Industry 04  /  Fertility · Specialty · Telehealth

More qualified patients.
Real trust.
Healthcare marketing noise.

We've worked in fertility, specialty practice, and patient-acquisition marketing for over a decade. We know what HIPAA actually permits. We know how patients in difficult situations actually search. And we know that "schedule your consult today" is not how trust gets built.

Built for
Practice size 1–25 providers
Sub-verticals Fertility · Specialty · Telehealth
Engagement Monthly retainer
Time to first lift 60–90 days
Ad spend tier $5K–$30K / mo
Why this is hard

Healthcare marketing fails in specific ways.

Most agencies pitching healthcare practices have never actually shipped a HIPAA-compliant program. They run pixel-tracked ads on conditions. They write "miracle" copy a regulator would shut down. They treat fertility patients like they're shopping for sneakers. We don't.

  1. HIPAA is in everything. Most agencies skip it.

    The Meta Pixel scandal and HHS guidance on tracking technologies changed the landscape. Most agencies are still using pixel-tracked conversion ads on health conditions. That's a HIPAA violation waiting to be written up. We build measurement programs that work without exposing PHI to ad platforms.

  2. Your patients are going through something real.

    Fertility patients have been trying to conceive for years. Specialty patients have already seen three doctors who couldn't help. "Book your consult today!" copy is offensive in this context. It also doesn't work. We write copy that respects what patients are going through — and converts better because of it.

  3. The conversion path is long and private.

    Patients research conditions privately for weeks before they call. They visit your site multiple times before they ever submit a form. Last-click attribution is fiction in healthcare. We build conversion programs around the actual patient journey — one that respects their privacy and rewards your patience.

  4. Ad platforms restrict the health vertical.

    Google restricts certain health-related advertising. Meta's policies on health, weight loss, and reproductive content are aggressive. You can't target by condition. You can't talk about results in concrete terms. We've been working within these rules for years. We know what's actually possible.

Our three-pillar playbook. Tuned for healthcare.

The same Get Found / Get Leads / Get Content engine — tuned for how patients actually search, evaluate, and choose specialty providers.

01 / Get Found

Where patients actually search.

  • Symptom & condition keyword targeting
  • Local SEO for service-area geographies
  • Provider bios that actually rank
  • AI engine answer optimization
  • E-E-A-T signals from credentialed authors
02 / Get Leads

Patients within platform rules.

  • Compliant Google Ads & Meta campaigns
  • HIPAA-aware tracking infrastructure
  • First-party audience programs
  • Reputation & review acquisition
  • Multi-touch attribution for long cycles
03 / Get Content

Authority, with empathy.

  • Patient-stage education content
  • Provider-voiced authoritative articles
  • HIPAA-compliant nurture sequences
  • Empathy-led ad copy & landing pages
  • Outcome stories (where consent permits)
Sub-verticals

Where we've actually moved the number.

Healthcare isn't one market — it's a hundred markets stacked together. We've built repeatable programs in the verticals where the patient journey is private, considered, and high-stakes.

Fertility & IVF

Long, private, emotionally weighted patient journeys. Empathy-led content, multi-touch attribution, treatment-stage targeting.

Specialty Practices

Cardiology, gastro, derm, rheumatology. Symptom-stage SEO, provider authority, referral-program marketing.

Aesthetics & Med-Spa

Higher-intent, more competitive paid markets. Local SEO + Google LSA + Meta with first-party retargeting.

Mental Health

Therapy practices, telehealth, group practices. Stigma-aware content, insurance-rule navigation, modality-specific positioning.

Telehealth

D2C health platforms. Acquisition-LTV math, retention-driven content, regulatory-aware claims.

Concierge Medicine

HNW patient acquisition. Premium positioning, long-cycle nurture, referral-driven brand.

Surgery Centers

ASCs, specialty surgical practices. Procedure-specific SEO, surgeon-led authority content, insurance navigation.

Healthcare-Adjacent

Diagnostics, supplements, wellness platforms. Compliance-aware claims, content authority, conversion optimization.

HIPAA & Trust

Compliance is part of the work. Trust is the whole job.

Every campaign goes through HIPAA pre-flight before it launches. We've shipped marketing for fertility, specialty, and telehealth providers — and we've sat through enough OCR enforcement actions in the news to know what's at stake.

Worth saying clearly: we are not your privacy counsel. Your compliance officer has final sign-off on PHI handling. But we won't bring you tracking setups or copy that put your practice at risk — and we'll flag risk before it shows up in an HHS letter.

  • HIPAA-aware tracking architecture (no condition-based pixel events)
  • Server-side & first-party measurement for compliant attribution
  • BAAs reviewed on every third-party tool we recommend
  • Patient-language audits (no "miracle," no "cure," no overclaiming)
  • HHS guidance on tracking technologies — we follow it
  • Consent flows for testimonials & outcome stories
  • Awareness of state-specific health advertising rules

Healthcare marketing that doesn't sound like an insurance pamphlet.

Bob Clary  /  Founder, Purple Frog

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