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Why bother to market your Employee Health Promotion Programs?

Because of the transient nature of the many employee populations, you must market your Employee Health Promotion Programs all the time. Your goal should be to keep your Employee Health Promotion Programs as visible as possible.

Innovative marketing can increase awareness of your Employer Wellness Program for:

• Potential Employer Wellness Program members
• Upper Management
• Line and medical personnel
• Potential partners and volunteers

Innovative Employer Wellness Program marketing ideas

Involve Upper Management in your marketing Employer Wellness Program as frequently as possible.
• By way of example: invite Upper Management to judge a Employer Wellness Program logo contest.

Link your Employee Health Promotion Programs to national advertising campaigns
• …like the Great American Smokeout and the Dairy Council’s Milk Mustache campaign.

Collaborate closely with personnel in the organization office.

• Submit articles about your Employee Health Promotion Programs that coincide with National Health Observances. By way of example: highlight your Asthma Program in May, which is National Asthma Awareness Month.
• Let the organization office know you can always provide an article to them when they run short on material. (Then make sure you always follow through.)
Word of mouth is the most effective advertising for your Employer Wellness Program
• Use real workers in your advertising: enlist the help of successful Employer Wellness Program members or use Employees and other post personnel for your marketing materials, when possible.
• Start “buzz” by incorporating an element of competition: which ‘team’ had the most steps over the past week? Which department engaged most frequently in physical activity?
Take advantage of technology
• Use post television and radio resources.
• Use email whenever you can.
Don’t just market your Employer Wellness Program to potential members, but market the opportunities for others to be involved, as well.
• By way of example: does the Red Cross know you can always use a volunteer? Do other departments/clinics know that you can always use personnel with some temporary down time?
Don’t be “old news”
• If you put advertising materials up, be sure to take them down in a timely manner.
• Update marketing logos and themes as appropriate.