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Plastic Surgery Marketing

Most people today use the internet to research and compare products and services. Searching for the right healthcare providers is no exception.

As a plastic surgeon, you’ve probably had many patients who first learned about your clinic through search or social media platforms.

You may have relied only on word-of-mouth and referrals for patient acquisition in the past. But the fast-changing marketing landscape may be forcing you to adapt. 

By now, you’ve likely already tried integrating digital marketing services, like SEO (search engine optimization), Google Ads, and Facebook Ads, into your practice. A stronger online presence equals more patient leads, procedures, and consultations, right?

Unfortunately, you’ve yet to see how these marketing strategies can help you maximize your ROIs (return on investment) and scale your plastic surgery clinic.

You invested much of your time, effort, and money into marketing campaigns. Still, you aren’t getting the desired patient leads and sales. What more can you do? 

You know digital marketing can deliver better results than you currently get (some of your competitors seemed to be doing well in this area). But frankly, you’ve lost faith in your current agency’s ability to do so. 

You’ll be more than happy you found us. We can help turn your campaign and practice’s situation around. 

What makes us so confident? We’re specialists in generating more patient leads, consultations, and high-ticket plastic surgery procedures. 

We can help you reach and engage searchers, whether they have just realized their plastic surgery needs or are actively looking for a specific solution.

Our leads-focused strategy ensures you stay front and center with potential clients at every stage of their plastic surgery journey.

Still undecided? We can analyze and audit your marketing campaigns and develop a clear plan for you even before you sign up with us. 

These audits cost thousands of dollars, but we offer them free of charge — no strings attached — because they’ll help you understand the fundamental needs of your practice. 

More importantly, we only take on clients for whom we can generate significant ROI. It’s why our partnership with our clients lasts for years, even without lock-in contracts. They stick with us for the ongoing results we deliver.

Ready to know how we can transform your practice into a profitable and rewarding venture? Let’s dive in. 

What Is Plastic Surgery Marketing?

As a plastic surgeon, you had to (and still have to) learn a ton of technical terms and procedures to be a master of your craft. 

Likewise, seasoned digital marketing specialists like us became the go-to consultants for many businesses due to our in-depth technical knowledge and expertise. 

But as you know, using niche language when speaking to prospective clients isn’t exactly the best way to deliver your message. In fact, it could be counterproductive, as it may leave your audience more confused than ever. 

So, what is plastic surgery marketing? 

Simply put, plastic surgery marketing is a tailored strategy designed to attract and keep plastic surgery patients. It leverages SEO, paid search ads, and various social media channels to get the job done.

For instance, we can help market your practice through these digital channels:

  • SEO
  • Google Ads
  • Facebook and Instagram Ads
  • Bing Ads

Many digital marketers might agree with how we define plastic surgery marketing. But here’s where we differ from most: we believe that healthcare businesses need leads, not impressions.

Impressions only count the number of times a user sees your ad or content on an online platform. 

What Should Your Plastic Surgery Marketing Look Like?

A quick Google search will show you diverse marketing service providers. The number of choices offers you more flexibility. 

But there’s also so much noise (overhyped sales talk) to filter out, making it more challenging for you to vet a reliable marketing agency.

For example, digital marketers love to boast the number of clicks, calls, and emails they can get through their approach. But clicks and traffic — no matter how many you get — are worth nothing if they aren’t from quality leads. 

In short, impactful plastic surgery marketing focuses on generating leads (as per the benchmark you set), not clicks.

How do we know this insight is true? We’ve been in the digital marketing industry for 15+ years and have achieved the following:

  • Tracked, tested, and optimized 2,103+ campaigns
  • Maintained a 95.67% client retention rate
  • Became a member of Google’s highest tier of Premier Partners 

More importantly, we have multiple case studies from our work in the medical industry to back our claims. 

We mention these facts and achievements to highlight two things: we know what high-performance marketing campaigns look like and how to use them to benefit your practice.

The Importance of Digital Marketing to Plastic and Cosmetic Surgeons

The plastic surgery market is booming.

IBISWorld, a well-known comprehensive industry-market research database, says that the plastic surgery industry has reached a market value of $25 billion as of January 2024.

Note: Here, IBISWorld included cosmetic procedures in their definition of the plastic surgery industry. However, we understand that cosmetic and plastic surgeons have their unique focus. 

Plastic surgery focuses on reconstructive procedures to restore the body’s normal function and appearance following an illness, injury, or congenital problem. In contrast, cosmetic surgery specializes solely in aesthetic procedures, such as facelifts and breast augmentation.

Essential differences aside, we want to emphasize a completely different point: both fields likely owed much of their market growth to their increased use of digital marketing. 

Do you want to harness the power of search and social media marketing to scale your practice? Partner with us and get these benefits:

  • Higher organic search rankings through SEO, leading to higher leads
  • Transformation of ad spend in Google Ads, Meta (Facebook and Instagram) Ads, and Bing Ads into quality leads through our combined knowledge of the math that powers digital advertising and your client’s medical journey
  • Monthly reports showing only the clear, actionable information for your business

Who Is Your Target Audience for Plastic Surgery?

For a marketing campaign to be effective, it must have a well-defined goal and target audience. You probably already know about this requirement from previous experience with digital marketing.

Increasing your ad spend or buying a thousand-dollar website won’t get you the desired results. Instead, you should be clear about who you want to engage and how you want them to respond to your message.

That’s why we won’t ask you to spend a cent on us until we do our homework — ensure we understand your objectives, situation, and what a “quality lead” means for you.

Target High-Value Potential Clients

Undergoing a plastic surgery procedure is a life-changing decision for many people. While some may decide based on financial considerations, others may consider a method’s success rate. 

These and many other factors affect how potential patients use the internet when searching and comparing plastic surgery practices. 

Do you want to target searchers who will most likely contact your clinic and book an appointment with you? You’d want what we can offer you.

As a math-based agency, we can devise a precision-targeted marketing campaign for you that focuses on potential high-value clients. 

How? We carefully analyze your target audience’s keywords, interests, and online behavior.

Stay Connected With Previous Patients

Satisfied patients can be a great source of new referrals.

As you know, a growing number of people today turn to the internet as the first resource for their healthcare-related queries. 

This phenomenon could mean that search and social platforms offer a huge growth opportunity for your business. 

However, more online searches — even when they lead to mmobiore visits to your site — doesn’t mean you’ll get more leads that convert (take action in response to your message). Searchers must still be convinced of your practice’s credibility before considering your services.

An effective way to capture these quality leads is through patient recommendations. 

That’s why it is crucial to keep them engaged and ensure they always have something positive to share about your practice in their ordinary conversations. You can do so through social media postings and texts. 

While often overlooked, email marketing remains one of the most effective digital advertising strategies. After all, it lets you stay connected with your clients and keep them interested in your services.

Improve Relationship With Unhappy Patients

When misplaced expectations lead to disappointment, communication is your lifeline for building enduring patient relationships. 

Offer a free appointment via text or call. Educate previous and existing patients about the procedure they underwent and share past results to set realistic expectations. 

Even better, preempt any misunderstandings by laying out exact results upfront.

Marketing Strategy for Plastic Surgery and Advertising Techniques

Most agencies will tell you that digital marketing works. The problem is that they can usually only offer a vague definition of “what works.” 

And if you ask them to elaborate, there’s a good chance they’ll give you more generic examples and explanations.    

However, each industry has unique goals, target markets, and an understanding of marketing success.  So, strategies that worked for say, a textile company won’t work for your plastic surgery practice. 

Our unique, math-driven marketing and advertising approach is built on this insight. Consider some of the things we’ll do to help grow your practice:

  • Use high-level mathematics, like data modeling, advanced statistical analysis, and multi-variant testing, to deliver the results your practice needs and deserves.
  • Generate a steady stream of qualified leads that you can trace to the source and cost to the dollar.
  • Optimize your campaigns to help you spend less money – unless solid data suggests the need for increased spending.

Why are we confident in our approach? Because we’re not just Google Ads or SEO specialists but mathematicians. 

In fact, our founders graduated with top grades from Macquarie University, where they specialized in math- and statistics-heavy fields.

They’ve developed a multi-million dollar dataset for over a decade to track real-world campaign performance and detect significant algorithm changes. We’ve used this in-house tool to propel our clients to great heights.

Branding Your Plastic Surgery Practice

As a plastic surgeon, you may be noticing an increase in competition. And you’re right, considering there are currently over 9,540+ plastic surgeons practicing in the United States.

To ensure potential clients choose your practice for consultations and procedures rather than another clinic, we’ll help you solidify your brand identity and reputation.

What Is Branding?

Your brand communicates to people what is unique about your practice and why it matters. 

Why does your practice need to have a well-established brand? Two words: familiarity and reputation. 

You want an instantly recognizable name and a reputation that assures the prospect that you’re the right plastic surgeon to trust with their procedure.

That’s why we consider brand awareness a crucial ROI (return on investment) metric. 

Brand awareness is a qualitative factor that answers questions like “Am I getting more backlinks, positive reviews, and social mentions?”

Typical branding tactics focus on messaging, brand personality, core values, and positioning. We can supplement these efforts to strengthen brand image by improving the search visibility of branded keywords, such as branded products and brand names. 

What Does Successful Branding Look Like?

If you’re good at finding a lake with many fishes (the right audience), your bait (your message) won’t be as important. If you only know lakes with no fish, you won’t catch any, even if you have the best bait.

Still, consistent and compelling brand messaging is crucial. Using the fishing analogy, don’t expect to catch many fish with broken bait.

We understand your message lets you clarify your self-image while addressing your target market’s needs and desires.

Fortunately, our plastic surgery marketing services include content development and ad writing, ensuring you have a well-established brand identity and fostering trust among potential clients.

Some Basics on Building a Brand for a Plastic Surgeon

Traditional marketing tools like billboards, radio, print, and TV ads can help your brand messaging. 

But here’s the thing: they’re not direct-response ads. You can’t just set up a billboard or magazine ad and expect clients to come flooding in overnight. 

Traditional methods may help build your brand, but they aren’t ideal for increasing conversions (in the long run, improving your brand’s reputation).

That’s why you need another way to promote your plastic surgery practice: digital marketing. Unlike traditional avenues, it offers immediate feedback and precise targeting. 

Digital marketing lets you reach the right audience at the right moment, track real-time metrics, and refine your strategy as your campaign progresses. It’s like using a built-in GPS (global positioning system) to boost your ROI.

Plastic Surgery Brand Messaging

Your message should communicate to potential patients that you’ve got something valuable to offer—something they crave or need.

Focus your brand messaging on the two things most prospects want to know:

1. Why do I need this procedure?

2. Why should I choose you?

Plastic Surgery Brand Visuals

Visual assets, like images or videos, may work well for your social media campaign as they help showcase your services effectively.

For instance, prospective patients may want an overview of your clinic and its amenities before booking an in-person consultation.

If you can feature before-and-after photos of previous patients (with their consent, of course), prospects can see your work’s quality.

Brand Audit: Build Your Online Reputation

Sometimes, something terrible happens at your clinic. A patient may think they’ve gotten an unsatisfactory nose job, or a member of your staff may have been rude to a client. 

Even having slow-loading pages and inaccurate content on your plastic surgery website can be an unfavorable experience for prospects and patients.

Regardless of the cause, you’re constantly at risk of getting negative feedback. 

Worry no more. Through online reputation management, we’ll analyze your online profiles and influence internet users’ perceptions of your practice. 

