Digital marketing is a critical requirement for healthcare industries if they wish to grow their business steadily. Using offshore healthcare marketing, allows healthcare businesses to improve their margins while gaining the benefits of digital marketing.
Introduction
It would not be amiss to describe the current period of time as the digital age. Nearly everyone is on the internet, from multi-billion dollar corporations to even the most simple of consumers. It is for this reason that every business today seeks to be on the internet.
And just being ‘present’ is not enough, with more and more customers choosing who to do business with based on what they see on the internet, businesses have also quickly needed to adopt new-age marketing strategies like digital marketing and social media marketing.
Digital Marketing for Healthcare
While the healthcare industry has its own unique needs, challenges and opportunities, it has not been immune to the winds of change that have been storming across the globe for the past three years. The pandemic has only accelerated the shift towards internet-based and digital businesses processes that the healthcare industry had slowly been in the process of adopting.
But while many healthcare organizations are currently in the process of making their digital presence stronger, or facing growing pains as would be expected in such a transition, the shift has also resulted in several benefits for healthcare organizations.
Digital marketing processes include practices like email marketing, social media marketing, PPC campaigns, content marketing, and more. Each one of these practices offers a lower barrier to entry for healthcare organizations due to their lower capital costs, allowing them to use marketing techniques despite their size and revenue. Additionally, digital marketing methods have a significant positive return on investment that can only rarely be achieved through traditional methods of marketing.
Through digital marketing, healthcare organizations are able to spend less while also getting outsized returns on their marketing efforts. But that is not all.
Some of the processes involved in digital marketing also directly contribute to improving patient experience and patient satisfaction levels in healthcare settings. As one of the key factors in improving patient experience is communication and engagement, the use of digital marketing tools like email marketing, newsletters, video content production, and medical content blogs help a healthcare organization in improving its patient experience.
Patients are able to find a healthcare organization, learn about their illness, be in constant communication with the organization, and learn to trust the organization all before they even schedule an appointment through digital marketing.
Digital marketing campaigns also have the added potential of essentially being ‘evergreen’. While certain tools like PPC campaigns and paid ad campaigns cannot be sustained indefinitely, other subtle forms of digital marketing like web content publication are going to be always there until you either remove the content or the internet is destroyed. This allows your healthcare brand to grow its acquisitions in a compounded manner the longer you use digital marketing.
Offshore digital marketing
With such demand for digital marketing services, their prices unfortunately aren’t cheap. While still cheap when compared to other forms of traditional marketing, organizations on average can still expect to dole out around $2500 to $12,000 per month for digital marketing services in the states.
But the beauty of the internet is that it has now opened global pools of talent that were never accessible before. Through globalization, improvements in instant communications, and dissemination of the internet, businesses can outsource their digital marketing needs to other countries.
Healthcare organizations are still able to enjoy all the benefits of digital marketing through world-class expertise, but they are also able to do so for a fraction of the cost as a result of currency power discrepancies. While your organization is spending a fraction of the cost the offshore digital marketing company is also enjoying fair wages due to the huge differences in currency power and living costs.
Offshore digital marketing also has one added advantage for the healthcare industry in particular – asynchronous working. With huge differences in time zones, the healthcare industry is able to monitor progress while the offshore digital marketing agency continues to work during what would ‘closed’ hours in the state.
Offshore healthcare marketing results in higher margins, high returns, and nearly limitless potential for growth and success for organizations.
Conclusion
Digital marketing is a great way for healthcare businesses to receive a hugely beneficial return on their investment. Digital marketing allows healthcare businesses to grow, and scale their requirements easily on the fly. But with the number of healthcare organizations continuing to grow in the US, the increasing competition is cutting profit margins.
At such times, using offshore digital marketing companies allows healthcare businesses to improve their margins by significantly reducing their costs on marketing and other related activities.
With patients increasingly finding healthcare providers through the internet, healthcare organizations can’t afford to ignore digital marketing if they wish to succeed and grow. But with strategic partnerships with the right offshore digital marketing companies, healthcare businesses can achieve this growth at just a fraction of the cost normally associated with digital marketing.
BraveLabs is a full-service offshore digital marketing service agency. We provide services like patient journey management, CRO, web and mobile development, content marketing, social media management, and everything else that a healthcare organization needs to succeed in the digital age.
Contact BraveLabs today to know how much you can save and grow with our services.