Anyone who has been in need of medical care knows it can be a deeply personal and emotional experience. For friend, family or individual from walking in the door to the time of end of treatment, people want to feel safe, respected and understood.
Many Healthcare Practitioners promote themselves as the compassionate, caring choice that you can trust. So, as a healthcare provider, how can you stand apart from the crowd and uniquely connect with your audience?
Emotion-based marketing
Tapping into your audiences’ emotions can be a powerful means to differentiate. Emotional ads/promotions drive higher conversion rates because they strategically connect with feelings and influence choices.
Emotions are designed to drive the decision-making process by providing the brain with information simply and quickly, without requiring a lot of deep thought. Many people refer to this experience as their ‘gut instinct.’
Three ways to build an emotion-based marketing campaign for YOUR Clinic:
- Know your potential new patients & your patient’s emotions: There are many emotions you can focus on with healthcare, particularly confidence, empathy, safety, hope, compassion and love. Determine which emotional traits best represent your brand, your message and the type of image you want to convey. Is there a higher-level message that you can tie to this emotion?
- Balance emotion and reasoning: On one hand, healthcare providers have an opportunity to point to high-quality healthcare procedures, in a state-of-the-art facility using advanced technologies. Plus, the fact that they provide support for the emotional aspects of the patient experience.
- Be honest: An emotion-based marketing campaign will be successful if the emotion and the message you are sharing are real. Is it the same as the feeling and experience your patients have while they are in your care? For example, if your campaign promotes the feeling of hope, the entire patient experience should support that feeling.
Emotional ads typically focus on the audience’s problem, need or pain point. Visual images that tell an emotional story can be effective in helping your patients understand how your care can solve the problem, answer the need and help them.
Healthcare affects everyone on a personal and emotional level. When your practice creates an emotional connection through your marketing message, you can quickly and easily build practice loyalty and trust.