For example, our Google Reputation Management service can help manage and protect information about your brand and employees and minimize or drown out negative reviews.

Another way we’ll improve your reputation is by conducting a preliminary SEO technical audit of your site. Doing so enables us to make data-informed recommendations (where applicable) that can help lessen your exposure to penalties and address the following:

  • Indexing and crawlability issues
  • Duplicate or thin content
  • Redirect checks
  • Low page-loading speed 

Provide Education and Interactive Elements

Your plastic surgery website shouldn’t be a static page but a dynamic hub where you can inform and engage visitors (potential clients). 

So, use straightforward language to explain your services, benefits, and potential risks. For example, you can include content about your pre- and post-operative care to prepare patients for their procedures.

Also, make your site more interactive. You can offer tools like virtual consultations or online quizzes to help them understand their needs and potential procedures.

Public Relations

PR (public relations) is essential to brand promotion and can help you build a solid brand reputation and ultimately increase sales.

When you have a quality relationship with the public, you achieve high credibility and gain the trust of reporters, blogs, and other authoritative third-party sites. 

Given PR’s significance in boosting high-impact ROIs, you likely want to know how we can help with your PR. 

We empower your PR by crafting share-worthy content optimized for search engines. This strategy helps your site attract backlinks and boosts brand awareness. 

Do you want the top news and informational sites to feature your practice? Through our proprietary analysis and research approach, we can help you develop data-informed content that enhances your PR initiatives.

Your Plastic Surgery Website

Potential patients don’t casually visit a plastic surgery clinic to browse treatments or procedures the way they shop for clothes or furniture. Today’s patients search online. 

What happens if they don’t see your site on the top SERPs? Or if they see and click it only to find pages with low-value content and a difficult-to-navigate website? That’s right, you’d lose potential high-value clients.

That’s why we don’t treat your plastic surgery website as just another digital asset you may or may not need. Instead, we consider it your digital waiting room — a place to engage visitors and turn them into clients.

Our digital marketing efforts aim to optimize your site’s converting power. We’ll help you:

  • Produce insightful content that helps your visitors understand your practice and procedures.
  • Ensure your website has a user-friendly design that searchers can easily navigate regardless of their devices.
  • Incorporate high-quality visual assets throughout your site to showcase your work, such as a before-and-after photo gallery of your procedures.

Why Is Your Plastic Surgery Website So Important?

You only have a few seconds to grab a site visitor’s attention and encourage them to learn more about you.

As a plastic surgeon, you have different prospective clients and, thus, traffic from diverse sources. Some may already know what they want and are looking for the right clinic. 

Others may consider a major or minor physical transformation but are still undecided. These searchers probably don’t even know about existing procedures.

Your website is one of the most effective, if not the most effective, ways to respond to these different types of searchers. You can introduce prospects to the full range of services your practice offers through your website. 

Plastic Surgery Website Design

Your site needs a sound structure and user-friendly interface if you want your content (thus, your practice) to rank high on search results.

Our agency works closely with a website development team to ensure proper implementation of our SEO adjustments. 

For instance, when we identify a new search algorithm pattern, we test our own internal websites until we’ve isolated the actual change.

The change can be so impactful that our web development partners adjust how they develop sites to capitalize on our findings. 

So, what’s our game plan? We collaborate extensively with our web development partners to help optimize your site for search engines.

Plastic Surgery Website Content

Do you want original, high-quality, and rank-ready content for your plastic surgery website? Look no further. 

Our content creation service seeks high-value opportunities based on our in-depth keyword analysis. We refresh or develop new content based on our thorough SEO research.

Our team of exceptional content developers writes articles based on our analysis of the top 20 results for your target key term and investigation of these factors:

  • Word count
  • Terms and frequency (minimum and maximum frequency to ensure natural language)
  • Questions searchers ask 
  • Cannibalization analysis (cannibalization happens when two or more pages compete for the same search term)
  • The search intent represented by your target head terms  
  • Content type
  • Clear content to keyword match

Then, our content specialists and internal editors ensure that articles are plagiarism-free and 100% human-written.  

We ensure the originality of our content using Grammarly and these AI content detection applications:

  • Originality.ai
  • Copyleaks
  • Corrector App
  • AI Classifier
  • Content at Scale
  • Crossplag

Plastic Surgery Before and After Galleries

What better method to showcase your expertise than by presenting potential patients with authentic depictions of your procedure’s potential results? 

A collection of before-and-after client photos acts as visual testimonials, highlighting your skill and fostering confidence and trust in your plastic surgery practice. 

Have a Solid Back-End System

Your plastic surgery clinic’s website requires adaptability for effective marketing. Templates might seem slick, but they’re a dead end for future upgrades and tech advances.

The fix? Get a pro to lay down a solid back-end coding system. Bring in someone who can keep your website updated and backed up regularly. This sets you up to expand your site hassle-free down the road.

Fortunately, our services include web development, from making layouts and writing content to ensuring your site translates well to various web browsers and devices and using permissible graphics.

Offer a Free ‘Photoshop’ Consultation

Photoshop can be an excellent marketing tool in your plastic surgery practice as it allows you to provide potential clients with a preview of how they’ll look after the operation.

For example, you can show a before-and-after photo to let the client know how they’ll look once the job is completed.

Other clinics might charge their clients for a Photoshop consultation. However, a free consultation might give you an edge, especially if you’re experienced and confident that the preview will be as close to the actual results as possible after the procedure.

Clarity and Compelling Messaging Are Essential

As a veteran business owner, you understand how crucial brand reputation is for engaging your target market and maintaining a loyal client base.

One way to maintain a solid brand image is to appear on top-ranking web pages that feature your brand.

Some large businesses control web assets, like social media profiles and websites, where they can promote their brand. 

Others position their brand on third-party outlets, including online news sites, review platforms, and open-source informational pages (like Wikipedia).

Expanding your digital footprint using these platforms can help protect your brand during a brand reputation crisis.

Our marketing services boost the search viability of your owned online properties and preferred content from other websites.

Include Search Optimized Service Pages

Our technical SEO audit ensures you have a sound and fully optimized website environment to get more targeted organic traffic.

Here, attention to detail is a must. A systematic approach that leaves no aspect of your site unexamined will greatly improve your SEO viability.

Feature the Surgeons

Other web page elements to consider to help improve your Google ranking are as follows: 

  • A service page containing descriptions of your plastic surgery procedures 
  • Reasons patients should choose your practice 
  • Clear CTAs (call-to-actions), such as online forms and phone or email contacts

SEO Can Be Incredibly Valuable to a Plastic Surgery Practice

Did you know that the top three results on Google get 75.1% of the clicks? Through SEO, we can help make your plastic surgery website rank higher on the SERPs, boosting your organic (non-paid) traffic and potential leads.

Part of our SEO work is developing relevant, high-quality content and improving user experience to ensure your website consistently meets your potential clients’ search needs.

Use the Language Your Patients Use

The digital landscape is filled with mediocre content. Fortunately, you can improve your plastic surgery content in various ways, such as using compelling language and publishing regularly.

However, one of the most effective ways to market your practice is to produce blogs that provide value to the reader. After all, doing so can encourage searchers to engage with your plastic surgery practice.

Use the Proper Schema Markup

Search engines understand content through the structured data entered into a webpage. This info is often referred to as “schema markup.”

We analyze the latest information regarding impressions and traffic and provide recommendations on effectively managing your page content moving forward, including:

  • Pruning, refreshing, or rewriting blog and resource content that no longer generates traffic.
  • Building on existing resource content, especially on web pages targeted for brand terms.
  • Improving interlinking, content structure, and delivery to ensure content credibility

Then, we follow SEO-focused guidelines for future blog content creation and do the following (when applicable):

  • Improve content tone
  • Restructure content categories
  • Improve internal linking strategy
  • Improve the content’s general credibility

Be Extremely Thorough in Your Web Copy

Most people already feel constantly exhausted by unsolicited ads. So, writing ad copies for the sake of ad copies only pushes potential patients away instead of attracting them.

Our agency has a dedicated team of writers, editors, and proofreaders to ensure ad copies highlight the unique selling points of your plastic surgery practice.

Build Service and Geographic Pages

When finding a plastic surgeon, users usually start with local searches. Think of “rhinoplasty cost in LA” or “breast reconstruction Beverly Hills” for Californian citizens.

We can tailor your service pages to match these local searches. By doing so, we increase your chances of getting a top spot in search engine results. It’s all about meeting your patients where they’re at — geographically and digitally.

Full-Funnel Content Strategy

A conversion funnel refers to the possible route patients take leading to a consultation or procedure. The funnel is divided into three stages with different priorities:

  • Top of the funnel (TOFU): Raising awareness for your services
  • Middle of the funnel (MOFU): Engaging prospects to nudge them to service consideration
  • Bottom of the funnel (BOFU): Validating your services to move them from consideration to conversion

We aim to put your business website before prospects whenever they search for answers to plastic surgery-related queries.  

Our SEO strategy targets users who are likely deep in the buying cycle or interested in your offer. We can also develop insightful, attention-grabbing, and persuasive content that moves prospective patients from knowing about your services to scheduling an appointment with you.

Onpage and Technical SEO

On-page or on-site factors include images and HTML (HyperText Markup Language) tags, like title, meta, and header. Poor on-site features prevent Google from ranking your website’s usefulness and user relevance. 

Our full-scale on-page SEO audit examines every nook and cranny of your website to identify pressing concerns. We use the info we gather from this site check to suggest sound fixes. 

After we’re done with a preliminary audit, we can send you a file consolidating all the issues we’ve found.

Search platforms are fast-evolving technology, so we conduct constant technical investigations to keep pace with requirements. 

We draw from our extensive experience and invest all efforts to pinpoint errors that could block our client’s path to the first page of SERPs.

Local SEO

Local SEO helps improve your local search visibility. Localized organic search results depend on these factors: 

  • Relevance: Does your local business profile match users’ queries?
  • Prominence: How well-known is your business offline? Do the online reviews and ratings reflect your business’ offline popularity?
  • Distance: How far is your business from the location-modified term a searcher used?

Google has been increasingly optimizing its search algorithm to facilitate local searches. 

The good news is that our SEO strategy focuses on location-based targeting before general targeting to generate the highest returns for your practice. 

One of the first things we’ll do for you is to verify if you’ve set up your website to target the right geographical location.

Plastic Surgery Landing Pages: Where Visitors Convert to Leads and Leads Convert to Consultations

A well-crafted landing page is crucial for converting prospects into customers, offering an opportunity to showcase your practice and procedures, highlight exclusive promos, and share contact information — all in one digital space.

These web pages act as touchpoints with potential clients. 

Do you want to make an excellent impression on visitors? Optimize your landing page so visitors will turn into leads, consultations, and procedure bookings.

Landing Page Content for Plastic Surgery 

Landing pages are specialized pages. What the landing page offers should be persuasive enough to searchers and tailored to their location to ensure higher conversion rates. 

The landing page’s content should be consistent with your ad’s message. It should reflect the specific services, deals, or offers relevant to each location. 

If you work with us, expect us to optimize your landing page to ensure you get more leads for your practice.

Dive Deep Into Niche Content for Services Offered by Your Cosmetic Surgery Practice

No two plastic surgeons are identical. Likewise, certain segments of your audience will have a keen interest in specific areas of plastic surgery.

Why should you consider niche content? The answer: Specialty blogs and articles are magnets for top-tier leads. After all, people reading these resources are already interested in the topic.

