A week ago today I was kicking off Stars of Dentistry (where did that week go?).
One speaker who approached me after my light-hearted opening was American Dr. Robert Ritter, who suggested that we had much in common when it comes to seeing social media as a primary way to drive our internal human interest marketing.
Later that day I attended his fascinating lecture, describing how Instagram and Facebook have become the backbone of his new patient acquisition, generating digital recommendations from existing patients.
There was one stand-out comment that I’ve been meaning to share with you all week.
He asked the audience the following question:
“we see around 100 patients a day in our dental office and our team are drilled to seek and request Facebook and Google reviews – on average, how many reviews a day do you think we enjoy?”
The answer was ONE.
99% of the time it either doesn’t happen or isn’t a success.
However, with a 1% success ratio on asking for reviews, they grow inexorably – 1 a day, 5 a week, 20 a month, 240 a year.
I’ve been so keen to share that with the many long-suffering marketing champions and managers, who email me to say that they feel like failures because they cannot engage the team or the patients in a steady flow of selfies, check ins, reviews and video testimonials.
Ladies and gentlemen, it’s a slow, relentless process.
Daily conversations at The Morning Huddle to identify potential targets, forming the habit of asking and accepting that a 99% failure rate is OK.
1% is infinitely better than 0% and 1% for 100 days will build your practice to 100% visibility online.
Day in, day out – KOKO – keep on keeping on.
Set yourself a target of 1 review a day.
Start today.
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