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How much should your clinic spend on marketing?

Start with your revenue and where your clinic is at. Get a monthly budget, a starting split, and how many new clients it takes to pay for itself.

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Where your clinic is at
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Over their whole time with you. Not sure? Work it out here.

How you split it
35%
15%
15%
15%
10%
10%

Adds up to 100%.

Your marketing budget

$6,667/month

Google Ads$0
Local SEO & Google Business Profile$0
Content & AI search$0
Social media ads$0
Referrals & networking$0
Testing new ideas$0
A year$80,000
New clients a month to pay for itself6

A starting point, not a rule. Every clinic's market is different.

How it works

A budget gives your marketing a direction.

7 to 10% of revenue

Where most clinics we work with sit. Opening a new location or service can justify up to 15%.

Split by where clients look

If they search Google, lean into ads and local SEO. If they are parents on Facebook, social gets more.

Review it every quarter

Move money toward what books appointments and away from what doesn't.

Does the budget include agency fees?

Yes. Treat it as everything you spend on marketing: ad spend, agency or freelancer fees, and tools.

What if our budget is small?

Do fewer things well. Start with your Google Business Profile and local SEO, then add Google Ads for the services you most want to grow.

Where does the client value number come from?

It's what an average client is worth over their whole time with you. Work yours out with the lifetime value calculator.