Interview with Chris Carr owner of Farotech

Farotech is a comprehensive, growth-driven digital marketing agency that implements a systematic approach to lead generation, nurturing and conversion by utilizing scalable web design, cutting edge inbound strategies, and creative video development.

In this interview with CEO and founder, Chris Carr, we focused on inbound marketing, web design, and video marketing for the healthcare industry. We covered:

• How Inbound Marketing, Web design, and video for large orthopedic brands relate to short-term and long-term strategic marketing decisions.
• Current trends are you seeing for wellness practices with SEO marketing in 2019.
• Tactics that were expected to perform well or had a lot of hype, but failed to take hold in 2018.
• The effect of video on digital marketing for healthcare.
• The top 3 things that a wellness center should be doing online to see a return from their SEM efforts.
• The top strategy that should be followed, but often marketing teams get it wrong.
• Marketing strategies your team is currently testing that you don't think many other agencies are implementing for their clients.

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Key takeaways include:

1. Don't just change your website if you think it can work better to reach the KPIs you've identified for your practice. Install software to create Heatmaps. These heatmaps show how prospects are engaging with your site and allow you to test different layouts and understand how design effects conversions. [6:50]
2. Dive deep into your buyer personas or patient personas. Your goal is to create content that creates an emotional connection about how their life can be after they come into your practice. Cast a wide net, but also tap into individual niches. [14:23] and [27:01]

3. Though you will benefit from a professional video on your homepage, lower cost, authentic videos for asset pages or pages that answer commonly asked questions about your specialties. These can then be repurposed for a variety of uses. [16:45]

4. Dive into both Local and Traditional SEO tactics. First consider the commonly used, but less competitive keywords to grow your domain authority, then progress to the more competitive keywords when writing your blog content. Additionally, create and follow an editorial calendar to be more Proactive in your marketing rather than reactive. [32:11]
5. Hiring a scalable team of specialists can be less expensive that hiring employees in house. [3:18]