How Do I Use Demographics for Strategic Marketing

Using your KPI's and analytics you can grow your customer base by targeting demographics and finding products that relate. KPI's are very valuable when tracking down your demographics for new customer targeting and increased sales.

Beyond Basic Demographics: How to Target Your Perfect Customer

What Are Your Demographics? According to Oxford Reference, demographics are the statistical characteristics of a population, such as age, sex, family size, and income. While this is a perfect technical definition, applying it to your small business requires a more practical approach.

Consider the demographic of "age," for instance. Simply knowing someone's age isn't enough to determine if your service is right for them. A 30-year-old athlete with a sports injury and a 30-year-old pregnant mother fall into the exact same age bracket, but their lifestyles and needs are vastly different. This is where we cross over from demographics into psychographics—the study of your audience's behaviors, lifestyles, and pain points.

To reach your ideal customer effectively, you must match your service's specific benefits to their unique situations. This is the foundation of benefit marketing: aligning your services with the exact problems they solve for specific people. Because of this, defining your target audience's demographics and psychographics should always be step one when building out your three-month, six-month, and one-year strategic marketing plans.

The Power of Benefit-Driven Marketing

How you approach benefit marketing depends slightly on whether you sell a service or a physical product.

For Service-Based Businesses

If you are a service-based business, your "product" is ultimately the action you take to solve a customer's specific problem. With that in mind, can you list your offerings based on their distinct features and benefits?

Identify Your Assets: Does your company utilize specialized equipment or proprietary technology for a particular service? That serves as both a feature and a benefit.
Identify the Beneficiary: Who is the ideal customer to benefit from this specific asset?

When you equip yourself with strategies tailored to your unique business, you can determine exactly which demographic details are necessary to track. If a certain age or location is important, you can then find the best marketing tools to capture that data.

For Product-Based Businesses

When selling a physical product, the marketing actions are similar, but you must account for an additional dynamic: Who will be using the product vs. who will be purchasing it?

A great example is a children's toy. The child is the end-user, but the parent holds the wallet. Your marketing must visually intrigue the child while simultaneously displaying the core benefits (safety, education, durability) that convince the parent to make the purchase. This dual-layered approach often relies heavily on emotional marketing techniques and price-based positioning.

Gathering Your Data (Without Getting Overwhelmed)

You likely already have access to a wealth of customer data through built-in analytics on platforms like Google, Facebook, Instagram, LinkedIn, and X. Rather than getting overwhelmed by numbers, start with the platform where your audience is most active and that fits your team's technical skill level. These insight reports are goldmines for pulling specific demographic details like age, income, location, and online behavior.

To get the complete picture, combine these three crucial pieces of information:

Your Analytics: Who is currently engaging with you online?
Market Trends: What are people actively searching for right now? (Free tools like Google Trends are great for this).
Your Service Benefits: What specific problems does your business solve better than anyone else?

By cross-referencing your audience analytics and current search trends with the actual benefits your business provides, you can draw a precise map of who to target and where to reach them.

The Bottom Line When you fill out the demographics section of your marketing plan with this level of detail, the next steps—creating content, designing ads, and running promotions—practically write themselves.

Take the time now to do the research, clearly define your benefits, and put all the puzzle pieces together. Good luck! And as always, if you need help getting started, Marketing Health Academy is here for you.

What specific service or product are you currently trying to market, so we can brainstorm its core features and benefits together?

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Chiropractic Strategic Marketing for 2022

Another year has come and gone! With the seemingly unending pandemic, constant change and uncertainty means that business growth can still be a bit rough. Not to fear ... all is not lost! The sun is shining in the sky, and each new day continues to dawn. With some strategy, and some creativity, growth is right around the corner. The team at Marketing Health Academy has eagerly been doing the research and tweaking 2022 marketing plans to help you keep on track and build on your chiropractic practice. Chiropractic marketing in 2022 is looking good!

