Clinic Mastery Marketing

Meta Ads

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Cheaper to acquire than Google. The right offer, the right creative, and a world-class first session is what turns the booking into lifetime value.

Meta is interruption marketing on people scrolling cats and dogs. Done well, you'll book new patients for $50 to $75 each, well below what Google costs. Done poorly, you'll burn budget on tyre-kickers who never show up. The difference isn't ad spend. It's creative built for healthcare, an offer designed to lower the barrier to entry, and the systems that turn a discounted first session into a long-term patient.

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What goes wrong

Why most clinic Meta ads underperform.

Four patterns we see every week.

No offer, or the wrong one.

Meta patients aren't searching. They're scrolling. They've usually tried something already and been disappointed. Asking them to commit to your full-priced first session is the single biggest reason clinic Meta ads fail. A 40% off or $69 initial isn't devaluing the service. It's lowering the cost of saying yes.

Creative that doesn't earn the scroll.

A patient on Instagram doesn't want a brochure. They want to know whether you can help with what they're feeling right now. Most agency creative skips that part.

Lead forms that flood the front desk.

A cheap lead is expensive if it doesn't book. We add the right qualifying questions so your team isn't chasing tyre-kickers who never had real intent.

Treating the discount patient like a discount patient.

Younger team members see a discounted Meta booking and unconsciously deliver lower-quality care. The patient feels it, doesn't rebook, and the campaign gets blamed. Meta clients can be just as valuable as Google clients, but only if the experience after the booking is world-class.

Before you run that ad

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How we work

Four steps. Built for healthcare.

  1. Offer and positioning.

    Most of the work happens before the ad runs. We design the offer (typically 40% off the initial or a $69 first session) and the audience around your real catchment, your real avatar, and the language they actually use. Psychology is the exception: no offer, education-led only.

  2. Creative that earns the scroll.

    Patients on Instagram aren't looking for a brochure. They want to know if you can help with what they're feeling right now. We write in their language, with creative that stops the thumb and turns it into a booking.

  3. Launch and learn.

    We run small to find the winners, then scale what works. No 'set and forget'. No betting the budget on day one.

  4. Optimise weekly.

    Creative fatigue kills Meta campaigns inside 4-6 weeks. We build a refresh cadence into the work so your ads stay alive longer than the average.

What changes

What you get when this works.

$50 to $75 cost per booked patient.

Lead-form ads typically deliver leads at around $25, with 1-in-2 to 1-in-3 leads converting to a booking. Cheaper than Google. Psychology runs higher ($100 to $150) because no offers.

A predictable lead pipeline.

Not feast and famine. A consistent inflow of bookings each week, scaled to your capacity.

Brand recall in your community.

Patients who don't book today often book in six months. Meta ads keep you top of mind in your local area.

Front-desk-friendly leads.

Pre-qualified prospects who already know what you do, where you are, and roughly what it costs.

Lower barrier to entry, not lower value.

The offer is for people who have already tried other things and been disappointed. The first session you deliver is what earns the lifetime value back.

AHPRA-aware, always.

We know what you can and can't say. Your marketing stays compliant without losing the things that make it convert.

Pricing

Simple, honest pricing.

No hidden fees. No long contracts. Pay for the work, pay for the spend, get the results.

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What the patient pays you per visit

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Meta Ads

Monthly management

$725/mo

+ GST + 15% of ad spend

One-off setup

$795

+ GST

What's in the setup

  • Strategy session
  • A clear, defined Meta Ads marketing strategy
  • Conversion tracking installed
  • Keyword research
  • Full campaign build
  • Everything wired up and working before launch

Ongoing, every week

  • In your account every 24 to 48 hours
  • Measuring, refining, optimising
  • Constant split testing. Always trying to beat our best ad.
  • Monthly reporting in plain English
  • Pete in the account, not a junior or overseas VA

Min. ad budget: $500/mo

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By the end of my first session with Pete, we literally had 8 Facebook Ads running. Not only do they give you the knowledge, they help you implement and build a clinic that will help you grow.
Jonathan Steedman
Clinic owner
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The Meta trade-off

Decrease the barrier to entry, not devalue the service.

Most clinic owners hate the idea of running a discount. Fair. But the patient on Meta isn't comparing your full price to your discounted price. They've already googled, tried something else, and been burned. A $69 initial or 40% off the first session isn't devaluing what you do. It's lowering the cost of saying "I'll give them a chance" for someone who can't justify another $200 first appointment.

Acquisition

Cheaper to get them in.

Lead-form ads typically deliver leads at around $25, with 1-in-2 to 1-in-3 leads converting to a booking. That's $50 to $75 cost per booked patient. Meaningfully lower than Google.

Intent

Colder when they arrive.

They weren't searching. They were scrolling cats and dogs. They've usually tried Google first and been disappointed. Lower intent. Less qualified. Lower lifetime value by default.

Retention

Your first session decides the LTV.

Done well, a Meta patient is just as valuable as a Google patient. Done poorly, the discount becomes the story your team tells themselves about that patient. Pre-session comms, in-session experience, and follow-up have to be world-class.

