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Med Spa · PPC and Paid Media

Med spa PPC management that fills the calendar, measured in treatments, not impressions.

You get med spa PPC management run by senior paid media buyers who have run dozens of aesthetics accounts, not generalist account execs splitting attention across SaaS and e-commerce. Every Google Ads campaign, every Meta and Instagram placement, and every TikTok test is tied back to a booked consult in your scheduling platform. The unit you spend against is a treatment on the schedule, not a click, a form fill, or a vague lead that the front desk never hears from again.

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Live · 30d
Campaign Spend CPA Tx
Botox + Filler Search $6.2K $96 65
Body Contouring Search $4.8K $148 32
Laser Hair Removal $2.4K $74 32
Meta Reels · Injectables $3.8K $118 32
Brand Search $520 $18 28
Booked treatments · 30 days +286%
189 booked treatments from $17.7K spend · $94 avg. CPA
$74 laser CPA
Google Search
6.8× ROAS
Body contouring
$112
Avg. cost per booked client
6.8×
Avg. ROAS on body contouring
14d
From kickoff to first booked treatment
+286%
Avg. lift in qualified bookings
What is included in every PPC engagement

Med spa PPC built for aesthetic-buyer behavior,
not generic Google Ads playbooks.

Every med spa PPC engagement, from Launch through Enterprise, includes these acquisition fundamentals. Tier differences are mostly campaign volume, recommended ad spend headroom, and the depth of weekly optimization a senior paid media buyer brings to your account each week.

Treatment-specific campaigns

Separate campaigns for Botox and dermal fillers, body contouring (CoolSculpting, Emsculpt), laser hair removal, IPL and photofacials, microneedling, skin programs, and GLP-1 weight loss. Each one carries its own keyword strategy, ad copy library, landing page, and conversion goal, so a client searching “lip filler near me” never sees your CoolSculpting ad and your $1,200 body contouring offer is not buried under a free-consultation headline.

Call tracking and booked-treatment attribution

CallRail integration so every med spa PPC dollar gets measured against booked treatments, not clicks. Every call and form fill traces back to the campaign, keyword, ad copy, and landing page that produced it, and feeds your booking platform so revenue lands on the same row as spend.

Meta and Instagram (visual-first)

Reels, Stories, and feed ads for injectables and body contouring, where before/after results sell better than text headlines. Aesthetic clients live on Instagram, and Meta is usually the highest-ROAS channel after branded search for any visually-driven treatment line.

Conversion-tested landing pages

Every med spa PPC campaign points to a dedicated landing page, not your homepage. Average conversion rate 6.1 percent across active programs, versus the 1 to 2 percent industry baseline for generic agency landing pages with stock photos and a contact form.

Negative keyword sculpting

The single biggest lever in med spa PPC advertising. We block “DIY,” “at home,” “free Botox,” “cheap filler,” cosmetic dermatology terms (when out of scope), school and training terms, and 200 plus other waste-spend triggers from day one, then refine the list every week as the data lands.

Geo and demographic targeting

Aesthetic client travel patterns vary by treatment line. Radius gets tuned per campaign: body contouring 30 miles, injectables 15 miles, laser 10 miles, with age, income, and lifestyle layers added on Meta and Google to keep the spend on clients who actually buy at your price point.

Live revenue dashboard

Spend, CPA, ROAS, booked treatments, and per-treatment performance refreshed daily. No monthly PDFs, no autogenerated rollups that hide the campaigns quietly burning your budget.

You own the ad accounts

Google Ads, Meta Business, TikTok Ads Manager, GA4, and CallRail, all in your name from day one. We work inside your accounts, not ours. If the relationship ever ends, your campaigns keep running and the data stays with you.

The med spa PPC management lifecycle

Six stages.
One revenue-tied loop.

Most med spa PPC agencies treat campaigns as set and forget. You get them run as a continuous loop, where research feeds setup, setup feeds optimization, optimization feeds new research. The loop runs weekly, every week, for the life of the engagement, with a senior media buyer reading every report and making the call.

01

Research

Keyword, competitor, and treatment-line audit grounded in real local search data and your actual high-LTV treatments.

