For many functional medicine practitioners, it can be overwhelming to be uncertain about where to invest money to boost the practice. There are many social media platforms to bring your office’s name right in front of your target audience. With the availability of all these platforms and each claiming to produce remarkable results, deciding where to put your money can be a daunting task.

Even if some practitioners use the best platforms for functional medicine advertising, chances are they may be missing out on some crucial aspects that help them grow their practice further and faster.

Return on your investment (ROI) is the focal point of advertisement campaigns, and in today’s post, I am sharing some tried and tested tips that will help you maximize ROI on your functional medicine advertising.

Adopt A Holistic Approach

Read any of my posts related to strategies and tips, and you will always find me discussing the basic approach you need to adopt. When you are on the path to maximizing ROI on your functional medicine advertising, your approach plays an important role. A well-devised ad strategy with clear goals, KPIs, and metrics will likely yield a better return on investment than a campaign lacking any of these key elements. Taking out time to adopt a holistic approach and create a well-rounded strategy will set up your campaign for success.

Be Experimental & Try Out New Channels

There are many options available when it comes to social media platforms, and you don’t necessarily need a presence on all of these channels. But, if you want to maximize ROI on your functional medicine advertising and only use one or two platforms, you may be missing out on ample opportunities.

To maximize your ROI, it’s important to explore new forums and channels that you can experiment with. For example, if your current strategy only focuses on Facebook, trying out other platforms like TikTok can expand your reach to a wider audience and increase awareness of your products or services.

You can also undertake competitive research to determine which platforms are working for your competitors and then include them in your functional medicine advertising plan.

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Embrace Versatility & Opt For Mix & Match

Once you know which strategies work best for you, the next inevitable step is to combine them and create an effective mixed media plan for your functional medicine advertising. This means that you have to go through A/B testing to predict which mediums and strategies bring you the highest ROI.

You can also lean on an expert to seek advice – whether from a consultant or a pro agency. It will help you ensure that all the elements of your ad campaigns are in sync and work only to boost your practice while minimizing the cost.

Opting for omnichannel is indispensable for maximizing ROI in today’s revolutionary digital landscape. Now, patients interact with offices across different platforms. They may start their journey on one platform, continue to engage with you on another one, and finish off on a completely different avenue. Therefore, to increase your chances of conversion, you must opt for a multi-channel functional medicine advertising strategy.

My team works with many practitioners like you and helps them grow their practice through pragmatic and effective digital marketing strategies. Schedule a discovery call with us here and get started with your marketing campaign.

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Automate, Automate, Automate

To attain better ROI on functional medicine advertising, practitioners must focus on automating their processes. Automation tools lend a helping hand in managing and executing campaigns as well as render insightful data that aid you in making better and informed decisions.

You can even automate your best-performing ads. This gives you impressive conversion rates and saves a lot of your time. Needless to say, automation is a significant process because the algorithm contains a massive amount of data to facilitate high ROI bidding.

Besides ad automation, other aspects of functional medicine advertising can easily be automated. For instance, with Facebook chatbot plugins, you can instantly answer queries generated by any interested prospect. Automation of these tasks means your team can free up some time to work on high-value tasks. This way, you can save money through automation and maximize ROI.

Pay on A Cost-Per-Result Basis

All practitioners seek one result from their functional medicine advertising campaigns, and that is to maximize return on their investment and scale their practice. Many practitioners who try their hands for the first time on digital advertising prefer to spend on strategies in which they have to pay on a cost-per-result basis.

Luckily, there are ad platforms in which you can pay according to the results. But of course, you have to take care of things that improve conversions. Elements like ad images or videos, copy, and landing pages play an imperative role in keeping your cost under control.

Add Value Through Quality Content

Your functional medicine advertising efforts will always show you positive results if you create high-quality content that serves your audience. To create good content, you need to adapt to your prospective patients’ needs, demands, and pain points. 

When you have this understanding and create content accordingly, your audience finds value in it and prefers engaging with your practice. Ensuring that a prospect converts into a patient through valuable content guarantees greater ROI.

You can also maximize ROI by repurposing your content. For instance, if you have a published post that has good engagement, likes, views, and shares, you can reshare that as a social media post or make a video out of that post to save time and resources.

Vigilant Tracking & Analysis of Campaigns

To maximize ROI on your functional medicine advertising, one of the crucial components you must have is benchmarks. Not only that, but you also need to have strategies in place to track and measure your performance against set benchmarks.

The good news is that multiple tools and resources can render real-time insights for your functional medicine advertising performance.

To track ROI on your functional medicine advertising, you need to adopt a systematic approach. The following guidelines will help you measure your ROI effectively and efficiently:

  • The first step is to know your goals and the objectives you would like to fulfill through your ad campaigns. Whether you want to raise awareness, generate leads, or want people to call your office to seek more information, you should know your goals.
  • Setting up Google Adwords tracking is crucial for measuring ROI.
  • Install Facebook Pixel to know where the traffic is coming from and how much traffic your ads are driving to your site.
  • Make the most of UTM codes.
  • Track your phone calls and office visits.
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Pay Importance To Your Patients’ Feedback

If you wish to attain greater ROI for your next functional medicine advertising campaign, ask your existing patients for their feedback. Patients who engage with your office can gladly tell you things they resonate with the most and things they don’t admire. 

Taking clues from this information, you can adjust your strategy and create value for your audience. If you continue to fine-tune your plan this way, you’ll likely see a great return on investment.

Wrapping Up 

Despite cutthroat competition in today’s business arena, you can still outperform competitors and achieve your goals. Aiming to maximize ROI on your functional medicine advertising urges you to push the boundaries and try out new things. While you do so, you must keep a close eye on things that are yielding results and aspects that are impeding your expected performance.

The hacks and strategies that I have discussed above will help you create an effective functional medicine advertising campaign and maximize the return on your investment.

If you are looking for an agency to curate an effective functional medicine advertising strategy, my team at Think Bullish can certainly help you.

We firmly believe that every practitioner has their struggles and a unique story to tell. Thatis why we prefer to collaborate closely with our clients to create the right and effective combination of strategies that bring success to your practice. Our ample experience and expertise, particularly in your field, will bring your practice into the limelight. Set up a call with us here.

Zack Siegel

Zack Siegel

Founder/CEO

Zack is a conversion rate lover and PPC ad man spending most of his time optimizing.

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