The ethics, plainly

AHPRA's concern is encouraging indiscriminate use of healthcare services. Lowering the price of a first appointment for someone who has already tried other options and is hesitant to try again isn't indiscriminate use. It's making care more accessible to people who would otherwise stay stuck. We think that lands in a strong ethical spot, and we'd defend it.

Common questions

The questions clinic owners ask us.

Why is Meta cheaper per booking than Google? Is the patient worse?

It's a quality-and-intent trade-off, not a quality-of-service trade-off. Meta typically books patients at $50 to $75 each (around $25 per lead, 1-in-2 to 1-in-3 lead-to-booking conversion). Google sits at $75 to $140 depending on city and specialty. The Meta patient was scrolling, not searching, which means lower urgency, often lower awareness, and on average $30 to $40 lower lifetime value than the Google patient. Done well, with the right offer in the ad and a world-class first session at the clinic, that Meta patient can be every bit as valuable. Done poorly, the discount becomes the story your team tells themselves about that patient and the lifetime value never materialises. The campaign is only half the work. The clinic is the other half.

Do I have to discount? I don't like the idea of discounting healthcare.

Most clinic owners don't like it at first, and we get it. Here's the reframe we use, and we mean it: you're not devaluing the service, you're decreasing the barrier to entry. The Meta patient has usually already googled, tried something, and been disappointed. They aren't comparing your full price to your discounted price. They're comparing the cost of trying you to the cost of staying stuck. A 40% off initial or a $69 first session lowers the barrier to that decision. The two offers above work most reliably across allied health. Value-add bundles (e.g. free rehab pack with first session) work but less consistently than a price discount. Psychology is the only specialty where we don't run an offer at all.

Are discount offers AHPRA-compliant?

AHPRA's concern is encouraging the indiscriminate use of healthcare services. The position we run with, and would defend, is that lowering the price of a first appointment for someone who has tried other options and is hesitant to try again is the opposite of indiscriminate. It's making care more accessible to people who would otherwise stay stuck. That said, the rules are tighter for some professions than others. Psychology in particular sits closer to inducement risk and we don't run discount offers for psychology clinics. For physio, chiro, osteo, podiatry, OT, speech, exercise physiology, and remedial massage, the offer playbook is fair game when framed as access rather than promotion.

If Meta clients are lower intent, won't they churn after one session?

Only if you treat them like a discount client. The single biggest reason Meta campaigns fail isn't the campaign. It's that younger team members see a discounted booking and unconsciously deliver lower-quality care. The patient feels it, doesn't rebook, and the campaign gets blamed. The clinics that win on Meta build the systems around the patient: pre-session calls or messages so they know what to expect, an in-clinic experience that's genuinely impressive, follow-up after the first session. Done that way, a Meta patient delivers lifetime value comparable to a Google patient. The discount is the cost of acquisition. The first session is what earns it back.

How fast will I see results?

Typically, most clinics start seeing results inside the first four to six weeks. We're not promising overnight miracles. Anyone who does is lying. We are promising that your campaign will be live, optimised, and bringing in genuine new patient bookings within that window.

I'm already running ads. Can I keep them?

It depends. Sometimes it makes sense to replace them all and start clean. Sometimes we'll keep one or two of your current ads and run them as a control while we test new creative against them. Either way, we're always split testing. Always trying to beat our current best ad. That's how the numbers compound over the months you work with us.

What's a realistic monthly ad budget?

The minimum we'd recommend is $500/month in ad spend. Above that, it depends on the scale of your clinic and how many new patients you're trying to generate each month. We'll talk through what's right for your situation in your strategy session.

Do you lock me in?

No. We have a 30-day notice period and that's it. We don't believe in 12-month contracts. Clinics work with us because they see value, they get results, and they enjoy working with healthcare professionals who actually understand them. Not because they're trapped. If we're not earning our keep, we don't deserve to keep your business.

Why are you better than a generic marketing agency?

Generic agencies sell ads to every industry: healthcare, real estate, e-commerce, tradies. We only work with healthcare clinics, because we are healthcare clinic owners. We've sat across from patients. We know your margins aren't infinite. We know that every dollar of ad spend has to make the needle move, because we've felt what it costs you when it doesn't. Our promise is simple: we'll spend every dollar of your ad budget as if it was our own. Because we understand what it means to a healthcare clinic owner when it isn't.

Will Pete actually run my ads, or a junior?

Pete will be running your ads. You won't be outsourced to a junior or an overseas VA. The same person you applied to work with is the person managing your account day-to-day.

Ready when you are

We'll map out the campaign before you commit.

Tell us about your clinic. We'll come back with a one-page plan: who we'd target, what creative we'd test first, and what a realistic 90-day result looks like.

Where we work

We run Meta Ads for clinics in every major Australian city. Each city guide covers local cost per booking ranges, catchment patterns, and the specialty mix we see there: Sydney, Melbourne, Brisbane, Perth, Adelaide, Gold Coast, Canberra, Hobart. Or browse every city we cover.