02

Campaign setup

Treatment-specific structure, ad copy library, landing pages, and conversion goals tied to booked consults.

03

Audience targeting

Geo, age, income, in-market, and remarketing audiences, calibrated per treatment line and per client travel pattern.

04

Conversion

Call tracking, form attribution, and offline conversion import. Every booked treatment gets measured and tagged to source.

05

Optimization

Weekly bid, copy, audience, and negative keyword adjustments based on actual booking data from your scheduling platform.

06

Reporting

Live dashboard plus a weekly written review tying ad spend back to booked treatment revenue, by treatment line and location.

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Transparent management fees

Med spa PPC pricing that scales with your ad budget.

Four tiers. Flat monthly management fees. No percentage-of-spend gotchas. Most growing med spas pick the Growth package at $799 per month for management, with $3k to $8k per month recommended in ad spend on top. Med spa PPC is a 90-day proof window, then month to month.

01 · Launch
$399 /mo

Solo and single-location med spas testing PPC for the first time. Recommended ad spend: $1.5k to $3k per month.

Best for
Solo & single-location
  • Up to 2 treatment-line campaigns
  • Google Ads (Search) only
  • Call tracking + 1 landing page
  • Negative keyword sculpting
  • Monthly optimization
  • Monthly performance review
  • Meta + Instagram campaigns
  • TikTok + Display
Start with Launch
03 · Scale
$1,499 /mo

Two to ten location aesthetics brands running multi-channel acquisition. Recommended ad spend: $8k to $25k per month.

Best for
Multi-location groups
  • Unlimited campaigns
  • Google + Meta + TikTok + Display
  • Per-location attribution
  • Custom landing page system
  • Daily optimization
  • Senior media buyer assigned
  • Weekly + monthly executive reports
  • A/B testing program
Start with Scale
04 · Enterprise
From $2,500 /mo + spend

Franchised med spa brands and 11 plus location operators. Recommended ad spend: $25k per month and up, with per-region budget pools.

Best for
Aesthetics groups & enterprise
  • Everything in Scale
  • New-location launch playbook
  • Per-region budget pools
  • Custom dashboard + Looker Studio
  • Dedicated success team
  • SLA-backed response times
  • Quarterly executive reviews
  • SOC 2 / SSO integration
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Important
Management fees are separate from ad spend. Ad spend is paid directly by you to Google, Meta, and TikTok, never marked up. We do not take a percentage of spend, and we do not own your ad accounts. Ask any other med spa PPC agency to commit to that in writing before you sign anything.

90-day performance guarantee. Hit your agreed CPA target in 90 days or month 4 is free. Free Google Ads audit available for accounts spending $5K+/mo.
Why med spa PPC works fast

The fastest-moving
acquisition channel in aesthetics.

SEO compounds over months. Membership renewal pays off in quarters. Med spa PPC moves the calendar in days, as long as it gets run right. Three reasons med spa PPC advertising outpaces every other channel for new-client acquisition in the first 90 days of an engagement.

14d
Speed to first treatment

Fast

From the day campaigns go live, most med spas see their first booked treatment inside 14 days. Compare with 90 plus days for SEO and 60 days for membership reactivation. The calendar fills before the next month ends.

6.1%
Avg. landing page CVR

Better

Med-spa-specific landing pages convert 3 to 5 times better than generic agency landing pages, because the aesthetic client question (cost, downtime, results, before/after) is answered before the consult-booking button is ever clicked.

6.8×
ROAS on body contouring

High-ticket

Treatments with a high ticket and a defined consult-to-treatment path, like body contouring, laser packages, and GLP-1 weight loss, produce the highest ROAS in any med spa PPC account. The model rewards qualified clients who pay a $1k to $5k ticket on first treatment.

What changed in med spa PPC in 2026

Six shifts we made to the playbook in the last 18 months that materially changed CPA.

The med spa PPC playbook from 2023 will not produce 2026 results. Auction prices have inflated 30 to 60 percent on competitive injectables keywords. AI-driven shopping behavior has changed how clients research. Google’s healthcare ads policies have tightened on prescription treatments. Meta has rewritten how it values landing-page experience. Below are the six biggest changes we made to the playbook in the last 18 months, with the measurable impact on portfolio-level CPA across active accounts.

