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Patient Recall: The Key to a Successful Comeback Plan

During the COVID-19 shutdowns this spring, many practices struggled with finding the right way to communicate with patients. Overwhelmingly, practices that followed a plan and stayed connected to their database and/or used a service like Your Patient Contact Center (YPCC) to make calls to patients realized two great benefits. First, those practices reassured patients that …

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Five Simple Ways to Create a Five-Star Patient Experience

Think about the last time you received top-notch customer service. Did your doctor call to check up on you the day after a procedure? Did a restaurant give you extra sauces and napkins with your delivery? Did your accountant send a handwritten note on your birthday? Now think about the last time you received terrible …

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Opportunity Mindset: Why It Matters and How to Adopt it in Your Practice

I know what you might be thinking: “Uh oh—must be another one of those CQ buzzwords!” But, at least it’s not another acronym, right? All jokes aside, opportunity mindset is essentially a way of thinking and doing—an intentional, positive, and action-oriented attitude. And it relates to everyone in the practice, regardless of his/her position. A …

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Seven Reasons to Call Your Patients

Telemarketing can be an unsettling word for some. It evokes the days of yesteryear when family dinners were interrupted by phone calls and last names were mispronounced beyond recognition. Forget what you thought you knew about telemarketing. In fact, forget the word ‘telemarketing’ entirely. At CQ Partners, we’ve turned outbound dialing into a service essential …

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Four Considerations to Better Serve the Culturally Deaf and Hard-Of-Hearing

Approximately 48 million Americans (20 percent) report some degree of hearing loss. Within this population exists a subset of individuals that identify as Culturally Deaf (notated by a capital “D”) or Hard-Of-Hearing (HOH). This group doesn’t focus on the medical diagnosis of a certain degree of hearing loss but rather their cultural identity. They often …

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Marketing New Technology: How to Ensure Your Patients Purchase from You & Not Your Competitor

As we all know, hearing technology is rapidly advancing, and new products are hitting the market every few months. From a marketing perspective, it’s important for providers to understand their patients’ relationship with technology adoption. Remember, everyone’s relationship with technology is different. Take the iPhone for example: some people will camp outside of an Apple …

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Handling Price Inquiries – What FOPs & Providers Need to Know

On occasion, patients call asking about the price of hearing devices. They may ask for a price range or the price of a specific product. Nowadays, most patients have already done some extent of online research and are merely looking for you to confirm the information they have found. From a customer service standpoint, of …

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