Latest / Conversations with Cumberland Heights / Behavioral Health Marketing with Josh Moquin of Snapshot Interactive
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- 0:01Josh MacLean.
- 0:02Welcome to the show, man.
- 0:03We took it on the road.
- 0:05Are you surprised?
- 0:07A little bit, but I mean, the setup is incredible.
- 0:09You guys did a great job.
- 0:11I to be really honest, I didn't do anything.
- 0:13It was Lauren, Stacey, Starla and Ryan.
- 0:17Especially shout out to Ryan.
- 0:18He drove here and brought all of our equipment here.
- 0:22He essentially, at some point came to the team.
- 0:24Was like, I don't know how to bring all of this stuff with them, just like,
- 0:28you know, so drive him.
- 0:30Tell us who you are.
- 0:31Introduce yourself. Yeah. I'm Josh McKinnon.
- 0:35I'm our VP of operations for Snapchat,
- 0:37which is Cumberland Heights marketing agency.
- 0:39Shout out.
- 0:42Been with our agency
- 0:43for coming on nine years.
- 0:46Helping businesses figure out what to do with this big, hairy problem of marketing.
- 0:51Yeah.
- 0:52So what does a VP of operations do?
- 0:55Yeah. When you walk in the morning.
- 0:57Well, if you think about a marketing agency
- 1:00and how it supports you guys. Right.
- 1:02You have copywriters and designers and creatives
- 1:06and developers and all the people who make the marketing happen.
- 1:10And I don't know if you've worked with a lot of creative people, but,
- 1:14there are a lot of, there's a lot,
- 1:16a lot of trickiness with that, especially whenever you're,
- 1:20trying to keep everybody on the same page, rowing in the same direction.
- 1:26I'm ultimately the glue that kind of keeps it all together.
- 1:28So you're like a bridge.
- 1:31Yeah.
- 1:31I mean, we have an amazing accounts and strategy team and we look at it
- 1:35and they're looking at the vision they're trying to plan for the future.
- 1:39Come up with amazing ideas.
- 1:41And we have a creative and production team that's constantly, trying to push
- 1:46what they do creatively and, ultimately to get those two things to line up.
- 1:51Yeah.
- 1:51You need somebody to oversee it.
- 1:53Yeah. I've always appreciated your.
- 1:55And I don't know where this conversation is going to go,
- 1:57so I'm just going to be completely honest. But,
- 2:01you know, when we
- 2:01hired y'all to, to be our vendor
- 2:04and really an extension of our team, which y'all have done very well.
- 2:08And this isn't a mean, you didn't pay me to say any of this.
- 2:10Like we I would recommend snapshot to anybody, but,
- 2:16one thing I appreciated more than anything else about snapshot.
- 2:19And I told you this because you, because you were pretty much
- 2:22my contact as we were.
- 2:25Yeah.
- 2:26When you came to campus and we did a big you did a big presentation
- 2:29because we released an RFP and all that and one of the things I appreciated
- 2:33most about snapshot is that y'all didn't just serve behavioral health.
- 2:38Not that you can't do a good job of you're just,
- 2:41you know, bespoke behavioral health.
- 2:42But I really appreciated that y'all were, you know, helping people,
- 2:46sell hot tubs and ambulances
- 2:50and tractors and banking. Yeah.
- 2:53And especially when I check some references like it kind of
- 2:58it just was helpful for me to know that maybe you all were.
- 3:02Sometimes it's helpful, I think, for us
- 3:03to zoom out of behavioral health to understand how to connect people,
- 3:07because I think marketing's all about, in my humble opinion, trying to be known.
- 3:13And y'all really helped us do that.
- 3:15Yeah.
- 3:15You know, what's interesting is when I look at the core verticals that we work in
- 3:20and we look at behavioral health and we look at,
- 3:24machinery companies, and we look at.
- 3:27Yeah, such an interesting. Banking.
- 3:30We're the community banks, credit unions,
- 3:33they all three are very similar profiles.
- 3:36When it comes to, where we're meeting
- 3:39these businesses that so typically,
- 3:43the three things that they all share in common is one,
- 3:47they want to grow.
- 3:49They know that they have a great team, a great business, a great product,
- 3:52and they're excited to share it.
- 3:54Two, they have a budget.
- 3:56Nothing happens without a budget.
- 3:58And three.
- 4:00I don't want to use the word unsophisticated,
- 4:02but they're trying to figure it out, right?
- 4:05And, they're like.
- 4:07A huge scaffolding of teams, right? Yeah. Yeah. Right.
- 4:10And so that's the same across all three industries.
- 4:13And while the the problems and each or the challenges in nature unique,
- 4:18ultimately they're all quite similar.
- 4:20Yeah. What do you think is most challenge
- 4:23learning about behavioral health marketing?
- 4:27You know, when I look at it, it's it's a couple of things.
- 4:31One, it could be us.
- 4:33Yeah. Working with you? Yeah. No.
- 4:36It's looking at content meaningfully.
- 4:40I think continues to be a big challenge.
- 4:42And when I say that, what I mean is,
- 4:45taking something technical,
- 4:48and making it something digestible is something
- 4:52that I think we continue to, test and try and figure out.
- 4:58You know,
- 4:58when you're thinking about somebody who's landing on your website
- 5:01and how we want to communicate with them,
- 5:05it's really easy to start going down a bunch of different paths and thinking
- 5:09that this person wants to hear this, this person wants to hear that.
- 5:13And so taking what you all do and writing it in a way that,
- 5:18at the end of the day, we want to have people reach out to us, right?
- 5:23So there's an action that needs to be taken.
- 5:26There's information that needs to be understood,
- 5:28and it needs to be done in a very digestible way.
- 5:31And I think that's a big challenge.
- 5:34Do you think it's so?
- 5:37I think it machinery thinking behavioral health.
- 5:40Yeah. Particularly addiction treatment.
- 5:42You know what we know to be true in addiction treatment is often the people
- 5:46that work in addiction treatment are highly highly engaged in the mission.
- 5:50Likely because of their personal experience.
- 5:53You know in person recovery alumni of Carmel Heights.
- 5:56It's a great example right.
- 5:58Do you think that there is an interesting relationship
- 6:01with those in behavioral health where
- 6:05maybe,
- 6:08the challenge is that people are so invested.
- 6:11Yeah. Does that make sense?
- 6:13It does.
- 6:13And also, what I'll say about our, addiction
- 6:17treatment clients are they are extremely passionate.
- 6:21I like and a good. Way to frame that.
- 6:23Yeah.
- 6:25And I think it's great.
- 6:26It keeps us on our toes, and it's always pushing our team
- 6:29to make sure that they're doing their best work. But,
- 6:33you know, when I get to look at things
- 6:35at a 30,000ft view, and oftentimes, whether it's with Cumberland
- 6:39or one of our other treatment centers, if they're starting to feel like,
- 6:44they're being pushed really hard,
- 6:47sometimes that can turn into like,
- 6:51oh, you know, they just they're always wanting this and always wanting that.
- 6:54And what I always remind them is that, like, guys, like,
- 6:56they're trying to help people and they feel the time
- 7:00and the urgency and what's happening in their day to day lives.
- 7:03And it's not that they're trying to push
- 7:06or be pushy, but they're trying to help people.
- 7:09And I think ultimately it's our responsibility as a
- 7:12as being your partner to match that level of excitement about it.
- 7:17I like that
- 7:17you said that I we've been on a journey
- 7:21with expectations just like y'all have.
- 7:23And I guess what I mean is.
- 7:27For instance, me, you know,
- 7:30I manage the digital marketing team.
- 7:33I never had a marketing job in.
- 7:34My life before.
- 7:35We started this journey. Right.
- 7:37So what I've really appreciated about snapshot
- 7:39and about you and Rosie and Mark and Sean and Chris
- 7:44and the whole team is that y'all have helped us
- 7:48grow in our understanding throughout the process as well.
- 7:52So it's been a
- 7:54maybe instead of just sitting back and saying, we need results, results, results.
- 7:58It's okay.
- 7:59Well, actually, let me understand how the CMS works
- 8:02and how meta description tagging works, and so that there's
- 8:07an effective bridge of expectation across each organization.
- 8:11And that kind of brings me
- 8:12to one of the things that I've learned is it's really important
- 8:16in organizations like ours for there to be an internal champion.
- 8:19Yeah.
- 8:20Not only just somebody that's like and in the meetings, you know, with y'all,
- 8:25but somebody that is obsessed, for lack of a better term,
- 8:29with understanding these technologies.
- 8:31And these strategies so that,
- 8:36we avoid many of those pitfalls of saying, why isn't this working?
- 8:40And I'll say that we talked about the different industries you work in.
- 8:43It's the same no matter who we work with, really, if there's not,
- 8:47somebody internally championing, marketing,
- 8:52then ultimately those relationships tend not to work out in the long term.
- 8:56And I don't think it's because of one party or the other.
- 8:59I think it's because the person who is in charge of it on the client side is,
- 9:06is constantly trying to,
- 9:11figure marketing out
- 9:13and doing it on their own.
- 9:16We're talking about expectations.
- 9:17There seems to there is no set expectations.
- 9:20It's just kind of week by week,
- 9:21day by day, which is just not really a successful way to run.
- 9:25What do you guys do to support?
- 9:28So Lauren is new on our team, and,
- 9:32one of the things that we really value
- 9:33about her experience, just as an example, is that, you know, she was
- 9:37she worked in behavioral health before, and then she went to an agency.
- 9:40And and having gotten
- 9:42no y'all over the past year and a half that we worked together.
- 9:45You know, I recognize that snapshot creative is busy.
- 9:49You know there's there's lots of customers.
- 9:51All. At once.
- 9:53And so sometimes as a team, you know when internally
- 9:57in fact in our little text message group, you know we're checking ourselves
- 10:00about like hey have we heard about this. Have we checked in on that.
- 10:03And we always try to recognize and give benefit of that.
- 10:06It's probably like ten other fires that are happening.
- 10:09So I'm wondering, as you're trying to help manage your own team across
- 10:15advertising, traditional
- 10:16advertising, digital creative copywriting video.
- 10:21Yeah. How do you,
- 10:23how do you train your staff to have multiple masters?
- 10:27Yeah. Like, how do you even live?
- 10:30You know what I mean?
- 10:31Like, how does that even work?
- 10:32Well, I mean, for me, like, I grew up in the agency,
- 10:35and so I understand each service line.
- 10:39And not in, like, how, how it works, but
- 10:42also where it's going, how it functions, how production works.
- 10:46I understand it all very intimately.
- 10:48And so for me, it problem solving is easy.
- 10:52However,
- 10:54I think it's always a challenge.
- 10:56People always like to ask us, like, what's next?
- 10:58What's coming next?
- 10:59And it's like, well, in the context of what are we talking about?
- 11:02Video, we're talking about digital or we're talking about,
- 11:06content.
- 11:06And so what's next in terms of like the future of marketing?
- 11:09Totally interesting.
- 11:10So that tends to be the part that is the most challenging for us.
- 11:14It isn't actually managing the work.
- 11:16It's making sure that we're being, constantly proactive
- 11:19about where each of these individual,
- 11:23types of marketing are going.
- 11:24You know, that's the same as that reminds me of our technology team
- 11:28or our clinical teams, like the emerging evidence
- 11:32based therapies like, for example, Cumberland Heights was founded in 1966.
- 11:36Well, you know, it's 2024, right?
- 11:39So our ideas and attitudes and learnings
- 11:44about how behavioral health change.
- 11:47Yeah, functions effectively has changed over almost 60 years.
- 11:52And technologies adapt.
- 11:55And trying to, give your teams time
- 11:59to invest in those things is really.
- 12:02I mean, I could see the question right back, like, you know, okay,
- 12:06you are an addiction treatment center, but you also have a food staff.
