Addiction treatment marketing has many fluff posts with little meat on how to market in our industry. Many miss the most important factor and that’s the necessity of having a large audience. There are many components needed in a drug rehab Marketing mix, but without reaching a targeted audience you are wasting time and marketing budget.

Understanding Addiction Treatment Marketing Components

Drug and alcohol addiction Treatment centers expect instant results that they are used to getting from AdWords and call center lead generation. Their addiction treatment marketing is dependent on the instant calls from these two short-term solutions that they have to apy for over and over again. Before the Google restrictions in our industry there were about 75 big time players spending $500,000-$1,500,000 a month in that big boy sandbox.

The google restrictions will be lifted for those who qualify and they will be competing for the 1.91% of the clicks that paid marketing (PPC) generates. Hopefully many have learned from this and are including a better option with organic marketing in their drug rehab lead generation marketing plan. Organic rankings on page one of Google account for a whopping 70% of the click troughs. Generating leads is a huge problem for many of the small to medium sized treatment centers that only waste their marketing dollars on AdWords. They should include a localized SEO marketing strategy because they can compete with the big players with the marketing strategy.

Drug Rehab Call Tracking Metrics is a Absolute Must with an Addiction Treatment Center Marketing Plan

Call Tracking Metrics (a must to know where your calls are coming from, this is an inexpensive took), SEO, ADWORDS, PPC, “DRIP” Campaigns, mobile, call center lead generation, email mail marketing, organic rankings, gorilla marketing, FACEBOOK. LinkedIn, professional events, branding, networking, knowing all the search engines, listings on high traffic addiction sites (make sure if your link is coming from a website that the site has a PR7 or higher rating otherwise it’s hurting you,) being a thought leader and many more.

Had they set-up their addiction treatment marketing with a marketing mix (many different buckets) and tracked their calls they would not be dependent on one. A varied marketing mix is paramount in any business. Millennials have changed marketing forever and any business in our industry needs to grow their social media footprint for several reasons.

E-Harmony is one of the most known and successful dating websites in the US. They have 66 million users, and have produced 2 million marriages (the divorce rate of these marriages is 3.86%).

One of the main reasons they are successful is that they have grown their social media audience and understand how to market to them.

In the addiction and behavioral health industry many of the treatment centers and sales/service organizations either get an agency (that doesn’t have the addiction treatment marketing audience) or attempt to do this in house. When an agency is hired to perform social media marketing it takes a little while before the center realizes the agency is only good for paid marketing. They have not grown an audience that the addiction treatment center owns. Some advertising and marketing agencies will try to grow Facebook business likes to show they have done some work. This strategy is not effective due to Facebook’s new algorithm changes. Facebook’s new changes are heavily restricting posts from business pages. The power is now in personal profiles and groups.

Understanding How to Use Social Media for Drug Rehab Marketing

Once treatment centers realize the drug rehab marketing agency they hired is not producing results, and they haven’t even grown any electronic assets, they try to do the social media themselves. This could produce results that have the lowest cost per acquisition in their marketing. However, this does not happen immediately it takes time to build your brand in 1000’s of social media groups and corral a targeted audience. For this to happen they need to know each of the key social mediums intimately. Some drug and alcohol addiction treatment centers think social media marketing is easy and attempt to do it in house. They think that a couple of posts will produce activity and generate leads. They also do not place or look at any back-end metrics like Google Analytics and call tracking. These are essential because they clearly tells you how much traffic is generated, where the traffic is coming from and what is or isn’t performing.

Addiction treatment social media marketing requires a complete understanding of the different mediums. Each has it’s own strength and it’s own secrets, tricks and back-doors to maximize reach and your time investment. Knowing where, how and when for each particular medium is the difference from reaching 50 to reaching 1000’s.

6 Key Ways for Drug Rehab Marketing to Utilize Social Media for Addiction Treatment Centers

• How to craft content (the old days of a hard ad with features and benefits doesn’t work anymore) it’s not about your organization it’s about attracting and engaging your target audience.
• Tracking their marketing with Google analytics and knowing where and what are producing their calls with CallTrackingMetrics.
• How to grow a targeted audience on the 5 mediums in our industry. The benefit of this is when you grow your audience it is yours forever and you can repeatedly get your message in-front of them.
• Must be active on 5 mediums (LinkedIn, Facebook, G+, Twitter, and You Tube), or use an organization that has a large footprint in our industry of professionals and individuals seeking treatment that pull the traffic to them.
• Knowing how to push a targeted audience to their website increasing SEO, getting treatment clients to make the tough decision to get treatment there, networking and setting up potential reciprocal referral relationships and getting potential clients for sales/service organizations.
• Understand that having their own content housed on their website will give returns on SEO, getting more clients for treatment centers, and leads for sales/service organizations for years and years (with the correct content you re-purpose it to your social media audience for a long time.)

E-Harmony of Addiction Treatment Marketing

We are the E-Harmony in the Addiction and behavioral health industry with one of the nation’s largest addiction treatment marketing social media footprints.

• We assist Treatment Centers, Detox Facilities, Addiction/BH Sales and Service Organizations, Private Clinicians, Interventionists, Attorneys, Social Workers, Chiropractors, and even addiction/BH individuals looking for employment utilizing social media in our industry to grow their social media footprint, network, increase organic SEO, get connected with those seeking treatment, generate referrals, set up reciprocal referral relationships and much more.
• We set-up a proven marketing shell for treatment centers, detox’s, industry related sales/service organizations. Ask about our 90 day social media marketing package.
• Teach you how to grow and utilize social media.
• Teach you how to grow your professional email list with the hard to reach professionals than can produce referrals and sales.
• Teach you how to use social media to produce treatment clients, and Sales/Service clients. Ways to grow your contacts and how to use them to get referrals. How to grow and reach your targeted audience that is addiction and behavioral related (professionals and individuals seeking treatment).
• Increase your web traffic using social media.
• Set-up phone or face to face meetings with hard to reach potential reciprocating referral Addiction/BH professionals
• Teach you how to market to your Alumni
• Available to represent you at any conferences

Addiction Treatment Marketing Audience

We have one of the largest addiction treatment marketing footprints We specialize in social media marketing and teach you how grow your footprint while maximizing the time needed to produce results. We have a social media footprint reaching over 1,000,000 utilizing LinkedIn, Facebook, G+, Twitter and You Tube.

• 60,000 Addiction/BH professional email contacts
• 15,000 Addiction/BH contacts in Florida
• 30,000 Level One Addiction/BH Connections on LinkedIn
• 33,000 Addiction/BH Followers on LinkedIn
• Run 13 Addiction Professional Groups on LinkedIn and Facebook with over 50,000 Members (CLICK HERE for a list to join)
• Run 12 Addiction Facebook groups with over 60,000 members of professionals or individuals seeking treatment.

Addiction Treatment Marketing Specialists

If you’re interested in setting up an addiction treatment marketing mix, growing your social media audience, filling your referral funnel in multiple ways, and learning how to track your calls contact me at [email protected], or attend our Addiction and Behavioral Health Executive thought Leader Panel Series in Riviera Beach, FL (next event 6/27/18.) We will be providing what the Addiction and Behavioral Health industry needs to know about social media addiction treatment marketing, utilization review, billing and collections to generate revenue and aftercare programs to assist your clients.  This event has 5 Executive Thought Leaders presenting on proven ways for industry related organization to get new revenue streams and increase their ROI many different ways. Our March 2018 event SOLD OUT.

Connect with me on LinkedIn at https://www.linkedin.com/in/charlesdavis1

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