Content With a Twist

You know you’ve created high-quality content when it is original, data-informed, and compelling. 

Our content team writes articles based on a well-researched content brief. Before publishing the content, our writers and editors ensure the article is exceptional, informative, and engaging.

Many businesses wrongly cram keywords into content for SEO. But Google’s evolving system weeds out clickbait. 

How do you write rank-ready articles? Simple.

Recognize what Google’s top-notch engineers are saying. Then, follow their updates and recommendations.

Landing Page Design

As mentioned, your plastic surgery web design helps compel and drive action from your site visitors. The rule applies to your landing pages, too.

While your landing pages should align with your website’s brand, they should also be finely tuned to achieve a specific objective, whether it’s delivering engaging content or spurring users to schedule a consultation.

That’s because doing so maintains consistency and provides a seamless user experience, translating to better ad scores and helping increase your search rankings.

Landing Page Promotion

Your landing pages should make casual visitors feel good about your plastic surgery practice if you want them to become interested prospects. 

However, if your target audience can’t find these pages, all your efforts go to waste. The good news is that you can use various marketing channels to promote your message.

From pay-per-click campaigns and social media marketing to YouTube adverts and email marketing, several channels exist to help your landing pages improve online visibility and achieve their goal — convert leads.

Plastic Surgery Blog: Relevant Content to Attract Attention

We don’t want to repeat ourselves, but it’s worth emphasizing: Your articles and blogs wield significant influence in directing attention to your plastic surgery clinic and solidifying your authority.

After all, engaging and informative content can vividly showcase your unique services and showcase your expertise and specializations to potential plastic surgery patients.

What Makes a Plastic Surgery Blog Great

Your target customers may want to learn more about your plastic surgery procedures or what they must prepare before visiting your clinic. Blog posts or articles are a helpful way to provide these pieces of information to your audience.

Through our SEO service, we’ll create optimized articles containing a target number of keywords that we maintain monthly. These keywords should be relevant to your plastic surgery practice to help searchers find your content.

Keys to Successful Plastic Surgery Blogging

Guest blogging is crucial to building a natural link profile. But remember: You can’t fool Google’s algorithm.

 It can sniff out link-bait blog posts and nonsense copywriting material like a bloodhound. 

Our strategy? We publish helpful, relevant content on niche-specific websites to gain credibility and establish trust from one website to another.

You Don’t Have to Write It Yourself

If you’re confident in your writing skills or prefer your blogs and articles to reflect your unique voice, we support you in creating your own content. However, crafting high-quality content can be time-consuming.

If you wish to allocate this resource elsewhere, such as providing consultations to potential patients, consider our professional content marketing services.

Our digital marketing team will audit your existing materials, identify high-value opportunities, and craft blogs and articles that hit user intent.

Answer Questions Through Blog Content

Google hates unethical tactics. The platform will penalize you for spammy content strategies, like keyword stuffing and hidden texts.

Your page content should be organized, well-researched, and add value to your potential patients. 

Here are some things we do to craft high-quality, targeted content:

  • Optimize headings for target-specific keywords.
  • Ensure the article is original, logical, and factually correct.
  • Fix internal links.
  • Ensure the article has no low-value, thin content.

Add Video Marketing to Your Campaign: Consistent Video Content

Videos aren’t just extra—they’re crucial. Alongside text and images, they shape your webpage and enhance the user experience, providing information, visuals, and engagement.

Think about it: Your customers want proof. They’ll be more convinced when they see your plastic surgery procedures in action rather than just reading about them. It’s about offering that vivid demonstration and highlighting what makes you stand out from the competition.

Best Practices: Video Marketing for Cosmetic Surgeons

If your customer needs plastic surgery due to injuries or body abnormalities, they turn to reconstructive surgery. A cosmetic surgeon only focuses on reshaping a body structure for aesthetic reasons.

That said, video marketing is a game-changer for plastic and cosmetic surgeons. They can show their specializations, highlight procedures, and build trust with potential patients. 

When making a video, focus on quality and authenticity. Invest in professional equipment, but keep it real. 

Then, we can help you optimize your video content for search engines with relevant keywords. 

Social Media Marketing for Plastic Surgery Marketing

Incorporating social media into your plastic surgery marketing strategy is essential in today’s digital age, especially considering that people spend around 14% of their daily lives on social sites.

Social media offers various avenues to expand your reach, interact with your desired prospects, and promote your plastic surgery practice and its unique propositions.

How to Use Social Media Marketing for Plastic Surgeons

Social media platforms let you share external links, including blogs and articles, which you can use to educate visitors and drive traffic to your plastic surgery website.

You can also run surveys to understand your clientele better, build relationships with prospects through engagement, such as comments, and demonstrate your expertise via before and after photos of procedures.

Most importantly, social media sites like Facebook provide detailed targeting options, letting you choose who to display your ads to based on demographics, behavior, and location.

General Plastic Surgery Social Media Marketing Rules

Leveraging social media and its vast audience can extend your plastic surgery practice’s reach and foster meaningful connections with clients. But you shouldn’t mindlessly throw out organic posts and paid ads.

Social media is a two-way street. Remember that social media marketing also involves providing value and building relationships— not solely selling your procedures.

Strategic Marketing Planning for Plastic Surgery Practices

While social media is a vital marketing channel, it’s crucial to define clear objectives for leveraging it. Do you aim to generate leads or enhance brand awareness?

These goals dictate your strategy. Fortunately, we can help iron out these details before you commit, enabling us to customize your social media content and ad campaigns to achieve your desired results.

Don’t Rely on Any One Marketing Channel

It isn’t a good idea to put all your eggs in one basket (invest your entire marketing budget into just one PPC marketing method).  

Say you only advertise on YouTube, and the platform (for some reason) shuts down your YouTube account. In that case, you could lose your only source of leads (your YouTube ads).

As you know, where your PPC (pay-per-click) ads appear ultimately hinges on the advertising product you’re using. 

For example, PPC ads on Google Ads will be displayed on Google’s advertising network. Meanwhile, PPC ads on Facebook will appear on the social media platform. 

These multiple PPC channels provide you with a range of advertising options to choose from.

Email Marketing for Plastic Surgeons: Don’t Ignore Your Email List

Tailored email marketing may help enhance your practice’s outreach and patient connection.

For example, newsletters posted on your website may attract customer queries through email subscriptions. Then, you can use your site’s contact page to respond to inquiries. 

In other words, email marketing can help you facilitate newsletter registrations and engage enlisted customers.

Email Converting Contents

Email campaigns remain an ideal tool for engaging your desired audience. After all, over 4 billion people use email services like Gmail and Outlook daily.

So, when crafted thoughtfully, email marketing can support your overall plastic surgery marketing strategy to target specific demographics and convert readers into new patients for your practice.

What Makes Email Marketing Work?

Even with the rise of fast and far-reaching digital tactics like viral advertising, email marketing remains a viable promotional avenue.

Why? It’s straightforward. Email campaigns enable consistent communication with your target audience, nurturing trust with prospects and sustaining connections with current patients

By offering valuable, personalized content, exclusive promos, or enticing incentives, you motivate individuals on your mailing list to transition into leads, consultations, and bookings for procedures.

Paid Media: Online Marketing for Plastic Surgeons

Getting into online advertising is the easy part. But choosing from the diverse paid media options? That’s where the real challenge lies. 

Fortunately, we’re here to cut through the noise and narrow your choices to those strategies that maximize your returns. 

Here are some well-known paid online advertising methods for your practice:

Pay-per-Click or PPC: What Are PPC Ads?

Simply put, PPC (pay-per-click) advertising is an online advertising method where you pay a specific amount whenever users click on one of your ads.

As a PPC advertising platform, Google Ads offers four products:

  • Google Search
  • Google Remarketing
  • Google Shopping
  • Google Display (+ YouTube)

Depending on where your target audience sees your practice, they’ll see different ads.

Choosing Your Account Structure

A Google Ads account is like a filing cabinet. Each campaign serves as a drawer, housing related ad groups. And within each ad group, you’ll find individual ads and keywords neatly organized.

A well-organized account structure is crucial for several reasons, including maintaining your ad’s relevance, controlling your budget, and finding optimization opportunities.

For example, a structured account can help you control and refine your bid strategy.

Optimizing for a Better Performance

Google evaluates these factors to determine which business wins an available ad slot:

  • Bid: Your bid indicates the maximum amount you’re willing to pay for each click on your ad
  • Ad quality: Your ad’s quality and relevance matter. Google’s assessment of your ad’s quality is summarized in your quality score, which you can track on your Google Ads account.
  • The projected impact from your ad assets and formats: Ad assets are additional information that ads feature. This info includes a phone number or link to a web page.

Google predicts the impact of your ad assets and formats on your ad’s overall performance.

  • Your ad rank: To ensure high-quality ads, Google imposes the standard for ads to appear in specific positions.
  • The context of your ad: Context also matters in ad auctions. When evaluating ad rank, Google examines:
    • The users’s search terms
    • The user’s device type, such as desktop or mobile
    • The user’s location at the time of the search
    • The nature of the search terms
    • The time of the search
    • Other ads and search results displayed on the page

These five factors are some of the metrics we track to gauge your ad campaign’s effectiveness.

Display Ads

Consider display ads if you want to use different paid media formats. Display ads let you advertise your practice using images, flash, video, and audio.

This PPC option lets you display your ads on the Google Display Network (which can reach 90% of internet users worldwide), helping you promote your plastic surgery practice to prospective patients on Gmail, YouTube, and mobile apps.

Social Media Ads

There are over 5 billion social media users worldwide (nearly 63% of the globe’s total population). Advertising your practice and procedures on social platforms is definitely something that you shouldn’t ignore.

Fortunately, our social media ads service offers you the following:

  • The option to showcase your ads in various media formats such as video and carousel advertisements
  • The ability to reach specific audiences based on their location, interests, and demographics
  • The opportunity to reengage searchers who have shown interest in your services

Mobile Ads

Did you know that 63% of Google searches in the United States are done through mobile devices? So, how do we bring these users to your plastic surgery practice? We optimize your ads for mobile devices. 

For example, most conversions on Facebook come from the social platform’s mobile news feed. We can help you target these conversions by adjusting your ad’s placement settings so that it only appears on mobile devices. 

Retargeting Ads

Acquiring new patients is crucial for your plastic surgery clinic. That’s why our digital marketing strategy includes retargeting campaigns.

This technique involves advertising to users who have previously engaged your site or brand asset but have yet to convert. 

For example, Google Remarketing technology lets you “tag” site visitors. You can then display ads before these prospective patients when they go to other sites. 

Our results-focused team of Google-trained specialists develops precision-targeted, cost-effective, high-converting ad campaigns.

We use this unique retargeting strategy to turn curious or interested searchers to reconsider your services.

Native Advertising

Today, many people feel like they’re drowning in ads. Consequently, paid ads don’t appeal to many people.

What if you can display ads in a way that your adverts won’t appear as promo material? The answer: native ads. 

Native advertising is a paid marketing strategy that blends seamlessly with your publisher’s content.

 Generally, these ads contain “sponsored” or “recommended” text. However, the upside is that they don’t disrupt the viewer’s experience, improving your odds of bringing potential patients to your practice.

Search Engine Marketing (SEM)

Fact: You may be a skilled or competent plastic surgeon. You might even be a leading authority in your field. But if your practice doesn’t appear on SERPs, potential clients won’t even know your practice exists.

Thankfully, we can help transform your clinic into a top choice for potential plastic surgery patients. How, you ask? 

