My job here at FirstTracks Marketing presents me with the opportunity to build WordPress and Joomla CMS websites for many diverse clients in industries such as Education, Assisted Living, Health Care, High Tech, and many more. But want to know the one thing that is the same with almost all of these websites and clients? [...]

What does a powerful community connection mean? In the world of marketing and communication it’s a measure of how quick and agile you can be in responding to and communicating with your direct and extended community. Can you post information to your website quickly and easily? Are you using social media outlets to build and enhance loyalty for your organization?

We work with quite a few health care  organizations some of which are local hospitals in NH. One common theme I have noticed in my dealings with these hospitals is that they all are ignoring a massive wealth of information from the traffic their websites are gathering each and every month. I decided to put [...]

In this age of the Internet with Twitter, blogs and Facebook, a traditional newsletter may seem like a dated medium, but consider the assisted living audience. Although many retirees have embraced the Internet and all of the social media and email aspects related with it, there is still a fairly large percentage of retirees that [...]

Unlike years ago, today’s healthcare consumers are much more savvy and are playing an increasingly active role in the selection of their healthcare providers, including specialists. Hospitals need to be proactive in relationship building with their patients. One of the easiest and most cost-effective ways for hospitals to reach out directly to patients is through [...]

I take a keen interest in all aspects of marketing, especially health care marketing. I read an article in Strategic Health Care Communications that discussed the marketing, or lack thereof, of a major Chicago hospital. This particular hospital had been in business since the 1830’s; had more than 800 medical staff; 600 residents; 8,000 employees and 800 beds—this was an established business with a stellar great reputation to say the least.

Social Media is on everyone’s radar. With hundreds of millions of users and growth at an astronomical rate, the Guilt Complex is rearing it’s ugly head.

Recently one of our long-time clients (Monadnock Community Hospital) contacted us about setting up an employee newsletter template for their health care organization. We advised MCH on the pros and cons of undertaking such a project, then called in one of our print vendors (SPC) to create an online portal that allowed our clients to [...]

If a picture tells a thousand words, how do you quantify a video presentation? FirstTracks Marketing Group was asked by Monadnock Healthy Teeth to Toes (a program developed at Monadnock Community Hospital in Peterborough, NH that educates children in healthy oral hygiene and nutrition practices) to create a short video loop.