Constructing solid Conversion Rate Optimization (CRO) in the coming year needs to be built around a specific set of marketing functions: Chiropractic Search Engine Optimization (SEO) and specialized techniques, and chiropractic social media marketing and knowing how to use it for Communication, Education and Inspiration ... Accomplishing all this while keeping your marketing costs down! Easy enough, right? This is where we can help! When you are ready we'll also show you how the new Google techniques and paid advertising will create inbound customers.

This year we will use the Agile Marketing method to evaluate and grow our marketing and our business.

What is 2022 Chiropractic Marketing?

The time has come to have some fun with your marketing to reach new customers! People are tired and bored (just a couple of side effects of a pandemic). They want to be inspired. People are looking for new routines in their lives as they begin to get back into the in-office work life, increased commutes and travel, and evolving family time. For those who have been sitting on the sofa or in their makeshift work-from-home office, new and fun ways to stretch are a growing trend. As we get into the swing of a new normal life, we find that we have less time for things we recently had more time for. Your customers are looking for inspiration in what the new normal will look like. When you offer Information, Education, and Inspiration in your marketing, you become the expert in your field. They look up to you and your advice. This year is the time to look past a traditional practice and on to an inspired practice.

Chiropractic Marketing Plan

The ability to become a strategic marketer is in the details. When you create a chiropractic marketing plan of action to follow, and then initiate your plan, you will have stepped beyond what most have been doing for years.

In the past, websites were simple and didn’t have to be strategic in order to outpace the competition. Now, not only do they have to be 100% SEO optimized, but they have to be a tool for information and inspiration in your marketing strategy.

The 2022 buzzword is "CRO". Conversion Rate Optimization has been around for years, but now it has a sophisticated name! Your CRO is all about ROI, with a few twists and turns. You can read about that in more detail on our blog. The important things that you need to know however, will all be in your chiropractic marketing plan. Think of your marketing plan as your pirate treasure map (written in a code that only you understand) that you follow on a step-by-step basis with activities, growth factors, ROI, and the ability to change tasks without halting the whole process, saving money and time and avoiding mistakes.

Chiropractic SEO

When talking about chiropractic SEO we are not just talking about a website ... we are talking about every part of our digital presence. It is important to remember that SEO is found in every nook and cranny of your brand. Consider even your logo and your domain name: Did you know that you can find SEO even in the most unique places within your brand?

Think of your website as the hub of your SEO, the place where it all intersects. Newly added landing pages for your marketing funnel and business growth must be optimized for that branch of growth to continue, even after you are done with a campaign. Blogs have been all the buzz for years, and the fact is they don’t have to be a bunch of groundbreaking articles. You can use blogs as a very useful tool to grow your keywords. You can evolve them by turning them into videos, and further push promotional details.

Optimization branches into all digital aspects, including into your social media. Link building has been an essential must-do for a long time. However there are rules that you must follow in order to create a successful link-building campaign for optimal SEO. Otherwise you run the risk of getting banned from Google and other big search engines. Lucky for you, Marketing Health Academy is at your fingertips for guidance!

Chiropractic Social Media Marketing

In 2022 your social media will take on a whole new purpose. Chiropractic social media marketing has changed for the better. In the past, paid advertising on social media was a go-to quick fix to sputtering inbound website traffic. In 2021 this trend slowed to a turtle's pace (we're assuming that is slow). That doesn't mean paid social media ads do not have great value. It means you have to be more strategic about it. When you learn the tips and tricks of social media and you put them all together, they will work with each other for much better performance and higher probability of CRO.

The biggest trick you will learn is using your various media to tease back and forth in place of spending needlessly on digital ads. Think of it as a tradeoff: Spend less money and get a marketing superhighway!

The biggest components of social media marketing for 2022 is doing your market research, and getting comfortable with the program(s) that will work best for you. It is important for you to understand if Facebook, Instagram, Twitter, LinkedIn, YouTube, etc., should be your marketing niche. When it comes to social media, follow the concept of “work smarter, not harder”.

