Tuesday, December 18, 2012

Using Patient Surveys to Build Revenue



Today’s blog is taken from an optometry marketing blog called Optometry Practice Marketing, sponsored by Solutionreach. Solutionreach is a marketing and communication company that is focused on acquiring, retaining and reactivating patients for your practice. You can find out more about their Vision Marketing services here. 


This blog focuses on the Importance of Patient surveys.


·         Companies like Solutionreach currently provide an easy-to-use survey section, if you aren’t using an outside company, you should set up a survey portal on your website.

·         Take time to review these surveys and find out what you are performing well at and what areas of business that you are performing poorly

·         Listen and React - Review these surveys with your staff each month.  Praise the positives just as much as you highlight the negatives.  This should not be mainly about the negatives and the vibe of the meeting shouldn't be negative, however you should discuss openly how to be proactive with these issues.

·         How to Get More Surveys - Make sure you are asking for sincere revues at some point during your exam.  Try it for a month or two and see how many more people respond to the survey.

·         After a few months of this routine you can even think about tweaking the questions and making them more open ended so that patients get more specific about their wants and needs. 

·         With companies like Solutionreach you can tie your surveys to your Google Plus page, which will help with SEO and Google searches

·         Your reviews from your patient scheduling company can also be tied to facebook for optimized social media marketing.

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