More qualified patients. Better acquisition economics. A growth system you can actually manage. I help telehealth founders and CEOs connect Google Ads, SEO, landing pages, patient scheduling, retention, agencies, and executive reporting, without the overhead of hiring a full-time CMO. The objective is appropriate completed care and sustainable growth, not simply more leads.
Discuss Your Telehealth Growth PlanA low cost per lead means little when patients are ineligible, appointments never happen, provider calendars are full, or collected revenue cannot support acquisition cost. Many virtual-care companies have capable agencies and clinicians, but no single executive connecting the marketing budget to patient intake, care delivery, retention, and contribution margin.
The solution is accountable marketing leadership across the entire patient acquisition and conversion system, with clear ownership and honest numbers.
Discuss Your Telehealth Growth Plan• Position your virtual-care service for the right patient and business model • Build Google Search and eligible YouTube acquisition strategies grounded in intent • Prioritize telemedicine SEO, specialty service pages, and educational content • Improve landing pages, pricing clarity, qualification, and the appointment booking flow • Coordinate CRM, scheduling, follow-up, and retention with the operations team • Lead agencies, creative testing, budgets, and vendor accountability • Work with your clinical, privacy, and legal experts on claim and data-flow review • Report qualified bookings, completed visits, collected revenue, CAC, and contribution
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Days 1 to 30: Diagnose. Audit current channels, search intent, claims, geography, tracking and privacy architecture, booking flow, clinician capacity, actual patient acquisition costs, collected revenue, and churn. Establish a baseline and rank the constraints. Days 31 to 60: Architect. Build the prioritized growth plan, channel and service-line budgets, Google Ads and SEO structure, landing-page test roadmap, conversion event definitions, compliance review workflow, agency responsibilities, and weekly executive scorecard. Days 61 to 90: Activate. Direct focused eligible campaigns, improve the highest-friction pages and intake steps, coordinate creative and agency execution, review first cohorts, and decide where to scale, hold, or stop. You receive a 90-day roadmap, accountable owners, prioritized experiments, budget model, conversion funnel dashboard, and a next-quarter execution plan. Mature retention and financial results may take longer than 90 days; I do not promise a fixed patient volume or ROAS.
I connect channel performance to the patient's real journey. We distinguish what the ad platform can see from what your clinical and finance systems can report appropriately, and we define each conversion before using it to evaluate spending.
Eligible traffic and inquiries, qualified booking starts, bookings by service line and geography, lead quality, and cost per appropriate appointment.
Booking completion, appropriate consultations delivered, no-shows, cancellations, first-payment realization, patient onboarding, and retained cohorts where relevant.
Media CAC versus fully loaded CAC, collected revenue, service-line contribution, payback, capacity utilization, marketing investment, and clearly qualified attribution.
Best fit: established or launch-ready virtual-care businesses with an appropriately marketable service, credible delivery capacity, and resources to execute. That includes specialty telehealth, self-pay consultations, recurring care models, hybrid practices, and employer-focused virtual care. Especially valuable when the CEO is coordinating agencies, clinicians, operations, and marketing but lacks one accountable executive owner. This is not an offer to guarantee treatment outcomes, prescribe care, or provide clinical, legal, or privacy advice.

Fractional CMO engagements begin at $7,500 per month with an initial 90-day leadership period. A more embedded engagement may cost more depending on the care model, service areas, campaign complexity, company size, agency oversight, and executive involvement. The agreed proposal sets the scope, availability, responsibilities, and decision process.
The fee is for senior strategy, prioritization, and marketing leadership, not unlimited hands-on media buying or production. Paid media, creative, SEO execution, software, development, clinical review, legal counsel, and specialist services are funded by your team or separately scoped. We begin with a fit conversation, then decide whether you need a diagnostic, a focused 90-day plan, or ongoing leadership.
Book a Telehealth Strategy CallA Growth Operator, Not Another Agency Dashboard
I have worked in direct response, healthcare, MedTech, paid acquisition, offer development, conversion, and executive growth leadership since 1999. Across recent engagements I have reported $139M+ in revenue impact. That figure spans multiple sectors and engagements; it is not a telehealth-specific case study or a guarantee of future results. My focus is disciplined testing, commercially meaningful conversion events, and accountability for where the growth budget goes.
I lead positioning, marketing priorities, Google Ads and SEO strategy, conversion optimization, agency coordination, budgets, and the CEO scorecard. Your clinical leaders, privacy and security specialists, and legal or regulatory advisors retain responsibility for their approvals. Your internal team and selected partners execute the actual campaigns and technical work. We build growth that respects service eligibility, clinician capacity, patient trust, and appropriate data handling.
Book a Telehealth Strategy CallNot ready for a 90-day leadership engagement? Start with the Growth Clarity Diagnostic to locate the biggest acquisition, booking, or contribution bottleneck first.
Useful executive-level guides on paid acquisition, conversion, budgets, SEO, and the patient journey. Start with the constraint you are trying to fix.
How to structure Google Search and eligible YouTube campaigns, evaluate advertising policy, measure acquisition cost, and avoid optimizing for the wrong conversion.
A practical blueprint for improving message match, clinician trust, pricing, scheduling, mobile usability, and the journey from click to completed consultation.
Illustrative $25K, $50K, and $100K monthly marketing plans, contribution and CAC models, channel allocation, and an executive budget worksheet.
Specialty and service SEO, geographic eligibility, Google Business Profile limitations, and an organic search plan tied to real patient demand.
How to distinguish leads, qualified bookings, completed visits and paying patients, then evaluate CAC and retention with defensible economics.
TELEMEDICINE MARKETING FAQ
Straight answers on scope, Google Ads, SEO, compliance boundaries, the first 90 days, performance metrics, and pricing.
When patient acquisition, intake, retention, agencies, and unit economics are being managed in separate silos. The ideal company already has viable, appropriately marketable clinical services and resources to execute, but needs one senior leader connecting the priorities and making the investment decisions.
A commercial diagnosis, service-line and patient-intent map, prioritized Google Ads and SEO plan, landing-page and booking improvements, a marketing budget model, agency owner matrix, and an executive scorecard. We run focused pilots, document constraints, and plan the next quarter. Clinical and revenue outcomes are not guaranteed in 90 days.
I coordinate campaigns and analytics requirements with qualified privacy, clinical, legal and regulatory professionals. Those specialists determine which claims and data flows are permitted. I do not provide legal advice, clinical services, HIPAA certification, or a guarantee of Google Ads approval.
Yes. I establish strategy, priorities, test plans, budgets, reporting definitions, and accountability for internal media buyers and external agencies. Google Ads, SEO, creative, development, and specialist execution can stay with your existing team or be separately scoped.
Depending on your model: qualified bookings, completion rate, first-paying patients, collected revenue, media CAC, all-in CAC, retention, contribution margin, payback and clinician availability. Reporting distinguishes ad-platform events from appropriately handled operational and financial data.
Engagements start at $7,500 per month with an initial 90-day leadership period. Actual fees depend on scope, complexity and executive involvement. Media budgets, software, creative production, development, clinical and legal review, and specialist campaign execution are additional unless the agreement specifies otherwise.
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