Marketing 101 for Chiropractors
Digital marketing is evolving faster than ever, and as a chiropractor, you're not just a healthcare provider—you’re also the CEO and marketer of your practice. Without a solid grasp of marketing fundamentals, it's easy to fall for one-size-fits-all strategies that waste time and money.
Join us as we break down proven, cost-effective, and innovative marketing tactics designed specifically for chiropractors. From social media mastery to Google Ads that convert, we’ll equip you with the tools to attract more patients, build lasting relationships, and dominate your local market. Stay ahead, stay profitable, and take control of your practice’s growth!
Marketing 101 for Chiropractors
Your Clinic Is A Content Gold Mine
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Most chiropractors don’t have a “creativity” problem. They have a system problem. When you rely on a rare viral hit, you run out of content, your Meta ads fatigue, and you’re back to wondering what to post. We’re fixing that with a simple, repeatable weekly content machine built for real clinics, real schedules, and real patients.
We walk through why Meta rewards volume and why your audience rewards consistency, then show how your practice is already a content gold mine. Every question about sciatica, neck pain, headaches, neuropathy, shoulder pain, and knee pain can become a scroll-stopping video. Every explanation you give can become education that builds trust. Every win can become proof through testimonials and reviews. And yes, people also need to see you, your team, and your behind-the-scenes personality so they feel safe choosing you as their doctor.
You’ll get the five content pillars we use to keep everything organized: pain, education, proof, personality, and promotion (and why promotion should stay under 20%). Then we lay out the practical workflow: film with your phone, capture one patient story, and use AI tools like ChatGPT or Claude to repurpose that single recording into blog posts, emails, captions, and multiple Meta ad variations. We also explain how clipping tools like Opus Clip can turn long videos into dozens of Instagram Reels and YouTube Shorts, so one recording can fuel weeks of chiropractic marketing.
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Consistency Over Viral Perfection
SPEAKER_00The clinics winning with meta ads aren't producing one viral video every few months. They're producing content every single week. Today I'm going to show you exactly how to build creative machine so you'll never wonder what to post, film, or advertise again. Welcome back to Marketing 101 for chiropractors. I'm Dr. D. And every single week we're here with you to grow and scale your business using effective marketing. Last week we talked about fatigue and ads. And this week we were about creating. I had some questions about creating content. Like, how are we going to do this? We're not looking for the viral video. We're looking for consistency every week that creates tons of content for you very simply and quickly. So just stop trying to make perfect ads. I think that's what's going on now is people are wasting a lot of time trying to get video and angles and lights, and we're going backwards here. Your phones are fantastic devices for video. Just shoot it on there and pictures, just don't spend any time setting stuff up. One of the biggest mistakes I see is doctors spend three hours trying to make just one video. They edit it, they do all this stuff. Instead, make 10 good ones. Meta rewards volume right now. And your audience rewards consistency. So you actually need consistent content. The best marketers don't predict winners, they let Meta find them. Your clinic is a content gold mine, whether you think of it or not. Most chiropractors are like, I don't have anything interesting to share. That's actually wrong. You work with people every single day. You have um actors and actresses in your office every single day. Everything is content. Every patient question, every success story, every treatment, every conversation, every explanation. Everyone becomes content. What you do is super interesting. You just think it's not. People want to watch what you do. Have you ever watched someone um paint their driveway, those videos? I watch those right to the end. Or the guys cutting their grass and trimming and cutting like a huge lawn. I'm like, how did why did I watch that whole video? It was a minute and 45 seconds. I watched the whole thing to the from beginning to end. And I catch myself, I'm like, what was it? It was aesthetic. I know how to cut the grass. I know how to trim. I don't have that 360 lawnmower that that guy's got and he's got the lines going, looks great. And he's up in you know Michigan with that Kentucky bluegrass. I'm like, okay, well, that's different. But you and you catch yourself, you got to think about that. You're like, well, how what I I do that all the time. Watch the cats, the cat videos, all the fails, them falling and doing this, you know. Um, I'm like, why did I watch that whole
Why Your Daily Work Is Content