Search engine marketing (SEM). This digital marketing tactic combines paid ads like PPC and organic marketing, such as plastic surgery SEO.

By finding the ideal combination of these strategies, we can give your practice immediate search visibility (via paid ads) and the credibility and authority that comes with appearing at the top of organic search results (via SEO).

Paid Online Advertising Offers Major Advantages

Paid ads aren’t always pay-per-click. Depending on the advertising platform, you might pay based on:

  • PPConv (pay-per-conversion): With this structure, you pay an amount for every user that converts (for example, the searcher booked a consultation or a rhinoplasty procedure).
  • CPM (cost-per-impression): Under this model, you pay for every 1000 ad impressions or user engagements.

In other words, paid advertising offers flexibility and cost-efficient marketing solutions. However, budget control is only one of the many benefits paid ads offer.

Paid online advertising also gives you results quicker. After all, paid ads deliver your message to prospects almost instantly. In contrast, organic marketing, like SEO, usually takes around four months to a year to generate returns.

Paid online advertising is also laser-targeted. You can adjust your ads so they only appear to searchers that match your criteria, such as interests, location, and device types.

As digital marketing evolves, plastic surgery marketing will likely require a combination of various digital strategies (depending on the client’s situation and needs).

Fortunately, you don’t always have to pick between the two organic and paid ads. If done right, you can use both simultaneously. Doing so improves your search viability on paid and organic channels.

Just ask Dr. Richard Zoumalan, a Beverly Hills, California, facial plastic surgeon. Through our PPC and SEO services, we’ve helped him achieve the following:

  • 1,478% more leads
  • 43,700% more appearances in Google’s Top 3 rankings
  • 1,473% better click-through rate (CTR)
  • 314.46% better conversion rate

Here’s what Dr. Zoumalan says about our work with him:

“I was never the least bit skeptical to work with Ash and Digital Spotlight. Ash from the getgo seemed more knowledgeable and found errors that my previous company had done that put me at a disadvantage.

Ash helped me build an extremely functional and stylish website that I STILL use today and took me to the first page for everything that I was trying to promote within a very short period of time. His time is very responsive and very professional. 

I have zero complaints and only positive experience with Ash and Digital Spotlight.”

Do you want to know whether how our digital marketing approach can deliver better returns on less investment? Talk to an expert by calling (+1) 310 879 8003 or emailing [email protected].

Offline Marketing for Plastic Surgeons

We’re a digital marketing agency, so our primary focus is online marketing. 

But more importantly, we know that promoting a practice on digital platforms is a proven, cost-effective way to reach and engage more prospective patients (compared to just sticking with traditional marketing tools).

That said, online marketing tools aren’t necessarily at odds with offline ones. In fact, these offline tactics may help increase response to multi-channel campaigns. 

So, we won’t talk you out of using other means to market your practice, especially if you believe they can enhance your marketing efforts.

Let’s look at some offline tactics that can supplement your digital marketing campaigns:

Print Ads

As the name suggests, print ads use the print medium. Consequently, they can only contain texts or images (or both) — no voice-overs or videos.

Like online advertisements, print ads help you inform, entertain, and ultimately sell. 

That’s why picking the right publication to advertise your services is a necessary first step to a successful print ad campaign.  

Which publication do most people in your target demographic read? Where can you effectively reach potential patients? 

For instance, you can print your ads or have an article written about your practice in these types of publications:

  • Regional lifestyle magazines
  • Elite club publications
  • National magazines

Billboards

One primary use of billboard ads is to boost general awareness of your practice. They’re large, placed outdoors, and often printed with bold visuals and punchy messages. 

With billboards, your content should be eye-catching and brief. After all, your viewers (passing motorists and pedestrians) usually only have a moment to notice your ad and grasp your message. 

Note: Billboard campaigns can be prohibitively expensive if you live in a large metropolitan area. Consider this factor before hiring a production team for your billboard ad.

Television

TV (television) ads run by traditional mass media can help you reach a broader audience. Depending on your marketing objectives, TV ads’ potential impact could benefit you or put you at a disadvantage.

For instance, the broad reach we mentioned could help build general awareness about your plastic surgery practice. 

However, a TV ad campaign is typically expensive, especially given the fact that you’d have to run your ad multiple times before you can make an impression. 

Say your viewer demographic is too broad. In that case, your ad will be less likely to appear before potential high-value clients (high-quality leads).

The bottom line? You’re bleeding money like a leaky faucet with no profit in sight. 

Radio

Plastic surgery ads are visual, so radio seems like an odd choice for marketing. That said, radio ads might be an excellent opportunity to target a niche audience.

For example, you could reach motorists stuck in traffic or morning go-getters who listen to radio news programs as part of their routine.

Does your local radio station run a daily or weekly health-related program? How about a short medical news segment? A 10-second sponsorship at the end of these shows could be worth your investment.

Direct Mail

Email inboxes can easily get jam-packed with all sorts of emails, including junk mail and promo materials. And with an audience as specific as yours, email blasts will likely be ineffective and prove to be a money pit.

Direct mailers can be an alternative channel and provide a tangible and personalized approach to reaching new audiences or keeping previous patients engaged.

For example, direct mail postcards can effectively introduce your practice to a local, high-end residential community. 

Additionally, you can send birthday and thank-you cards to your former and existing patients.

Giveaways

Everyone loves free stuff. Take advantage of this fact by sending giveaways reinforcing your practice’s brand.

Branded promo items may help maintain your visibility — but they shouldn’t look cheap and flimsy. 

For example, products like reusable water bottles are used regularly and align with your practice’s commitment to health and sustainability.

Loyalty Programs for Plastic Surgery

Introducing a loyalty program at your plastic surgery clinic can be a smart offline marketing move. Appreciating and incentivizing repeat visits can be an effective way to foster strong patient loyalty.

By rewarding returning clients, you encourage more engagement with your practice and motivate them to bring in new referrals.

What Kind of Rewards Should You Offer?

Do you plan to offer discounts or free consultations? Ensure they’re what your clients are into. If not, they won’t bother to join your program. Knowing their tastes and giving them what they want is how you get them hooked.

Make It Simple

Have you already decided on what incentives to offer? Good. Now, ensure your loyalty programs are straightforward.

An easy-to-follow mechanics keep patients engaged and eagerly awaiting their next reward.

Promote Your Program

You’re all set with your loyalty program. You already know what to offer and how your patients can get them. 

The next step is to promote your program to your regulars and new patients. For example, you can put signage on your clinic’s entrance door or bulletin board, ensuring every visitor knows or remembers the perks you offer.

Things Change

Today’s fast-evolving digital landscape has significantly changed how businesses, including the healthcare industry, market their products and services.

Gone are the days when you could only advertise your products and services through traditional platforms, such as radio, billboards, and newspapers. 

While we mentioned offline marketing strategies, their continuing relevance, and potential uses for your practice, we want to highlight this:

Digital marketing is a non-negotiable strategy for most business owners, including plastic surgeons like you (especially if you run your private practice).

As more people use the internet for medical queries, digital marketing has become increasingly significant for scaling businesses, including clinics.

Ask the most successful plastic surgery practices (the ones raking in leads and sales) how they continue to lead their niche. They’ll likely tell you that digital marketing is an integral aspect of their business strategy.

Marketing strategies have come a long way, from simply printing brochures and handing out leaflets. It appears that traditional ways of marketing require innovation. 

We’re here to fill that need to innovate.

Patient Reviews for Plastic Surgeons

Nothing beats word-of-mouth (WOM) marketing when it comes to turning interested prospects into actual clients. We know this fact firsthand. Most of our clients are referrals from satisfied clients and other agencies. 

Does WOM’s converting power mean you should just stick to the good old-fashioned in-person word-of-mouth referrals? Not exactly. 

As internet usage becomes accessible, more and more people share their thoughts about brands, products, and businesses online. This “electronic word-of-mouth” significantly affects consumers’ buying decisions. 

Potential plastic surgery patients are like other consumers — their “buyer” journey begins with research. Testimonials and online reviews are significant factors in how they decide. So, one way to scale your practice is to grow your online reviews actively. 

Get More Reviews

No one wants to be a guinea pig. That’s why potential patients prefer surgeons with a proven track record. How do you assure prospects about your competence? Get more reviews. 

The sheer volume matters because it subtly communicates that you’ve already handled many cases (potentially similar to that of a prospective patient).

Here are some ways to get more patient reviews:

  • Show preferred review site icons at the reception to prompt quick reviews.
  • Get feedback after appointments and request satisfied clients to write a positive review. 
  • Add review invites in your post-procedure thank-you emails.

Google My Business

Google Business Profile (formerly Google My Business) is a free local listing displaying basic business information. It is a free local listing displaying essential business information.

GBP (Google Business Profile) displays your local practice in the map pack (if you’re a top match) with a Google Maps-powered guide to your clinic’s address. 

Maintaining a GBP helps you bolster your brand reputation with reviews, improve your visibility on Google, and control your business info.

We can help you register a GBP if you don’t have one. We’ll ensure your GBP features essential info, including address, contact details, language, currency, and links from local sites. 

Positive and Negative Reviews: Managing Your Reviews and Responding to Them Appropriately

“Bad publicity is still publicity.” In other words, unfavorable reviews aren’t ideal, but they can still attract attention to your plastic surgery practice.

Suppose you don’t track what people say about you (both positive and negative). In that case, review sites can work against your practice.

Fortunately, our digital marketing services include brand reputation management. We’ll highlight positive and neutral evaluations of your practice and procedures and recommend PR (public relations) maneuvers to help drown out negative reviews.

Key Review Sites for Plastic Surgery Practices

There are many review sites out there, and you won’t be able to cover them all. That’s why targeting the ones your prospects are most likely to use is crucial.  

This list might include Google, social media platforms (Facebook, Instagram, X, and TikTok), and third-party websites (for example, RealSelf and Yelp).

Augment Patient Testimonials With Other Third-Party Verification

What’s even more valuable than patient reviews? Endorsements from reputable third-party websites and organizations that verify your practice’s credibility.

Third-party sources could inform prospective patients regarding your training, credentials, and facilities. 

For example, you can develop a page on your website highlighting recognitions and accreditations, such as the American Board of Plastic Surgery (ABPS) certification.

Directories That Rank for Your Keywords and Name

Directories often rank search results for local queries. When searchers click on these directories, they can drive organic traffic to your practice’s website. 

GBP is not the only online directory where you can display your business information. Consider listing your business in Bing Places and other reputable online directories.

How Plastic Surgery Demographics Impact Marketing

Understanding your target audience’s demographics (statistical population characteristics) can affect the services you market and how you communicate their value.

Demographics include characteristics like age, sex, race, income level, location, employment, homeownership, and educational attainment.

Events

Sometimes, your marketing efforts must go beyond the confines of your plastic surgery clinic to attract new patients, raise awareness, and build credibility. Events offer opportunities to engage with your community, demonstrate expertise, and network.

Cause Marketing

Building trust within your community is paramount, and nothing achieves that better than getting involved in charity events. Consider fundraising, sponsoring, or making donations to charitable causes.

Educational Marketing

Marketing isn’t just about selling services, especially when you’re in the healthcare industry. It’s about giving back by providing value. And what better way to do that than by participating in or sponsoring events like seminars?

Anatomy of a Great Event

Successful events don’t just happen — they’re carefully planned and executed. Some essential components of a standout event include: 

  • Hosting a social hour
  • Giving a brief presentation
  • Facilitating a Q&A (question and answer) session
  • Offering exclusive discounts 
  • Holding prize drawings
  • Providing follow-up incentives

These steps can help make your plastic surgery practice stand out, so make the most of it.

