Instagram Vs Linkedin for Wellness Practitioners
Both platforms promise an audience. Only one asks you to sound like yourself while you find it.
Both platforms promise an audience. Only one asks you to sound like yourself while you find it.
Stuck between two doors again Instagram and LinkedIn both claim they'll bring the clients. Before you touch either, you need to know who's meant to walk through, because that decides which door you're building.
Instagram and LinkedIn stand side by side, looking almost like the same building.
Push through one door and you're among people who buy magnesium supplements at midnight and follow yoga cats with more devoted fans than you'll ever have.
Push the other and you're in a room full of people who once wrote "circle back" in an email. One of them needs an osteopath by Thursday and has no idea yet.
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Your best client is standing in one of those rooms right now, waiting. Work out which door before you knock on either.
Instagram is kind to a well-lit treatment room, a clean towel, a plant that's still alive.
LinkedIn wants none of that. It wants you to explain, in plain words, why your method works, and to keep explaining without going purple in the face.
Different muscle entirely. Most practices trained one and assumed the other would come naturally, the way people assume they can drive a manual because they've driven an automatic.
A nice room photographs well. A good argument reads well. Rarely the same skill.
A physio practice posting on Instagram competes with a beach in Cornwall and a man doing pull-ups on a bus stop shelter.
On LinkedIn, the same practice is up against a slide deck about Q3 targets.
The second crowd is easier to win. Nobody scrolling past quarterly targets is having a good time, and your calm, useful post looks like relief.
You are, without realising it, the best thing that's happened to a client's Tuesday morning feed.
Good to know: Whatever's on your mind here, and however your practice's specifics play in, this is what specialist agencies take care of - so you can get on with running your practice. Happy to help ease your mind, if it'd be useful.
If your clients live nearby and find you at 11pm, thumb scrolling, duvet up to the chin, Instagram is your platform.
That's an ordinary evening habit, not a character flaw. Millions do it between the last episode and the lights going off.
LinkedIn will not find them there. Nobody opens LinkedIn in bed unless something's gone badly wrong at work.
So if your clients are local and half-asleep when they book you, skip the LinkedIn advice meant for consultants in lanyards.
Seventy-three and a half per cent of UK private clinic owners raised their prices in the last twelve months, by an average of 7.8%.
No memo went round. No committee met.
It happened clinic by clinic, the way a whole street starts wearing bigger coats without a single conversation about it.
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Worth knowing before you decide your own rates are fine as they are. Your marketing platform does matter, and so do your prices.
Instagram work pays out fast. A nice post, a flurry of hearts, a client books a taster session by the weekend.
LinkedIn takes its time. You're not chasing a like, you're planting yourself in the memory of a reader in HR whose back gives out in four months.
When it goes off, it goes off properly: a corporate contract, a referral chain, a name people already trust before they've met you.
You're lighting a longer fuse. Patience isn't glamorous, but the bang is bigger.
Athletes, dancers, any client whose job lives in their body, need to see the work, not read about it.
Nobody wants a written case study of a hamstring recovering. They want the video, the bend, the wince, the comeback.
Instagram gives you that. LinkedIn manages it never, however good your sentences are.
So if your clients perform for a living, film the recovery. Save the paragraphs for your own diary.
The corporate wellness contract. The referral from a client's mate in finance. The talk you get asked to give at the away day nobody wanted to attend.
That's LinkedIn's whole trade: the introduction, the handshake before the handshake.
Instagram does mood boards, colour palettes, a nice flat lay of your oil bottles.
Lovely to look at. Doesn't get you into the boardroom.
You've had the same conversation with yourself for months, usually at 2am, about whether LinkedIn is worth bothering with.
Nobody is coming to settle it for you at that hour. Settle it now, in daylight, with your tea still warm.
Ask yourself one question: does your best client have a job title?
A job title answers it one way. No job title answers it the other way.
A sports massage therapist and a corporate wellbeing consultant might stand on the same train platform every morning, coffee in hand, saying nothing to each other.
They are not selling to the same version of that commuter.
One needs Instagram's ten-second glance between stops. The other needs LinkedIn's slower, more suspicious read, the kind given to a stranger's CV.
Work out which glance you're catching, and build for that one, not the one you'd prefer.
Stop guessing which room your clients are standing in. Get clarity on your direction before you spend another month posting into the wrong platform. score your practice
They're the hardest ones to find. We have a story garden and a visual river that belong to exactly that kind of practice - and a discovery call where your questions get the attention they're owed. Coffee first. Oat milk?
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