FON: The Business of Integrative Health & Medicine
Tagged as: branding
Functional medicine should never be considered indistinguishable; widely accessible? Yes. Indistinguishable? No. I am deeply concerned that certain functional medicine enterprises are in danger of becoming a commodity.
Properly naming your integrative medicine enterprise is critical to your success. Careful consideration must go into this decision-making as you develop the brand ethos of your organization and define your target customers.
Your brand positioning matters. If you do not budget and invest in the core aspects of your brand and platform, in unison, and upfront, you are ultimately impeding your cash-flow and disadvantaging your enterprise right out of the gate.
Your personal brand is who you are, representing your life, work, and purpose, therefore it ultimately influences all those around you—essentially your personal brand impacts how others feel. The first step in determining what your ‘integrative health personal brand’ should embody is to honestly and thoroughly answer this set of 10 core questions….
Alternative, integrative medicine, functional, holistic, CAM, restorative, lifestyle… what’s in a name? This article explores the latest trending data for the various names and nomenclature comprising the field.
As an integrative health and medicine practitioner or executive, what are you doing to position your personal brand? If the answer is nothing, then you’re leaving it to others to define your brand for you. And that is never a good thing!
Your brand name and logo are the first things a prospective customer (patient) typically encounters when searching for an integrative healthcare provider.