Budgeting for Plastic Surgery Practices

Digital marketing can get expensive quickly, especially if you don’t manage your budget correctly. And it’s here that many plastic surgeons like you have struggled or, if you’ve launched a campaign before, failed.

What Should Your Plastic Surgery Marketing Budget Be?

We could say, “If you invest $X, you’re guaranteed to have a successful plastic surgery marketing campaign.” Many digital marketing agencies do. Us? We’re different.

We know that budgeting for online marketing can be complex. Factors like your objectives, situation, and desired results must be considered before deciding how much you’ll invest. 

That’s why we offer free audits (for those who qualify) on your search engine and social media marketing campaigns first. By doing so, we’ll know the optimal way to deliver four numbers that matter to you:

  • More leads
  • Less cost per lead
  • More consults or sales calls
  • Less cost per consult or sales calls

Initial Setup

With us, you’re 100% in control of your ad budget. How? We only manage your campaigns through your account.

Say you don’t have an account. In that case, we can set up an account on your plastic surgery clinic’s behalf. Note: You’ll be the account owner — not us — we’ll only be the account manager.

You pay Google directly, allowing you to track your marketing budget allocation effectively. More importantly, you’ll see how we’ve progressed your Google Ads campaign.

Ongoing Marketing Budget

If you have a fixed marketing budget, we can do nothing about it except work with what you have. While budgeting steps vary from case to case, surgeon to surgeon, we typically do the following:

  • Allocate funds from a campaign not maximizing your budget to another.
  • Focus our optimizations on profitable campaigns (those with good cost-per-conversions).
  • Set up a converting campaign where we target converting ads with the lowest cost-per-conversion

Refining Your Marketing Budget

Budget optimization is essential because we don’t want you to spend any more than you need for a successful campaign.

We’ll let the numbers tell you how committed we are to this process. For example, in Google Ads, we’ve achieved:

  • 30%+ reduction in average wasted ad spend
  • 23% less average acquisition cost
  • 83% increase in average lead and sale metrics, with some clients getting 4× the improvement

Your plastic surgery marketing campaign can achieve these numbers, too. We use advanced math to manage and refine your campaigns for maximum returns.

Measuring Plastic and Cosmetic Surgery Marketing ROI

Plastic surgery and cosmetic surgery differ in specialization. As such, they may have differences in the specifics of ROI. 

For example, what qualifies as a good lead to a cosmetic surgeon might not be the same for you, a plastic surgeon. 

That said, you likely want similar things: more quality leads with less investment. We’re here to help you realize this goal. 

We aim to deliver the highest returns possible on your ad campaigns through ongoing testing, tracking, and optimization. 

We measure and analyze all crucial metrics with laser-focused precision, including conversions and ROAS (return on ad spend). 

This unique, metric-focused, and data-heavy approach has helped us achieve stunning ROI for many clients.

Here’s one example: Facial Plastic Surgery Institute, a Texas-based medical center focusing on facial plastic and reconstructive procedures, first came to us with only five leads per month on Google Ads. 

Now, the institute gets at least 40 leads monthly at just 40% of the lead acquisition cost! Look at the numbers:

MetricStartLatestImprovement
Leads25171584%
Top 3 rankings (Google)42371783%
Average cost per click (CPC)$6.09$2.5259%
Conversions540700%
Cost per conversion$344.55$54.1184%

Here’s what this data means:

  • Leads are people who are interested in a product or service. More leads mean more prospective plastic surgery clients for the institute.
  • Top 3 Google rankings mean the client’s pages will appear on Google’s top 3 positions in the SERP. In other words, the search visibility of the institute has significantly improved.
  • The average CPC is the amount a business spends per click (number of site visits). Reducing its value means improvement. The institute is spending less while getting more and better returns.
  • A conversion (an action taken as a response to a campaign) may mean different things, depending on the client’s objective. For example, more conversions may mean more inquiries.  
  • The decrease in cost per conversion means more efficient and fine-tuned ad campaigns, reducing lead acquisition costs.

Implementing Closed-Loop Reporting (CLR)

Some use CLR to trace the revenue from a “conversion” back to channels, keywords, campaigns, and other factors influencing the sale. CLR involves these activities:

  • Website visitor tracking
  • Data integration and storage
  • Revenue attribution
  • Extending data to different sales and marketing tools

Why Choose Digital Spotlight for Plastic Surgery Marketing?

As a full-service agency, we can handle all your digital marketing needs across digital channels like Google, Facebook, Bing, and Instagram.

Our exceptional crew of math and marketing pros is ready to help you craft and implement a marketing game plan tailored to your plastic surgery business. 

Whether you need SEO, paid and social media ads, content marketing, or website design, we’ve got you covered.

Outstanding Service, Exceptional Outcomes

Many agencies like to talk about how outcome-focused their approach is, but ask them for proof, and they can hardly give any. Some may give you one or two examples from five or ten years ago. 

As an industry leader, we continue to achieve more and new marketing success stories.

Here’s an example from our recent work with Dr. Benjamin Paul, a plastic facial surgeon in New York: 

Dr. Paul asked us to help him establish his brand in the highly competitive New York market. We did just that through our proprietary SEO approach. Here are the numbers:

Metric StartLatestImprovement
Leads (analytics)1334162%
Top 10 Rankings (Google)120499316%
Top 3 Rankings (Google)32296825%

Read what Dr. Paul says about working with us:

“Digital Spotlight [is] excellent—responsive and focused. My website has never ranked better, and in my words, becoming more tech-savvy and having a proper team [for] your SEO is essential. That makes Digital Spotlight the team to use!”

The Human-Centered Marketing Agency With a Creative Edge

With the advent of AI-generated content, it would’ve been easy for us to just ride the AI (artificial intelligence) content marketing bandwagon.

However, machine-generated content leads to major problems:

  • Plagiarism and quality issues
  • Still requires human editing
  • Lack of personalization and creativity
  • Lack of originality (no new ideas)

More importantly, Google typically hates low-quality content. 

While Google can’t verify if an article is human-written, it can identify automatically generated, low-quality, and spammy material. Once detected, Google may “deindex” the pages of websites with such content, causing them to be kicked out of search results. 

You won’t have to worry about these problems with us. We exclusively provide content crafted by human writers.

Marketing Is Our Specialty

One thing about working with an agency founded by high-caliber mathematicians: We don’t just wait around for search engines to publish their core updates. We perform our own experiments and analyses using our models to match what ranks today.

We stay on top of the game because we have mastery of math and marketing. We understand how consumers (patients) behave and have the resources and expertise to reverse-engineer the work of Google’s engineers.

A Skilled Team Dedicated to Ensuring Your Success

We run a physical office in the U.S., but our team comes from various places worldwide.

We’ve got a crew of top talents hailing from the United States, Australia, Germany, and the Philippines.

Many agencies offer plastic surgery marketing deals at rock-bottom prices. The truth is that most can’t add value to your practice. 

They guarantee impressive results, take your hard-won money, outsource their tasks to a random freelancer, and leave you when issues reappear or they can no longer deliver.

We don’t hand off our job to strangers online who don’t know real marketing and couldn’t care less about being accountable to us.

Instead, we train and invest in our team. Our global crew of highly skilled pros undergoes our training, works for the firm full-time, and ace our qualifications with style.

More Than Just Upkeep – We Prioritize Care

Google’s primary goal is to make the world’s information “universally accessible and useful.” The search giant works hard to fulfill this agenda by constantly tweaking its algorithm.

Our agency values this commitment. We don’t just want to maintain the content you already have and make some minor tweaks here and there. 

We care for quality content. Quality content marketing is algorithm-sensitive and requires careful examination of Google’s first page, identifying relevant terms, ideal word count, and subtopics for your target keywords.

We also use an advanced tool that takes your keyword and analyses your competitor’s content to develop rank-ready articles.

Our SEO Services

We conduct ongoing and 360-degree technical audits on your website, using feedback from Google and our proprietary tools. 

Our SEO audit puts your plastic surgery website “under the microscope” to investigate these areas:

  • Google Business Profile (formerly Google My Business): How does your Google Business Profile appear in the search results? Is your practice’s profile info accurate and consistent?
  • Google Search Console: Are any HTML issues, like non-informative title tags and duplicate meta descriptions, affecting your site’s crawlability and indexability?
  • Competition report: How does your site perform against your competitors? 
  • Client ranking status: How do the core keywords fare in rankings?
  • Algorithmic penalties: Does your site follow Google’s Webmaster guidelines? 
  • On-page elements: Does your site have all the technical on-site SEO factors necessary to rank well?

Our in-depth technical audits inform us about your website’s strengths, weaknesses, and optimization points.

We use this info to devise and implement an ongoing, systematic plan to boost your online presence. 

We have a full-time researcher who leads the process and hunts for clues to a crucial algorithm change. He also gauges our clients’ campaign performance against our massive, multi-million dollar dataset.

Once we’ve got a clue, our specialists run tests to pinpoint the algorithm update. Then, we refine your campaigns to capitalize on this discovery. 

Lastly, our SEO team continuously monitors the results and sends reports to you on the anniversary of your start date with us.

We’ll also give you an account summary every month. These briefs offer you a full-orbed report indicating how our SEO work has improved your website’s ranking.

Marketing Growth Dashboards

We use Looker Studio (formerly Google Data Studio), a web-based data visualization software, when making our monthly reports. 

Looker Studio lets us create customizable reports and dashboards using data from diverse sources.

Hire Plastic Surgery Marketing Experts Like Digital Spotlight

Does lead generation matter the most to your plastic surgery practice? If so, we’re the ideal team for you. Our holistic, multi-channel marketing has helped scale many healthcare businesses like yours.

Google valued our contribution to the industry so much that the search giant considers us a top-tier Premier Partner. This credential means we have a Google-certified staff who:

  • Manage the highest levels of ad spend
  • Grow our client list fast
  • Keep those clients for extended periods

Plus, as a Google Premier Partner, we can offer you:

  • A hotline to Google’s top representatives that can troubleshoot any account issues anytime
  • Early access to Google’s new features, giving you an edge over your competitors

We provide detailed analytics and reporting tools that let you measure your healthcare marketing campaign’s effectiveness so you can make informed decisions.

How We’ll Work Together

We know what you want: a constant flow of high-quality leads without burning through your budget. 

The problem is that every marketing agency you’ve tried talks a big game without delivering results.

 So, what sets us apart? We operate differently. We don’t make empty promises because digital marketing is too complex for guarantees. Instead, we focus on getting the job done and then some.

You need a strategic partner with real-world expertise to drive genuine growth for your plastic surgery practice. A team that shares your values and integrates data-driven SEO, paid ads, and social media ads seamlessly into your marketing strategy.

That’s why you need us.

With a track record of success in the plastic surgery industry, we have the experience and skills to elevate your online presence. 

Whether you’re promoting non-surgical services or educating your audience about surgical procedures, we’re here to provide an honest assessment and tailored solutions.

Having executed successful campaigns for various businesses, we understand what it takes to establish and enhance your online visibility. 

Ready to transform your practice into a digital marketplace leader? Book a pitch-free consultation with one of our experts. You can call us at (+1) 310 879 8003 or email us at [email protected].