Chiropractic Video Marketing

Video marketing has become a huge toolbox asset for 2022. Consumers want to be educated and inspired, and video is the present consumable platform. This does not mean you have to become a slave to video marketing. Afterall, video production can be expensive. Some videos can be simple animated recipes that can be created as a basic slideshow. Consider creating spinal friendly stretch instructionals that you don’t time for during live appointments. You can post such videos on your social media and your website, and even email them to your contact list. By doing this you are providing valuable information to your clients as well as to potential clients.

Organization and consistency: this is the simple trick to keeping up with the ever changing marketplace, and understanding how to keep your practice steps ahead of the competition. When you take a moment to convert your current marketing practices into Marketing Health Academy's “The Marketing Circle'' you are immediately implementing organization and consistency. Marketing Health Academy is your complete marketing resource!

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What is Conversion Rate Optimization

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You may not realize it, but CRO is everywhere in your marketing. Whether you are a marketing powerhouse or a small chiropractic business, your conversion rate optimization is not only a key performance asset but a profit-building technique!

As a chiropractor, using the Marketing Health Academy strategic chiropractic marketing plan sets you up to define what your final results should be, as well as creating marketing funnels for a more clearly defined pathway to help get you there.

So, what exactly is CRO?

Conversion Rate Optimization is the percentage of online visitors that complete the desired action, such as requesting more information or clicking the FAQ section. Each action (or inaction) creates data, and that data can be utilized to calculate the conversion rate. The goal of the CRO is to optimize this data into best practice- what works best to generate the greatest return on investment (ROI) with your marketing budget.

Any desired action you want to track can have a CRO applied to it. The concept of CRO is too broad to be relevant to overall strategy - it requires details to determine a more focused definition. For instance, CRO can be implemented to track the number of incoming phone calls from a specific marketing campaign. For social media marketing, it can be used to track the number of Facebook users that check in. When developing a Chiropractic Marketing Plan, it helps to break it down:

First, there is an equation for CRO used with relevant KPIs (Key Performance Indicators (KPIs) are the critical (key) indicators of progress toward an intended result). If you're fully aware of your KPI's and where they need to improve, you're on the right track. Take the total number of conversions (things you are measuring) and divide it by the number of successful actions (visits, hits, views, calls, etc.) that you have. Multiply this by 100 to get a percentage figure. This is the conversion rate. The higher your conversion rate, the better your funnel is built (more on this later).

When broken down into conversion points included in the marketing funnels, the results reveal relevant information such as: how many people signed up for a newsletter, how many downloaded a file or an ebook, etc. Perhaps one of the best conversion rates to look at is how many client leads have been generated from a paid ad or social media campaign.

In another example, a multi-step marketing funnel may include a blog supported by paid ads styled to fit a product brand. Each ad would have a unique CRO, indicative of the success of the target. Paid ad conversion is crucial to determine where to get the best ROI. Google offers at least 5 ad types to choose from. How can you know which type works best for your demographic? Website traffic must be tracked to determine how many people actually found a blog and if it performed well enough to take customers to the next step. Remember, this is all just information, not a new customer-generator. Potential customers who make it this far need to take one more step to become a paying customer: The financial conversion! Financial conversion is the ultimate goal of business success and development. It doesn't happen with just one step of a funnel- this is an ongoing process. Understanding the process can help you determine if the entire funnel is optimized, or if adjustments are needed within the funnel for optimal results.

Why Do You Need CRO?

A well-defined marketing funnel can result in a higher conversion rate. The higher the conversion rate, the better your marketing plan works in your favor. The typical CRO figure lands anywhere between 1% and 5%. Higher conversion rates are usually indicative of a more well-designed plan. If your conversion rate drops, consider making adjustments to either the marketing funnel itself or the layout/content of the landing pages on your website before stopping the whole plan. Making updates to your landing pages are often simple fixes that may make the difference to everything along the pathway.

Benefits of CRO

The benefits of conversion rates are as simple as looking at the number of readers who found value in your blog. The number of people who clicked through to your landing page and then chose to click to read the blog is the "call to action" that leads to a new client. Here, a blog converts information into education and ultimately, into followers and leads. Leads are then converted into long-term clients.