SPEAKER_00video? Because it was entertaining, it was funny. I was curious. The same thing with you. When you just do an adjustment, that whole that whole video can go viral because they're like, what just happened? Like, what is all that? You like pulled on that guy's leg? What was that you try to rip his leg off? What's going on? So you are interesting, you just don't think you are because you do it every single day, and that happens for everyone. Imposter syndrome, right? Here are the five content pillars. Maybe write these down. I don't know. Uh, try and remember them. I never let clinics randomly create content. Everything fits into one or five buckets. Number one, pain. Speak directly to symptoms on your videos, directly to and you're ad creative. Everything has to be based on the problem, the symptoms, headaches, sciatica. Sciatica is so popular because it's misdiagnosed and misunderstood. Everyone that comes into my office has sciatica. I got I got pain going down in my butt. It's sciatic. I'm like, what? That's just back pain. Uh it's just muscle pain. Maybe your sciatic nerve is not even involved in this. Um, so you because we look at it, right? We know that, right? So, anyways, but it's a popular term. They think if the the worst the back pain, like a back ache, they're like, Oh, I got some back pain. Back pain, they're like, Oh, I got sciatica. My sciaticas are hurting. I'm like, okay, well, let's check it out. Uh, neck pain, neuropathy. I don't know why I did that accent. I guess I'm down in the south here. Neuropathy, knee pain, shoulder pain. These are all triggers for people. A lot of people have knee pain, a lot of people have joint pain, shoulder pain, neuropathy. These are these are things, neck pain. Neck, necks huge. People have tons of neck pain and stiffness. Talk about necks all day. People are buying solutions. That's it. It's not the economy, it's not uh this and that. Uh, it's they want solutions. They're you even when people have a problem, they will find the money to pay to solve the problem, right? You got a leak in the roof and money's tight. Well, you got a leaky roof. I mean, this is a pro this is an immediate problem that needs to be fixed now. I'm gonna tell you right now, roofing, that isn't cheap. Fix a roof, thousands. Not replace the roof. I'm just talking about fixing it. You're talking about thousands of dollars. So forget about a $2,500 chiropractic thing. You're you're dropping the bucket. So problems need answers. Number two, education. Education, teach in what you do. Examples of teaching could be what causes disc bulges, what is spinal decompression, what is red light therapy, what does inflammation, why does inflammation linger in the body? What is the subluxation? What is there such a thing as a pinched nerve? Uh education builds trust. Proof. Proof is number three. This is the third strongest pillar of these five pillars is proof. Show the results that you get. Patient testimonials, Google reviews, before and afters, walking better, sleeping better, smiling. Proof beats promises. A patient testimonial video is probably the most powerful video you can use, clip, remaster, uh, and use on social media over and over again because of how great it is. Your personality. This is another pillar. This is one of the five pillars. People buy doctors, they buy you,
The Five Content Pillars Framework
SPEAKER_00not clinics, not the name of your clinic. You want to show your family, you want to show the kids, you want to be behind the scenes, the funny moments, the staff, the community events. Patients want someone they can trust. And then promotion. Only about 20% of your content can be about offers and come by this and come by that. This is content that we're putting on for free on our pages. You see what I'm saying? Um, so less of that. That's what the ads are for. Your ads are for promotions and creating leads. The rest of it is all about you getting the personality, the proof, the education, and the pain points. And then less than 20% is about promotion, the offers, the specials, events coming up, workshops, screenings, too many clinics post promotions every single day. Nobody follows commercials. So one patient can create 20 pieces of content for you. So take getting that acceptance from the patient, and they're like, Yeah, sure, you can take a video of me. And it takes a couple minutes, two minutes to shoot on an iPhone to get someone else to hold it, take a video of you doing the thing. And you know, and they come in and you get tons of it. Like imagine a patient comes in with migraines. You're talking to them about the migraines, they're explaining the migraine. Boom, that 15-second clip of them, like, yeah, when I get migraines, they come up the one side of my head, I can feel go right to the side of my eye here, and it just creates a piercing thing. Sometimes if I get an aura, it's on the opposite side, it's on the right. I can feel the light on this side, um, or whatever. They're explaining it. And now the viewers are like, whoa, I get that. Someone else, like, whoever, I don't know who that is, but I got that. I need to see that doctor. That's the vibe, that's the content that really works. So they come in with the migraines. Here's everything you can create. The video is why migraines may actually start in your neck. The doctor's adjusting the patient. You get a couple still shots or pictures of that. The testimonial, the patient talking. It's like, yeah, I get these types of headaches. I've had them for 10 years. The educational reel, now how nerves create the headaches, how nerves are involved in headaches and migraines. And then the FAQ. These are any questions that come up during that adjustment. The patient may say, you know, I didn't know if I needed an MRI. I didn't know if I needed a CT scan. Then you can create five causes of migraines as blogs from this. This is AI, by the way. So once you shoot this video on your iPhone, you're gonna plug