Rocket Chiropractic Podcast

By: Dr. Jerry Kennedy
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  • The Rocket Chiropractic Podcast is the business and marketing podcast for chiropractors. Hosted by Dr. Jerry Kennedy, this podcast provides practical, common-sense, patient-centered tips that chiropractors can start using right away. So if you are a new chiropractor, a struggling chiropractor, or just a chiropractor looking for tips to grow your chiropractic practice, subscribe now. Get practical advice designed to help you decrease the stress around growing your practice, help you help more people, and help you start growing your income. Best chiropractic websites: https://rocketchiro.com/best-chiropractic-websites Business & marketing training for chiropractors: https://rocketchiro.com/join Free practice assessment: https://rocketchiro.com/chiropractic-practice-assessment Chiropractic SEO: https://rocketchiro.com/chiropractic-seo
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  • Simple Chiropractic Marketing Structure That Will Help You Grow Your Chiropractic Practice

    Simple Chiropractic Marketing Structure That Will Help You Grow Your Chiropractic Practice
    Sep 19 2024
    Chiropractors like to tell people that they are “a chiropractor who does something different” or that they “aren’t like most chiropractors.” I’m not sure what percentage of chiropractors say they are different, but it could be the majority, which is funny if you think about it. If EVERYONE is different, no one is different. Just something to think about. Anyway, I’m getting sidetracked. The reality is that chiropractors are different. I know that from my time as a chiropractor and I know it because I’ve worked with hundreds of chiropractors over the last several years. When I create podcasts and in-depth trainings for chiropractors, I try to keep in mind that chiropractors have different practice styles, talents, and opportunities. My goal has never been to populate the chiropractic profession with a bunch of little Dr. Jerry Kennedys. ONE of me is MORE than enough. That’s why I’ve always tried to focus on concepts and principles more than how I would specifically run a practice. We live in a world today where chiropractors have a LOT of marketing options. Some chiropractors get overwhelmed by trying to do them all. Other chiropractors get overwhelmed so they don’t try to do any of them. Either extreme is a recipe for disaster. To keep things simple and help chiropractors avoid marketing overwhelm, chiropractors should categorize their marketing into 3 categories: internal, external, and retention. Let me explain. Internal Marketing Internal marketing is when chiropractors use their existing patients to get more patients. Basically, we are talking about a referral-based practice. Referral-based chiropractic practices are often considered the golden goose of chiropractic practices. Although, some referrals do “just happen” there are things that chiropractors can and should do to ensure that as many referrals happen as possible. This is also true about online reviews, which is sort of like a modern-day referral. Some people leave reviews without being asked. Most people don’t. If you want more reviews and the benefits that come from them, you should have a system in place to get more reviews. External Marketing External marketing is when chiropractors reach out to people who are not existing patients in order to attract them into their practice. When chiropractors first get started, EVERYTHING is external marketing because new chiropractors don’t have many patients. External marketing can be online or offline. External marketing can be cheap (shaking hands and kissing babies) or expensive (paying for marketing help). External marketing can be short-term or long-term. Generally speaking, there are external marketing options available to every chiropractor. The important thing is that chiropractors have an external marketing strategy and that they focus on the external marketing that makes the most sense for their practice. When chiropractors are new, they should focus on marketing that is affordable and fast. You don’t want to take big financial swings when you have an extremely limited budget. And you also don’t want to focus all your energy on long-term marketing, when you need patients NOW. Once a chiropractor has some practice momentum, their external marketing often changes. They can afford to pay someone for help with Google ads. They can invest in chiropractic SEO which is a more long-term marketing strategy. Regardless of whether you are just getting started or your practice has been around for 20 years, there need to be people in your local community who are finding out about your practice this month who didn’t know about your practice last month. Most of the time, that happens through some form of external marketing. Retention Marketing Retention marketing is like internal marketing in the sense that you are dealing with existing patients. But the goal of retention marketing is to make sure your patients follow through with their recommendations, and that you maintain the doctor-patient relationship for as long as possible. I’m not at all advocating unnecessary care or patient manipulation tactics. However, people don’t understand chiropractic or how their body works. If left to their own devices, people will assume that chiropractic is only for acute care and the instant that they feel better, their body is completely better. Chiropractors who are not proactive about retention will typically have a leaky-bucket practice. Patients rarely complete their initial recommendations. The chiropractor often doesn’t do a good job establishing a long-term relationship with their patients. The result is that people leave early and they rarely come back. That’s no good. Conclusion Chiropractors don’t have to go about marketing their practice the same as everyone else. In fact, they shouldn’t. Chiropractors are different…not just because they do different things within the practice itself, but because they are different people. A chiropractor’s personality,...
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    25 mins
  • Mindset vs Habits: Which is More Important For Chiropractors?

    Mindset vs Habits: Which is More Important For Chiropractors?
    Sep 16 2024

    The other day someone asked me what an abundance mindset meant to me. Honestly, it made me roll my eyes. I was thinking, “Here we go. One of these manifest your future guys.”

    I know this isn’t going to set well with a percentage of chiropractors, but I’m going to say it anyway. The law of attraction is stupid. You aren’t God. You aren’t a little god. You don’t create the world around you with your thoughts. You don’t manifest anything.

    There…I said it. It felt good, too.

    Now, don’t get me wrong. I know mindset is important. How you think impacts how you act. How you act impacts your life. So in that sense, mindset does impact your life, but only as much as it impacts your actions.

    If you could only pick one, I would tell you to get your habits right before worrying about getting your mind right. I don’t particularly care how you feel about the task at hand, positive habits will move the needle regardless of how you feel.

    A positive mindset alone is of little value. There is no scenario where you can think yourself into the life of your dreams. Sooner or later, you are going to have to put the rubber to the road…pen to paper. If you want to change your life, you are going to have to work for it.

    With that said, it’s easier to have good habits when you have a good attitude. A positive mindset can give you the energy and motivation needed to work hard. A positive mindset may help you stay the course at times when you might have otherwise quit.

    That’s why the best-case scenario for your success is for you to have positive habits AND a positive mindset. They work hand-in-hand, but the driving force for your success will be your positive habits.

    We live in a world that overemphasis the power of thoughts. There are people out there who are so convinced that they can manifest things that they aren’t honest to themselves or anyone else about their situation.

    They act as if admitting that they are struggling or saying that their practice isn’t doing as well as they would like is some sort of death nail to their future best life. People like that go around living life like the people in the Lego Movie, “EVERYTHING IS AWESOOOOME!!!”

    If that’s something you struggle with, let me ease your mind. Your thoughts and words don’t have that sort of power. You aren’t God….which is a good thing.

    You aren’t going to wreck your future blessings in life by admitting that you are currently having a hard time. The reason you are struggling is because you don’t know what you are doing and you have bad habits. It’s not because you complained when you should have said something positive.

    Lying is never good…even when you are doing it to yourself. And if you keep telling yourself that everything is fine when everything isn’t fine, that’s exactly what you are doing. My suggestion is that you be honest with yourself.

    Don’t think more highly of yourself than you should. Don’t think less of yourself than you should. Have an honest mindset. If you need help, ask for help. If you don’t know what you are doing, start learning.

    The future, more successful YOU knows things that you don’t currently know and has habits that you don’t currently have. So work on that. Start learning new things. Start developing better habits. That’s how you’ll become the person you want to become.

    OH…and it doesn’t hurt to have a good attitude along the way.

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    19 mins
  • Why Do Chiropractors Have A Chiropractic Website?

    Why Do Chiropractors Have A Chiropractic Website?
    Sep 12 2024
    When I graduated from chiropractic college back in 2004, chiropractors were still asking themselves, “Do I really need a chiropractic website?” Thinking about that makes me feel like I’m 100 years old. For many years now, chiropractors have accepted the fact that they need a website for their practice. Now I know there are still a few holdout chiropractors who still don’t have a chiropractic website, but those chiropractors are the exception to the rule, not the norm. In fact, one of the first things that many new chiropractors do when they start their own practice is set up some sort of chiropractic website. Over the last 20 years, chiropractors have gone from, “Do I really need a chiropractic website?” to “I definitely need a chiropractic website.” Unfortunately, many chiropractors treat their website like a box they need to check. They know (or at least think) they need a chiropractic website, but they don’t necessarily understand why or how their website can help them. Chiropractors do the same sort of thing with social media. They know social media can help them reach more people and grow their practice, but they often don’t understand how. So most chiropractors get on social media without a plan, and most chiropractors don’t really benefit from their social media efforts. Chiropractic websites are similar. Most chiropractors have a website, but most chiropractors aren’t getting the full benefit from having a website. When they started their practice, they threw something up on the internet themselves or they paid someone at a chiropractic website company to do it for them, with little or no thought as to the point of the website. I’m constantly amazed at the number of chiropractors who KNOW they have a crappy website, but they don’t do anything about it. They’ve had a crappy website for YEARS. It’s like they just assume that websites don’t work in their area. Maybe it’s not your area. Maybe your website just sucks. And if you aren’t getting anything from your chiropractic website, why do you have it? Even the $20/yr you pay GoDaddy for a URL is a waste of money if the website isn’t helping your practice grow. Heck, I’d rather waste $20/yr on Lotto scratchers than pay for a pointless URL. At least the scratchers give me a possible ROI. Your chiropractic website is supposed to be an asset to your practice. Your chiropractic website should be functioning like a virtual marketing CA who’s out on the internet attracting new patients to your practice and helping them schedule their first appointment. But most chiropractors and chiropractic website companies miss the point. Websites that chiropractors build themselves are usually terrible. And by terrible, I mean they look bad, the user experience is bad, the sites don’t show up on Google, and the process of becoming a new patient is clunky and unclear. Chiropractic website companies aren’t much better. Some of the very first chiropractic website companies took a more-is-more approach to websites. Instead of focusing on the main thing, which should be scheduling a new patient appointment, they fill the website full of everything anyone could possibly want to know about chiropractic. It seems like almost every chiropractic website company that has popped up over the years has decided to copy and paste what they saw the OGs doing. Chiropractic website companies are creating cluttered, unorganized, unfocused chiropractic websites…and chiropractors everywhere are paying for them. Why do they do that? Well…the answer is simple. The chiropractic website companies are making websites for chiropractors, not patients. The chiropractors are the ones paying for the sites, so the site has to appeal to the chiropractor…otherwise, they won’t pay for it. Are you starting to see a problem yet? If you pay for a website that is attractive to chiropractors, but your patients aren’t chiropractors, your website is built for the wrong person. A great chiropractic website is built with the new patient in mind. If you miss that, you miss the whole point. Your chiropractic website should be built and designed in such a way that it helps new patients find you, and when those people find you, your website should help them choose you. When a good fit for your office finds your website, it should be exactly what they were looking for. There should be an internal sigh of relief for them that says, “Thank God. I found the right place.” Then the process of becoming a new patient should be so straightforward a knuckle-dragging Neanderthal could figure it out. Clutter is not helpful. A lack of clarity is not helpful. The detailed history of chiropractic, the 5 different phases of chiropractic care, and a stupid spinning spine are NOT helpful. They are distractions. So if your chiropractic website isn’t helping your practice reach new people and helping those new people choose you, why do you even have it? It’s pointless...
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    8 mins
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