Marketing to Healthcare Providers: How to Know If It's Working

Marketing to healthcare providers can be difficult. There are many ways to reach out to them, and it's hard to know if your campaigns are working.

As a consultant, you must know if the energy and time you spend on your marketing efforts are effective and efficient.

In this blog post, we will discuss how you can track the success of your marketing campaigns and determine whether or not they are generating a return on investment. We'll also give you some tips on how to improve your marketing efforts if they're not performing as well as you'd like.

Track Your Leads

Lead tracking is how marketers track their leads across their entire customer journey. It begins with tracking a lead’s initial touchpoint and ends with them closing into revenue. By tracking your lead’s full customer journey, you’ll better understand how your marketing drives new leads and revenue. It will also help you improve your sales funnel and drive new sales quicker.

If you're running marketing campaigns targeting healthcare providers, it's essential to track your progress and measure your success. 

Here are some tips on how to do that:

• Keep track of the number of leads you generate from your marketing campaigns. This will give you an idea of how many potential customers you're reaching with your message.
• Monitor your website traffic to see how many visitors are coming to your site from your marketing campaigns. This will give you an idea of how effective your campaigns are at driving traffic to your site.
• Track the number of conversions you get from your marketing campaigns. This will help you determine whether or not your campaigns are resulting in new business.

Measure the conversion rate of your leads

Measuring the conversion of your leads will tell you how many leads turn into customers.

From those leads turned into customers, track the amount of revenue generated from your marketing campaigns. This will give you an idea of how much money your campaigns bring in.

While conversion rate may not be the ultimate measure of success, it is a great tool for tracking performance. But, to calculate your conversion rate, you need to be tracking conversions. As I mentioned earlier, with a little extra effort, you can actually track conversions directly inside of most advertising and analytics platforms.

With all of the possible conversions and platforms out there, covering how to implement conversion tracking is an article series in and of itself, but here is a quick reference list for several big-name platforms:

• Google Ads
• Google Analytics
• Facebook Ads (includes Instagram Ads)
• Twitter Ads
• Pinterest Promoted Pins

Setting up conversion tracking is easiest if you have a good developer around, but trust me, good conversion tracking is worth the effort. You can’t improve what you don’t understand and if you aren’t tracking the results of your online marketing, how do you know what’s working and what isn’t?

Monitor Your ROI

Determining one overall marketing ROI benchmark is challenging because all marketing tactics are different.

When dealing with an online ad strategy like PPC, where ROI data is usually tracked automatically, you might be able to easily see how your ad's return compares to others that are similar. 

If you're dealing with other strategies, like content marketing, it might be hard to tell if your blog posts, podcasts, or videos are leading directly to a purchase -- especially when the content isn't on or linked directly to a landing page.

In fact, the Content Marketing Institute says that determining ROI has felt like a mystery to marketers for decades. Although the invention of tracking URLs and other technology has helped to determine the success of content, CMI still suggests looking at ROI from a long-term perspective and factoring in non-financial gains including audience growth. 

For most businesses, one good way to set a "good ROI" benchmark for each marketing strategy is to look at the return from similar tactics you've tried in the past, as well as your current sales numbers. That information should help you create ROI benchmarks and goals that are realistic for your company.

Again, if you're not happy with the results you're seeing, don't be afraid to make changes to your campaigns. Changing something that isn’t working is the only way to improve your campaign and start seeing positive results. 

Try different messaging or target a different audience. The important thing is to keep track of your results, so you have the data to see what performs better. With that information, you can continue to fine-tune your marketing campaigns until you have an ROI-generating machine. 

Perla helps you track your leads easily, efficiently, and effectively!

As discussed earlier, your content marketing will help build your online presence and position your business as a trustworthy, intelligent authority— Perla will get more interested and qualified prospects to see it. 

Founded to correct the inefficiencies of traditional healthcare sales and marketing, Perla is a private networking platform that enables you to market DIRECTLY to healthcare entities and professionals in the segment your organization specializes in. 

Powered by intelligent matching, Perla allows you to get in front of your true target audience by ensuring you’ll only receive leads from healthcare entities and professionals searching for your exact offerings. 

This will make your content marketing even more substantial. You’ll have more qualified leads entering your digital landscape, meaning your content bank will be visited more often by prospects looking for the materials you are putting out. 

Add Perla into your sales and marketing process to make the most out of your investment while speeding up your sales timelines. 

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