this in. It's gonna pop it all out for you. Uh, email, headache tips, Facebook post, did you know? Podcast, if you do podcasts about migraines, you do YouTube shorts from this video, 30-second clips, all from one patient, 10 to 20 pieces of content just because you did that. Now you're gonna say, Enrico, well, hang on a second. How do we get all that? You got the video on your phone, you upload it into Claude or ChatGPT, and you're like, hey, I need an educational reel from this. I need uh a blog, create, create a blog about migraines about from what the patient was talking about. Give me some emails, two emails with headache tips in it that I can send out this week, and a Facebook post. And you just put it all in one prompt. It shoots it all out. It may not be able to give you the real. You can use like opus.clip for that. You pop in your video into there, and it will give you 40 clips. And you just put in the prompt. Make sure we get the educational parts of this video first, and it'll put 15 to 30 second clips at the top saying we matched educational content by 96% on this one, 92% on this one, 87% on this one, 64% on this one, 60% on this one, 50% on this one. So as you're going down all of these, it's gonna rank it from 96% down to 50% clips. All of them are educational, and you're gonna pick the first three as your educational clips, but now you've got all these other clips. I would take 10 of them and make posts of them, schedule them for the next week. Not only did you have this post video that you posted on your social media, now you've got all these other reels and stories and clips going, and all it took was that 15-minute appointment with the patient, recording the video, or most of it, 10 minutes of it, popping it into a couple pieces of software, 15 minutes there, and under a half an hour, you have got all your content out from that one video that you did. It's be a weekly thing. You have tons of stuff going out there organically. The weekly content machine, you pick a day, let's say Monday, you film. Film for an hour, get a couple patients, nothing else. Just film it, have it saved on your phone. Record three educational videos when you have a chance, three FAQs, two patient stories, one promotion, and you're done. All in that hour. Three educational videos. Tuesday you can edit it, do what I just said, pop it into ChatGPT, get your blogs. Wednesday you turn long videos into shorts, opus.clip. Thursday you turn videos into picture quotes, just still frames of it. And then Friday you write the captions, Saturday you schedule everything, or Friday you schedule everything, and you're good to
Turn One Patient Into Twenty Posts
SPEAKER_00go. So that way it's just these 20-minute, 20-minute things, five days a week, that gets everything in production. This could be delegated as well, and just make sure this stuff is getting out there. Now, the hook formula when you're doing all this stuff, the first three seconds determine everything in your content. What if your back pain isn't actually coming from your back? If you're over 50, stop stretching until you hear this. Three mistakes almost everyone with sciatica makes. Your MRI isn't telling the whole story. If I had neuropathy, here's exactly what I'd do hooks create curiosity. One recording a day creates a month of ads. Because when we're running this consistently on our platforms, we're gonna see the ones that are shared, liked more than others. Typically, you'll get the seven likes and the one comment, the ha ha and the seven, right? And then there's one that goes out there and gets like 37 likes, three shares, and you're like, that's 10 times as much as what I'd normally get. Why? That's the one. That's the one you're gonna use. AI pushed it out to more people on your following list. These clues that you're getting back is from how the machine's working. You can post every single day and get zero to one like. You know this, you've done this. No one's liking my stuff, no one's seeing my stuff. It's true, no one's seeing it. That's why no one's liking it. But then all of a sudden, one of the posts gets 57 likes and six comments. And you're like, where did that come from? Why do they think that was funny? Because AI pushed it out, and the first few people that saw it liked it. It's like, whoa, let's push it out to the rest of your followers, your 2,000 followers. Because just because you have followers doesn't mean all of them are going to see that. Your most engaged followers will see your content. So those are the first three likes you get is Sandy, Kathy, and Mark. You know, Sandy, Kathy, and Mark, those are your three patients that always like everything you post. They are the most engaged. So they will do it, but because they did it so quickly, it gets pushed out tomorrow. One recording a day creates a month of ads. So film five long videos now, cut each into three shorts. That's 15 videos. Take screenshots of them. Most of the AI will do this for you. It'll have a still frame. And then now you have 15 images from those shorts. You can pull quotes right from it. Opus AI does this. It literally puts the the main quote of the clip as the name of the clip. So when you download it onto your computer, it gives you the sentence. That is the quote. Uh now you now you have 30 social posts. You can use AI, and now you have emails, blogs, landing pages, podcast outlines. You just plug one of the clips in there into Chat GPT, like, hey, make me uh an email, a blog, a landing page. Claude will make you a landing page, by