01
Shift from PMax to manual Search

−18% CPA on most accounts

Performance Max was the default recommendation from Google account reps for two years. The data is now clear: PMax for med spas tends to over-spend on Display and Discovery placements that produce form fills but not booked treatments. We migrated most active accounts from PMax-led structures back to manually structured Search campaigns with treatment-line segmentation. The blended CPA across the migrated accounts dropped roughly 18 percent inside 90 days, with no change in booked-treatment volume.

02
Aggressive Meta Reels investment

Highest-ROAS channel for injectables

Meta Reels overtook Meta Feed as the highest-ROAS placement for injectables in mid-2025 and has held the position since. The economics work because the unit cost of a thumb-stop on a Reel is roughly 60 percent lower than the unit cost of a feed-ad impression, and the qualifying behavior (watching 75 percent of a 20-second Reel) signals stronger intent than scrolling past a static image. We shifted budget allocation aggressively in that direction and built a creative pipeline that produces 3 to 5 fresh Reels per treatment line per month.

03
Server-side conversion tracking

+34% reported conversions

Browser-side conversion tracking is now meaningfully under-counting bookings due to iOS privacy changes, browser cookie restrictions, and the gradual loss of third-party tracking pixels. We migrated every active account to server-side conversion tracking via GA4 Measurement Protocol and Meta Conversions API. Reported conversions climbed by an average of 34 percent across the portfolio not because more clients were booking, but because the existing bookings were finally being attributed correctly. The bidding algorithms responded by optimizing more aggressively on the now-visible conversions, which lifted real CPA efficiency by another 12 percent.

04
TikTok as a top-of-funnel channel

Cheapest impression for under-35s

TikTok ad inventory remains dramatically under-priced for med spa audiences under 35, especially for treatments with high visual appeal (lip filler, brow lift, microneedling, body contouring). We do not run TikTok for direct-response conversion targets, because the platform’s conversion tracking is still weaker than Meta’s, but we use it as a top-of-funnel awareness channel that feeds Meta retargeting at a lower unit cost than any other channel. Med spas with a TikTok feed running consistently see a measurable lift in branded search volume inside 90 days, which downstream lifts the lower-cost retargeting and branded campaigns.

05
Stricter healthcare-policy compliance

Zero account suspensions in 18 months

Google’s healthcare ads policy has tightened around prescription treatments (Botox, GLP-1, hormone) and around therapeutic claims. We audited every active account in early 2025 against the updated policy and revised ad copy, landing pages, and disclaimer placement to comply. Zero account suspensions across the portfolio in 18 months. Most med spa PPC agencies still ignore the policy until an account gets suspended, and the recovery process loses 7 to 14 days of spend at exactly the worst possible time. The compliance work is unglamorous, but it shows up as zero downtime in the campaign log.

06
Booked-treatment attribution, not form-fill

−28% wasted spend

Most med spa PPC programs optimize toward form fills because the CRM is what plugs into Google and Meta. Form fills are not booked treatments. We rebuilt attribution to fire conversions only when the client actually shows up on the schedule (via direct booking software integration with Boulevard, Mindbody, or Aesthetic Record), not when they submit the consult form. The bidding algorithms shifted spend toward audiences that book treatments, not audiences that book consultations and then ghost. Wasted spend on no-show form fills dropped roughly 28 percent across the portfolio, and the CPA per booked treatment dropped accordingly.

How we stack up

What you would pay somewhere else for med spa PPC.

An apples-to-apples comparison of what a Growth package includes versus a generic med spa PPC agency, a freelance media buyer, and self-managed campaigns run by the owner on a Sunday night.

