Marketing Report: General Appraisal of HNCT's Internet Presence

This report assesses the online presence of Health Navigator Charitable Trust (HNCT), focusing on enhancing website traffic and user trust. It employs SWOT analysis, revealing strengths like a well-regarded Facebook page and weaknesses such as limited website awareness. Opportunities include international expansion, while threats involve competition and trust issues. The report uses the 7C’s framework to evaluate commerce, communication, community, connection, content, context, and customization, providing recommendations for improvements with examples. A comparison with other websites and a consumer experience hierarchy based on Maslow’s needs are used to understand user perception. The report suggests implementing HIPAA compliance and paid referral traffic to boost trust and online visibility. It concludes with detailed recommendations for enhancing HNCT's digital marketing strategy.

Running head: REPORT ON GENERAL APPRAISAL OF CURRENT INTERNET
PRESENCE OF HNCT
Report on General Appraisal of Current Internet Presence of HNCT
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Executive Summary
The aim of this report is to evaluate the present scenario of the online presence of Health
Navigators website run by Health Navigator Charitable Trust (HNCT) and to increase and
convert online traffic to the website. The report also recommends suitable measures to gain trust
of the users as well as other people on the health related information given in the website.
Situational analysis is performed by using SWOT(S-Strength, W-Weakness, O-Opportunities
and T-threats) Analysis. The SWOT revealed that the company has strengths like it has a
Facebook page where the recommendation of the page has a 5-star rating and the information
available like videos are found useful by many people, certain weaknesses are like people are not
much aware of the website in spite of its presence in social media which is preferably the most
widely preferred digital marketing tool used by business organizations (Constantinides et al.,
2016). Certain opportunities identified are like HNCT can expand their website to be accessed by
other countries besides New Zealand and the potential threats are that some other websites
presence may hamper the number of people visiting this website, the unreliability of the people
on this website and some others are identified. Using the 7c’s evaluation criteria the website is
analyzed of the communication, content, context, customization, connection and other factors
that are listed in the findings and suitable recommendations for the loopholes identified in each
finding are given citing proper examples with screenshots. Comparison with other websites are
also done to portray as an example Using the consumer’s experience hierarchy based on
Maslow’s need hierarchy it is understood how the customer feels about the website on their visit
where the feedback of an eminent pharmacist is also given in defense. Thus it can be said that
digital marketing can help incorporate the trust on the website by implementing the HIPAA
compliance rules and can help gain online traffic directed to the website by implementation of

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Paid referrals traffic which are discussed in more details along with other recommendations in
the section below.

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Table of Contents
Introduction....................................................................................................................................4
Discussion.......................................................................................................................................5
SWOT (S-Strength, W-weakness, O-opportunities and T-threats) Analysis..............................5
7C’s evaluation criteria:...............................................................................................................6
The users and the trust of the users on the website................................................................9
Stage 1: Functionality:........................................................................................................10
Stage 2: Intimacy:................................................................................................................10
Stage 3: Evangelism:............................................................................................................11
Gaining trust of the users:......................................................................................................12
Ways of gaining trust of the users:.....................................................................................13
Conclusion....................................................................................................................................14
Recommendations:.......................................................................................................................15
References:....................................................................................................................................17
Appendix.......................................................................................................................................21

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Introduction
Online presence is of utmost importance for any business organization to succeed (Leu,
Hsu & Song, 2015). This process necessitates combining of web designing and development,
writing blogs, optimizing the search engines, marketing based on pay per click, managing good
will and reputation, social media like posting on Facebook and twitter and similar other types of
avenues in order to ensure a long lasting presence of a person, a business organization, product
or any types of services in the search engines and on the internet. However, out of all the online
digital marketing tools that are present social media is the most preferred one as it is free to use
and promote stuff as the customers tend to recognize the company more, if they start noticing it
over social media. A page of the business can be created, audiences can be targeted easily,
achieving the reports, connecting to each and every customers and solving their issues, giving
instant feedback, incorporating the necessary improvements, giving daily updates without even
requiring much amount of investments can be done through social media platforms.
Health Navigator charitable trust (HNCT) runs an online website as the Health Navigator
with a vision of providing completely reliable health related information that is freely available
to all the New Zealanders, so that they can fight with the disease. The Trust holds a noble
mission of providing the New Zealanders with reliable online health resources that well support
decision making in consultation with healthcare providers, and have an increased confidence on
their well-being. Although available on social media platforms, in order to cover such a huge
range of information the online presence is of utmost importance for HNCT in order to achieve
the motive of free accessibility of the health information. In the following paragraphs the online
presence of Health navigator charitable trust is being evaluated and certain recommendations are

