street Suite 105 Las Vegas, NV 89118
Telephone: 866-336-8237    Email:  info@newpatientsinc.com

Wednesday, March 19, 2014

Monday, March 10, 2014

Dental Marketing - New Patients Inc.

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Dental Marketing Services
5935 Edmond Street Suite 105 Las Vegas, NV 89118
Telephone: 866-336-8237    Email:  info@newpatientsinc.com

Friday, February 28, 2014

More Great Marketing Quotes!





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5935 Edmond Street Suite 105 Las Vegas, NV 89118
Telephone: 866-336-8237    Email:  info@newpatientsinc.com

 


Friday, February 21, 2014

New Patients Inc - Feb 20, 2014 Newsletter

February 20, 2014 New Patients Inc - Newsletter!
Something you should definitely pay attention to.........


Something you should definitely pay attention to.........
 
Every once in a while, some thing or someone in dentistry impresses us so much - we just have to share it with our readers. In this case, both happened. Some thing and someone impressed us - a lot.  

This edition of our newsletter IS about marketing/promoting/advertising your dental practice. It is also about practice management, the dental industry as a whole, new business trends in dentistry, and the best business practices in dentistry - communicated by the most trusted leaders in dentistry.

Where would one find all of this information?

Click the link below to read our entire February 20, 2014 Newsletter


http://www.newpatientsinc.com/newsletters/feb2014-newsletter.pdf

Thursday, January 30, 2014