Thursday, August 21, 2014

Creating Added Value in Your Practice

Darden Restaurants' Olive Garden chain is running a unique promotion where they're giving away a Redbox movie with a "to go" entree.

Olive Garden's marketing experts will probably tell you that few people will specifically go into an Olive Garden just for the movie.

However they will also probably tell you that they expect customers to perceive they are getting more value for their hard earned dollar and that this added value makes it easier to justify eating out.

It's clear the goal of the promotion is to differentiate their restaurants and create added value.

What does this have to do with your practice? 

Ask yourself, 'How does my practice create added value'?

Some products naturally go together. Dinner and a movie is a combination that satisfies both hunger and entertainment.

When a patient walks out of your practice how do they feel?

You've probably satisfied their need to see correctly. That's valuable. What else do you do for them that satisfies their needs?

To create added value, let's ask that question a different way.  What can you give patients that will add value to seeing better, but not cost a lot of money?

Treating patients to a movie enables them to enjoy their new contacts and glassesThat's creating added value. You've now helped patients see better and highlighted the value of your services via entertainment.

For only $1.99 per movie, txtMovies will deliver to your patients a Redbox Movie Rental code via text message, email or tweet. It's a simple and affordable way to create added value.

Practices can get set up with a txtMovies account and immediately begin sending movies in as little as 3 minutes by simply creating an account on the txtMovies website. Free demonstration available on website.

txtMovies is a leader in delivering Redbox and other digital codes. Current clients include major universities (Ohio State, University of Michigan, University of Iowa), nonprofits (Livestrong Foundation, Code for America, Lifewater), healthcare organizations/professionals (Kaiser Permanente, dentists, optometrists, chiropractors, family physicians) and market research companies.

Monday, August 18, 2014

Restaurant Promotion: Dinner and a Movie (Redbox DVD Rental)

Darden Restaurant's Olive Garden unit is running a limited time only promotion where you "Buy One, Take One" entree To Go.

What's unique is Olive Garden is also giving away a Redbox Movie Rental promo code good for a one day rental with each To Go entree.

Restaurants that want to replicate this "dinner and a movie" strategy can utilize txtMovies to deliver Redbox Movie Rental codes.

For only $1.99 per movie, txtMovies will deliver to your customers a Redbox Movie Rental code via text message, email or tweet.

txtMovies is a leader in delivering Redbox codes. Current clients include major universities (Ohio State, University of Michigan, University of Iowa), nonprofits (Livestrong Foundation, Code for America, Lifewater), healthcare organizations/professionals (Kaiser Permanente, dentists, optometrists, chiropractors, family physicians) and market research companies.

Restaurants can get set up with a txtMovies account and immediately begin sending movies in as little as three (3) minutes by simply registering on the txtMovies website.


Wednesday, August 13, 2014

Volunteer Engagement: Fun Game to Break the Ice

Motivating a group of volunteers can be a daunting task especially if all the volunteers don't know each other.

Many Volunteer Coordinators use games or icebreakers to engage groups of volunteers. Ideally the icebreakers are simple where everyone can participate and have fun.

One simple but fun icebreaker everyone can play is called 'MovieStar'.  

To play MovieStar, volunteers are asked to re-create a famous quote from a movie. Everyone else needs to guess the name of the character and name of the movie.

For example, "You can't handle the truth!"

Answer would be: Col. Jessup in A Few Good Men. 

Bonus points for naming the actor/actress that played the part. In this case Jack Nicholson.

Almost everyone has or knows a famous line ("I'll be back", "We're not in Kansas any more") but just in case they can be provided with a list of American Film Institute's Top Movie Quotes of All Time and perform one of those quotes.

Those that perform the quote receives a prize. We recommend a Redbox Movie Rental Code from txtMovies (only $1.99 each) as prizes because they're affordable and most volunteers love watching movies. (Yes, we're very very biased!)

If you need content for your social media accounts, try recording video of your volunteers performing the quote and post it facebook and twitter giving your followers something to talk about. But of course ask for permission first!

Stay tuned for more Volunteer Enagement ideas in upcoming blog posts.

About txtMovies
txtMovies enables organizations to deliver patient appreciation via cost effective, easy to use tools. Our customers come from a variety of industries including healthcare, automobile, financial services, retail, associations and not for profit including the University of Michigan, University of Iowa and the Livestrong Foundation. For more information please visit www.txtMovies.com.