Online Forums

Encourage discussion among your patients/clients by setting up an online forum. Visitors are able to register to receive a username and password, and then they can interact with other visitors to discuss the services you offer, the conditions you treat, the latest news in your field, and other related subjects. By building communities and establishing your website as a valuable source of information, forums are an excellent way to bring visitors to your website time and time again—and, in turn, to increase the number of people who contact you.

 

Here are some MedNet sites that feature online discussion forums:

 

 

 

 

 

 

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Blogs

If you want to foster communication and strengthen ties between your practice and your patients while maintaining greater control over the content than an online forum offers, starting a website blog may be the solution for you. As the sole parties capable of posting messages, you and your staff can write about what's going on in your practice and your field and encourage visitors to leave comments. An established trend in the online world, blogs are an extremely useful way to:

 

• Make your website stand out
• Keep patients coming back to your site
• Attract younger patients
• Increase the likelihood that patients will contact you

 

Patients will be able to search archived blog posts and subscribe to your blog feed. You will also be able to tag blog posts by category and track the number of visitors who have viewed your blog.

 

Some MedNet websites that contain blogs are:

 

 

MedNet's article writing service can augment your blog by adding unique articles pertaining to your field of healthcare at regular intervals. Read more...

 

 

 

 

 

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Chat

Chat is an instant messaging program that allows for real-time communication between all registered, logged-on users, be they website visitors or practice staff members.

 

Some MedNet websites that contain chat features are: