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Weight loss clinics

Facebook ads for weight loss clinics.

High intent, high lifetime value, and a buyer who has almost certainly tried something else first.

Typical cost per lead
~$25
Leads that book
~40%
The number to watch
Cost per attended consultation

Estimates from accounts we run, rounded down. Your close rate and your market move all three.

How this market buys

Why a weight loss clinic isn't like anything else.

Nobody arrives at a weight loss clinic casually. By the time someone fills in a form they have usually tried several things that did not work, and they are carrying a quiet expectation that this will be another one. That is the emotional starting point of every lead you get, and an ad that ignores it reads as one more promise.

The economics are unusually forgiving, which is why this industry is such a good fit for paid advertising. A patient on a programme is not a single transaction — they are several months of revenue, and often a renewal after that. It changes what you can afford to pay for a booking dramatically, and most clinics we speak to are spending far below what their own numbers would justify.

It is also a category where the consultation does most of the selling. The job of the ad is not to close anyone. It is to get a qualified person into a consultation where a clinician can have a real conversation — which means optimising for booked and attended consultations, not for form fills.

Watch this above everything

Cost per attended consultation

Not cost per lead, and not cost per booking. A booking that doesn't turn up cost you exactly as much as one that did and earned nothing.

What we'd do

Three things that move the number.

  • 01

    Advertise the consultation, not the outcome

    Before-and-after promises invite scepticism and, increasingly, ad rejections — Meta is strict about personal health claims and implying a person's body is a problem. Selling a free or low-cost consultation is both more compliant and more honest, and it converts better because it asks for a much smaller yes.

  • 02

    Chase the no-show rate before the lead cost

    Clinics routinely book well and then lose a third of it to no-shows. Reminders, a real confirmation call, and making it easy to reschedule move revenue faster than any change to targeting. Fixing this usually beats cutting cost per lead by a third.

  • 03

    Let staff be the creative

    A clinician explaining how the programme actually works, filmed on a phone, outperforms polished stock every time. It answers the real question — is there a competent human behind this — which no amount of design does.

The mistake we see most

Judging the month on first-month revenue

A patient who stays five months is worth five times what the first invoice says. Clinics that measure a campaign on month-one revenue routinely conclude ads don't work while sitting on a book of patients those ads produced. Measure against the value of a patient, not the value of a transaction.

Results

What this looks like in practice.

Padgett Medical Center

Weight loss clinics · Ocala & Tampa, FL

Two clinics with more than 1,500 reviews between them — the kind of reputation that should have been dominating their area. Instead they had a website that barely worked on a phone. Across six months it produced 20 leads between both locations, and not one of them closed.

Leads in the first month
150
80 from ads, 70 from search
Appointments booked
54
New patients
36
up from zero in six months

First 30 days after relaunch

First Call Plumbing & Restoration

Plumbing · Inland Empire, CA

A brand new business starting from nothing — no site, no Google Business Profile, no history — in a market full of established names with a decade of reviews behind them.

Revenue in month one
$13,000

First 30 days

“I started with Viterium Digital about 2 months ago and the results have been absolutely amazing. They have sent patients into our clinic without any effort at all from us. They were qualified, they came in, they spent money. It's been absolutely excellent. After trying 17 different marketing companies this is the only one that I can honestly say has truly worked — and it has worked so well that we started with them for our second location.”
Ashley PadgettAshley PadgettCFO & Co-Owner, Padgett Medical Center
  • “Abe is obsessed with good results to a fault. You might get texts really late at night because he works really late, but he has that obsessive personality and I think that's why it works so well. He really cares about his work and prides on putting his name on things.”
    JBJoey BensonOwner, First Call Plumbing & Restoration

Pricing

No quotes. No it depends.

Here is what it costs, on the page, before you speak to anyone. You pay for ad management — the website and the search work are part of it, not extras.

Standard

Limited intake

$1,497 per month

$797per month

Everything we do, at the lowest rate we have ever run it for.

Best value

Identical work for $1,203 a month less. Straightforward terms, with no refund attached.

Guaranteed

Most protection

$2,000per month, paid up front

The same work, with your money back if you want it.

Money-back guarantee

Not happy at the end of your first month, for any reason at all? Say so and we return your full management fee. No conditions, nothing to prove, no arguing. Your ad spend went straight to Meta on your own card, so that part was never ours to return.

Website only

$500 once, then $50/month

Ads don't make sense at your budget yet, but the website still does. We build it now so it's earning for you before you ever spend on ads.

  • — Custom build, not a template
  • — Hosting, updates and fixes included in the $50
  • — Setup fee waived
  • — Move up to full management whenever the numbers work

In every plan

  • A custom website, built free and looked after while you're with us
  • SEO management, included at no extra cost
  • Content and posts created for you
  • Facebook and Instagram ads built and managed
  • Reporting on cost per lead and cost per booked job
Right now
$797 a month
Down from $1,497 while the current intake is open. It is the rate you pay for as long as you stay on it, not a first month that steps up later.
Setup fee
Waived
For everyone. There is no onboarding charge.
Contract
Month to month
Seven days' notice to cancel. Commit to several months and we'll discount it — but nothing obliges you to.
Ad spend
$1,500 – $3,000
Your choice, and it goes straight to Meta on your own card. We never mark it up or run it through us.
Your ad account
Stays yours
We work inside your account. If you don't have one we'll set it up in your name.

Weight loss clinics

Let's look at your numbers.

A 30-minute call, no deck and no pitch. We look at your numbers and tell you whether we can move them.

No contract to sign on the call. No obligation afterwards.