the way. Uh, podcast outlines, not you, and you don't need a landing page for all these videos that you're doing. That's just that's too much. You can have your own pre-made website stuff and direct people there. Uh, so you don't have to do that. But uh just I'm just showing you the potential and how quickly you can get this stuff done. So don't create ads just yet. Document your day. This is Gary Vandertruck's philosophy that I like, and it works. Walking into work. Do you have a video of you just walking from your car into the clinic? Record that. Adjusting, record that. Looking at an x-ray on the screen, taking an x-ray, record that. Talking to a patient, record that. You can overlay it with music so they don't even hear what you're saying. Explaining posture, record that. People love authenticity. They don't need Hollywood, they need honesty. So the creative scoreboard. Every month ask how many new videos, how many new pictures,
Weekly Workflow Plus Hook Formula
SPEAKER_00how many new testimonials, how many reviews, how many FAQs? If you aren't measuring content, don't expect meta to magically improve. Winning clinics don't just generate leads, they generate creatives. This is the part that no agency can help you with. They can't come in and do it all. They may then some agencies come once a year and do a professional thing and it's super expensive, and they'll do it, and it looks great. Uh might be worth it. Who cares if it's expensive? It might actually be worth your time to create that great content. Um, but about consistency, it's gotta be about consistency. This is where most chiropractors are leaving an enormous advantage on the table. AI is your marketing assistant. Embrace it, use it. You don't need AI to replace your voice, you need AI to multiply it. People are talking about replacing themselves and creating AI avatars. Great idea. Saves you time. And if the avatar can start shooting videos for you, that's pretty cool. But we don't need to get there yet. Here's our workflow: record a five-minute video explaining one topic, upload it into ChatGPT, that five-minute video, ask it to create five meta-ad variations, 10 social media posts, a blog article, a patient email, a YouTube description, a podcast outline, three different headlines, a landing page section. That one video becomes weeks of marketing. Could be a winning ad that you run for months. AI doesn't create your expertise, it repackages it into every format your audience consumes. That's where we've come a long way. That was a lot of work before to take the video, upload it into YouTube, write the description. That wasn't even really that good. It was short. A title. Now you're done with YouTube. Then you take that video, you post it on Facebook, and you link to your Instagram. So luckily it's on both of those. And you wrote a description there. It took time, right? Now you put it right into Chat GPT, boom, it gives you everything you need. My creative machine and what I use at the Digital Coach, we try to create every month educational videos, patient testimonials, 10 to 20 photo ads, 15 to 25 social posts per month, four podcast episodes, one every week, weekly emails, YouTube shorts from every long video. That's why I do these podcasts, even for my for living a full life. It's for full life chiropractic. You know, come on, it's not rocket science. Do it every single week. So I got this one hour, you know, 20, 30 minute podcast that creates tons of clips for me and emails and all that stuff. Fresh meta ad creative every two to four weeks. Notice we don't wait until an ad dies. We've got constant uh content out there. We're always feeding meta new something new. And that's the difference between reacting to poor performance and building a marketing engine. I want you to stop saying, I don't know what to post. Instead, ask yourself what questions did patients ask me this week. There's your next five videos. Then ask, what success stories did we create this week? There's your next 10 ads. And marketing isn't about being more creative than everyone else. It's about noticing the incredible stories happening inside of your practice every single day and building a system that captures them before they're forgotten. It's all lying right there. You can do this. Your team can help you shoot the videos. You have all the tech that you need, and you have AI to help you grow and scale this. Uh, it just takes a little bit of time. I would budget two hours a week on this, but you can divide it into 30 minutes, four days a week. You can shoot the videos the one day, that's the one hour. And then the other hours uploading the stuff into your AI to shoot out the stuff. And then all you do is copy, paste, email, send, copy, paste, description, post. Done. And you and you use a calendar, you can go into your high level or your meta, and you have the scheduler in there. You post, you put all the clips on all different days and times, shoots out the Instagram, shoots out the Facebook, and
Creative Scoreboard And Next Steps
SPEAKER_00you're on the go. Our team makes sure to have the next 30 days of content mapped out on our calendars all the time. You can too. Stay well, stay healthy. If you have any questions, info at enrico d.com, email me, message me, DM me. I'm here for you. And join Marketing 101 for chiropractors on the Facebook group, where we have an entire group that you can ask questions to of I think almost 2,000 chiropractors in there and ask them how what they're doing and what's working and go from there.