- 12:10You also have,
- 12:12you know, clinicians and you have all these different
- 12:15sorts of roles and responsibilities that ultimately you're not,
- 12:19you know, I wouldn't
- 12:20say, the best staff, but you have to figure it out.
- 12:23And we're all faced with those challenges, no matter what industry you're in.
- 12:27Yeah.
- 12:28You know what? I.
- 12:29Yeah, but I guess
- 12:32what comes to mind, is everybody's a human being.
- 12:36And relationships matter.
- 12:39And I think that earlier in my career,
- 12:42I assumed that everybody needed feedback the same way.
- 12:48Yeah.
- 12:49Based on how I need feedback. Right.
- 12:51And everybody grows the same way.
- 12:53And that is not true. Yeah for sure.
- 12:55I mean coaching is something
- 12:58when we look at it from the agency standpoint.
- 13:02The relationships that we have with our clients are the most important things.
- 13:05Yeah.
- 13:05And when we even look at giving clients feedback, or, the way the clients give us
- 13:11feedback, I mean, we have to approach that in delicate way as well.
- 13:14Yeah.
- 13:15Well, we've always appreciated y'all.
- 13:18I just want everybody to know,
- 13:19you know, Cumberland Heights has been with snapshot for a year and a half
- 13:23and just right about there and we have done so many things.
- 13:27I mean, from multiple massive photo shoots.
- 13:32We're about to launch a brand new website
- 13:34because our current website was 2500 pages.
- 13:37And so,
- 13:40appropriately pruning that and transitioning
- 13:42that to a whole new platform has been a challenge.
- 13:46Read the brand booklet that we created together,
- 13:50adjusting our logos and colors, adjusting all of our ads.
- 13:54And, you know, we've seen an 88% increase
- 13:57in our conversions from our ad spend, which we're not a big ad shot.
- 14:01But yeah, all of that has been in partnership with snapshot
- 14:04and getting back to some of the basics and just paying attention,
- 14:08you know, like like,
- 14:12It's not been as simple as that, but
- 14:14paying attention with a highly qualified staff
- 14:17and a good partner that's able to tell us, hey, we this is our recommendation.
- 14:22Next, this is our feedback.
- 14:24Well, you know, it's funny, like, especially in agency relationships is,
- 14:28it's just like any relationship, you got to take a step back
- 14:30and, like, realize how much we've actually done together.
- 14:33Like, you just listen.
- 14:34And I was like, amazing, man in a year and a half to get all that done.
- 14:36Like, yeah. Pretty incredible. Yeah.
- 14:39It's important that we take a
- 14:40step back and look at that and then gear up to go do it again.
- 14:43But yeah,
- 14:44that it's just impressive the partnership that we've had been able to produce such,
- 14:49such quality work.
- 14:50Yeah.
- 14:51Again, we're grateful I and I appreciate like
- 14:54another thing that I appreciate is like if we have a problem, we can call in cost.
- 14:57My cell phone.
- 14:59You know, we can call the CEO. Cell phone.
- 15:01In fact, maybe Marc would be like, no, but we were just talking.
- 15:05Amy Irwin, shout out to her.
- 15:07You know, y'all's HR officer even helped us fill a role within our own team
- 15:11because that
- 15:12one of the things I really appreciated, and this is what you all said to me,
- 15:15is that
- 15:15we want to be an extension of your team and that that couldn't be more true.
- 15:19I mean, your account rep
- 15:22and Megan
- 15:22being Rosie Coleman and Megan me and you know, our our on
- 15:25our staff calls every week on our site maybe every two weeks.
- 15:29And so it's a real kind of in relationship building.
- 15:33We know each other personally over time.
- 15:36And managing all these projects is, is a big team effort.
- 15:40So we we love you guys. Yeah.
- 15:42You know, and I would recommend,
- 15:44you know, if anybody's interested in learning more.
- 15:46And this is not I mean, Josh didn't tell me to say this, but check them out.
- 15:49You know, they're Nashville based company and reach out to them
- 15:52if you have questions because I couldn't I could not recommend y'all's work enough.
- 15:56And it really matters, like you said, because people
- 15:59coming to our website are in a crisis most of the time.