Cosmetic Surgery Marketing Trends

According to a survey by the International Society of Aesthetic Plastic Surgery (ISAPS), the United States holds the record for the most cosmetic procedures globally. With over 7.4 million surgical and nonsurgical procedures done in one year, it’s clear that there will be no shortage of potential cosmetic surgery clients in the years to come.

This high and growing demand may have pushed you to advertise your cosmetic surgery practice online. Unfortunately, with everything else you have to do, you may have little time to learn how best to leverage your digital marketing.

Plus, you don’t have the time and expertise to tinker with online platforms like Google, Facebook, or Bing to benefit your practice best.

And with so many cosmetic surgeons advertising online, you may feel lost amongst every other surgeon. The tight competition can be challenging for you to stand out and succeed. 

Maybe you’ve worked with other digital marketing agencies and spent money on search engine optimization (SEO) and paid ads. But you still haven’t gotten your desired results – more patient leads, consults, and procedures.

To make things complicated, digital marketing rules are constantly changing. What works for your campaign today may no longer work tomorrow.

Maybe you’ve recently started your cosmetic surgery business, and you’re searching for an agency that understands the unique requirements of your practice – one that can work with the latest marketing trends in your field.

If these situations seem familiar, then maybe you’re asking if there’s a digital marketing company you can trust, one that can offer the best marketing option for your practice.

Fortunately, there is – Digital Spotlight Health.

We specialize in bridging the gap between you and prospective patients who need your services. We’ll handle your digital marketing campaigns so you can focus on running your cosmetic surgery practice.

Whether you’re helping your patients fulfill their cosmetic needs to look better or undergo a specific aesthetic procedure to feel more confident and improve self-esteem, we’ve got you covered.

Our patient leads-focused strategy can help you engage potential clients at every stage of their journey.

We’ve built our relationships on the results we deliver, ensuring our clients stand out as they continue to work with us for years. We believe you should start working with us, too.

Our deep understanding of Google’s algorithm lets us know what’s popular and what’s not, leveraging cosmetic surgery marketing trends that can turn your casual site visitors into loyal clients.  

With 15+ years of experience in the digital marketing industry, we’ve gathered valuable data that can help your cosmetic surgery business win top positions in search engines. And the best part? We can do this at a lower cost than what your competitors spend.

Before you sign up with us, we’ll create an online marketing plan unique from your competitors—for free! We believe it’s only fair to identify what you truly need before quoting you for the actual work.

Online Marketing Continues to Overtake Outdoor Advertising

Having worked with several plastic and cosmetic surgeons in their marketing campaigns, we understand that both practices are different despite their similarities.

Plastic surgeons perform mostly reconstructive surgery to restore form and function. Meanwhile, cosmetic surgeons perform procedures to enhance aesthetics. 

Knowing these differences, we can tailor-fit digital marketing strategies that effectively reach a specific target audience. That’s why we offer pitch-free consultations, analyses, and audits to truly understand our client’s unique needs and offer realistic solutions.

Suppose you’ve been in the cosmetic surgery industry for a long time, and you’ve considered advertising your practice through outdoor ads like billboards and signage.

As time passes and more people go online, you may see the internet as an opportunity to market your practice instead. In other words, online marketing may help you reach your target audience better.

Because of the prevalence of digital ads today, expect searchers to see an ad or two each time they check their social media accounts or look for a cosmetic surgeon on Google Search.

Even amidst the COVID-19 pandemic in 2020, digital ad spending increased by 12.2%. Meanwhile, revenue from social media ads reached $41.5 billion. These figures show how effective digital ads can be for your business.

If you have a low risk tolerance for marketing, you may be concerned about the challenges of measuring your return on investment (ROI) through outdoor advertising.

Don’t worry. Our digital marketing services have numerous tools, such as Google Analytics, that can help us track and analyze your campaign’s performance, such as for Google Ads or Facebook Ads.

With the right online marketing strategy for your cosmetic surgery practice, we can help you gain more leads and grow your business.

Online Medical Marketing for Aesthetic Practices

Online marketing has the necessary tools, platforms, and channels to help your cosmetic surgery practice succeed.

Accessibility to these tools opens up opportunities for you to offer aesthetic surgery to a broader clientele and not just exclusively to the rich and famous.

Nowadays, more people from various demographics, including those extremely active online and on social media platforms, are choosing cosmetic surgery.

If you want your practice to be visible to this growing target base, you should be more active and engaging online.

However, if you want to connect with a specific target audience that can benefit from your practice, consider partnering with a digital marketing agency like ours. 

When it comes to healthcare businesses like yours, our online marketing strategy is all about delivering leads, not impressions or ad views.  

SEO Continues to Grow in Impact

Decades ago, plastic surgeons mostly relied on outdoor advertising, such as television, radio, print, or billboards, to reach their target audience.

However, over the last ten years, plastic surgery advertising has gradually moved away from this type of marketing and trended towards digital advertising.

In fact, the pandemic saw a 12% increase in overall digital ad spend.

Plastic and cosmetic surgeons who knew little about digital marketing, many of whom had never previously advertised, started to invest in it and gave it a try as interest in it grew. And why not when digital marketing has better return-on-investment (ROI) measurability than outdoor advertising? 

As more and more people turn to Google for answers, online searches for information on plastic and cosmetic surgery continue to increase. People not only search for information about procedures but also look for and vet plastic surgeons online. 

If you want your practice to get in front of these searches, you must be on Google’s #1 page. More than 75% of clicks on Google go to the top three search results, and reaching those ranks can help you gain more leads. 

The good news is that our SEO services can help you get to the top.

We understand that impressions or ad views may not be enough in the healthcare industry, including cosmetic surgery practices. Instead, what your online marketing campaign must do is generate leads.

Why do leads matter? It’s because they represent visitors interested in your services and can become potential customers.

The Zoom Boom Theory

Zoom, a video conferencing app, became even more popular during the COVID pandemic when people stayed mostly indoors, and work-from-home setups were the norm. 

Studies showed that the Zoom boom might have made people more self-conscious of their physical features, increasing public interest in plastic surgery procedures.

On the other hand, another study suggested that the relative increase in cosmetic surgeries immediately after the lockdowns could be due to a backlog of cases.

Whatever the cause of the digital surge, the trend was consistent. There were huge spikes in searches for almost all procedures globally, especially facial plastic surgery and nonsurgical procedures. 

Understanding these data allows you to anticipate your potential client’s interests better and meet their needs. 

Analyzing the trends influencing your clients’ decisions can help you choose which marketing strategy to use in your campaigns. 

Below are some of the latest trends in cosmetic surgery.

Rhinoplasty Trends

In 2019, searches for “rhinoplasty” hit significantly high levels, often reaching monthly averages between 40,000 and 90,000.

Even during the pandemic, rhinoplasty searches continued increasing, often reaching monthly numbers of around 110,000. However, in September 2021, demand dipped to pre-pandemic levels, suggesting that the trend has somehow simmered down.

Several factors influence the demand for rhinoplasty, especially among young adults. Social media, a primary driver, is an example.

Platforms like Snapchat and Instagram often set unrealistic beauty standards, influencing young minds to consider rhinoplasty and other cosmetic procedures to look beautiful.

Facelift Trends

“Facelifts” has been a popular search term for years, trending from around 18,000 monthly searches in 2017 to about 30,000 during the pandemic.

Like rhinoplasty, however, the “facelift” search trend cooled off in September 2021 to pre-pandemic levels.

Still, based on a member survey by the American Academy of Facial Plastic and Reconstructive Surgery (AAFPRS), facial plastic surgery and noninvasive treatments will continue to be in high demand in 2024.

If this trend continues, you’ll likely see more young patients asking for a “natural facelift.” With today’s technological advancements, facial “tweakments” will be an ongoing trend due to its appeal and accessibility to all ages.

Are these key terms crucial to your practice? Consult with us, and we’ll research these words to determine how they can help you rank high in the search results.

Brazilian Butt Lift Trends

Among the procedures mentioned in this section, Brazilian butt lift (BBL) has one of the most significant increases in monthly searches. In other words, compared to other cosmetic surgeries, BBL is among the most in-demand procedures searched online.

BBL searches hovered around 40,000 per month even before the pandemic. In September 2021, the trend increased to about 118,000 searches, up almost 300%.

According to the International Society of Aesthetic Plastic Surgery (ISAPS), almost 400,000 people worldwide underwent this transformative procedure in 2021. This striking statistic represents an estimated 20% rise in the procedure’s popularity since 2017.

Based on these numbers, BBL may provide a significant opportunity to gain leads if you haven’t been offering this service yet. And if you already do, call us for a consultation on how we can help you market your BBL procedure online.

Butt Implant Trends in Search

Butt implant searches may have seen a 50% increase monthly during the early period of the pandemic. By September 2020, however, the trend dropped to late-2017 levels.

This initial uptrend and subsequent drop-off may be due to influencers contributing to the increase in BBL searches and not because of a general desire to improve that body part.

Many doctors see the potential influence of social media on the growing demand for butt implants. 

For example, patients who see tighter, higher, and rounder bottoms flaunted and praised on social media are driven to research and, ultimately, schedule appointments to give their own butts a boost.

If you want to utilize social media to advertise your butt implant procedures, give us a call. Our social media marketing service can help you expand your practice’s reach, engage potential customers, and build meaningful connections in the digital landscape. 

Liposuction Search Trends

From 2019 to 2021, liposuction search trends increased during the pre-summer months. However, searches for this procedure didn’t improve as significantly as the other procedures despite the weight gain reported by many people during the pandemic.

Then, in 2022, more than 2.3 million liposuction procedures were performed, a 21.1% increase over 2021. 

Once again, social media was cited as contributing to the rising public interest in cosmetic procedures like liposuction.

Tummy Tuck Search Trends

Did you notice a sudden increase in patients undergoing tummy tucks during the summer of 2020? You may attribute that surge to the number of tummy tuck searches that almost doubled during this period.

While this trend eventually leveled out, searches for this procedure in 2021 maintained a 50% increase over pre-pandemic levels.

Book a consultation with us to see how we can help you market your tummy tuck procedures.

Breast Implant Search Trends

Searches for breast implants increased by 50% during the pandemic, although by mid-2020, this trend quickly reversed to pre-pandemic levels.

According to the American Society of Plastic Surgeons (ASPS), breast augmentation was the most frequently performed cosmetic plastic surgery procedure from 2005 to 2020. In 2022, ASPS member surgeons did close to 300,000 breast augmentation procedures.

If you only handled a tiny fraction of that number, say, fewer than 100, you only got a little slice of the pie.

Let us help you change that number and draw more clients to your practice. Our SEO and digital ad services can help bring in those leads.

The Future of Cosmetic Surgery Marketing Is Online

The number of Americans going online to look for health-related information, especially about cosmetic surgery, is increasing. Some interesting trends related to these matters are as follows:

  • One in three American adults searches the internet to learn about specific medical conditions.
  • Photo sharing on social media resulted in a 31% increase in surgery requests.
  • 57% of patients go online to search for information about plastic surgery.
  • 77% of patients look for information about health conditions using search engines like Google, Bing, or Yahoo.
  • 76% of patients visit hospital websites for health-related information, while 52% visit healthcare information sites.

While the COVID-19 pandemic has made offline marketing and networking with referring doctors difficult, online marketing continues to bring in more leads.

Ready to amplify your lead flow? Work with us and see how our online marketing services can help fill up your appointment books with leads. 

You can leave the heavy lifting to us so that you can free yourself from doing all the high-priced and time-consuming marketing.