A "call to action button" converts into downloads, newsletter sign-ups. These actions, in turn, create mailing lists for ongoing information, which in the end creates new leads.

Marketing funnels have any number of input methods and can travel down multiple pathways before arriving at their final destination. The goal is to define the conversion points, the value of the points, and the rate at which they arrive. CRO's allow you to evaluate the success of your efforts and necessary areas to improve.

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7 Rules of a Chiropractic Marketing Plan

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Strategic marketing is a mixture of math and science, adding just the right dose of social media. The details of a chiropractic marketing plan are based upon the following concepts.

That leads us to the 7 rules that should be set specifically for chiropractic marketing. Let’s get started with an understanding of what strategic chiropractic marketing plans are. Step into the lab and put a little bit of math with a little bit of science and put it into a beaker and shake well (These are your KPI’s). Then take a pinch of social science and drop it in. The reaction you see is your strategy and results. The more precise your KPI’s are the bigger your reaction. Your beaker in this scenario is your marketing plan. The more detailed and precise your plan is the higher your chances of an impressive reaction.

Demographics, terms, markets, and trends.

On top of every marketing plan, you need a goal. When setting goals, try creating with smart goals. These help you create plans that any person on your team can follow easily. Demographics help you determine who you are targeting, where you will target them, and what will peak their interests. What are the markets and trends that will give you the biggest return and the term you are willing to follow to get there?

Your terms are the promotions, the inspirations, the educational material, and any other items you need to build interest in.

When you are creating your plan, you should note such things as landing pages, keywords, hashtags, and specialized images.

Social Media Campaigns and Communication

In successful marketing you don’t use social media to promote sales, you use it to create communication between you and your followers, prospective followers, and even your critics. You can turn even negatives into positives with your social media plan. I very seldom pay for ads on most social media platforms as the ROI just isn’t there anymore to warrant it. But hashtags marketing is still a hit and I use it for everything. (TIP: ritetag.com)

Google

Don’t leave out one of the top tools in your toolbox. Google My Business and Google Merchant. My marketing plan usually has a whole section dedicated to these tools because of the power they provide in business growth. As a chiropractor, I can’t imagine not utilizing this tool weekly.

Now that your marketing plan has a general direction to go, the time has come to add the science and the math. This information will provide you with a detailed direction based upon facts.

KPI’s from past years and months

As a business, you may not have KPI’s in detail from the past years or even the past month. If this is the case, you need Marketing Health Academy. This information lets you know what worked, and what didn’t. It keeps you from spending money needlessly. In my KPI’s I even keep track of the increase/decrease in social media followers. If they are dropping you know that your content doesn’t relate to them. It is time for a change.

Paid Advertising

If everything is set up correctly you should know where to put your money, and how it will affect your bottom line. Soon we will look at marketing funnels, and this is part of the top tier of your marketing funnel.

Blogs and Video

Chiropractic marketing has 2 essential tools for growth, and both of them create either educational material or inspiration. If you don’t have the e-book yet, now is a great time to download it. These are so important in your marketing that they have their own section in the 5 tiers. Beyond education and inspiration, they are vital to SEO in building links and promoting keywords. I’m sure you have heard that content is key, although a small exaggeration, content does cover multiple areas of a successful digital business.

I would also like to point out that due to the pandemic, having part of your business digitally available is going to increase in importance more in 2022 than it did in 2021. We were all still trying to figure out how this would work as the pandemic took hold. Now that we have an understanding of how to be a digital chiropractor, we need to promote it.

Marketing Funnels

The last tool you should place in your marketing plan is the funnel. All of the previous information can now be placed in a chart that you follow. Make sure you follow the last tier in “The Marketing Circle”, and keep frequent information about how each of these is working. The evaluation phase. If you keep current KPI’s you can prevent an expensive error from happening.

Example:

Marketing Funnels for Chiropractors

This information is at the core of your chiropractic strategic marketing and should be given the time that it takes. At Marketing Health Academy we have a package for every situation to help you along. Appointments are available on Facebook if you want to talk to someone about your specific situation.

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