White papers are known for being fact-filled and informative and yet gently persuasive at the same time. Their aim is to gently lead your customers to the conclusion that your solution is best for them.
  
 And because they tend to be read by decision-makers it makes them an excellent tool to:

• Differentiate your products and services from your competitor
• Broadcast new research findings or innovations in practice
• Demonstrate market leadership

And of most important of all, gain new business
 

​Cut through the noise of your competition
 
Offering your audience a gated white paper can be an excellent source of highly qualified leads. Not only that, a white paper can go a long way to establishing your company brand as a leader in the field.
 
It’s a way of offering high-value content to your customers whilst at the same time helping them decide to buy with persuasive, evidence-based research to support your product or service.

What makes a good white paper?
 
Two things.
 
First, you need to pick a high value topic that will be of interest to your target audience.
 
Second, you need to position your company as the go-to expert to provide solutions to your customer's problems.

The aim is to enhance your company’s credibility and position you as a thought leader in your field. To do this you’ll need to stay clear of overt selling strategies and win over your customer's hearts and minds with useful, relevant and succinct information that aims to educate as well as persuade.
 
The payoff is that a well written white paper will have the effect of engaging your customer's interest, gently moving them through your sales funnel with far less resistance than traditional hard sell strategies ever could.

If you can provide  your  customer's with well researched, high value content, it will be much easier to cut through  the noise of your competition and you’ll be one step closer to generating highly qualified leads  who are ready to buy.
Let Medical White Papers share your workload and create your white papers and special reports for you.   Click here to view a sample.

A white paper, well written can be an excellent marketing tool.
​So how can you make the best of this opportunity to engage your readers attention? 

Here are 7 simple rules to guide you.

1. Create an engaging solution-focused title. 

2. Focus on benefits. Use your white paper to engage your readers' interest and gain their support by providing high quality evidence based research.

3. Show your customer how you can solve their problems and make life easier for them.

4. Speak their language. Use NLP (Neuro-Linguistic Programming) to appeal to readers across all sensory modalities.

5.  Use up to date references to make your white paper a valuable educational resource. Ideally, references should be less than five years old.

6. Include infographics. Research shows that using infographics  that combine both words and pictures is a much more effective way to communicate than either words or images alone. 
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7.  Use your own branding discreetly. The last thing you want is for your white paper to come across as a pushy sales document. Be subtle. Use your white paper to engage your customer's interest. The sales conversation comes later.

Click here to read a sample white paper
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If you run your own healthcare business you’ll know by now that health blogging is an essential tool to build reader engagement and establish your brand’s credibility. 

No problem if you enjoy writing and have time to spare. But for many small business owners finding the time and creative juice to create regular engaging health blogs can be an unwelcome chore.

At least that’s how many of my regular clients feel. Maybe you do too.

1.  Hiring a freelance health blogger can save you precious time.
If you’re running your own business you’ve probably already got plenty to do.
You may already have people in your office who are decent writers, but wouldn’t their time be better spent on other tasks? A freelance writer can create fresh content quickly and professionally. It’s what they do for a living. When you take into consideration the amount of research and other time consuming activities  that might that be needed to get a major writing project, or even a short blog completed, it makes sense to hand some of your workload over to a professional..

2. You give your readers a fresh perspective
Freelance health bloggers can write across a wide range of health specialities For example, my background as a Midwife gives me natural expertise in the fields of infertility, maternity and baby care. But as a freelance writer I write about a huge range of subjects that are health related.
Each time I write I increase my depth of learning, all of which builds my experience and helps me generate fresh ideas for the next client I write for.

3. You can hire global talent with no additional employment costs
A key advantage of enlisting the skills of a freelance health writer is that you are not confined to your local job market.
From my point of view, this has to be one of the most liberating aspects of my work. I’ve written for clients on the far side of the world whilst living on an isolated Scottish island, in a remote village in Devon and even from the deck of a boat.

It doesn’t matter where I am. I can write in either US or UK English, attend virtual video meetings and stay connected via email and messaging services no matter where I am.
From your point of view as an employer, the benefits are even greater. You can completely by-pass the conventional costs of in-house employment  and that  in turn can protect both your budget as well as your stress levels.

4  A freelance health writer can help you appear as an industry expert
If you are generating regular high quality blog posts for your health care business then before long you will have plenty of good quality content that can be re-purposed into an e-book.

If you want to appear as an industry expert that is a simply brilliant idea that you can’t afford to ignore. 
For example, you could offer:

• An e-book explaining your most frequently asked questions.
• A booklet explaining a treatment procedure,
• An e-course to help them follow along with self-care.
   

If you have high quality content sitting around on your website, don’t just leave it there. Get it to work for you and create additional value for your customers. I’ve seen this work well for both medical and dental practices. It’s a task that most freelance health writers are skilled at and it’s an easy way to help you stand out amongst the competition.

5.  A freelance health blogger can help bring clarity and focus to your marketing plan
 
The chances are you’re busy. Busy focusing on your patient’s welfare. Busy running your business and busy keeping up to date with all the latest developments in your clinical field.
With so much happening at once, it’s easy to lose sight of the need to work on your business as well as in it and key marketing messages can get buried in your ‘to do’ lists.
A specialist health content writer can help you to keep your blog posts on track and on message and whilst freeing more of your time to build up your business.
If you’re finding it a challenge to keep your patients or customers up to date with all the latest development in your business, or new developments in your field, it’s worth exploring how a content writer could help.

6. You don’t need to find original content your health blogger will do that for you.
Do you know that saying “you can’t see the wood for the trees”? Well writing fresh and engaging content for your healthcare business can be a bit like that. The chances are you are so close to your work it’s no longer easy for you to view your marketing materials as your ideal client would.
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Fortunately, this is one of the skills that freelance health writers are very good at. Usually, you need to do is decided on the topic, provide relevant links and keywords and leave the rest to your writer. Most health writers will even source appropriate royalty free images for you.

7. Freelance health writers are well trained in SEO optimization
In today’s ultra high tech world writing innovative fresh content for your readers is only part of what is required. The other element that is often overlooked is to write for the search engines. This step is essential if you want to reach your target audience.
Discovering what keywords are trending for your industry can be time consuming and knowing where to place those keywords within your text is also a skill that needs to be nurtured. So why not let an expert help you out with that?

At their simplest case studies are customer success stories that can help persuade customers to buy from you.  They are typically considered to be one of the top three marketing tactics used by  B2B businesses to boost customer engagement.
 
So why are they so effective?

In short, because a carefully crafted case study conveys trustworthiness and credibility from the first page to the last.  They give  you an elegant, way of showing your potential customers how you can solve their problem without overtly selling and wrapped up in a compelling storyline they make for highly engaging promotional materials.

Storytelling can bring your product to life
 
Case studies are all about success stories. They describe how your company has solved a problem, overcome a challenge, or introduced a new and innovative service.
 
Unlike a white paper, a case study is a fairly short document, running at about 800-1000 words. The skill of the writer is to make each word count by  crafting a   compelling story to engage customers interest, connect with their pain points, point out the benefits of your product or service, and get them on board.
 
Social proof at its most powerful
 
A well written case study is a powerful form of social proof. Not only does it tell the story of how a customer benefitted from your service  but it also lets you subtly weave in the details of your product right within the storyline.
 
Best of all readers expect a call-to-action.
 
To demonstrate just how effective a case study can be, recent research has shown that about 78% of B2B buyers turn to case studies when researching potential purchases. And if someone is willing to take the time to read through your case study it follows that they will expect to see your call to action at the end.  It’s the natural next step to lead them towards the sale.
 

I've always been fascinated by the power of language to influence and persuade. So many years ago I decided to train as a Clinical Hypnotherapist and then as an NLP Practitioner and it’s been the bedrock of my business ever since.

One of the most useful skills health writers can learn from NLP is how to enhance written rapport to increase reader engagement. To do that, you have to capture your reader's attention right from the start.  That means using language patterns that suits the other person’s preferred communication style, whether their perception of the world around them is primarily visual, auditory or kinaesthetic / feeling.

Why is this important? 
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Because the words that have the greatest impact and convey the most meaning are those most closely aligned to the readers own preferred representational system.

We all have one sensory modality that we give preference to over the others and it's useful to know what this is so that you don't let that bias creep into your writing.

Consider the examples below and see if you can recognise your own language preferences.

Need to write a guided meditation, a mindfulness exercise, or a self-help audiobook?​

Writing for the ear, not  the eye requires a different writing style if you want to keep your listeners attention!

1. Audio scripts need to be much simpler than written scripts, so keep to short clear sentences.
2. Make sure your key points are concise, clearly explained and in the order you want your listener to understand them.
3. Make sure you use a selection of language that auditory, visual and kinaesthetic to appeal to the preferred sensory modality of all of your listeners.
4. Keep your language, simple friendly and inclusive by using 'we' and 'our'.
5. Use a variety of sentence lengths to keep your listeners attention fixed on your key message. But remember a sentence shouldn't take more than one breath to say.
6. Write in a conversational style as if you were talking to a group of people in front of you.
7. Read  your copy out loud before recording to make sure it sounds natural and conversational.​

​Remember  a script that is well written can help you gain subscribers and  showcase your content in a way that is  memorable and engaging.