- 16:02You know, and we're not so much worried about the folks
- 16:06that are already aware of us.
- 16:08Because we think that our work speaks for itself.
- 16:10But it's the families that have no idea where to turn.
- 16:14And they're searching in Google, trying to learn more.
- 16:17And so making sure that our website, our digital resources
- 16:21are the best representation of who we are and what we do,
- 16:25because it's a tough decision.
- 16:29And we have a couple of minutes left.
- 16:30I want to ask you a couple questions, please.
- 16:33So as a as your agency partner, if you
- 16:38when you look, go back and look and think of the work
- 16:40that we've done together and where this thing is going.
- 16:42Like what advice or what challenges
- 16:46would you pose to me or our team to think about over the next 12 months?
- 16:50Maybe not.
- 16:51Not even Cumberland specific, but as an industry,
- 16:54what are the things that we need to be looking out for?
- 16:58I think that I'm concerned.
- 17:01The first thing that comes to mind is,
- 17:03quality trusted partners.
- 17:06I have strong opinions about what makes up a good organization
- 17:09from a treatment center perspective and the things for people.
- 17:12What? What to look for.
- 17:15Again, as families are in an A in an emergent state
- 17:19trying to make an informed decision about the health of their loved one.
- 17:24So having a partner like y'all
- 17:27that's able to fully support
- 17:31an organization appropriately, ethically,
- 17:34the right way
- 17:36because you've never
- 17:36one of the things I've appreciated is snapshot has never communicated to me that
- 17:39anything that we're trying to do is going to be a quick solution, right?
- 17:43Yeah, that if we want to make long term gains, it's going to have to match a long
- 17:47term investment. You know,
- 17:50the other thing that I would say to any to y'all
- 17:53and I've told you this in Mark is, you know, scale appropriately to support,
- 17:57you know, I know that y'all continue to grow and,
- 18:02and with that, from the operations leaders,
- 18:05you have to make sure that you have enough account directors and creatives
- 18:08and that their bandwidth is appropriate to make sure that,
- 18:11you know, I can't even imagine.
- 18:12But, you know, for the five or 6 or 7 different behavioral health clients
- 18:16that you have, you know, that all that's balanced appropriately.
- 18:20The other thing I'm super interested in, that we're going to lean on y'all more in
- 18:22the future is like the integration of artificial intelligence,
- 18:26not as a buzzword, but in its place in search engines.
- 18:31Yeah, and search engine optimization, how that will impact,
- 18:36the algorithms that
- 18:37drive where people try to find treatment centers
- 18:40because that's changing and that's adapting.
- 18:44And we need y'all to tell us
- 18:48how to adjust our copy and our design so that we can remain,
- 18:55With the times.
- 18:56Yeah.
- 18:57What about,
- 18:59you know, something that we're seeing across
- 19:02the other industries that we're working is on marketing automation.
- 19:05And I think for the long time we've had conversations about how do we create,
- 19:10a digital experience that follows everyone
- 19:12along their journeys and ultimately, there's been this tech,
- 19:17not the technological gaffe, that prevents that from happening.
- 19:20It's like, hey, we have this data lives over here.
- 19:21It needs to be connected to an automation tool.
- 19:25These things don't really do well together.
- 19:28In terms of like an integration, like, do you think that that's something
- 19:31in the coming year that you'd be interested in talking about?
- 19:33I yeah, I mean, my boss is probably if he, if he watches this episode, he's
- 19:39probably going to shake his head
- 19:40because it takes a big investment on the provider side
- 19:43to have the technology you need and the personnel
- 19:46to manage that technology, which is kind of my other job of, come on.
- 19:51To make sure that your data are flowing appropriately.
- 19:53Like one of the things that I think is a limitation in our field is,
- 19:58you know, we tend to buy these applications off the shelf,
- 20:00the EMR or the CRM and the call center, the CTM, the call rail.
- 20:06And you're right, there's no integration in between.
- 20:08And so you're relying on reports from each application.
- 20:11But they're not connected. Right.
- 20:14And that can be a big limitation.
