Can Surgeons Operate a Concierge Medical Practice? Concierge Medicine is a membership fee model of private practice that physicians adopt and build a product and a program for patients who need ongoing continual care over the course of a year. Many surgeons operate an “episodic” practice that has a defined beginning and ending of...
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Hackvertising: What it is; How to Use It
Hackvertising involves closely watching conversations trending on social media and in the news and then finding relevant ways to insert your brand into those conversations...
Customer Mind Control
Make brand awareness and engagement an obsession. Focus on increasing your brand footprint. When your brand is your customer's first thought to solve a problem or fill a need, you've achieved mindshare....
Using Facebook for Medical Tourism Promotion
Are you one of the thousands who compete for medical tourism and medical travel brand awareness posting promotional advertisements on Facebook expecting unrealistic results....
Concierge Physicians Face Continual Challenges with Disruptor Brands
Does your value proposition change over time? Yes. If you don't continually adapt and face the new challenges posed by the disruptors your brand either dies or becomes irrelevant to buyers. (Think adaptive/specific immunity)....
Connecting with Medical Tourism Prospects through Online Marketing
We help a limited number of ambitious and extraordinary clients to grow and scale their unique game-changing medical, dental, rehabilitation and wellness businesses Will your business be our next success story? By Maria K Todd, MHA PhD CEO & Founder, The Mercury Healthcare International group of companies I frequently receive calls and requests from...
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When a physician practice attempts to establish a professional brand that differentiates it from its competitor physician practices, the first place to begin is by determining who is its ideal customer. Brands are far more than a logo, a color scheme, or an advertising campaign. “Living Brands” maximize the experience at...
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How Well Do You Know Your Medical or Dental Tourism Customer? In order to plan better marketing and branding strategy, the data in the checklist below should be gathered by your international patient department liaison from each and every medical or dental tourism patient Let’s imagine for a moment that...
Continue readingHello Activities Guide, Goodbye Visitor’s Guide
by Maria K Todd, MHA PhD Executive Director Center for Health Tourism Strategy “In developing a health and wellness tourism destination, you must develop tools to help your health and wellness tourism visitors to plan their experience in the context of any special needs.” An Unfortunate Case Study Caused by a lack of...
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Product Characteristics of a Medical Tourism Destination 1 Tangible and Intangible Assets Medical tourism destinations are made up of both tangible and intangible assets. Tangible assets could include places such as hospitals, clinics, health resorts, rehabilitation centers, dialysis treatment centers, or and geographical features such as beaches or mountains, historical sites, and attractions. Intangible...
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