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made for improvement of the website along with certain ways of gaining trust of people on this
website.
Discussion
Situational analysis of Health Navigator Charitable Trust:
SWOT (S-Strength, W-weakness, O-opportunities and T-threats) Analysis
SWOT Analysis is done to understand the online presence effectiveness of HNCT.
Strength: 1.From the Facebook page of social media it can be seen that the Health navigator NZ
is being liked by 1.2k people are supporting the website
2. The videos, health related information that are provided are found useful by many people.
3. Patient queries get resolved easily regarding diseases and treatments.
Weakness: 1. not much well known website.
2. Awareness among the people of other countries are less.
Opportunities: 1. Explore diseases specific to countries and provide the information.
2. More healthcare campaigns can be organized.
Threats: 1. Many other similar organizations are there providing the same benefits to the
patients and educating them about the diseases.
2. Only New Zealand centered, which may affect the website as the number of patients may
decrease in New Zealand.
3. The website provides online information, which may not be relied by the patients due to
unanimous identity of the doctors and the clinicians or the pharmacists.

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4. The website may be prone to lesser security while it provides connection to third party
websites.
In order to increase and convert the online traffic Health Navigator can use direct referral, unpaid
referral, paid referral, unpaid search traffic and paid search traffic.
7C’s evaluation criteria:
Commerce: The funding of the majority of the healthcare services provided
comes from a governmental department that is Ministry of Health. District
Health Boards receive the major section of the funding for the health
services from the Ministry of Health. The District Health Board then divides
the money to two branches, one is the primary care and the second one
being the secondary care (Madhani, 2018). The various services such as
contacting the family physician, physiotherapists and midwives that fall
under the primary care range of services are not being funded enough to
meet the expenses incurred towards providing these services. This may
cause charging of a certain amount of fees from the patients.
Recommendation: The fees can be charged based on the income levels of
the patient. The patients may be encouraged to have an insurance on their
side to provide them medical coverage during their health hazard (DiCapua,
2017). Online insurance providing websites are also available whose links can
be given on the Health Navigator website or the website itself can arrange
for such insurance policies by contacting and collaborating with other third

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party providers like Fair Health Consumer website (Welcome to FAIR Health,
2018). (Refer to image 1 in appendix)
Communication: The communication tab is well represented in the website Health Navigator
which two distinct divisions –one being requiring only overview experience of the patient and
the other one being in the case of emergency (Homburg, Jozić & Kuehnl, 2017). The in case
emergency section is well designed with several questions such as if in need of any urgent
attendance ta call a given number, in case of accidents it requires the patient party to input
certain data such as current location (Koutsiouris, Vrechopoulos & Doukidis, 2016). In case the
patient requires any health related information the website has well uploaded inventory of videos
in the library section which gives useful and widely searched tips regarding healthy diet chart,
exercises and life changing conditions which are pretty much educative to the patients. The
helpline number given also actively answers to get the queries of the patients clarified.
Community: Health Navigator connects well with the people of New Zealand through the
customised tab named as get involved. The most positive side of connecting with the community
is by the mentioning of their recruitment that is going on (Yang, 2016). The website also has
sections for mentioning own expertise in any topics related to health (Price-Haywood, 2015).
There is a section of sharing the personal experiences of patients and how they coped up with the
health hazard they faced (Dadich & Wyer, 2018). However this section is very monotonous and
not much attractive to encourage people read through the stories. However this initiative of
sharing personal experiences encourages the patients as well as others to become more involved
with the trust.