The Rise in Technology

Advanced tools like ultrasonic saws can enhance the quality of your cosmetic procedures. If you’re interested in ultrasonic rhinoplasty, these tools can improve precision and minimize the risk of trauma for your patients.

If you’ve used advanced tools in your practice, good for you and your patients! You’ve embraced the technological innovations that enhance your ability to perform cosmetic procedures more effectively.

And what could be a better approach to promoting your state-of-the-art cosmetic surgery procedures than working with a digital marketing agency like ours that leverages innovative tools?

As a Google Premier Partner, we’re always the first to hear about the search engine giant’s latest features. This means we can test them out for you before anyone else in the industry even knows what’s happening.

The Rise of Celebrity Plastic Surgery

Kim Kardashian. Amy Schumer. Bella Hadid. Katy Perry. What do these celebrities have in common? They’ve openly admitted to having undergone some form of plastic surgery.

In the entertainment industry, physical appearance often plays a significant role in a celebrity’s fame. 

While it’s easy to think they just lucked out with good genes, that’s not always true. Chances are, they’ve got a plastic surgeon who knows what they’re doing and has the right tools and experience. 

As more celebrities opt for plastic surgery to look their best in front of the cameras, awareness and public interest in cosmetic procedures further increases. Factors contributing to this increase include the following:

  • Advancements in surgical techniques lead to safer and more accessible procedures.
  • Social media platforms help boost the visibility of celebrities, drawing in public fascination with their seemingly perfect physical appearances.

Celebrities turn to plastic surgery to preserve their youthful look and beauty, somehow normalizing the practice. 

For example, the rising popularity of face augmentation procedures, such as fillers and botox, among superstars has made plastic and cosmetic surgery acceptable, increasing the interest in and demand for cosmetic procedures.

If you’ve had celebrities as cosmetic surgery patients or plan to market your practice to them, we have online marketing services for you.

For example, our pay-per-click (PPC) or paid advertising service allows you to display ads on online platforms like Google or Facebook. This service can help you target specific audiences on those platforms and reach your preferred clients effectively.

The Impact on Marketing Strategies

The influence of celebrity plastic surgery on marketing strategies has resulted in the following emerging trends within the plastic surgery industry:

  • Celebrity endorsements: Plastic surgeons and marketers have started associating their practice with celebrities to attract the public who want similar results.
  • Before-and-after photos: Some plastic surgery clinics use before-and-after photos of celebrities as a marketing technique to exhibit the procedure’s transformative effects. This appeals to potential clients who want to achieve similar looks.
  • Social media: Many celebs use social media to share their plastic surgery experiences. Engaging with these posts can help you reach your target audience and interest them in your services.

Given these trends, our PPC services, such as Facebook Ads and Google Ads, let you target customers based on their demographics, location, behavior, and interests.

Adapting to the Changing Landscape

As a cosmetic surgeon and business owner, you must stay competitive and adapt to your industry’s changing environment. One way to do so is by developing advanced strategies that leverage the influence of celebrity plastic surgery.

Below are strategies we can focus on for your marketing campaign:

  • Establish a solid online presence: Engaging social media users and maintaining a user-friendly site can help improve your online presence. This way, you can showcase your expertise and connect with potential clients.
  • Market your content: Creating informative and helpful plastic surgery content can help position you as an industry authority. Examples of content that can inform and educate potential patients are blogs, videos, and webinars.
  • Provide testimonials: Genuine feedback and reviews from satisfied clients can be a way to showcase their experiences with your service and help you build credibility and trust with potential clients.
  • Collaborate with influencers: Partnering with beauty and wellness influencers and those who have undergone surgery can help promote your practice and engage with audiences beyond your immediate reach.
  • Personalize your marketing: Customizing website content, email campaigns, and social media content according to your audience’s preferences and interests are some ways to personalize your marketing.

Ethical Considerations

Suppose you have a celebrity endorser for your cosmetic surgery services. Even if this campaign is effective, we must still consider the ethical implications of this marketing strategy.

For example, respecting a celebrity’s privacy and obtaining consent before using any information, image, or video related to their surgical procedure for your ads is of utmost importance.

We ensure your marketing materials are accurate and transparent, giving your potential clients realistic expectations about the cosmetic results they can get from your services.

That’s why we are for no-pitch, free consultations. Similar to how you should listen to your patients and understand their needs, we also listen to you and understand your needs and expectations.

The Rise in the Number of Cosmetic Surgeons

As more people express interest in cosmetic surgery procedures, more medical practitioners want to get involved in the world of cosmetic medicine and practice it alongside plastic surgery and dermatology.

In fact, a forecast on industry trends in the U.S. shows that the plastic surgery industry may grow to about $24.3 billion and have over 11,000 businesses between 2024 and 2029.

Are you a medical professional who just changed your practice to include cosmetic medicine to pursue botox injections and other cosmetic procedures? 

If your answer is yes, then you’re part of this fast-growing industry. This also means you’ll see more competition in your field.

But there’s no need to worry. Our digital marketing services, such as SEO, can help you rank for relevant keywords in Google and kick your competition out of those top spots! And when potential customers see only you in the search results, they may not even hear about your competitors.

The Confluence Between Cosmetic Surgery and Entrepreneurship

Although cosmetic surgery belongs to the medical industry, more individuals see this practice as part of the fashion and cosmetic industry.

This isn’t surprising. After all, many people consider cosmetic surgery as more of a beauty treatment than a health procedure.

Due to this trend, cosmetic surgery has evolved into an entrepreneurial industry. More clinics now function as private equity entities (legal structures like investment firms that conduct business activities) rather than as traditional private individual practices.

If you have that entrepreneurial spirit, it may be tempting to do everything, including marketing your cosmetic surgery practice, by yourself.

Fortunately, we’re here to help with your marketing needs so you can focus on running your practice. Our online advertising services, such as Google Ads and Facebook Ads, can help you target your desired audience based on their demographics, location, and interests.

For example, in places such as Los Angeles, more and more people are willing to undergo cosmetic surgery. If you have a clinic in this location, you can expect to face fierce competition from many other cosmetic surgeons.

The good news is that we can help your practice stand out from the rest. With Google Ads, you can reach millions of daily search engine users and site visitors. Meanwhile, with Facebook Ads, you tap into a large customer base comprising billions of active users.

Average Cost for Cosmetic Surgery Is Dropping

The cost of undergoing cosmetic surgery may not be affordable for many people. Some clinics charge at least $8,000 for facelifts and other similar procedures, and that amount has yet to include facility costs and related expenses!

However, this trend of surging costs for cosmetic surgeries may change soon. In fact, the increasing number of cosmetic surgeons and alternative procedures are lowering the average cost of surgeries.

Meanwhile, when it comes to marketing your practice, we can also help lower your costs further and win the best spots for you while your competitors pay more for lower positions. We understand the algorithms Google and other platforms use, and we know which searches will be profitable.

So, if you’re dead set on winning those top spots in your niche, work with us, and we’ll help you obtain a high flow of leads for the best possible acquisition cost.

Conversion Attribution Is Getting More Challenging for Digital Marketers

Suppose your potential clients use browsers with built-in tracking protection. This feature may prevent Facebook and Google Analytics from collecting user information.

For example, you can’t see yourself in the analytics of your own website when using the Firefox browser, making it more and more challenging to track your campaign.

Due to this feature, a digital agency without the right tools may find it difficult to report conversions.

Fortunately, we can monitor and attribute these out-of-sight conversions, thanks to Google and Facebook’s new processes. These developments, such as the following, help us identify hidden conversions:

  • Server-side tracking: This Facebook tracking feature stores hashed or encrypted data via the server side.
  • Enhanced conversion: This process hashes the first-party data to Google, allowing the search engine to report the leads.
  • Consent mode V2: This feature enables conversion reporting based on data characteristics even without the user’s consent to track their data.

PPC Increases in Competition

We offer paid or pay-per-click (PPC) advertising if you want to display your ads on online platforms like Google or Facebook. PPC helps you reach potential customers on those platforms by targeting specific demographics or bidding on keywords.

However, costs have increased as competition among surgeons has become more intense. Still, costs remain comparatively lower than in other industries like legal services, where each click can cost you hundreds of dollars for particular keywords.

Fortunately, our paid advertising services, such as Google Ads and Facebook Ads, are still among the cost-effective ways to market your business. 

Google Ads and Facebook Ads allow you to set a budget and choose a bidding option depending on your goals and the average amount you’re comfortable spending for your campaign.

Cost per Click by Procedure

Estimates show that the cost per click (CPC) for nearly any ad related to cosmetic procedures is in the two- to five-dollar range.

However, we typically don’t put a price on your CPC before evaluating your cosmetic surgery marketing needs.

Instead, we provide a free, no-obligation analysis of your current marketing strategy and determine whether Google Ads, Facebook Ads, SEO, or Bing advertising suits your practice. The results of our audit can determine whether your budget can cover your advertising requirements.

What Is SEO?

In simple terms, SEO is how websites improve their visibility in Google or other search engines and gain organic (nonpaid) traffic. SEO is also how you can reach the top search results for keywords relevant to your site.

Whenever potential customers search for your cosmetic surgery services on Google, it’s highly likely that the results they see on top of the search page are there because of SEO.

If you want your cosmetic surgery website to rank high on Google, our SEO services are among your best options.

By comparing real-world performance against our ever-evolving SEO model, we uncover subtle shifts (even the ones other agencies find difficult to detect) and utilize them to achieve long-term SEO results.

Want proof? Our SEO work has helped over 1,800 businesses rank on Google’s first page! Plus, 79% of our clients have over 400 non-branded keywords ranking on page one of the search results!

We’ve had plastic surgeons who have benefited from our SEO service, like our client, Dr. Richard Zoumalan, a distinguished surgeon known for his natural-appearing noses that breathe well. He is also admired for his tastefully sculpted faces.

Dr. Zoumalan wanted only two things: to specialize in rhinoplasty (nose jobs) and be booked for at least three months in advance. 

We’re proud to say that our SEO strategy helped him reach these goals and more. Not only is he fully booked for up to six months, but his visibility on Google has also improved, allowing him to turn off his ads and gain six-figure savings yearly!

AI-Generated Content Is Here

Technological innovations have brought us advanced tools such as ChatGPT, which uses artificial intelligence (AI) to generate content automatically.

As these tools continue to improve and become more sophisticated, some marketers use them to create content for healthcare websites like yours.

However, the rapid advancements in AI content generation following ChatGPT’s game-changing features have become a concern for those unaware of the negative impact of AI content generators on some sectors and institutions. 

For example, as a cosmetic surgeon and modern-day business owner, you may be worried about whether you’re receiving high-quality online content that is worth your money or fake content that squanders your investment. 

Google can’t really determine whether or not your content is human-written. 

However, the search engine giant can detect pages with low-quality and spammy content and potentially deindex (remove from the search results) such pages. And more often than not, AI-generated content quality is poor.

For these reasons, we only provide human-generated content when we create content for your website. We even run it through several AI content detection tools to ensure that the percentages of AI content in our human-written content do not exceed 25%.

The Benefits of Social Media Platforms

Social media platforms provide many opportunities for your cosmetic surgery practice to grow your brand and reach potential patients.

More than 62% of the world now uses social media, making it an effective marketing strategy. 

For example, potential clients can follow you on social media and learn about the different cosmetic procedures you offer. So, if you’re not on platforms like Facebook and Instagram, you’re missing out!

