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PMU · SMP · aesthetics

Booked,
not clicked

Web, search and paid acquisition for clinics — measured on booked consultations, not platform conversions.

Who we work with

Three kinds of clinic, one kind of problem

Different treatments, different buyers, the same gap between what the reporting says and what reception sees.

Permanent makeup

Studios where the practitioner is the brand, and an enquiry is a conversation about a face someone will wear every day. Trust does the selling. The site either supports that or gets in the way of it.

Scalp micropigmentation

Higher value, longer consideration, and almost always researched in private. Most of the decision is made before anyone makes contact, which is what makes the search result decisive.

Aesthetics

Regulated, competitive, and crowded with clinics saying identical things in identical words. The margin is in being specific about what you do and who you are not for.

What we do

Three services, equal weight

Taken together or separately. We would rather do one of them properly than all three badly.

Google Ads management

Paid acquisition measured on real booked consultations, not platform conversions

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Proof

Figures we can stand behind

Anonymised, and marked where they still need client sign-off. Where no figure exists, this section says the true thing instead of a number.

Reduction in cost per validated lead for a multi-location client across three metros, after rebuilding measurement and reviving paused Search campaigns.

Verify before publication

100%

Of leads checked against the CRM before a channel decision. Ad-platform conversion counts were found to overstate genuine lead flow, so we stopped trusting them.

Process claim · no sign-off needed

Multi-year

Client relationships, in a vertical where the agency is typically changed annually. No figure exists for this yet, so the section says the true thing instead of a number.

Verify before publication

See how these came about

How we work

Four steps, in this order

The order is the method. Most of what goes wrong in this vertical is a spend decision made on numbers nobody checked.

  1. 01

    Audit

    We read the ad account, the analytics and the CRM before we say anything. Usually they disagree, and which one is lying tells you where the problem actually is.

  2. 02

    Measurement

    Lead validation first: every enquiry checked against what happened to it. Until that exists, every optimisation is a guess with a chart attached.

  3. 03

    Build

    Then the work itself — site, search presence, campaigns — against numbers you can check yourself without asking us for a report.

  4. 04

    Iterate

    Monthly, on booked consultations. Not impressions, not clicks, not platform conversions.

Vertical depth

We only work with clinics

A generalist agency learns your vertical on your budget. We already know what a consultation is worth to an SMP clinic, why a PMU enquiry turns on a photograph and a reply time, and which Google Ads policies will get an aesthetics account suspended. That is the difference between being useful in the first month and the sixth.

It also means we say no. If you are not a clinic, we are not the right agency for you, and you will hear that on the first call rather than after the proposal.

More about how we work

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Tell us what is not working

A short description of the situation is enough to begin. If we are not the right people, we will say so and point you somewhere better.