What’s up, everybody? This is Dr. Nick with LVRG Media. And today I want to talk to you about how you can target your ideal audience on Facebook if you’re running chiropractic ads or content.
Local Chiropractic Client Base
So for the purpose of this video, I’m going to be talking strictly to local brick and mortar chiropractors who are looking for a local audience and trying to get people through the doors. If you have an online practice where you can see people nationally or internationally that obviously your options are going to be much greater.
But for a local practice, it’s not that you don’t have the option to target based on interests or demographics. You do. It’s that every layer of targeting that you do, you start to limit the amount of people that you’re able to show your content to.
So if you are talking about the United States and maybe there’s 250 million people that are on Facebook now, you can start to narrow that down by, for example women ages 25 to 35 that have this interest or follow this influencer.
But when you’re talking about a local audience, you’re talking about a much smaller pool of people. So take my city, for example, and I think it’s kind of in the middle of size and demographics and all of that. So I always, I always feel like where I’m at is a pretty good indicator of kind of the average of America so 110,000 people live in my city.
Chiropractic Facebook Demographics
And whenever I look at demographics of any of the cities, when I’m doing strategy sessions with chiropractors, I’ll look at their city. How many people live there? How much is the average income? How many people are in this segment of the population?
And so between the ages of 25 and 65, it’s almost always 50% of the total population. So for my town it’s 55,000 people. If you say maybe 80% of those people are active users on Facebook (which may be a little bit high these days but I’d say that that might be in the ballpark), that’d be about 45,000 people.
Well 45,000 people is not a huge amount of people, and especially if you start to slice that away like if you do just women, you cut that in half. So now you’re down to maybe 20,000 people. Then if you are looking for people 25 to 35, now you’re down to maybe 5, 6, 7000 people.
So, you know, trying to keep things as broad as possible while still targeting people that can make it into your practice is important for a local business.
Chiropractic Facebook Target Audience
Now what are the things that you can use to target your ideal audience?
The number one thing that you can use is the content that you are creating now. If you’re just running a new patient special for chiropractic, you’re just going to keep it wide open and you’re going to try to find those people that are actively looking for a chiropractor, which is probably not a big slice of the population.
If you are creating content, though, it allows you to really call out people based on conditions that they’re dealing with. Situations that they’re in. Types of people they are. So if it’s relevant to them, then they might consume it and they might be likely to make it into your practice. So the content, I think, is the best way of keeping the targeting open.
So that it’s within the geographic area that you’re you’re trying to pull in patients from, but then letting the content find the people that it’s meant to find, whether it’s through you pushing it out and putting it in front of them or people sharing it with them that think they might benefit from it.
Now, the two types of targeting that I do recommend in terms of either your advertising or your content, especially your content, because usually with the content you’re spending less money than you would be for the lead generation.
And because you can be a little bit more specific you can be more specific with your targeting to maybe women that are within childbearing age. Then you don’t want to show it to men if you’re talking about how to have healthy pregnancies.
Chiropractic Facebook Target Budget
If you’re limited on budget, you’re going to be better off until you’ve exhausted the women in that audience. You want to make sure that you keep showing it to them.
So the two things that I would probably recommend for any of the advertising that you’re going to be doing on Facebook would be geographic, drawing a circle around your office as far out as you think that you’ll be able to draw people. Then next would be demographics: the age and gender.
So those allow you to kind of loosely target the bigger audience, but you can get a little bit more specific with it. If you’re talking about injuries in football, obviously, you’re going to just want to be talking to either women that maybe have kids in high school. Or you’re going to be talking to men.
So there’s only a few options that you really have in terms of narrowing those things down. Because when you start to get into interest, people that follow pages that they like, now you’re going to be talking about such a small group of people that it’s just not going to be worth it for you to spend your money on that.
So just be sure that you’re using that content to kind of find the people that are meant to see it and that it can help. And hopefully the, the, the content that is included in that video will be the thing that ends up getting them into the practice. So be sure to, to get your expertise out there and we’ll see you on the next one.