- 20:15How we've solved for that
- 20:17is, you know, having servers in a SQL environment on premise.
- 20:22We maintain our own integrations, but that's a heavy burden.
- 20:24I mean, think about that from a call from a finance perspective
- 20:28and also a personnel perspective in a time.
- 20:31One of the things I've learned a lot about is even though our technology staff
- 20:35can do anything right, you know, they can build a website.
- 20:38They can they can create a staff portal.
- 20:40They can whatever they can build whatever.
- 20:43Sometimes we shouldn't because then we have to support it.
- 20:47So it's this balance of how do we partner with the most appropriate
- 20:51mature applications.
- 20:52Right.
- 20:52And vendors and kind of homegrown solutions,
- 20:57for us to grow appropriately because we have 350 people on staff.
- 21:01Right. And we have to take care of, I mean,
- 21:04you know, priority number one is the patients and their experiences.
- 21:08And right behind that is our staff, right?
- 21:10I mean, they're exchanging days of their lives to work for us.
- 21:14And taking care of them is no small feat.
- 21:15And I've learned a lot about,
- 21:18how to do that effectively.
- 21:19So an example is maybe Cumberland Heights could use another developer.
- 21:24But at the same time, you know, our leadership team is weighing well.
- 21:27We also need to staff up in another area of the representation
- 21:30clinically or medically.
- 21:32And how do you make those decisions.
- 21:33And we do the best we can.
- 21:34But that can be a big challenge, which just goes back
- 21:38to having an internal champion and a bridge like you.
- 21:42Yeah, somebody that's able to speak all those different languages
- 21:46to make sure that,
- 21:48everybody is most informed
- 21:49about the next decision and we can weigh those pros and cons.
- 21:54I think something that gets me excited.
- 21:56And we've talked about this before, whether it's a HubSpot or some other tool.
- 22:00Right.
- 22:00It's being able to integrate some of the data you have,
- 22:05with a marketing automation tool that can follow someone along their whole journey.
- 22:10Yeah.
- 22:10So if somebody in need reaches out, right, you have a marketing automation tool
- 22:15like automatically is engaging them,
- 22:19in compliant ways. But,
- 22:22whether that be through SMS, whether that be through email,
- 22:24whether that be through, a number of different, channels,
- 22:28but creating a cohesive experience that from day one all the way till they're,
- 22:33you know,
- 22:3410th anniversary, there's an experience that we've been able to provide them.
- 22:38And it's been relatively,
- 22:42automated in nature.
- 22:43And I think that is something that I'm really excited about.
- 22:46And we know we like to see it come on nights.
- 22:48You know, we like to be technology assisted, not technology dominated.
- 22:53So how can these tools complement what we're doing.
- 22:56Like we don't want our folks working for the technology.
- 23:00We want the technology working for our teams.
- 23:05And that there's a there's a balance there.
- 23:08Sure. For sure.
- 23:09Yeah.
- 23:09But part of the reason why we do this isn't because of my own vanity,
- 23:13I assure you because I would, I would rather not be on camera.
- 23:17But it's because it's really important for us to use digital tools of today.
- 23:23Like video, like YouTube's the number two search engine in the world.
- 23:26Because people getting to know who we are
- 23:31is more than just a website, right?
- 23:32We're the. People. Right.
- 23:34Like getting to see your face, your team responsible for us digitally.
- 23:39Right. Right. Who are the chef? Somebody.
- 23:41Somebody came up to me here at this event.
- 23:43We're like, I loved the chef episode.
- 23:45So I learned a lot about how the inner workings of how that happens week to week.
- 23:50So anyways, we love snapshot.
- 23:53I really appreciate you taking the time to do this at the Global Exchange.
- 23:56Please be safe. I know Milton is approaching.
- 23:59It's coming.
- 23:59But maybe we'll just
- 24:01if we need to, we'll get in the van and drive back to Nashville together.
- 24:05Thanks. Appreciate you, brother, a lot.
- 24:06Thank you, thank you. Like and subscribe below.
- 24:08We appreciate you guys for watching. See you again next time.