Blogging benefits for your chiropractic practice

Blogging is an incredibly low-cost communication option to improve your practice, build your authority, aid in communication and boost your website traffic.

Blogging is an important asset to your marketing strategy. While a well-rounded website rich in content should be the basis of your practice outreach, blogging is an excellent way for you to stand apart from competitors and garner new attention to grow your practice. You can you write about your products and services, build your email list, improve your website traffic and better your image all at the same time. Your marketing strategy will reap the many benefits of blogging.

Use blogging to help convert patients and grow your practice

Blogging is a pragmatic way to build connections while covering information about your latest products, services and news. Think what content will be helpful to your audience and embrace blogging as a structured way to show off your services. Case studies are a good way to show the genuine personalized benefits of what you do. Blogging offers a chance for you to show personality and provide a means for patients and potential patients to learn who you are. Think of your blog as a dynamic counterpart to your website where you can make new content exciting and discuss emerging chiropractic news.

Make videos

Video is a great way to let you talk directly to your target audience. A study by the State of Video Marketing reported, “91% of businesses use video as a marketing tool, more than any of the previous years since the survey started.”¹  Other key survey findings:

• People are 52% more likely to share video content than any other type of content.
• 75% of viewers watch short-form video content on their mobile devices.
• 83% of marketers suggest videos should be under 60 seconds.¹

Short, shareable videos should definitely be part of your marketing strategy. Once you have published a few, all those videos can be uploaded onto a service, such as YouTube or Vimeo. These will continue to live on separate from the blog post.

Use the comment section

The two-way nature of its communication makes blogging special. Patients rarely interact with a website when they have questions about you, your practice or your services offered. The comment section can be an ideal platform for discussion. Patients can offer new perspectives, which can help you make positive changes to your practice and marketing.

Build authority

Your image is an extremely influential facet of your practice’s success. Blogging builds your authority and trustworthiness. Specific blog posts can be given as a reference to patients to answer common questions. You can even upload your videos on a tablet in your office where patients or potential patients can find the answers they are looking for. The well-written post establishes you and your practice in a very favorable light. This method of bringing information to others will put you at the forefront of your audience’s mind when their chiropractic needs arise.

Give your website a helping hand

On a basic level, blogging helps add material to your website and keep your website up to date. Search engines reward you for new content. The more blog posts you create on a variety of topics, the greater chance a search engine will help direct people to your website through keywords and other channels. You can also increase navigation and traffic throughout your site by internal linking, which is easy but beneficial. Internal links are simply clickable hyperlinks within blog posts with more information on a topic somewhere else on your website or in a previous blog post. Also keep in mind, older posts can be tweaked and republished with small updates occasionally to keep them relevant and useful.

Maximize readership with social and email marketing

Although search engines will recognize ever-changing content, it is up to you to drive traffic back to your blog via social media and email marketing. Sharing your blog content via your warm network (people you’ve had some previous contact or relationship with) is the best way to engage with your current market and encourage them to share with their network, allowing your content to be seen by more people. Blogging is a great way to build authority and give back to your network. It’s a win-win.

Increase your exposure

Blogging provides you with relevant content to share on your social media without having to do much extra work. Post by post, more people will become familiar with your work, and the likelihood your post will be shared across social media platforms increases. People can share a blog post to a variety of platforms, increasing the amount of people who view the post. This audience will also end up on your website, where they can explore further.

Call readers to action

Adding a call-to-action button, such as “subscribe now,” takes your blog traffic and transforms it into new leads for you. Simply add a button offering a free e-book, article, video or anything else that has value and appeal. Then when the viewer acts, they will be required to fill out a form with their information to receive the complimentary item.

Grow your email list

Blogging can attract people to subscribe to your email newsletter. Adding a link to sign up for your emails in every blog post, with links to other blog posts or past newsletters, will help your prospective and current patients stay in the loop, feeling much more knowledgeable about you and your practice.

Reap the long-term benefits of blogging

Incorporating blogging into your ongoing marketing strategy will provide long-term benefits and will continue to do so for days, months and even years. Blogging can be a modern approach to complement traditional advertising and give you access to broader audience. Essentially, your blog posts form a portfolio of your brand.

Reference

1. Bump P. How Video Consumption is Changing in 2023 [New Research]. April 2023. Hubspot’s 2023 annual State of Video Marketing Survey. https://blog.hubspot.com/marketing/how-video-consumption-is-changing. Accessed Sept. 18, 2024.

ROB BERMAN is a partner at Berman Partners LCC, a medical device sales, service and marketing company specializing in new and pre-owned therapeutic lasers. He also is a partner at Energia Medical LLC, which specializes in light therapy products. Berman helps doctors improve patient outcomes while increasing their income and has held a variety of marketing roles during his career. He can be contacted at 860-707-4220, rob@bermanpartners.com and through bermanpartners.com or energiamedical.com.

CINDY DONALDSON is CEO of Red Barn Consulting LLC, a strategic marketing, sales and business operations consulting firm located in Connecticut. Red Barn’s niche is working with small to medium companies, helping them find their voice, tell their stories and increase revenues by creating and implementing strategic processes and aligning them with innovative marketing and sales plans. Niche markets include health care, insurance and banking. Donaldson can be reached at 860-469-8090 or cindy@redbarnconsultingllc.com. For more information, visit redbarnconsultingllc.com.