Podcasting Playbook: Winning Strategies for Successful Podcast Marketing

A new Strategic Health Care Marketing webinar for health care marketers and strategists

Presented on May 23, 2024

Podcasts are a popular, well-established audio medium used by healthcare institutions around the world to share longer-format content. They are an excellent marketing tool offering an array of benefits, including: increasing brand awareness, engaging patients, building community, and establishing thought leadership.

In this webinar, you’ll learn how to leverage the power of podcasts to enhance brand visibility and community/patient engagement. We’ll provide a playbook with practical tips related to defining your audience, content creation, hosting, and physician engagement.

You’ll hear from industry leaders — including 3 Platinum winners of the 2023 eHealthcare Leadership Awards “Best Healthcare Podcast” category — about how podcasts can be a valuable tool for elevating your marketing by connecting with audiences in a highly personalized way.

You’ll learn:

• How to integrate podcasts into your digital marketing.
• Practical tips for producing successful podcasts.
• Ways to engage your audience and enhance your podcast’s performance.
• What it takes to create and sustain an industry-leading podcast.

And much more…

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