I am a little sad after finishing the book. Maybe it's because the book is aimed at younger people and I am already close to 50.
I am a family doctor in Florida. About two years ago, I quit my two jobs and dropped out of traditional medicine. By traditional, I mean the typical busy clinic where you only get 5 minutes with your doctor who is stressed out because of the hours they will have to sit in front of the EMR program to document your visit.
My office is what they call a micropractice. It is not that bad at all. The only problem is that I am in an extremely competitive area, so I am not as busy as I could be if we moved elsewhere and started over. I don't have a lot of expenses, but I'm not making enough money now.
I used to complain about how hard it was to attract patients. Then, about a year ago, I started studying SEO and I started blogging. I have written a lot of posts on my main practice website. Maybe 60-70. My posts have led directly to new patient calls because certain keywords I have used correspond to specific phone queries in such a way that I know it is working.
While my practice is still not busy enough, every new patient I get says they found me in a Google search. I have decided to go into the field of SEO for medical facilities. Specifically addiction treatment programs. With my website and practice, I can help a few people that live near my office. By doing SEO work for medical addiction programs, I can help a lot of people by helping more people suffering from addiction to find quality treatment programs. Of course, I will not work with a bad facility.
I have one current customer. We are still in the early stages and he understands that it takes time to get everything going. One problem I have is improving bounce rate on my own site and improving design on all of my sites. I have been studying and practicing with my theme to get better at that.
The other thing I am doing is forcing myself to do videos of myself speaking. I am terrible on camera and in front of an audience. I hate the way I sound and speak. My mouth gets extremely dry right away. Still, I am forcing myself to do it because I was told that putting videos of myself speaking as a medical expert may reduce my bounce rate. It did go down a little bit. I really need to work on the design and use the short code tools in my theme.
So that is my big idea for now. To do marketing work to help bring people suffering with addiction together with treatment programs on a larger scale than I can do in my own small practice. I am also building a site to directly bring patients and programs together. Maybe it is sort of like MJ's Limo business but for drug addicts and treatment programs.
I don't know if this is going to work out or be any good, but at least I am getting marketing experience, at least in content marketing and SEO. I am also pretty good at programming, though it makes me sleepy now. I always thought I would build a software company and sell medical software. I did write an open source EMR program that a lot of people like. I also published a tracking app on the Apple App store that I fully wrote myself. It is a drill down interface based on Core Data.
The thing about programming is that it is hard to get myself to sit down and work on programs that much anymore. I will add small features and fix bugs, but anything too big is tiring. Maybe with marketing experience, I can revisit selling programs. I used to complain that no one bought my app, but I did no marketing at all. I thought at the time that the app store just magically brought buyers to my app.
Enough about me. Thank you for letting me in to the forum!
I am a family doctor in Florida. About two years ago, I quit my two jobs and dropped out of traditional medicine. By traditional, I mean the typical busy clinic where you only get 5 minutes with your doctor who is stressed out because of the hours they will have to sit in front of the EMR program to document your visit.
My office is what they call a micropractice. It is not that bad at all. The only problem is that I am in an extremely competitive area, so I am not as busy as I could be if we moved elsewhere and started over. I don't have a lot of expenses, but I'm not making enough money now.
I used to complain about how hard it was to attract patients. Then, about a year ago, I started studying SEO and I started blogging. I have written a lot of posts on my main practice website. Maybe 60-70. My posts have led directly to new patient calls because certain keywords I have used correspond to specific phone queries in such a way that I know it is working.
While my practice is still not busy enough, every new patient I get says they found me in a Google search. I have decided to go into the field of SEO for medical facilities. Specifically addiction treatment programs. With my website and practice, I can help a few people that live near my office. By doing SEO work for medical addiction programs, I can help a lot of people by helping more people suffering from addiction to find quality treatment programs. Of course, I will not work with a bad facility.
I have one current customer. We are still in the early stages and he understands that it takes time to get everything going. One problem I have is improving bounce rate on my own site and improving design on all of my sites. I have been studying and practicing with my theme to get better at that.
The other thing I am doing is forcing myself to do videos of myself speaking. I am terrible on camera and in front of an audience. I hate the way I sound and speak. My mouth gets extremely dry right away. Still, I am forcing myself to do it because I was told that putting videos of myself speaking as a medical expert may reduce my bounce rate. It did go down a little bit. I really need to work on the design and use the short code tools in my theme.
So that is my big idea for now. To do marketing work to help bring people suffering with addiction together with treatment programs on a larger scale than I can do in my own small practice. I am also building a site to directly bring patients and programs together. Maybe it is sort of like MJ's Limo business but for drug addicts and treatment programs.
I don't know if this is going to work out or be any good, but at least I am getting marketing experience, at least in content marketing and SEO. I am also pretty good at programming, though it makes me sleepy now. I always thought I would build a software company and sell medical software. I did write an open source EMR program that a lot of people like. I also published a tracking app on the Apple App store that I fully wrote myself. It is a drill down interface based on Core Data.
The thing about programming is that it is hard to get myself to sit down and work on programs that much anymore. I will add small features and fix bugs, but anything too big is tiring. Maybe with marketing experience, I can revisit selling programs. I used to complain that no one bought my app, but I did no marketing at all. I thought at the time that the app store just magically brought buyers to my app.
Enough about me. Thank you for letting me in to the forum!
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