5 ways to adapt your healthcare marketing to Millennials

2021-08-12T11:20:06+01:00Marketing Strategy|

There is no doubt that, of all the criteria that explain a consumer’s behaviour, the most crucial is his or her age and generation. This unavoidable fact affects everything, from what you say, where you say it, how you say it, and what you charge for your offerings. What appeals to a millennial may irritate a baby boomer. What delights a baby boomer may make a millennial cringe. You must seek to understand your audience if you hope for them to understand you. Generational marketing provides guidelines to help you do just that...

Will Millennials save laser eye surgery?

2022-01-13T15:05:22+00:00Marketing Strategy|

Laser eye surgery, while delivering outstanding outcomes, has been limping along as a product for a decade since the great recession of 2007. Optimistic refractive surgeons await the maturing of the Millennials, the children of the parents who once took up laser eye surgery in droves. Is this wise? This healthcare marketing post argues why the Millennial market may not purchase laser eye surgery as their parents once did, and provides advice on what to do instead of tie your practice success solely to this target market.

Healthcare marketing planning: the three starting points

2021-10-15T14:03:35+01:00Marketing Strategy|

The choice of target market, probably the most important decision facing a healthcare marketer, is based on recognising the differences among consumers and organisations within a heterogenous market. That choice, will also need to considered in the context of who you are competing against. However, selecting a target market must follow an understanding of not only the competitive context. You must first understand the environment for marketing decisions.

Commoditisation in private healthcare

2024-01-11T12:45:58+00:00Marketing Strategy|

The enemy isn't your bargain basement competitor. The enemy is price competition. But because you chosen the wrong target, you've performed a principal role in what we perceive to be a marketing tragedy. We could write a book with this tragedy at the centre, and it could be called: The commoditisation of professional medical services...

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