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Tackling Your Marketing Projects During COVID-19

During the COVID-19 pandemic, we understand the instinct to hunker down when it feels like your hands might be tied or that there are situations outside of your control. The Wonderist team has been hard at work putting together a comprehensive guide to help you tackle those projects that have been on the back burner and proactively creating impactful content that will boost your practice as you reopen your doors.

Your Resource Guide to Navigating COVID-19

As our nation is coming together to face the unique challenges of the COVID-19 outbreak, the Wonderbuds have been hard at work developing a resource guide to assist you and your team. In it, we cover email responses, how to talk with patients on the phone, strategies to step forward as a leader in your local community, video scripts for social posts and a free solution for you to provide virtual consults to your team.

COVID-19 Talking Points For Your Front Desk Staff

As more COVID-19 cases are reported across the United States, patients are becoming increasingly, and understandably, concerned. Sandy Pardue, one of the dental industry’s leading authorities on team training, organization systems, and office processes, has kindly shared her expertise on how to best communicate with patients who are concerned about their health and safety in places such as your dental practice.

How To Email Your Patients When Your Practice Is Closed

Some offices have seen an increase in patient cancellations when they reach out via email. We advocate leading from the front and being proactive. We have prepared an email for offices that are closing below.

How To Email Your Patients When Your Practice Is Open

If your practice is staying open, now is the time to let your patients know. We’ve provided a quick and simple email template to make this statement seamless.

RESPONDING ON SOCIAL MEDIA: How to Address the COVID-19 Virus

As global concern about the current COVID-19 outbreak grows, we know there is no higher priority for your practice than the health and safety of your patients. That’s why we encourage you to inform your patients and community members how your office is monitoring the current situation while providing proactive measures patients can take to keep themselves healthy and safe.

10 Best Dental Websites of 2019

2020 is here! We have taken the time to review some of our favorite sites that we built in 2019 and have compiled the top 10 (as voted on by our team) in no particular order. Check them out here!

Custom Dental Photography with Kingstowne Dental Specialists

Wonderist traveled to Alexandria, Virginia to meet with Kingstowne Dental Specialists for custom photography and videography!

10 Dental Marketing Ideas to Grow Your Dental Practice

Marketing is essential to any business’s success, and dental practices are no different. Each practice and market are unique, meaning that there is no one way to develop a marketing strategy. Each marketing mix comes from a combination of various tactics that will help your practice yield results.

How Wonderist Can Help Market and Bring New Patients to Your Brand New Dental Practice

Starting your own private dental practice is a demanding process filled with questions and decisions, and it can require a hustle like no other. At Wonderist Agency, we understand the intricacies of starting a business because we have gone through the process ourselves.

35 Medical Marketing Ideas You Need to Know

The great boss lady Maly was featured on Fit Small Businesses list of the 35 Best Medical Marketing ideas! “Capture your team, office, and the “Creature Comforts” you offer patients instead of Stock Photography.” Wonderist Agency prides itself on being an educational resource and helping hand to any and all small business who need it.

15 Things Every Dental Office Needs to Provide a Next-Level Patient Experience

A fantastic patient experience isn't just an important aspect of your practice, it's a pass/fail test for patients looking for a new dentist.

5 Ways a Dental Blog Will Increase Your New Patient Numbers

Did you know that having a well-optimized blog post with a unique, highly searched topic will rank well in search engines? This is only one of the many ways that a dental blog can help you increase your practice awareness, and ultimately, your patient numbers.

Why Isn’t My New Dental Website Ranking On Google?

Launching a new website is often not enough to push you to the top of Google. Your new website should be able to get you to rank for your own branded keywords, but additional work will be needed to help it climb over other more established websites to get to the top. Our in-house team of SEO experts understands what it takes to rank your website for valuable keywords, and combines onsite and offsite dental SEO strategies to ensure your practice's website is in the best position to rank in your market.

5 Things Your Dental Practice Website Needs To Generate New Patients

Marketing The Right Way Apart from a referral, which is the best compliment one can have, look at the number one platform that shapes the core of all your marketing – your practice’s website. Besides your practice’s phone, your website is one of your best portals for patients to connect with you.

Live Chat: How to Grab More Leads For Your Dental Practice

We live in a digital world where speed is key. From ordering online to overnight shipping, instant access to services is where society currently lives. Customers want things now. And let’s be honest, they usually get them. The healthcare industry is no exception.

The Top 3 Reasons Why You Need A Strong Website For Your Dental Practice

Websites are one of the most crucial parts of marketing for any small business, including dental practices. In fact, 97% of patients prefer to go to a dentist's website rather than calling the office.

Dental Podcast: Is Your Marketing Strategy Out-Of-Date?

Laura and Michael sit down with the guru of dental podcasting, Howard Farran, to talk about bringing your dental marketing strategy up-to-date.

5 Tips to Take Great Social Media Pictures for Your Dental Practice

You don’t need a fancy camera to take engaging social media content! With just a few adjustments and key insights in mind, you’ll be snapping photos that will garner tons of engagement in no time. Here are 5 super quick tips to take awesome pictures for your social media channels:

Facebook 3D: A New Way To Create A Dental Snapshot

Facebook Rolls Out New 3D Photo Option! Facebook has launched a brand new feature to roll out 3D photos. It’s adding depth, movement and eye-catching material for your news feed!

Facebook Launches New Reactions

For some time, Facebook users have been asking for more robust ways to interact with their friend’s posts. Facebook finally rolled out the long-awaited feature this month.

How to Respond to a Negative Dental Review

Every now and then one of our clients gets a negative review online. It’s obviously not a fun experience to get negative feedback, but of course, it needs to get addressed. Through collaboration with the doctor, we often respond to these negative reviews for our clients.

How Your Dental Practice Should Use Facebook Bluetooth Beacon

Facebook Bluetooth® beacons help people see more information about your business whenever they use Facebook during their visit. When people visit your business and open Facebook, they’ll see Place Tips with information about your business.

How Facebook's Update Will Affect Your Dental CPC

As of right now, CPC counts any click that takes place within an ad: whether the viewer is clicking on the link to the website, or simply liking the post. Now, to make CPC more effective at meeting specific objectives for your business, Facebook is changing the definition a bit.

Dental Podcast: Your Virtual Consult & Wonderist Agency

Recently, we had the honor of chatting with Michael Arias, The Dental Marketer! It was a pleasure to join him on his podcast and of course, chat about increasing appointments through new virtual consultation platforms like Your Virtual Consult!

Wonderist Agency Has Been Named One of the Best Places to Work in 2018

We’re excited and honored to announce that Wonderist Agency has been selected by the San Diego Business Journal as one of the best places to work in San Diego!

Wonderist Co-Founder Wins Excellence in Management Award

On April 24, 2018, Wrike announced the winners of their first-ever Manager-X Awards for Excellence in Management.

Paul Joins The Team

Introducing our new Content Manager, Paul! He has joined our web development team at our sunny San Diego, CA office and we couldn’t be more excited to have him onboard.

My Experience As A Wonderist Intern: What High School Doesn't Teach You About Working in an Office

For the month of January, Wonderist Agency kindly gave me the opportunity to intern in the graphic design and social media department.

Wonderist Olympics: Russian Medal-ing Edition

As some of you may have noticed through the silliness that is our social media game, we recently held our own office Olympics.

Dental Practice Branding 101

Your brand is a reflection of you, your team, your office, your business, and the way you make patients feel when they choose to receive treatment from you. Something that carries that much weight for your dental office should be taken seriously. But that’s not to say that you can’t have fun with it.

How to Have a Great Meeting With Your Dental Team

As we enter into the holiday season and the new year, now is the time to look at our day-to-day challenges with a fresh new perspective. That’s why we’re here to give you some of our tried and true tips on How to Have Great Meeting.

How to Manage Internal Conflicts in Your Dental Practice

Conflict in the workplace is inevitable, and it’s not necessarily a bad thing. It’s just human nature to have differences of opinions, feelings, and styles of work or communication. What sets you apart is your ability to recognize and resolve conflict.

Elevate Your Dental Practice With Emotional Intelligence

Taking the time to assess and hone your Emotional Intelligence can provide breakthroughs in managing your team, connecting with your patients, and evaluating your own mental health.

How to Set Great Goals For Your Dental Practice

Now is a great time to evaluate the progress we’ve made on our goals so far and plan ahead for goals in 2020. We know, we know — it might feel like you’re just going through the motions of goal setting every year. That’s why we’re excited to present alternative approaches to Goal Setting, whether it’s for your practice or yourself. Let’s explore our options!

The Holidays are Crazy, Your Practice's Schedule Doesn’t Have To Be

Do you ever feel like there just aren’t enough hours in the day? Us too. Wonderist and your dental practice have something in common - we’re both small businesses with a whole lot to do before the new year. That’s why we’re excited to share some of our tried-and-true Time Management skills to keep your team efficient, organized, and productive throughout the chaos of the holiday season. Let's dive in!

A Team Culture Fueled by Feedback

For some, feedback fuels our curiosity and creativity to learn new things. For others, a natural recoil occurs — the word “feedback” is synonymous with “fear.” But whether we like it or not, feedback is fundamental to our success and overall professional development. Because the Wonder Buds are committed to constant growth, we invite you to join us as we peel apart the mysterious layers that make up feedback and learn how to give it, hear it, and use it to our advantage.

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