Feature Generic agency Freelance media buyer Self-managed Redefine Web
Aesthetics-specific campaign strategy Sometimes
Treatment-line campaign structure Sometimes Maybe
Aggressive negative keyword sculpting Sometimes ✓ (200+ blocks)
Meta & Instagram (visual-first) Sometimes Maybe DIY
Conversion-tested landing pages Extra cost
Booked-treatment attribution (not just clicks)
You own the ad accounts Sometimes
Optimization cadence Monthly Bi-weekly Whenever Weekly
Pricing model 10 to 20% of spend Hourly Free + your time Flat fee
Typical avg. CPA (body contouring) $280 to $500 $180 to $320 $350+ $112 to $148

Comparison reflects typical industry quotes for med spa PPC management with equivalent scope. CPA figures are anonymized averages across the 60 plus med spas we have worked with since 2022. Self-managed assumes a med spa owner running campaigns without expert support.

Common questions

Questions every med spa owner asks before running ads.

Two line items: a management fee and ad spend. Management fees on this page run from $399 to $1,499 per month depending on tier. Ad spend gets paid directly to Google, Meta, and TikTok, never marked up, and typically runs $1,500 to $10k per month or more depending on med spa size, treatment mix, and growth targets. Most growing single-location med spas land at $3k to $5k per month in ads paired with the $799 Growth management tier. You will get a specific recommended ad budget on the strategy call, based on your treatments, your target client volume, and the auction prices in your local market.
It depends on the treatment mix. Google Search is the primary channel for high-intent aesthetic searches like “lip filler near me,” “CoolSculpting cost,” and “laser hair removal [city].” Meta and Instagram are typically the highest-ROAS channels after branded search for any visually-driven treatment, because before/after Reels sell better than text headlines. TikTok works well for younger clients curious about injectables and laser, and for top-of-funnel awareness in newer markets. Display is mostly waste for med spas and we say so on the call rather than padding the engagement with it. The channel mix gets recommended on the strategy call based on your goals, your treatments, and what is already working.
Three filters. First, treatment-line specificity: “CoolSculpting near me” beats “med spa near me” every time, because the intent and the LTV are higher. Second, commercial intent: words like “cost,” “near me,” “before and after,” and “membership” beat informational queries every time. Third, aggressive negative keyword sculpting: “DIY,” “at home,” “free Botox,” “cheap filler,” training and school terms, and 200 plus other waste-spend triggers get blocked from day one. Match types and bids get layered on top and adjusted every week as actual booking data comes in from the scheduling platform. Vanity keywords with no commercial value never enter the account.
First booked treatment typically inside 14 days of campaign launch. CPA stabilizes at target levels by day 30 to 45 as the optimization loop tightens, since more conversion data feeds smarter bidding, which produces lower CPA, which feeds more conversion data. By day 60, most med spas are at or below their target CPA per treatment line. Branded search and remarketing campaigns often produce results inside 7 days because the audience is already warm. Slower starts almost always trace back to a landing page issue, not the ad account.
Active management, every week. Med spa PPC is not set and forget, even though many agencies treat it that way. Bid adjustments, ad copy testing, audience tuning, negative keyword updates, and landing page CRO happen on a weekly cadence, with a senior media buyer reading the numbers and making the call. Set and forget is how generic med spa PPC agencies justify a 10 to 20 percent of spend pricing model while producing $400 CPAs. We do not operate that way, and the case studies on this page reflect what weekly optimization looks like over 90 days.
Yes, and we prefer it. We work inside your Google Ads, Meta, and TikTok accounts, not ours. If you have an existing account with historical data, the first 7 days are an audit: salvage what is working, restructure what is not, archive the campaigns burning budget on the wrong queries, and build new campaigns alongside the old ones so nothing breaks the calendar mid-month. You keep account ownership and history throughout, and the audit document is yours whether you hire us or not.
Mostly no. Performance Max bundles Search, Display, YouTube, and Discovery into a black box optimized for impressions and clicks, not booked treatments. For med spas, we get dramatically better results from explicitly structured Search plus Meta plus (sometimes) TikTok campaigns, where bidding, audience, and creative are controlled per treatment line. Performance Max gets used here only for branded campaigns and select retargeting, where the algorithm has enough signal to be useful instead of expensive. Any agency selling Performance Max as the centerpiece of a med spa PPC program is either lazy or new.
Yes. Call tracking through CallRail with a HIPAA BAA in place, server-side conversion tracking that strips PHI before anything reaches Google or Meta, and consent-mode-compliant pixel implementation in line with healthcare ads policies for med spas offering prescription treatments like Botox and GLP-1. Patient identifiable information never gets passed to an ad platform. This is one of the most common mistakes generic agencies make, and it is the kind of thing that does not show up in a report until OCR comes calling. We treat it as a foundational requirement, not an upsell on a feature sheet.
Four things show up by day 30. First, med spa PPC built on actual aesthetic-buyer search and scrolling behavior, not a playbook borrowed from B2B SaaS or e-commerce paid media. Second, a senior media buyer running the account day to day, not a generalist account manager forwarding tickets. Third, flat monthly fees with no percentage-of-spend gotchas, and full ownership of every account in your name from day one. Fourth, booked-treatment attribution from the scheduling platform, not click counts and form fills with no follow-through. Most med spa PPC agencies pick one or two of these and call it differentiation. You get all four, with 60 plus aesthetic brands behind the playbook since 2022.
Partial. We handle ad copy, headline testing, static image production, and feed-ad creative directly. Short-form video creative (Reels and TikToks) is handled by our partner production studios, with a 4-to-6 video per month per treatment line cadence depending on your tier. The creative pipeline is one of the most under-invested areas of a typical med spa PPC program. Meta’s algorithm rewards creative diversity heavily in 2026, and a single static image set will burn out inside 14 days. Reels and short-form video are the format the platform actually weights highest now, and our partner studios handle that lift with a 7-day turnaround on new creative.
Carefully. Google’s healthcare ads policy and FDA guidance both restrict the claims that can be made about prescription treatments (Botox, dermal fillers, GLP-1 weight loss, hormone therapy). Ad copy goes through an internal compliance check before going live. Common patterns we avoid: comparative efficacy claims without published clinical data, specific weight-loss number promises, before/after claims that imply guaranteed outcomes, off-label use suggestions. Common patterns we lean into: provider credentials, FDA-approved indications stated correctly, transparent pricing, and the consult-first conversion model that filters serious buyers before any treatment-specific promises get made. The compliance work is invisible when done right and very visible when done wrong (account suspension, FTC inquiry, state board complaint).
Yes. Multi-location aesthetics groups are one of the structures the program is built for. Per-location budget pools, per-location attribution (so each location sees its own booked treatments tied to its own ad spend), per-region creative variants when neighborhood differences matter, and consolidated executive reporting that rolls up across the footprint. New locations get added to the account on a 7-day onboarding cadence as they open. Most franchised med spa brands we work with run a central brand campaign plus location-specific campaigns, with the central campaign serving discovery and the location campaigns serving conversion. The structure scales to 30 plus locations without needing a separate dashboard per location.
// Case studies

