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Healthcare marketing sales processes get your patients on the bus

By |Marketing Strategy|

First, you have to ask yourself, is my healthcare marketing sales process valid? In other words, does it provide an organised method towards achieving the consultation's objective (usually, a conversion from an initial appointment to a treatment booking)? Second, is it reliable? Is the process repeatable, consistently applied, and operable in the majority of situations?

The space between the healthcare marketing moments of truth

By |Closing First Appointments|

The white space is the space in between those moments, which arguably carry even more risk. This is the time in which prospects and customers are alone to think, to doubt, to experience anxiety and remorse about their purchase decisions. This is when they start seeking evidence to justify their fear. This is when concerned friends and family are most prone to be overly-protective. This is the white space.

Does your health care business have an entrepreneurial culture?

By |Marketing Strategy|

Want to find out if you have an entrepreneurial culture? We challenge you to ask your receptionist to rate their agreement on a scale of 1 to 10 to the statements above. If they rate a high level of agreement to these statements, you can bet they probably feel on top of an inverted pyramid. If they don't agree, then they probably feel like they are at the bottom of the pyramid, which is indeed where they are, just slightly above your customers...

What separates customer service stars from the dogs?

By |Wowing Your Patients|

I was re-reading The Nordstrom Way: The Inside Story of America's Number One Customer Service Company. I noticed something that really exemplifies something that I've been trying to teach during our health care sales and customer service training courses about what makes the difference between customer service stars and customer service dogs.

Shutting down the big fat healthcare sales excuse factory!

By |Converting Leads|

We can only take the glory for being great, if we take the responsibility when we are not. How come it’s sometimes someone or something else’s fault when we’re not succeeding, yet we’re so quick to accept accolades when we are successful? We can’t have it both ways. We must take responsibility for the bad so we can revel in the glory of a job well done.

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Meet our Co-Founders

We’re passionate about helping leaders of high-quality, growth-minded practice owners double their practice revenue

Rod Solar

Founder & Scalable Business Advisor

For over 20 years, I’ve helped ophthalmology entrepreneurs scale their private practices. I specialise in doubling revenue within three years by offering a proven framework, hands-on experience, and a team of experts who implement what works. We take the guesswork out of growth and scale, so you can focus on delivering exceptional patient care while maximising the value of your business.

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LiveseySolar completely transformed the way we were approaching this… We’ve gone from having just the dream of having a practice to having a practice up and running with people making inquiries and booking for procedures… It’s extremely pleasing. We feel lucky we connected with LiveseySolar.

— Dr Matthew Russell, MBChB, FRANZCO, specialist ophthalmic surgeon and founder of VSON and OKKO

Laura Livesey

Founder & CEO

I’m the co-founder & CEO of LiveseySolar. I’ve developed powerful eye surgery marketing systems that increase patient volumes and profits for doctors, clinics, and hospitals, since 1997.

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Rod and Laura know as much about marketing surgery to patients as I know about performing it. They are an expert in the field of laser eye surgery marketing. They know this industry inside out. I believe that they could help many companies in a variety of areas including marketing materials, sales training and marketing support for doctors.

— Prof. Dan Reinstein, MD MA FRSC DABO, founder of the London Vision Clinic, UK

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