Patient Focused Marketing Strategies
Learn how to build a strong patient-centric brand.
This modules content sees Professor Barbara Kahn introduce the foundational concepts in marketing strategy and brand positioning. Beyond marketing promotions, marketing and brand strategies in today’s business world require consideration of buyers’/sellers’ markets, customer segmentation, and brand mantras. To understand how best to position a brand, we need to explore the underlying mechanisms of brand positioning so that we may understand not only the cognitive associations with brands, but also the social, behavioral, emotional, and cultural associations.
Following these foundational videos, Dan Bills, DMD, MS elaborates on these concepts and applies to them directly to orthodontics and orthodontic marketing. Then Professor Ron Berman presents concepts and strategies for customer acquisition and retention using digital marketing. To conclude this module, Herb Hughes, DDS will utilize the patient journey and examine a variety of digital strategies including website, search, online reviews and social media to acquire customers and create loyal customers who market for you. By the end of this module, you will be able to identify basic marketing concepts, digital marketing strategies and relate them to your own practice.
CE earned in module 4: 2.75
Learning Objectives and Topics:
- Identify key concepts and strategies for successful marketing
- Explore the multifaceted customer branding experience
- Apply general marketing concepts to specific orthodontic practices
- Examine omnichannel opportunities for orthodontic marketing
- Craft an effective brand for your orthodontic practice
Barbara Kahn
Wharton Professor
Patty and Jay H. Baker Professor of Marketing and the Director of the Jay H. Baker Retailing Center. Barbara is an internationally recognized scholar on variety seeking, brand loyalty, retail assortment issues, and patient decision-making
Dr. Dan Bills
AAO Instructor
Honored as “Teacher of the Year” by the University of Pennsylvania Department of Orthodontics and regularly lectures at academic institutions and orthodontic meetings. One of his greatest passions is teaching his colleagues how to work smarter and, consequently, live better.
Ron Berman
Wharton Professor
Ron Berman is an assistant professor of marketing at the Wharton School. He focuses his research on online marketing, marketing analytics and the marketing actions of startup firms. His research has been published in top marketing journals such as Marketing Science and the Journal of Marketing Research.
Dr. Herb Hughes
AAO Instructor
Dr. Herb Hughes has been practicing orthodontics in Alexandria, VA for over 35 years and is the Chair of AAO’s Council on Communication. Dr. Hughes is currently a speaker and key opinion leader for 3M. He also has a strong interest in marketing and a desire to better understand the mindset of a buyer.
Dr. Grant Collins
AAO Guest Speaker
Founder/owner and orthodontist of Collins Orthodontics in Rochester, MN. He is better known online as The Braces Guy® (@thebracesguy), where he creates fun and educational braces videos. Via Instagram and TikTok, The Braces Guy® has over 2 million subscribers.