Click here to read more about how to write for audio narration.

​Hiring a medical ghostwriter can do all this for you. Quietly working away in the background on your behalf. If you're a healthcare business owner you'll probably be able to think of some good reasons of your own to hire a  ghostwriter but here are the most common reasons I'm asked to write behind the scenes. 

Top 3 reasons I ghostwrite for medical and healthcare companies.

1. You get more free time
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Running a successful business takes time, and so does writing. Hiring a ghostwriter to work away in the background for you helps you see the bigger picture of where your business is going. It gives you much more time to work on your business rather than just in it.

2. Your ghostwriter does the research for you

A healthcare ghostwriter does one thing. They write. That means they are well practised in the skills that matter.

• Finding the best research-based evidence to support your topic.
• Writing attention grabbing headlines to engage your readers.
• Using the best keywords to boost your search engine optimisation.
• Sourcing appropriate royalty free images.
• Checking for spelling and grammatical errors.

Getting someone else to do this for you not only frees up your valuable time, it also saves you the headache of learning how to do these things yourself. 

3.  A professional writer can give you a fresh perspective

Typically all you need to do is give your ghostwriter some brief guidance on the topic you want to be covered and any keywords that need to be used. Then leave the rest to them.
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Another huge benefit that is often overlooked is the fresh perspective your ghostwriter can bring to your work.  A fresh pair of eyes can often see things that you can't, such as new or different ways to express your core message or engage with your readers. At it's best a ghostwriter can also turn out to be a valuable unseen member of your business team.

If you're a healthcare CEO or business owner who needs high quality content written in your voice, ghostwriting services may well be your answer.

It's about creating compelling content that is credited under your name.
And no one  else will ever know.
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It has been said that intuition is one of a writers most useful tools. It has certainly helped me whenever I have felt stuck, or blocked, or simply undecided as to which way to go. Of course, to use your intuition is a very natural thing to do, you don't need any special skills to do it, just a genuine desire to get results and the commitment to practice with focused attention.

Most people would agree that intuition is the ability to access the knowledge that you already know but don't know that you know.

It can help you to generate unique ideas to write about, overcome 'writer's block', resolve problems with your manuscript, or get a sense of where your niche market is headed next.

It is often described as a sudden insight, a feeling of knowing, or certainty that arrives without effort. Unlike facts which rely on external information, intuition is a direct experience that is self-evident and self-validating.

It is either meaningful, or it is not.

For example, it is not uncommon to experience an "intuitive flash" where you suddenly know something that your conscious mind was unaware of. The trick is to be able to summon this intuitive knowledge, on demand, consciously and on purpose. Your intuition is a natural skill, it is an ability that we all possess, but like any other kind of skill, it gets better with the right kind of practice.
 
As intuitive intelligence is linked to the more creative, right side of the brain you will probably find that the information you receive may come in a wide variety of ways such as inner sight, hearing, feelings, or perhaps a variety of these sensory experiences combined together. Best of all your intuition can be summoned at will, and the sooner you understand that the easier it will be for you to develop your 'intuitive muscles'.

The first step in this process is to be able to identify and distinguish your intuitive voice from the background noise of fear, desires, imaginings and normal mental chatter.

Next, you need to learn to trust and follow your intuition. Listening to the heart as some people describe it is key to getting more information. Your intuitive guidance system is sensitive and non-invasive and if its messages are not being appreciated, they will diminish in frequency. On the other hand with care and cultivation, they will increase in both frequency and accuracy so that you can come to trust and rely on your intuitive intelligence.
 
Usually, we call this having a hunch, or a gut feeling about something, but whatever you chose to call it, it is that quality of direct and immediate knowledge that tells you what you need to know, when you need to know it. In other words your intuition can help to connect you with greater knowledge than is available to your conscious mind alone. It connects you with that part of yourself that has an overview of your life and which always has your best interest at heart and just like any other skill the more you practice the more proficient you become.
 
All of us have a natural capacity for intuition but sadly formal education and social conditioning often means that these natural talents have been suppressed or forgotten; but it doesn't have to be this way, intuition is a skill that can be learnt and much like a 'mental muscle' your intuition can become much stronger with the right kind of practice.
 
Use it for inspired and enhanced decision making, for unleashing and accessing hidden creativity and for checking on the wisdom of your rational analysis.

Use it for everything!