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Paid Advertising
Search, social, and YouTube campaigns built to fill the pipeline.

Up to two search campaigns on Google, a consumer Meta campaign for patients, a professional Meta campaign for referrers, and a consumer YouTube campaign. Weekly optimization across all of them. You pay platforms directly — we don’t mark up media.

Why it matters

Healthcare-specific paid, with the markup gone.

The problem

Most healthcare paid advertising is run by generalists who’ve never worked in a clinical context. They burn budget on the wrong keywords (“doctor near me” instead of specialty plus sub-specialty), the wrong audiences (broad consumer targeting instead of professional targeting for referrers), and the wrong creative (stock imagery that converts at half the rate of clinical photography).

And most agencies mark up media — sometimes 10–20 percent — buried in the invoice. You pay more for media than you needed to, and the agency keeps the margin.

Our approach

We run paid as if the budget were ours. Healthcare-specific targeting built around real intent — what patients in your specialty actually search, when, and from what surface. Clinical-correct copy reviewed by people who know the field. Real creative, not stock.

You pay platforms directly. We don’t mark up Google or Meta. Your fee is for our work, not for taking a margin on your media. Every dollar that should reach the platform reaches the platform.

What’s included

What’s included.

A coordinated paid program across five surfaces.

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Up to two search campaigns on Google

Brand search and specialty-plus-intent search, both built around how patients actually type.

02

Consumer Meta campaign

Patient-facing on Facebook and Instagram, with creative built for each placement.

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Professional Meta campaign

Referrer-facing on LinkedIn and selectively Meta, built to reach the doctors who send patients to your specialty.

04

Consumer YouTube campaign

Video that builds awareness and intent over time, paired with search to catch the resulting demand.

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Weekly optimization across all campaigns

Every Monday, every campaign reviewed and adjusted. No “set and forget.”

06

Real-time dashboard, 24/7

You see what’s working when it’s working, not 30 days later in a deck.

How we run it

The weekly optimization cycle.

Paid that responds to the data instead of running on autopilot.

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Weekly optimization

Monday review of every campaign. What to scale, what to pause, what to test.

02

Real-time dashboard

Always-on visibility into spend, leads, and cost-per-acquired-patient by campaign.

03

Monthly performance review

A written narrative that explains the dashboard. Numbers with context, not just charts.

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Quarterly creative refresh

Fresh ad creative produced and rotated in. Stops ad fatigue before it kills performance.

05

Quarterly attribution review

How leads are getting credited, what the model is missing, what to recalibrate as platforms shift.

How it fits the engine

Where this sits in the engine.

Paid is one of six marketing channels above the engine. Every click routes through automation into your CRM with cost-per-acquired-patient calculated automatically. The dashboard shows what’s working before the monthly review tells you about it. Every Vital Press engagement includes all nine services — this is one of them.

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Common questions

Things people ask before they engage.

How is media spend handled — do you mark up?

You pay platforms directly (Google, Meta, YouTube). We don’t mark up media. Our fee is for our work; every dollar that should reach the platform reaches the platform.

What’s the minimum monthly budget?

Most practices start between $2K and $5K a month in media spend and scale up as we find which audiences are responding to the practice. Below $2K, paid is hard to learn from — there isn’t enough signal to optimize against. Once campaigns find traction, budgets typically grow into the $5K–$15K range.

How quickly do you optimize?

Weekly. Every Monday, every campaign is reviewed and adjusted. Major optimizations (creative refreshes, audience pivots) happen monthly or when the data clearly says so.

Do you handle conversion tracking setup?

Yes. Tracking is built during onboarding — GA4, Google Ads conversion tracking, Meta Pixel, server-side events where needed. We don’t run campaigns we can’t measure.

What platforms do you NOT recommend for healthcare?

TikTok for most clinical specialties (algorithmic risk is high), generic display networks (low intent, low conversion), and any platform where targeting can’t be made HIPAA-aware. We’ll tell you what we won’t run and why.
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