PRACTICE MANAGEMENT | BLOGGING | SO YOU THINK YOU CAN
busy practitioners. Wendy Lewis provides expert tips for creating engaging blog content that boosts your ranking on search engines
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Blogging can be a rewarding, yet time-consuming venture for
LOGGING IS A VIABLE PLATFORM FOR PROMOTING YOUR CLINIC for a number of reasons. Having a blog is an important way to get your clinic moving up on search rankings. Blogging allows you to do so much more than just sharing news and promoting events. You can use a blog to boost your credibility, create a personal connection with your audience, and answer questions and queries.
Unlike Twitter that requires status updates to be made throughout the day to be
WENDY LEWIS is President of Wendy Lewis & Co Ltd, Global Aesthetics Consultancy, author of 11 books, and Founder/ Editor-in-Chief of www.
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meaningful, or a Facebook page that demands at least one post daily, blogging is a less time-intensive undertaking. You may choose to blog once a week, or preferably more, and your frequency of posting may vary from time to time. If you like writing, and are willing to invest the time and effort to think of interesting topics for your posts, blogging can actually be an enjoyable pursuit for some physicians. However, if blogging is just going to become another thing on your daily ‘to do’ list, delegating to a staff member or hiring a writer may be the best way to maintain a blog over time. Social commenting is a way to enable discussion on your
website and turn it into an interactive social place for people to visit. Allowing comments creates an interactive, social place and allows you to make posts interesting, get a discussion going, and increase social media optimisation. Your blog can be set so that all comments require approval before going live to avoid spammers or inappropriate posts.
You can channel your
Getting started Creating a blog is actually a relatively affordable and simple process. The real obstacle is finding the time to maintain a blog by developing content that is relevant to your readers. The most common blog platforms are
blogger.com,
wordpress.com, and squarespace.
creative juices to produce a steady flow of organised blog posts, but like Twitter, Facebook, texting, and other platforms of modern communication, blogging has a language of its own.
com. A knowledgeable programmer can assist with customised themes and features, uploading widgets and plug-ins, and many more critical tools unknown to non-techies. You may need some instruction on the steps to create and optimise a blog so that you can post your own content and upload photos. Ideally, a blog should have a complementary look and feel to your website, as well as all of your branding and marketing materials, to be consistent. A blog can be as a useful tool for getting your message across, educating consumers
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and the media, keeping your patients informed of developments or newsworthy items, and sharing your opinion on selected topics. At least one mission of blogging should be to convert traffic to readers, subscribers, and followers who are interested in what you have to say. You can also use your blog to elicit feedback or input from loyal patients and followers.
October 2013 |
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