For US med spas

Med spa marketing is a hybrid funnel. Most agencies miss it.

High-ticket first visit. Low-friction repeat. A membership tail that quietly compounds. The economics that make a multi-injector spa profitable are nothing like a one-and-done service business — and almost no agency we've seen actually models the full funnel. We do.

The thing your agency isn't modeling

Three revenue layers, compounding.

A med spa client isn't one transaction. They're three.

The first visit is high-ticket and high-friction — Botox, filler, IV, a $400–$1,200 first booking that takes them weeks to commit to. The repeat visits are low-friction and low-ticket — laser, peel, glow drip, $150–$300 every 4–8 weeks. And the membership tail — when it exists — is where 30–60% of profit hides.

Most agencies optimize layer one and walk away. We model all three. That's where the LTV is.

First visit
$400–$1,200
High-ticket, 2–6 week consideration window
Repeat visits
$150–$300
Every 4–8 weeks, low-friction rebooking
Membership tail
$99–$299/mo
Where 30–60% of profit actually hides
Why most med spa marketing fails

Booking the first visit is twenty percent of the work.

Your agency sells you on cost per booking. You should be measuring cost per 90-day member.

First-visit upsell capture sits at 20–35% in most spas. With the right post-visit flow, it's 50–65%.

Most spas don't have a working membership program. The ones that do see profit margin double.

Discounting "first visit only" trains your worst customers to come once and never return. Your CAC then chases them forever.

Your agency runs same playbook for Botox, IV drip, and laser. They have nothing in common as funnels.

The med spas that compound profit aren't winning on ad spend — they're winning on full-funnel economics. That's the work.

Three sizes of practice

Where you start depends on where you are.

A boutique single-injector and a 5-location aesthetic group don't need the same thing. Here's how we typically start, by size.

Boutique · 1–2 injectors

Single-injector or small boutique.

Solo NP/PA injector or 2-provider boutique. Booking 30–80 first-visits/month. Spending $1.5K–$5K on ads. Membership program nonexistent or barely working.

Where to start The audit ($1,500) almost always pays for itself at this stage — usually finds a 5x lift on membership program design alone.
Multi-injector · 3–6 providers

Established multi-injector spa.

3–6 injectors, an established membership program, and growing into laser or IV add-ons. Booking 100–300 first-visits/month. $5K–$25K monthly ad spend.

Where to start Audit + Standard retainer. Audit identifies the five fixes; the retainer ships them. Most spas at this stage see CAC payback drop from 14 weeks to 6 weeks inside 90 days.
Multi-location · 2+ locations

Multi-location aesthetic group.

2+ locations, multi-modality (injectables + laser + body + skin). Booking 300+ first-visits/month. $25K+ monthly ad spend. Already running an agency, but unsure of fit.

Where to start Audit first, always — gives you an independent diagnostic on whether your current agency is earning the fee. Then Operator retainer if you want us to run the funnel.
The funnel work

Eight levers that change your numbers.

For med spas specifically — first-visit acquisition, repeat-visit cadence, membership conversion. Not generic "med spa marketing."

i.

First-visit ad creative

Botox, filler, laser, body — different intent, different creative. We don't run one campaign for all.

ii.

Booking-flow conversion

Most med spa booking flows ask for treatment selection too early. We test reversed flows and double conversion.

iii.

Pre-visit nurture

2–6 week consideration window between click and booking. Email + retargeting that doesn't feel pushy.

iv.

First-visit upsell capture

The single biggest lever in med spa economics. Most spas miss 30%+ of upsell. We rebuild the in-room flow.

v.

Rebook velocity

Time from visit 1 to visit 2. The difference between 3-week and 8-week rebook is your annual LTV.

vi.

Membership program design

30–60% of profit. Most spa memberships are priced wrong, structured wrong, or sold wrong. We rebuild from economics first.

vii.

Reviews + social proof velocity

Med spa is a visual category — Google + Instagram social proof. Post-visit ask + GBP optimization. Slow, durable.

viii.

Promotional discipline

"$199 first visit" trains the wrong customer. We design promotions that test for retention before deepening discount.

What "moved" looks like

Numbers that move once you model the full funnel.

Indicative ranges from work in our adjacent verticals. Specific to your spa, we model on the fit call.

CAC payback
14wk → 6wk
Faster payback when membership conversion is fixed first.
First-visit upsell capture
28% → 54%
In-room flow rebuild + post-visit nurture sequence.
Rebook within 8 weeks
42% → 71%
Right cadence, right channel, right offer at booking-end.
Even when med spa clients ask

What we won't do, even if you ask nicely.

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Touch compounded weight-loss meds.FDA enforcement is too volatile. Includes compounded GLP-1s.
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Run "$99 Botox" promotions.Trains the wrong customer, kills LTV. We design retention-first promos.
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Buy fake reviews or before/afters.FTC enforcement is real. Real reviews, slowly built.
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Promote off-label or experimental treatments.Without specialized counsel we don't have. Out of scope.
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Run influencer-only acquisition.Different agency, different muscle. We do paid + funnel work.
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Manage your in-room sales process.We'll redesign it; you and your providers run it. Different muscle.
For med spa owners

Things people ask first.

You don't list med spa case studies. Have you done this work?
Honest answer: most of our hands-on track record is in cash-pay therapy, where we operate our own platform. The funnel mechanics — high-ticket first visit, repeat cadence, membership tail — translate directly to med spas, and we've audited several. If having a med-spa-specific case study published matters to you, we may not be the right firm yet. We'd rather tell you that than oversell.
Will you work with my injectables-only or laser-only spa?
Yes. Single-modality and multi-modality both work — we adjust the lever priority. Single-modality usually focuses harder on first-visit + membership; multi-modality emphasizes cross-sell and rebook velocity.
What about Cherry Financial / Care Credit?
Worth integrating for high-ticket first visits. We help configure the offer placement and copy, but we don't manage financing programs ourselves.
How do you handle Instagram and TikTok?
As social proof channels, not acquisition channels. We'll optimize your profile, post strategy, and how you handle DM inbound — but we don't run organic content production. Different agency, different muscle.
What if my injectors are the bottleneck, not my marketing?
Common — and it's a real problem. The audit will surface this if it's true. Hire more providers, raise prices, or reduce friction in the existing day before turning up demand. We've watched spas try to scale demand past supply; ends in burnout and bad reviews.
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Three revenue layers, compounding. Most agencies optimize one.

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