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Moving Your Dental Practice? Here’s A Guide To Cover All Your Bases

Moving Your Dental Practice? Here’s A Guide To Cover All Your Bases
by Dan Delmain

Are you planning to move your dental practice? There are many steps involved, many of which you may not even be aware of. Here is helpful list of things to take care of when you move your practice, from social media, your website, and much, much more.

ARE YOU GETTING READY TO MOVE YOUR DENTAL PRACTICE TO A NEW LOCATION? What do you need to change on your website? What do you need to prepare for your online ad campaigns? There’s a lot involved in making the move go smoothly and successfully, and much of it you may not even be aware of.

How to prepare your website

WEB HOST AND DOMAIN REGISTRAR—You need to notify your website hosting company and the company you registered the domain through. Then update your account to reflect your new billing address. Otherwise, when it comes time to automatically renew your account or website, the charge will fail.

Hopefully you’ll receive an email warning you of the error. In most cases, however, your site will be taken offline until you update your account. Of course, during that downtime patients won’t be able to access your website. Any money you spend to send visitors to your site during that time (Facebook ads or Google AdWords, for example) will be wasted.

In the worst-case scenario, an unscrupulous company may be able to buy your website’s domain name out from under you.

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