Posts Tagged: Veterinary Social Media

February often gets a bad rap. It’s usually dark, it’s often cold, and it feels like a letdown after the excitement of the holiday season. With a little bit of pre-planning, however, you can ensure your social media is full of enough life and personality to add a little shine to even the coldest, shortest February days.

We’re so excited to em-bark with you on this next season of your veterinary marketing, and we want to help you start the new year off strong with some helpful content ideas. This list of January holidays and themes for pet owner engagement will make it easier than ever to create interesting and eye-catching content.

It’s hard to believe the holidays are upon us, but before we know it, we’ll be gearing up to celebrate the start of a new year. Before you get too entrenched in the hustle and bustle of the holiday season, take some time to plan out your December social media calendar. These holidays and themes are bound to garner serious pet owner engagement:

The holiday season is a great time for gratitude, family bonding, delicious food, and cozy nights at home. It’s also a fantastic time for fun, engaging social media ideas that vet practices can share with their pet owners to increase reach and engagement. We’ve got some great ideas for social media content to help you put together a winning veterinary marketing calendar:

You’ve made the exciting decision to open your own veterinary practice. Congratulations! As you get closer and closer to your grand opening, it is time to start focusing on marketing your new business. Beyond Indigo Pets has created this marketing timeline to help you figure out when you need to do which tasks to successfully get the word out about your practice.

In order to attract certain kinds of clients to your practice, you have to meet them where they are. If you are trying to get a younger demographic of pet parents through your doors, turn to TikTok. As a social media platform that attracts younger audiences, TikTok also gives you a fun and dynamic way to connect and engage with a whole new audience that could become new clients. But where do you start? Our easy-to-follow tips will help you create memorable TikToks in no time.

Veterinary marketing helps you show the world what you do best—provide top tier veterinary care for pets in your area. Marketing is the ideal way to share information with people who are searching for it (and for the services you provide). Test out these veterinarian marketing ideas to be sure that users can find you when they need you:

Create a Custom Website

Your veterinary website serves as your business card, your digital waiting room, and your first impression for potential customers who might find you in a web search. Using a custom website (not a template) is one of the best ways to showcase your business and what makes it special. This means having a unique design that highlights your branding, but also creating custom content that expresses your voice as a practice. Don’t know where to get started on a new custom website? Don’t worry, we can help!

Expand Your Reach with Pay-Per-Click Ads

Veterinary SEO helps you optimize your website to entice new organic visitors to find you based on keywords, website speed, mobile responsiveness, and other technical factors. If you want to spread your reach even farther, though, you should put some focus on pay-per-click advertising. Putting advertising dollars behind your veterinary marketing efforts means that you can target specific audiences who are the most likely to become clients. You can also make sure your name and your brand reach even farther than they ever have before. 

Showcase Your Client’s Pets on Social Media

Working in a veterinary clinic gives you easy access to a hugely effective marketing tool: cute animal pictures. Sharing your client’s pet pictures on your social media platforms is a quick and simple way to get a lot of engagement from your followers. The more engagement you get, the more your content will be seen. You can also have photo contests to encourage people to share photos (and engage with your page). You might want to add a photo sharing consent line to your intake paperwork to ensure that you have permission to use these photos when you want to. 

Use a Blog to Educate Clients

Blogs are great tools for consistently adding new content to your website, and you can also use them to educate your clients and show your expertise in your field. Try to write at least one blog a month to help your SEO efforts. Think about questions you hear a lot in your practice, and write a blog post that answers the question. This allows you to educate current and new pet owners while making yourself their top source for pet health information. It’ll make you more likely to rank highly in web searches, too.

Introduce Your Team

New and potential clients love to truly get to know who you are as a practice, and there’s no better way to do that than to feature the smiling faces of your hard-working team. Personal touches like this help you make the transition from being seen as a business to a partner in pet care. Here are a few ways you can showcase your team and add a personal feel to your veterinary marketing:

• Social media posts
• Staff bios on your website
• Add a Meet the Doctor highlight to your home page (or make it a blog series)

Beyond Indigo Pets is a veterinary marketing agency with decades of experience in veterinary marketing, and we want to help you show the world what you do. Our veterinary marketing company also offers custom websites and blogging services to get you more clients. Call (877) 244-9322 or fill out our form to transform your marketing efforts.

The Burning Questions We Received at VMX

The morning seemed calm enough—people camped out in front of the exhibit hall doors with their morning bagel and coffee. It was a peaceful scene, and not unusual for the first day of the Veterinary Meeting & Expo (VMX). 

Then, insanity hit. 

Your social media platforms are an invaluable tool to reach and engage with both current and potential clients. If you are looking for new ways to boost your social media engagement, Beyond Indigo Pets has you covered. Keep reading to learn about some of the top posts to get people talking on your page: