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We’ve been partnered with the Online Marketing For Doctors (OMD) team since 2017, and they have revamped our website twice during our collaboration. Initially, our website was outdated and not mobile-friendly. OMD reconstructed the entire website and initiated Google Ads campaigns to generate targeted traffic. This led to a noticeable increase in patient enquiries for our main procedures.

Despite my initial skepticism about the benefits of SEO, OMD emphasised the long-term return on investment in medical marketing. In 2022, OMD redesigned and rebuilt our website, giving it a completely custom design to enhance its premium appearance for our high-end procedures. They simultaneously continued the SEO campaign alongside the existing Google Ads campaign that had been running for years.

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The results have been remarkable, with a significant 482% growth rate in new patient enquiries. Total website traffic increased by over 219%, and the revamped website, coupled with improved landing pages for the Google Ads campaign, contributed to a notable increase in the conversion rate. The conversion rate rose from 4.05% to 10.29%, indicating higher-quality traffic and website visitors.

The OMD team has consistently demonstrated responsiveness and thoroughness in their work. Regular meetings with our account manager provide insightful summaries of completed tasks, upcoming plans, and future strategies for the next quarter. Additionally, we conduct yearly reviews and planning sessions.

Having been with the OMD team for many years, we are pleased with our decision to choose them as our medical marketing agency, propelling us to the next level of success.

Dr Nikhil Kumar
Founding Medical Director and Principal Ophthalmic Surgeon at Vision Clinic Sydney
www.visionclinicsydney.com.au

The Situation

Vision Clinic Sydney is one of the leading eye surgery clinics in Sydney, Australia, having practiced since 2014.

Despite achieving incredible eye surgery results for numerous patients in Australia, they found themselves questioning why the clinic wasn’t as busy as some competing clinics in Sydney.

Motivated to enhance the clinic’s digital presence, they sought assistance from an international digital marketing agency. However, despite engaging one agency after another, they  couldn’t observe a significant increase in new patient bookings.

The clinic’s online visibility was weak, with low website visibility, limited patient reviews, and thin website content lacking a sales funnel, in-depth information, and videos for patients to be converted.

The website experienced low traffic, and the Google Ads campaign was not effective enough to generate a substantial number of leads.

After working with some agencies without much success, Vision Clinic Sydney decided to explore a completely different agency.

After thorough research and recommendations from industry contacts for an agency that specialises in medical marketing, particularly with a strong track record in marketing for ophthalmologists, the client discovered Online Marketing For Doctors.

Following a comprehensive interview and background check, the OMD team was commissioned to work on Vision Clinic Sydney’ website, leading to a breakthrough in their online presence.

The practice is now growing fast with thousands of patients and has experienced a growth rate of over over 100% year on year.

Results after an initial 24-month campaign;

  • A new conversion-driven website
  • A 119% increase in total traffic (1,614 visits vs 736 visits)
  • A 97% increase in organic traffic (619 visits vs 315 visits)
  • A 455% increase in patient enquiries from organic traffic (61 enquiries vs 11 enquiries)
  • A 156% increase in patient enquiries from paid advertising (46 enquiries vs 18 enquiries)
  • A 383% increase in total patient enquiries (169 enquiries vs 35 enquiries)
  • Conversion rate from total traffic increased from 4.05% to 10.29%
  • Conversion rate from organic traffic increased from 3.05% to 9.85%
  • Conversion rate from Google Ads traffic increased from 4.14% to 11.64%

Figure 1: Vision Clinic Sydney traffic and conversion results 24 months ago.

Figure 2:  Vision Clinic Sydney traffic and conversion results 24 months later.

SEO strategy that has Vision Clinic Sydney’ top ranking in the Sydney market for competitive keywords…

Vision Clinic Sydney Ranks 3rd Position For Eye Specialist Sydney CBD - Marketing For Ophthalmology Clinic
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Vision Clinic Sydney Ranks 2nd Position For Ophthalmologist Sydney CBD - Marketing For Eye Surgery Clinic
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Vision Clinic Sydney Ranks 2nd Position For Cataract Surgery Sydney - Marketing For Eye Surgeons
Vision Clinic Sydney Ranks 1st Position For Ophthalmologist Sydney - Marketing For Eye Surgery Clinic

Figure 3: Vision Clinic Sydney ranking results for most competitive keywords.

What We Implemented

Technique 1: Clarify 3 Foundational Marketing Questions For Vision Clinic Sydney

This is a critically important session that allowed us to give Vision Clinic Sydney’ clinic a clear direction for their online marketing activities,  resources and to establish a clear pathway to reach their business goals.

We had a strategy meeting with Vision Clinic Sydney and gained some fundamental information about the practice: target patients, key conditions, their niches, differences, strengths, weaknesses, threats and opportunities from the market, and we used this information to devise a custom online marketing strategy for Vision Clinic Sydney.

There are 3 main foundational questions that we need to be able to answer to accelerate Vision Clinic Sydney’ marketing efforts better; 

  • Question 1: Who is their dream patient? 
  • Question 2: Where are they hanging out? 
  • Question 3: What hooks can we use to get their attention and bring them into our client’s clinic?  

When you have the perfect vision of who your dream patient or client is, it becomes much easier to find where they are congregating.  

On the other hand, if you don’t have perfect clarity on who that person is, it’s really hard to find them. 

Technique 2: Research on What Strong Competitors Do and How They Do Well

Our competitor research is designed to gain a clear understanding of who our clients’ strongest competitors are – what are their competitive advantages, value propositions and online marketing activities.  We specifically identify;

  • Where do these competitors advertise?
  • How is their advertising working?
  • What are their biggest website traffic referral sources?
  • What are the keywords that our competitors rank and our client doesn’t ?
  • What website pages and their keywords generate the most traffic for competitors?
  • Where do they build links, and where do they promote their websites?

Gaining an insight into what competitors do and how competitors do it gives our team and the client directions on how to surpass them.

Technique 3: Revamp the Website to Increase User Experience and Conversion Rate

One of the critical steps that other digital marketing agencies overlook is to review and improve the website user experience and conversion rate. A website is the cornerstone of all web marketing promotions and no matter how much traffic is driven to the website, if it doesn’t convert well, all the efforts will go down the drain.

The changes include;

  • Strong, clear call to action button
  • Create a strong Brandscript – a memorable tagline that the clinic wants their prospective patients to know about their brand.
  • Creating a one-liner is a concise statement we use to clearly explain what the clinic offers. ​​It is the most powerful tool you can use to make customers curious about your brand. The one-liner is composed of three parts—the problem, the solution, and the result.
  • Revamp the website look and feel to make it more contemporary, organised, easy for users to navigate
  • Feature best-selling points of the procedure, provide patients with more educational info such as videos, images, reference to credible information sources.

Highlight Vision Clinic Sydney’ Value Proposition and Key Differences from Other Clinics

After conducting extensive research on the industry and Vision Clinic Sydney’ biggest competitors, and after interviewing Vision Clinic Sydney, we were able to identify Vision Clinic Sydney’ biggest strengths and value proposition, and the key points of difference compared to the competition.

We then highlighted these key selling points on the website home page and all subpages to ensure that their target prospects would be able to view them easily from wherever they landed on the website.

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Figure 4: The website before and after the revamp.

Technique 4: Sales Funnel For the Core Offer and Lead Magnet

Most marketing plans do not fail in intent or philosophy of communication, they fail in execution. People simply don’t get it done.

If your website has a clear message and no sales funnel, your business will not grow. Your visitors will assume you can’t solve their problem and they will leave in search for someone who can.

Whether you run a small or big marketing campaign, the easiest and the best marketing plan starts with a sales funnel.

It doesn’t matter what you sell, if you use words to sell your products or services,  a sales funnel will work.

A sales funnel is the basic foundation of a good digital marketing plan. Once you create a sales funnel, your advertising can then support your sales funnel.

While there is more to marketing than a digital plan, your digital strategy, including your website, lead generator, and email campaign will serve as the foundation for all your other collateral.

A sales funnel is a way to capture and convert leads. The sales funnel we created for Vision Clinic Sydney includes the following 5 components;

1. BrandScript

We clarified the clinic branding message by creating a memorable tagline that the clinic wants their prospective patients to know about their brand.

Example: Enjoy Life Without Glasses or Contacts

2. One-liner:

One-liner is a concise statement we use to clearly explain what the clinic offers. It is the most powerful tool you can use to make customers curious about your brand. We distilled that message into a single sentence. ​​The one-liner is composed of three parts—the problem, the solution, and the result.

2. Landing Page and Website That Convert 

We elaborated on the brandscript and one-liner and brought it to life on a clear and compelling website and landing pages for the Pay Per Click ads campaign to improve the conversion rate of the website visitors.

3. Lead Magnet/Generator:

We devise lead generators, such as a baldness calculator, to capture prospects’ emails and phone numbers. Given that more than 95% of website visitors typically leave without making any enquiries, our focus is on capturing and nurturing this significant pool of potential leads.

4. Follow Up Email Sequence:

The whole point of a lead generator is to get an email address. Remember, when potential patients/clients give you their email addresses you should consider them a hot lead.

Sending them regular, valuable emails is your best opportunity to continue building a relationship and selling them a product that will solve their problem. While a few people will buy a product or make a booking immediately, most will need to continue to learn more about your company before feeling a sense of trust.

Not following up with your customers after they download your lead magnet is like getting somebody’s phone number after asking them out and then never calling them back.

For Vision Clinic Sydney, we set up nurturing and sales email campaigns to follow up prospects who sign up for the lead magnet and the free vision screening offer.

Technique 5: Create a Dedicated Landing Page For Google Ads Campaign

One of the main Paid Per Click advertising strategies is to build a dedicated landing page without distractions and a single focused call to action. The landing page helps answer all possible questions that prospects might have. The landing page helps increase conversions by 98.07%.

Figure 5: The efforts revamping landing pages help increase the conversion rate by 45.02% and the absolute number of conversions by 98.07%.

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Figure 6: Some examples of high-ranking and effective ads copies.

Technique 6: Leverage Facebook and Instagram Ads For Generating More Serious Leads

Unlike other digital channels, users’ behaviour on social media differs. They are not actively seeking solutions; instead, they spend time on social channels for entertainment and education. This distinction often leads to challenges for clinics running social ads campaigns. Many expect prospects to make bookings solely based on social media ads.

Online Marketing For Doctors’s Approach:

OMD employs a comprehensive social media marketing strategy, applying an OMD social media full-funnel approach. This strategy guides users from brand awareness through consideration, conversion, and loyalty to advocacy stages after becoming clients or patients at the clinic.

The OMD full funnel strategy

Figure 7: OMD Full Funnel Social Strategy

Brand Awareness

Objective: Introduce potential patients to the Vision Clinic Sydney team, and the unique aspects of the clinic.

  • Use brand awareness campaigns on social media to showcase Vision Clinic Sydney’ experience, the team, patient before-and-after care, past work examples, and differentiating factors from other clinics.
  • Promote lead magnets, such as ebooks and a baldness calculator, to capture prospects’ contact information for follow-up campaigns.
  • Share general educational content like blog posts, webinars, and videos to educate prospects about procedures and costs.
  • Target cold traffic, focusing on the lookalike audience of past patient profiles, website visitors, and the ideal persona of the target audience.

Brand Consideration

Objective: Assist prospects in narrowing down choices through engagement with the clinic’s offerings.

  • Target users engaged in brand awareness campaigns and those who have visited the clinic’s website.
  • Offer a Complimentary Vision Assessment, outlining what it includes and addressing frequently asked questions.
  • Continuously showcase patient results and feedback during this stage.

Figure 8: Complimentary Vision Assessment offer is featured on the header image/video area of the home page.

Conversion

Objective: Facilitate the decision-making process for prospects ready to make a “purchase” or booking.

  • Engage prospects who have signed up for the Complimentary Vision Assessment offer.
  • Share ads focusing on expected results, patient feedback, aftercare processes, and pricing details, including payment plans.

Patient Loyalty

Objective: Ensure ongoing engagement with existing customers, enhancing their experience.

  • Be engaging, and be involved. Constantly look out for their wants and anticipated needs.
  • Collect feedback through ads encouraging clinic reviews.
  • Introduce additional procedures and complementary services to cross-sell and upsell, promoting continual revenue generation.

Brand Advocacy

Objective: Leverage satisfied patients to expand the clinic’s reach through word-of-mouth and online mentions.

  • Encourage patients to share their positive experiences through lifestyle photos and videos.
  • Facilitate referrals by offering special vouchers for both the referring patient and the new patients.

Conclusion

Retaining existing patients is more cost-effective than acquiring new ones. By maintaining patient trust and engagement, OMD’s strategic approach ensures a continuous, positive relationship with patients and contributes to the growth and success of the clinic.

Technique 7: Implement OMD High Performance 9 Step Process

Optimising Each GMB For Its Targeted Location and Build Up The Review Number

An optimised Business Profile on Google helps prospects to choose your business over competitors. It helps improve engagement and book local ranking and definitely convert more prospects into patients.

Following are the 13 ways we used to optimise the clinic’s Google My Business profile:

  1. Claim Business Profile
  2. Complete every section of the Google My Business account
  3. Be meticulous with contact information
  4. Select primary and secondary categories
  5. Mark off applicable attributes
  6. Write a complete “from the business” description
  7. Publish Google posts fortnightly
  8. Upload new photos fortnightly
  9. Answer questions
  10. Collect and respond to reviews
  11. Add the clinic’s products and/or services
  12. Set up messaging
  13. Maintain the clinic’s Business Profile
Vision Clinic Sydney Eye Specialist GMB Optimisation
Vision Clinic Sydney Eye Specialist GMB Reviews
Vision Clinic Sydney Eye Specialist GMB Results - Website Clicks Dec 2023 - Feb 2024 vs Dec 2022 - Feb 2023
Vision Clinic Sydney Eye Specialist GMB Results - Overview Dec 2023 - Feb 2024 vs Dec 2022 - Feb 2023
Vision Clinic Sydney Eye Specialist GMB Results - Discovery Dec 2023 - Feb 2024 vs Dec 2022 - Feb 2023
Vision Clinic Sydney Eye Specialist GMB Results - Calls Dec 2023 - Feb 2024 vs Dec 2022 - Feb 2023

Figure 10: We optimised the client Google My Business Listing for local search results and generated more reviews for the clinic.

1. Write Unique, Long-Form Content For Condition Pages

One of the common mistakes when it comes to medical website content, especially for the ophthalmology sector is the content duplication, basically the content has been copied from other medical websites or brochures and reposted on practices’ websites. This happens quite often and as an experienced medical SEO expert, we thoroughly audited the content of the website and rewrote all the pieces that have thin or duplicated content and added images, diagrams, videos to enrich user experience.

And the result is the incredibly fast increase of organic traffic after just a couple of months from the time the content was updated.

Informative blog articles is one of the key traffic drivers especially when it comes to target prospects in the information searching stage, below are some examples of the blog articles that we produce for the client on monthly basis;

Vision Clinic Keyword Reserch Blog
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Vision Clinic Keyword Reserch Main Services
Vision Clinic Keyword Reserch Homepage

Figure 11: Thorough keyword research to identify the content topics that generate the most relevant traffic for the client website.

2. Implement SEO On-site Best Practices

We implemented best practice for on-page optimisation adhering to Google and other search engine webmaster guidelines;

  • Rewrite benefits-driven copy that places users at the centre. Our goal is to create a website that users can quickly find the information they need more easily.
  • Ensuring Proper Indexation: Through the use of sitemaps, pagination, no-indexing tags and the reconciliation of all duplicate content, we were able to ensure the proper indexation of Vision Clinic Sydney’ website.
  • Individually crafted, uniquely written Meta Titles, Meta Descriptions, and Heading tags for all pages. By optimising the site’s title tags, meta description tags, heading tags and content to include targeted keywords, we were able to increase the Click Through Rate on the search result listing and targeted search traffic.
  • Improve the website’s load times for proper SEO on both desktop and mobile devices. This is one of the key elements to increase the website ranking performance.
  • “No Follow” for unimportant links
  • External linking to highly authoritative website
  • Add image ALT tags to all images
  • Other technical SEO setups
3. Build High Quality Links

Incoming links from other websites are a very important component of search engine optimisation. Poor quality links not only won’t increase your traffic or ranking, but they can also damage your domain and potentially attract a penalty from Google, or other search engines, if the site linked to has violated any webmaster guidelines.

We take link building very seriously and we make sure that all the sites that we place links on are well screened before any placement.  Some of the link building we did include;

  • Outreach to relevant blogs to feature Vision Clinic Sydney’ content and gain quality backlinks to the website.
  • Listing of the website on medical, health and local directories
  • Submission of videos, and relevant marketing material to submission sites

Some good examples of backlinks we built for Vision Clinic Sydney;

  • https://doctortoyou.com.au/what-are-dsaek-and-dalk-surgeries/
  • https://www.onyamagazine.com/australian-affairs/how-to-protect-the-health-of-your-eyes/
  • https://shoutinaustralia.com/everything-you-need-to-know-about-modern-eye-surgery/
  • https://www.medsnews.com/health/everything-need-to-know-about-lasik-smile-laser-surgery/
  • https://brokeandchic.com/what-to-expect-after-cataract-surgery/
  • https://tagg.com.au/a-guide-to-recognising-the-need-for-laser-eye-surgery-and-glaucoma-consultations-in-sydney/
  • https://www.gudstory.com/astigmatism-treatment-and-pkp-eye-surgery/
  • https://the-f.com.au/improving-your-vision-astigmatism-treatment-and-pkp-eye-surgery/
  • https://www.chivmen.com/see-the-world-clearer-taking-proactive-care-to-prevent-astigmatism/
  • https://www.lifewithheidi.com/reasons-to-choose-experienced-surgeons-for-laser-eye-treatments/

What Other Doctors, Surgeons,
Clinic Owners Say About Us

Dr Geoff Cashion

“They have methodically transformed my digital presence and my sales have gone through the roof. I have not been disappointed and to be honest, they have exceeded my expectations. I look forward to a long relationship with OMD.”

Dr Geoff Cashion
Owner of Vasectomy Australia

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Ms Christy Xuan

“We’ve seen a significant increase in our website traffic and enquiries by over 300%, with an obvious uptake in new patient enquiries and conversions coming through the clinic. We’ve seen a complete turnaround in our online presence in several spaces that we are advertising in.”

Ms Christy Xuan
Owner of Lumiere Beauty Clinic

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Huyen Truong With PCLS Coffs Harbour Marketing For Plastic Surgeons

“They put together a comprehensive strategy and plan to improve our digital marketing presence (SEO, PPC ads, Website Content and Landing Pages), and so far we can see obvious improved results from the work that they have done.”

Dr Chandran Arianayagam
Plastic Surgeon/Owner of PCLS Coffs Harbour

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James Zagarella testimonial

“It’s now been 4 months and I am nothing but impressed with this team. They’ve delivered above their projections and continually over-deliver on their promises. The team is quick to respond to any issues, their professionalism is second to none.”

James Zagarella
General Manager of Dr Hodgkinson Clinic

James Zagarella

james nadin testimonial

“Enquiries have gone crazy and the number of enquiries has increased three-fold ever since they started 6 months ago. The team and Huyen have been very responsive to support us along the way with our IT problems, they are very thorough and results-driven with their work. We would highly recommend them.”

James Nadin
CEO of ICCM & Crown Clinic

James Nadin

mark attalla testimonial

“We found that we are spending almost one-fourth of our previous budget and getting double the conversion which is a great deal to achieve in a short period of time.”

Dr Mark Attalla
Cosmetic Surgeon / Owner of Chelsea Cosmetics

Mark Attalla

michael yunaev testimonial

“We’ve seen a significant increase in our website traffic by over 200%, we’ve gone from having 12 enquiries to anywhere from 50 to 100 enquiries in a month, while consistently filling our list times at the hospital.”

Dr Michael Yunaev
Cosmetic Surgeon, Specialist Breast (Oncoplastic)

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naveen somia testimonial

“Over the last 12 months we have increased the web traffic by over 100% and also increased the conversion by over 100%.”

Dr Naveen Somia
MBBS, PhD, FRACS Plastic Surgeon

Naveen Somia

dr hodgkinson testimonial

“The number of requests for consultations is at least doubled from the last 5 months, which is a very good sign. I’ve enjoyed working with both principles.”

Dr Darryl Hodgkinson
Plastic Surgeon / Owner of Double Bay Day Surgery

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