Using Facebook To Build Your Chiropractic Business
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Chiropractors are increasingly turning to social media to build their practices. Clearly, no discussion of social media would be complete if it left out Facebook, the wildly successful social media site that had over 400 million active users at last count.
Virtually every big corporation, from Coca-Cola to Starbucks, is using Facebook to communicate with their fans. Your chiropractic business can use Facebook for the same purposes, although on a smaller scale, of course.
Before you start marketing on Facebook, you need to understand the difference between Facebook profiles and Facebook pages. A Facebook profile is linked to the identity of an individual person. A Facebook page, on the other hand, may be affiliated with a business or other organization, as well as with an individual. When you sign up for Facebook, you automatically get a personal profile, but you will need to undertake a few additional steps to get a Facebook page for your business.
Of course, creating a Facebook page is only the first step. For one thing, your new page won't have any content until you add some. Also, unless you're a celebrity, few people will visit your page until you start promoting it. You will need to commit to an ongoing process of updating your Facebook page and other social media sites. This can be time consuming, which is one reason I recommend that you focus your efforts on one or two major sites and ignore the rest.
It should be noted that Facebook is not a replacement for your own chiropractic website. On the contrary, Facebook, Twitter, and other social media sites should be integrated with your existing web presence. For example, blog posts or events listed on your website can also be posted on Facebook. This way, you're providing another avenue for current and prospective clients to find out about your practice.
Promote your Facebook page on your website, and vice versa. There are handy tools that can automatically share information among your different websites. For example, you can have your Twitter messages automatically posted on Facebook. Before you do this, however, make sure that you will only be posting information that is appropriate and relevant to your fans. People may get annoyed if they get a tweet from you every time you play Farmville. On the other hand, this doesn't mean that you must remain stiffly formal. Mixing health-related information with stories about your family or hobbies can actually help your business by making it easier for your audience to connect with you.
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