Real practices, real numbers.

A sampling of recent engagements that match this work.

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Repositioned a Las Vegas med spa from "trusted provider" to industry benchmark — without a traditional photoshoot.

A Vegas aesthetics destination launching independently needed a brand that signaled discretion in a city built on spectacle. We ran brand strategy, identity, website, and a fully art-directed AI imagery system — so launch happened on schedule, with editorial-grade visuals from day one.

Positioning Benchmark
Launch imagery AI-direct
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Med Spa · Injector-led · Solo-provider

Built an injector-led med spa distributor-ready in 6 weeks — online bookings live from launch.

A solo-provider injectable practice needed a website that would (a) unlock cosmetic distributor accounts that wouldn't ship without one and (b) let returning patients self-book without DMs. We shipped a brand-aligned WordPress build with native booking, treatment-led copy, and a retainer for ongoing service additions.

Distributors Unblocked
Online bookings Live
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Med Spa · Established practice · South Shore, MA

Refreshed a South Shore med spa under new ownership — site, brand, and shop scaled with the new chapter.

Under sole new ownership after eight years, an established Massachusetts med spa needed a brand refresh, a complete website overhaul, and a re-architected e-commerce shop to replace outdated coding and a flat product catalog. We delivered a luxury-toned rebuild with mega-menu navigation, AA-accessible color work, and a category-organized shop.

Booking journey Friction ↓
Shop UX Categorized
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