About Rod Solar

Rod Solar is the Director of Practice Development Consulting of LiveseySolar, a healthcare marketing and sales training company. Rod has created successful and engaging training systems for over 25 years. His advice routinely generates 6-figure incremental increases in income for his clients by teaching them how to systematically improve customer service while increasing sales at the same time. His training offers an elegant (and fun) step-by-step conversational approach which benefits surgeons, practice managers, hospital staff, and non-medical staff working in private healthcare settings. Rod wrote and delivered the Business Development, Clinical Governance and Medicolegal Issues module for the University of Ulster’s Postgraduate Diploma in Cataract and Refractive Surgery (Theory) - PgDip. He is a regular presenter at the European Society of Cataract and Refractive Surgeon’s Congress Practice Development Programme and has regularly published articles about healthcare marketing in The Ophthalmologist, Optician, European Ophthalmology News, Cataract & Refractive Surgery Today, Eurotimes and Independent Practitioner Today. Rod has been a professional salesperson (B2B and B2C), management consultant, college lecturer, an industry leader, and executive coach. His clients include Optegra, EuroEyes, ZEISS, Moorfields Private, London Vision Clinic, Thiele, and many other high-quality, private Ophthalmology clinics from the UK, Europe, USA, Canada, and the Middle East. Rod has a degree in Psychology and Human Performance from UBC. He lives in London, UK and you can follow him on Twitter: @rodsolar.

Did your website traffic just plummet? The Google Medic Update may be the reason

In this post, we give you some quick facts about what you need to know about the Google Medic Update, what you can do about it if the Google Medic Update affected you, what we’re doing to help our customers deal with the Google Medic Update and what you can do for yourself.

By |2018-09-18T14:52:21+01:00September 14th, 2018|Categories: Step 1: Getting more leads|2 Comments

Answered: 5 questions about social media marketing you’ve been dying to ask

Should ophthalmologists use social media today? Watch this short video where Rod Solar speaks to Kristine Morrill for EuroTimes about how an ophthalmologist should handle social media in their practice. Should they do it, or should another designated person? Is social media a *must* in marketing today? What should ophthalmologists concern themselves with when using social media? What's on the horizon for social media? What trends should ophthalmologists be preparing for?

By |2020-02-20T11:55:51+00:00September 6th, 2018|Categories: Customer Service and Sales Observations, Step 1: Getting more leads|Comments Off on Answered: 5 questions about social media marketing you’ve been dying to ask

How to write compelling healthcare blog posts that drive leads

Writing website copy that keeps your prospect's attention and interest is a crucial skill. But we know you're busy and have no time to waste on writing healthcare blog posts if they don't generate results. That's why we've packed over 30 specific writing tips in this post to help you write compelling healthcare blog posts that drive leads to your clinic. The quality of your copywriting can mean the difference between a website bounce versus a website conversion. After reading this post, you'll have an easy-to-follow blueprint you can use to write compelling healthcare blog posts that produce qualified leads for your practice. Does this sound like a good way to spend 5 minutes? Great - let's get on with it...

By |2020-02-20T10:24:26+00:00February 27th, 2018|Categories: Step 1: Getting more leads|Comments Off on How to write compelling healthcare blog posts that drive leads

Presbyopia – The biggest laser eye surgery market in the world

Should refractive surgeons consider the presbyopic market in the laser eye surgery marketing mix? Or should they leave this market to at worst, reading glasses and at best, intraocular surgery? In this video (and the transcript), I argue the case for complementing your practice marketing efforts by offering presbyopic LASIK.

By |2018-01-10T18:40:22+00:00January 10th, 2018|Categories: ESCRS, Step 1: Getting more leads|Comments Off on Presbyopia – The biggest laser eye surgery market in the world

How to get healthcare marketing projects on time and on budget [a client’s guide]

In this post, we'll share some of our standard timelines and orders of dependencies for healthcare marketing projects. We break down a realistic timeframe for a website project, showing why a good website takes the time it does. To make the exercise a bit more relevant, let's also attach some sample dates starting January 1st, 2018.

By |2018-01-24T17:02:31+00:00November 28th, 2017|Categories: Step 1: Getting more leads|Comments Off on How to get healthcare marketing projects on time and on budget [a client’s guide]

One-page website or multi-page website? Which should surgeons choose?

There's something very different about the website we launched for Professor Michel Michaelides in August 2017 - it's only one-page. In this content heavy marketing era of "more-content-is-king", why did we design it this way? We'll reveal the reasons in this post and how one's choice of website size depends entirely on one's objectives...

By |2018-01-24T17:02:31+00:00November 22nd, 2017|Categories: Case Studies All, Case studies healthcare marketing|Tags: , , |Comments Off on One-page website or multi-page website? Which should surgeons choose?

Why we challenge our doctor client’s expert power

Despite having expert power, our doctor clients are prepared to be challenged on their marketing and sales opinions. Of course, we listen to their views with an open mind. In this post we reveal why we challenge our healthcare clients and why it's critical to do so.

By |2018-01-24T17:02:32+00:00November 3rd, 2017|Categories: Step 1: Getting more leads|Comments Off on Why we challenge our doctor client’s expert power

Will Millennials save laser eye surgery?

Laser eye surgery, while delivering outstanding outcomes, has been limping along as a product for a decade since the great recession of 2007. Optimistic refractive surgeons await the maturing of the Millennials, the children of the parents who once took up laser eye surgery in droves. Is this wise? This healthcare marketing post argues why the Millennial market may not purchase laser eye surgery as their parents once did, and provides advice on what to do instead of tie your practice success solely to this target market.

By |2018-01-24T17:02:32+00:00June 30th, 2017|Categories: Customer Service and Sales Observations, Step 1: Getting more leads|Tags: , , , , , , |Comments Off on Will Millennials save laser eye surgery?

About Me video examples for doctors

Nearly every surgeon's website has an About-Us or About-Me web page but most of these pages are missing a very valuable asset. The best converting About Me pages contain video. We've put together a highlight reel of more than a dozen About Me video examples from doctors we've directed. The videos will give you a clear idea of how different doctors and surgeons (introvert and extrovert alike) are able to effectively and uniquely answer the question - "Why should I choose you?" These surgeons are actively leveraging the power of video marketing which research shows can...

By |2018-01-24T17:02:32+00:00May 30th, 2017|Categories: Customer Service and Sales Observations, Step 1: Getting more leads|Tags: , , |Comments Off on About Me video examples for doctors

Don’t brand yourself a one-trick pony

If you're a doctor, there are many reasons why you don't want to pigeonhole yourself alongside only one technology. In this post, we share five drawbacks of attaching yourself too closely to any medical device company or new medical technology, even those you are incredibly happy with and...

By |2018-06-04T21:57:13+01:00May 24th, 2017|Categories: Customer Service and Sales Observations, ERLS, News, Step 1: Getting more leads|Comments Off on Don’t brand yourself a one-trick pony
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