For independent, family-owned bariatric practices only

    Bariatric marketing with a number in the agreement: fifteen paying bariatric patients in 90 days.

    My fee is fixed. You fund the advertising spend, paid directly to the ad platforms and never marked up. Miss fifteen and you get the entire fee back and I keep working at no fee until you have fifteen.

    I have no healthcare case study to show you yet, so I take the risk instead. Running GLP-1 and non-surgical programs too? See medical weight loss marketing.

    • 15 paying bariatric patients in 90 days
    • Fixed fee and fixed term
    • Refund + free work if missed
    • Founder on every account
    Bariatric surgery practice consult room

    The real problem

    The block time is paid for. The cases are not booked.

    This is not a clinical problem. It is a consult problem on a decision the patient has already been making for years.
    • 01

      The seminar model stopped filling the room

      Seminars, in person or online, used to carry the front of the funnel. Now the patient reads, watches, and compares on their own time, and a date on a calendar is not a reason to show up.

    • 02

      Insurance and self-pay get marketed the same way

      They are two different buyers. One needs help through a payer requirement. The other needs a price and a financing answer. One message aimed at both converts neither.

    • 03

      The decision takes months and the follow-up stops in week two

      This patient has thought about surgery for years and will still take months to commit. Most offices work a new contact for two weeks and then let it go cold.

    • 04

      Operating time is booked around whoever happened to call

      You have block time. Filling it depends on who came in this month rather than on anything you control.

    What gets installed

    The same engine as the Empty Chair Offer, pointed at bariatric.

    • 01

      The offer

      One service line only. The campaign speaks to a patient considering sleeve or bypass, and separates the insurance path from the self-pay path instead of blurring them.

    • 02

      The funnel

      A single page built for the bariatric consult. Qualification, payer path and financing are handled on the page, not left for the phone.

    • 03

      The traffic

      Paid search and paid social aimed at your territory, plus a Google Business Profile rebuilt for the bariatric and weight-loss-surgery searches near you.

    • 04

      The recovery

      AI follow-up answers in seconds, day or night, and keeps working a long-consideration contact for months until it books or dies. Missed calls get texted back automatically.

    • 05

      The scoreboard

      A shared scorecard we both watch. Paying bariatric patients are reconciled on it every week against the written target of fifteen.

    • Bariatric offer and messaging built for one service line
    • Separate insurance-path and self-pay messaging
    • Dedicated bariatric consult funnel page with financing addressed up front
    • Google Business Profile rebuild and management
    • Google Ads campaign build and management
    • Meta Ads campaign build and management
    • Call tracking and form tracking
    • AI follow-up assistant, 24/7
    • Missed-call text-back
    • Consult and seminar booking automation
    • Reactivation campaigns to your existing list, including patients who attended a seminar and never scheduled
    • Review generation and response
    • Shared weekly scorecard of paying bariatric patients
    • Direct line to the founder, not a ticket queue

    The guarantee

    A guarantee for bariatric patient growth

    Fifteen paying patients for your bariatric practice in 90 days. If I miss, you get a full refund of the fee and I keep working at no fee until you have fifteen. Ad spend is paid directly to the platforms, never marked up, and never refunded. The definition of a paying patient and the conditions are in the full terms.

    This is built for you if:

    • You're independent, private, or family-owned — you own the decision
    • You perform bariatric surgery yourself or with a surgeon you operate alongside every week
    • Your average bariatric case is a high-value case
    • You have operating and consult capacity for fifteen more cases in the next ninety days
    • You can fund the media budget stated in the agreement
    • You offer third-party financing and someone in the office can present it
    • You want a number in a contract, not a monthly report

    This is not for you if:

    • You're DSO-owned, PE-backed, corporate, or hospital-owned
    • You can't or won't fund the media budget stated in the agreement
    • Your average bariatric case is not a high-value case
    • You have no block time and no surgeon to operate with
    • Nobody in the office can present or close a financed case
    • You want the cheapest option on the market
    • You're not prepared to answer the phone when it rings

    I also do not work with DSO-owned, private-equity backed, corporate or hospital-owned practices, or with chiropractic, urgent care, emergency, primary care and general family practice.

    Questions

    Straight answers

    Yes, once the patient accepts treatment and payment or a financing agreement is in place under the definition in the agreement. Insurance and self-pay are marketed separately because they decide differently, but both count.

    The engagement uses a fixed fee for ninety days. This is built for high-value bariatric cases with enough consult and operating capacity to absorb fifteen paying patients.

    They do. That is why follow-up runs for months instead of two weeks, and why I ask about consult capacity before anything else. Some contacts generated in month one will pay in month four. Only those who pay inside the ninety days count toward the fifteen, and I carry that risk, not you.

    Yes. Google and Meta both apply extra rules to weight-loss and health claims, so the creative and targeting are built to those rules from the start. It is a constraint on how the campaign is written, not a reason it cannot run.

    Last thing

    Fifteen paying bariatric patients in 90 days. Miss it and you get the entire fee back, and I keep working at no fee until you have fifteen.

    Or call Dustin directly at 502-648-3130.

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