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Unique Content: What it Means for You and Your Patients

What makes a compelling hearing healthcare website? Well, there’s a lot! You need eye-catching and accessible graphics, a functional user interface, a responsive design, and so much more. One of the most important components of your digital strategy, however, is unique content. Your content builds an image of your practice in patients’ minds and can …

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How to Make Great First Impressions

Everything You Need to Know About Making Great First Impressions

The first impression you have on a patient can make or break their hearing health journey. In fact, a recent clinical study concluded that a first impression has a strong impact on how patients perceive a healthcare professional’s communication approach and can help to facilitate or inhibit further interaction. Patients can take years to seek …

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Companions: Your Game-Changer for Patient Appointments

52.1% of hearing aid purchasers stated that a companion was a major influence on their decision to move forward with hearing aids, but why? The difference that having a companion, or third party, present makes on patient care is tremendous, but to see that difference, your entire practice needs to believe in the benefits of …

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Buying OTC Hearing Aids

CQ Can Help You Be the Signal in the Noise – Seeing the Over the Counter (OTC) Announcement as an Opportunity

As an Audiologist for almost 25 years, I have never seen more of a golden opportunity than now to shout from the rooftops the importance of hearing healthcare! In my consulting role at CQ Partners as Director of Audiology, I am often asked how my practices can reach and help more people. Well, this my …

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Practice Differentiation: Seven Areas of Best Practice

The most important asset you have as a business owner/administrator is the people that work for you and the brand that you create to support your patients. The question we’re asked most often as practice consultants is “How can we set our practice apart from our competition and protect ourselves from industry disruptors?” Below are …

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Patient Trust: Why It’s Important and Five Ways to Build It

According to the FBI, millions of elderly Americans fall victim to some type of financial scam or confidence scheme every year. If that’s not enough cause for concern, they’re being inundated by industry disrupters—managed care, discount plans, big boxes, and OTC (Bose and Apple)—after spending more than a year in isolation, fearing for their health …

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Tips for Optimizing Your Teleaudiology Techniques & Environment

Over the last year, businesses have faced the daunting task of trying to keep their doors open while remaining profitable during the pandemic. This has forced many to change their practices to accommodate customers safely in the new environment. A significant change in the hearing healthcare industry has of course been the utilization of remote …

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Six Easy Tips for Conducting an Effective Hearing Aid Evaluation

The most challenging aspect of addressing hearing loss is counseling the patient through the acceptance process of amplification. Even in countries where price is not a barrier, acceptance rates are still poor. Denial, cosmetics, stigma, and financial concerns remain the biggest barriers keeping more individuals from seeking treatment for their hearing loss sooner, before it …

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