This course will introduce various marketing concepts to include marketing goals and techniques. The course will also look at how both hearing aid marketing and consumers have changed over the years and how hearing aid practices can adjust their strategies to improve their marketing impact.
Course created on May 27, 2021
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Learning Outcomes
- After this course, participants will be able to describe the various marketing strategies for a hearing aid practice and provide examples of each.
- After this course, participants will be able to discuss how marketing has changed over the years and how today’s consumer reflects those changes.
- After this course, participants will be able to discuss the concept of content marketing in a hearing care practice and how we can merge this with the concept of consumer life-cycle marketing.
- After this course, participants will be able to list the components to a marketing plan for a hearing aid practice and describe each in detail.
Agenda
0-5 Minutes | Introduction |
5-15 Minutes | What is Marketing? |
15-25 Minutes | Marketing Purpose and Strategies |
25-35 Minutes | Audiology Marketing: Then vs Now |
35-45 Minutes | Hearing Aid Consumer: Then vs Now |
45-55 Minutes | Merging Marketing Trends and Today’s Consumer |
55-85 Minutes | Audiology Marketing Plan: Essential Elements |
85-90 Minutes | Summary/Q&A |
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Sarah Hunkele
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Sarah is part of the Global Support team at Sonic and is responsible for providing audiology support and training as well as CE administration. She received her Master’s degree in Audiology from Northwestern University and her Au.D. from Salus University. Sarah has worked in a number of clinical settings including hospitals, ENT offices, and private practice. She has also worked as a facilitator for the state of Georgia Newborn Hearing Screening Program and assisted in the education of various groups regarding audiology practices and protocols
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Content Disclosure: This learning event does not focus exclusively on any specific product or service.
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Australian College of Audiology
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Association of Hearing Instrument Practitioners of Ontario
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British Academy of Audiology
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International Hearing Society
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New Zealand Audiological Society
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