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Recommendation- The own experience tab can be decorated by graphics images that are used in
the fair health consumer website for sharing individual patient experience or point of view (Fair
Health, 2018) (Refer to image 2 in appendix).
Connection: The website has a lot of supporters like Bay of Plenty, Taranaki District Health
Boards, Nelson Marlborough health which are obviously important connections with the Health
Navigator website for funding purpose and also referencing. The website however uses only
unpaid referral traffic like Facebook or other social media platforms which must be extended to
use other types of traffic referrals.
Recommendation- The paid referral traffics may be used like when searched of healthcare
websites the name of Health Navigator pops up on the front page of the search engine. Thus the
use of banner ads, text ads and banner ads are recommended (Amazon.in Associates Central,
2018) (refer to image 3 in appendix).
Content: The website content is well displayed and loaded with information related to all the
health related diseases from a to z in an alphabetic manner along with a dedicated medicine
option where the patients, doctors or nurses can gain in depth information (Chiagouris &
Williams 2014). Various lifestyles related to various ages and stages of life are also discussed in
a broader and easily understandable fashion. The website has an app library which is a huge
inventory of video and related articles that can be accessed easily. The website is well connected
with the social media pages of Facebook, twitter, LinkedIn which portrays there online presence
to the users visiting the website. However the website lacks a complete overview of what the
Health Navigator website is about, which gives an overall picture to the user at a glance.
Recommendation:

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1. The Health Navigator website can have an informational brief video by covering the entire
facts about what the website is and what facilities it provides (Refer to image 4 in appendix)
Context: The website has a good feel as people search the website and when it appears first on
the screen they will find moving graphics that are related to chronic health issues like Asthma,
chronic Pain with high quality images. The entire page has small sections related to various
topics like vegan diet, app library and many others which seems to be attractive to the viewers of
all ages, genders and makes it easy for them to find whatever they are looking for. Proper
guidance of the users in finding proper hospitals and doctors, necessity of doing insurances are
missing in the website (Buffoli, 2015).
Recommendation-The website content can also contain certain user educational information
like fair health consumer website has separate tabs like how to distinguish the best doctors and
hospitals and certain short articles on insurance for patients (Fair Health, 2018) (Refer to image 5
in appendix)
Customisation: The feedback option of the website helps the trust to modify the website based
on relevant overall experiences faced by the user. The user can also customise the website in
their own language by selecting their mother tongue from the languages tabs, also they can
search hospitals as per their location in the emergency tab.
The users and the trust of the users on the website
Gaining trust of the users is always an important factor for the business to succeed.
Health Navigators must build more trust among the users to gain more number of clicks in the
website and requires proper promotional activities for promoting the usefulness of the website,
not only in New Zealand but also in other countries like Australia.

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Maslow’s hierarchy of needs theory is being utilized here to understand the experiences
that the customers faced by visiting the website for help regarding appointments in clinics,
information regarding health related issues and display this experiences in the form of a
hierarchy (Lemon & Verhoef, 2016).
Stage 1: Functionality:
1. Usability: The website loads faster within 0.69 seconds and displays the contents in the screen
of the user, the page structure is well informative and the contents are divided into small sections
that makes the layout more convenient and easily accessed, graphics used in the website are of
high quality and friendly to users of all ages.
2. Ease of navigation: The website is easy to be navigated as the users can customise their
searches in their languages and find the relevant disease or medicine or any other health related
information just by clicking on the drop down lists.
3. Reliability: The website however crashes sometimes while downloading and takes a
considerable time in loading the preview of the document to be printed when the print option is
clicked on.
4. Speed: The speed of the website to display the asked contents is relatively less.
5. Security: The website has well framed security measures designed for maintaining the privacy
of the users or the information regarding the patients by giving the users the right to object, right
to access information related to them. However the website does not guarantee the surety of
privacy practices of the third party websites that their website provides access to (Lu, Fan &
Zhou, 2016). The website does not hold itself responsible for this type of fraudulence if privacy
is breached due to the website being connected to other third party websites.

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Stage 2: Intimacy:
1. Customization – The website has the ability to modify itself as per the needs of each and every
user, like they can customize the search in their own language, search for general practitioners
and clinics based on their region and the website will provide them with the nearest hospitals and
clinics that are located in the searched region.
2. Consumption to activity: The website is soothing to all people of all ages and for all genders,
which portrays that the website is user friendly.
3. Communication – The communication is from both sides that is the users put the feedbacks
and queries in the feedback section and the customer care personnel replies back within few
minutes.
Trust of the people is medium that is visible from the social media site where there exists 5 stars
recommendation but review of users exists very less, even the percentage of reacts on the video
or informative posts are also very less.
Stage 3: Evangelism:
Brand exists in the heart and mind of the people when its fame spreads through good word of
mouth
1. Through the hiring section of the website or through sharing own experiences the website
makes itself accessible to maximum population of New Zealand, where people can freely take
part and share their health related issues and the way they fought with it which will inspire other
people fighting with same issues in gaining mental strength that is Health Navigator is making
initiative of bringing people under the same umbrella of Active community member.