Checking In: Location-Based Services for Healthcare

Checking In: Location-Based Services for Healthcare

In recent years, the concept of “checking in” at a restaurant or venue through social media sites like Foursquare or Facebook has become increasingly popular as more and more of the population adopts smartphones. These days, people use their mobile phones for just about everything – networking with others, shopping online, downloading music,...
Keeping Mad Men Accountable

Keeping Mad Men Accountable

In the Golden Age of Advertising – long before AMC’s hit television series Mad Men won over millions of American viewers depicting the changing moods and social mores of 1960s America – there was a time when advertisers such as David Ogilvy, Leo Burnett and Bill Bernbach created magical, sensational and subjectively successful advertising...

Website Design Principles for Boomers – How to Reach Your Audience

Continued from Part 1 on Top generational healthcare marketing tips. This advice generally applies to everyone- not just boomers. Keep in mind that design principles also depend on what you’re selling. For example, if your health plans are largely Medicaid and Medicare, you’re probably looking at an audience made of boomers, but if your...

Is your hospital reaching boomers? Top generational healthcare marketing tips

Let’s start with a few facts about the Baby Boomer generation, a group unlike any previous midlife generation in terms of cohort size, spending power, and independent spirit. By one estimate, they lead all generations in technology spending, including online purchases. They are also one of the fastest growing segments of social networking users....

Everything You Need to Know About Hospital Mobile Websites and Applications in 2011

The results are in for our 2011 Healthcare Mobile Survey* and it looks promising for the future of mobile-ready healthcare websites and mobile advertising. The survey shows that healthcare organizations are thinking a lot about the mobile web in 2011 even if they are allocating a relatively tiny amount of their budget to creating a mobile...

Destination Marketing and Medical Tourism: The Next Frontier?

What is destination marketing for healthcare, anyway? By definition, it means: Attracting and engaging patients from across the state, region or country, by focusing on a key service line or center of excellence and providing that service at a higher level of quality and patient satisfaction than anyone else. So why would someone travel for...

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