Hospital executives are confronted everyday with demands for accountability for all expenses, including their traditional marketing campaigns as well as new media. Asked to do more with less, hospital marketers are forced to build the hospital brand, develop and implement patient acquisition strategies, promote their integrated physician practices and all of this on tight and dwindling budgets. It’s tough enough convincing hospital administrators of the importance of marketing without having to also show them that the proposed marketing campaigns are working optimally. Being able to measure and report ROI for hospital marketing campaigns is an important and vital step in this overall process.
Unfortunately, measuring marketing results and reporting ROI for hospital marketing campaigns can be challenging. In the healthcare industry, it’s a lot easier to measure an increase in referrals – broken down by each referring physician – than it would be to try and figure out how many patients checked in after viewing or reading a particular advertisement. This is particularly true because patients are not good at reporting why they’ve chosen one hospital over another.
The healthcare industry has gotten a bad rap at reporting marketing effectiveness ROI. In the 2009 HealthLeaders Media Industry Survey, marketing leaders at hospitals and health systems were asked what emphasis their organization will place on measuring the ROI of marketing efforts in the next three years. The largest number of respondents (85%) said they'll use a mix or anecdotal and financial evidence to measure return, although only 6.74% say they'll employ hard, financial ROI measurement exclusively.
Do you feel somewhat behind the times regarding the most recent methods to measure successful hospital marketing? Do you need some assistance figuring out how to demonstrate return on your hospital marketing investments? Are you interested in learning where to start and what mistakes to avoid?
Ten Adams and Hospital Executive Today, and producer, Social Media Training, Inc., are teaming up for a live Webinar, entitled, Hospital Marketing Leadership: ROI, Meaurement and Accountability for Hospital Marketers. The webinar will be held on Thursday, November 17, 2011, from 3:00 pm to 4:00 pm eastern and includes such well-known speakers as:
- Chris Boyer, Director of Digital and Communications, Inova Health System
- Jon Headlee, President, Ten Adams
- Jake Wengroff, Frost & Sullivan, Global Director of Social Media Strategy and Research
Topics of discussion will include:
- Discover 5 Steps to measuring the success of your marketing campaigns
- Learn why accountability is the fastest road to marketing success
- Learn how to be accountable to and communicate with the New Hospital Consumer
- Learn how to get better results with a smaller budget
- Connect the dots from your hospital marketing strategy to ROI
- Understand how new media & social media can allow you to achieve more with less
- Case studies of successful hospital marketing strategies
Don’t miss this great webinar so you can learn to take the best approach to measuring your hospital’s marketing effectiveness and ROI. Space is limited. To register go to https://www3.gotomeeting.com/register/422117334
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Measuring marketing in retail is easy; measuring it in healthcare a lot less so!
But without marketing? You don't even want to go there!
Posted by: jason @ cinnamon agency | December 08, 2011 at 06:24 PM