Social media advertisements like the Facebook Ads and Instagram Ads that we offer provide businesses with numerous benefits, including the following:

  • Access to a massive audience with a potential customer base
  • Detailed targeting options, such as demographics, locations, and interests
  • Diverse ad formats like images, videos, and carousel ads (a combination of videos and pictures)
  • Accessibility through mobile devices

Social Media’s Role in Cosmetic Surgery Marketing

If you want to target potential patients in their research phase, consider using SEO or PPC as your preferred marketing channel. But if building your brand and earning your patients’ trust are your priorities, marketing through social media may be more effective.

Our social media marketing (SMM) services allow you to utilize organic posts and paid ads on platforms like Instagram, Facebook, and Twitter to achieve the following:

  • Engage your target audiences
  • Build brand awareness
  • Drive traffic to your site or online content

Here are some of the ways our social media services can help promote your cosmetic surgery practice:

Brand Building

Many cosmetic dermatologists and plastic surgeons have become popular on social media platforms such as TikTok or Instagram. These practitioners have built a following of audiences who eagerly engage with their content and trust the information they get.

We can help build your brand through our SMM services and expand your brand’s reach. This way, your cosmetic surgery practice can target a wider audience and improve online connections.

Trust Nurturing

Social media may sometimes play a role in your patient’s decisions, such as whether to book a consult or undergo a specific procedure.

For example, your social media profile can help educate users about your cosmetic surgery procedures, or past patients can leave reviews on your Facebook page. Such features may improve the chances of potential patients trusting you with their needs.

Through our social media ad services, such as Facebook Ads, we utilize Facebook’s social nature that lets users like, comment, and share your ads. These features can help enhance your credibility and visibility and promote your brand through organic word-of-mouth.

Demographic Trends on Different Social Media Channels

Have you ever done breast augmentation more frequently for patients below 35 than for older customers? What about liposuction for people below 70? Perhaps you’ve been noticing age-specific trends in your practice.

A 2023 study showed that certain age groups may have particular preferences regarding the type of procedure and social media platform to engage in. 

If you are interested in marketing cosmetic or  plastic surgery marketing on social media, the following research information might be useful to you: 

  • Patients aged 17 to 35 usually prefer breast augmentation more than any procedure. Consider using Instagram, TikTok, or Snapchat when offering this procedure.
  • Patients between 36 and 70 are more open to liposuction. Consider offering this procedure on Facebook or Instagram.
  • Patients 70 and older may need blepharoplasty (eyelid surgery to remove excess skin). Consider using Facebook to advertise this procedure.

If you’re looking to target clients based on these recommendations, our social media marketing services, such as Facebook Ads and Instagram Ads, have detailed targeting options. This means you can focus on your audience by considering demographics, location, interests, and other factors.

Discoverability for Plastic Surgeons Is Greater on TikTok Than Other Social Media Channels

Instagram may be a better platform than Facebook for delivering content suggestions to your audience. But if we’re talking about organic reach, Instagram may still be behind TikTok.

For instance, users who haven’t interacted with your business on Instagram may find it challenging to discover your content on that photo- and video-sharing site.

Meanwhile, TikTok’s algorithm doesn’t discriminate against new or unknown content, so boosting your organic reach is easy, even if you’re still new to the platform. 

This high discoverability on TikTok may help your cosmetic surgery account get in front of people interested in your content in ways Instagram still struggles with. 

Unfortunately, TikTok doesn’t allow ads related to plastic surgery. Still, we can tweak your ads to ensure they conform to TikTok’s standards.

For example, the TikTok ads we placed for Tahiri Plastic Surgery allowed us to market the clinic on this platform even though the business mainly offers plastic surgery services.

Utilizing Influencer Partnerships

When you collaborate with influencers engaging a large following on social media, your cosmetic surgery practice gets to access a new audience base, helping to boost brand awareness. That’s why influencer partnerships are among the most popular and effective marketing methods today.

Aside from helping you promote your practice and services, influencers can offer helpful insights based on their followers’ interests, such as what these followers expect from cosmetic procedures.

Although influencer collaboration is primarily something done on your end, we can help you develop a strategy that puts your practice in the spotlight and keeps it competitive.

Leveraging Reviews and Testimonials

Online marketing’s rising popularity among plastic surgeons has created an emphasis on leveraging testimonials and reviews to establish credibility. In other words, getting favorable online feedback about your cosmetic surgery practice is good for your business.

When a satisfied patient leaves a positive review about your services, it can help boost your reputation. Potential patients can see your work quality and customer satisfaction based on those reviews on your website and social media channels.

Similar to what we do with influencer collaborations, we develop a strategy to highlight testimonials and reviews to help you market your services.

Online Reputation Matters to Prospective Patients

If you want your cosmetic surgery practice to stand out, consider placing extra attention on your online reputation. Potential patients will sometimes research and check your reputation online before deciding to go for an appointment.

People interested in the procedures you offer might look for your name or clinic on Google Search. They’ll read the reviews to learn about the procedures and methods and what previous patients say about you and your staff.

Regular monitoring of reviews and improving your online reputation help maintain your practice brand. Responding to the reviews or simply thanking a client for their positive feedback goes a long way in making people feel appreciated.

But what if you receive a negative review? Don’t ignore it. Instead, take it as an opportunity to resolve issues amicably and satisfy all involved parties.

We can help manage your online reputation through our Google Reputation Management service, which includes the following:

  • Conducting a comprehensive ongoing analysis of negative web properties related to your important keywords on Google’s first page
  • Ranking negative web properties based on what causes the most damage to your reputation
  • Listing all key terms and their associated web properties causing online reputation damage
  • Identifying which key terms to fix while considering the negative reviews, predictive traffic, and the keywords’ importance to your business
  • Making recommendations to help control and protect information associated with your business and drown out damaging reviews
  • Doing monthly simultaneous SEO to multiple online profiles, documents, and entries to achieve first-page rankings
  • Conducting an initial technical audit of your site and making recommendations, where necessary, to lower your exposure to penalties (due to thin or duplicate content, low page speed, redirect checks, and indexing issues)

Create Engaging Content

One effective way to promote your cosmetic surgery services is to have unique and engaging content on your website that places you leagues above your competition. 

But how can you ensure your content is exciting and compelling enough to capture your potential clients’ attention and motivate them to take action?

That’s where we come in. Content creation is part of our digital marketing services, such as our SEO Enterprise package, and includes the following:

  • Writing SEO-optimized articles
  • Maintaining a monthly target number of keywords
  • Conducting content type analysis
  • Creating content briefs
  • Recommending title tags and meta descriptions

Title tags are elements coded in your web page’s hypertext markup language (HTML) to indicate that page’s title, which can also appear on the search engine results page (SERP).

On the other hand, meta descriptions are a relevant summary of what your page is about. They also help convince users that your page has the information they want.

Cosmetic Pay-per-Click and Video Marketing

PPC and video ads can help attract more potential patients and boost brand awareness.

Through PPC, you only need to pay when someone clicks or views your ads. This service allows your cosmetic surgery website to reach the top ranks on Google or partner sites quicker than organic marketing.

PPC helps increase your visibility and precisely target your audience, leading to immediate results.

You can also consider video campaigns for your cosmetic surgery marketing. They can help you reach your target customers, especially those watching YouTube videos. Similar to PPC, you only pay when users show interest.

What’s great about video campaigns is that they let you show video ads within streaming video content on YouTube and throughout the Google Display Network (GDN).

Since GDN can reach 90% of online users worldwide, promoting your services using video ads on the GDN lets you reach out to a broader market across millions of websites, including Google platforms like YouTube and Gmail.

Patient Engagement Is Key

Understanding how a potential cosmetic surgery patient makes decisions is among the most effective ways to engage them.

One way to do so is by optimizing your website, marketing material, blogs, and social networking space to address your potential patients’ questions and concerns.

If it’s an optimized website you want, you can turn to us to build it for you. You’ll have complete control of your site from the day we start building it.

More importantly, consider the best practices listed in the section below to help you engage with your patients better.

Best Practices for Patient Engagement

Through our online marketing services, we can help you engage your patients more effectively and even encourage you to interact with them in the following ways:

  • Delivering a personal touch from beginning to end when you engage with a potential patient
  • Establishing yourself as an industry authority through partnerships
  • Providing personal and timely communications
  • Providing reassurances with proof at all times
  • Using patient testimonials to show potential patients your offerings
  • Addressing your client’s concerns and questions honestly
  • Encouraging referrals from customers, especially when most of your new patients come from referrals

Telemedicine and Digital Convenience

Suppose your cosmetic surgery clinic is in California. Do your patients live far away, such as in Canada, Europe, India, or Japan, that traveling to and from your clinic is more of a hassle? Do you want to engage with them remotely instead?

If so, offering telemedicine, such as virtual consultations and follow-up appointments, can help improve your appeal and customer service.

Since telemedicine and digital convenience are services you can offer to patients, we recommend the following features to help you engage with your patients digitally:

  • Online scheduler: This tool can help streamline and automate your processes and be tailored to your patient’s understanding.
  • Online forms linked to your practice management system (PMS): This feature not only allows your front office to collect patient information automatically. Such forms can also simplify the requirements you need to collect from your patients.
  • Telemedicine: Virtual consultations can help save time and boost your production.
  • Digital payment: As fewer customers opt to pay using checks and traditional snail mail, consider offering online payments as a transaction method.
  • Recall and follow-up: This feature can help increase productivity by streamlining and automating follow-up reminders and recalls in your digital communication.

Additionally, if your clinic doesn’t have a customer relationship management (CRM) system, we suggest you have one. This way, we can easily link it to our conversion tracking system.

Some standard features of CRM software are as follows:

  • Store contact information of customers and prospects
  • Identify sales opportunities
  • Manage marketing campaigns
  • Record service issues

Cosmetic Surgery Marketing Will Continue Evolving Into Next Year and Beyond

As you promote your cosmetic surgery practice online, you may see more plastic surgeons doing the same thing, and PPC costs may also increase.

Plus, TikTok’s maturity as a platform will likely draw older demographics, which typically comprise a large market for cosmetic surgery. You’ll probably see TikTok develop into a more attractive platform for promoting your practice.

Similarly, we must expect your cosmetic surgery practice’s marketing strategies and techniques to continue evolving. What works for you today may no longer be as effective tomorrow.

Despite these challenges, our online marketing solutions will continue bringing the leads into your clinic. By doing so, we can help you cut off other expensive and time-consuming marketing activities.

Contact us for a pitch-free consultation, and find out how we can help you gain a steady flow of leads.

Keeping Up With the Latest Trends

Whether you’re a startup in the cosmetic surgery industry or looking to take your practice to the next level, keeping up with the latest cosmetic surgery marketing trends is crucial. This is not only important for remaining competitive and achieving long-term success but also for survival in the industry.

More consumers than ever before are turning to online channels to research procedures and book appointments. That’s why effective online marketing has become essential for many successful cosmetic surgery marketing strategies.

If you want to attract more customers, maximize your reach, and build a strong brand identity, consider leveraging online marketing tools like search engines, social media, and blogs.

Our digital marketing services can help deliver the big numbers for your practice. By connecting you and other healthcare businesses to customers needing your services, we can help you reach the best spots for less than the amount your competitors usually spend for lower positions.

If you want to know more about the marketing trends that can help your cosmetic surgery practice earn a steady flow of leads, call us for a pitch-free consultation. We’ll listen to you and talk about real solutions for your needs.

Call us at (+1) 310 879 8003 or email [email protected]. Are you in California? Visit us at 2450 Colorado Avenue, Suite 100E Santa Monica, CA 90404.