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Cohort-based · healthcare-only

The Academy. Operators teaching operators.

Founders, hospital CMOs, and marketing leads who want to run healthcare growth in-house — without becoming digital agencies. Cohorts of 12, 6 weeks, doctor-authored content.

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Curriculum

What you learn

Wk 1

The healthcare growth model

Why patient acquisition isn't B2C. The 4-stage funnel. Trust currencies. Compliance perimeters.

Wk 2

Healthcare SEO architecture

Symptom → condition → procedure → cost. Doctor authorship. Schema + E-E-A-T. Technical foundations.

Wk 3

Performance media for healthcare

Google Ads + Meta + LSA. Restricted-category bidding. Attribution to booked patient.

Wk 4

AI receptionist + CRM

WhatsApp + voice + chat. Triage flows. Routing logic. No-show recovery.

Wk 5

Authority + reputation

PR, KOLs, PubMed citations. Reviews engine. Crisis response.

Wk 6

Reporting + reconciliation

Weekly + monthly cadences. KPIs that matter. Reading agency reports.

The work

What we actually ship.

Indira Gandhi Eye Hospital — cataract and dry-eye awareness social set, Hindi and English
Social · Ophthalmology — Indira Gandhi Eye Hospital — awareness set, Hindi and English
Meta Ads reach and delivery reporting
Meta Ads — delivery and reach reporting
Specialty clinic clients
Specialty clinics
Clinic clients across specialties
Clinics across specialties

The people we work with

Their experience. In their own words.

Hospital leaders, doctors, and clinic teams on the websites, marketing, and growth we build together.

Watch the client playlist

Hospital Marketing

Ms. Sarika Bhawal

GM - Marketing, Indraprastha Apollo Hospitals · New Delhi

On scaling multi-specialty healthcare marketing and patient trust

Watch on YouTube

Oncology

Dr. Vijay Karan Reddy

Senior Oncologist · Hyderabad

On reaching Google’s top 10 for specialist searches

Watch on YouTube

Maxillofacial Surgery

Dr. Suresh

Maxillofacial Surgeon · Delhi NCR

Achieving #1 Google ranking and consistent patient leads

Watch on YouTube
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The Patient Acquisition Blueprint — guide cover

Free executive download

The Patient Acquisition Blueprint

A 90-day plan from first search to booked appointment.

  • A 90-day plan from first search to booked appointment
  • Channel mix for clinics, hospitals and groups
  • Follow-up scripts for WhatsApp and phone
  • Weekly metrics dashboard (CAC, LTV, payback)

17 pages · Built from our work with 350+ healthcare clients · Updated for AI search

We never share your details

Free · 30 min · no commitment

Want in the next cohort?

Email us with role + practice context. We screen for fit before sending the application.

✓ 30-minute call✓ Written plan✓ No obligation

Why choose us

Why healthcare brands choose us.

Six reasons hospitals, clinics, and doctors pick a healthcare-only firm over a generalist agency.

  • Healthcare-only

    It's all we do. No retail, no fintech — the whole team thinks in patient journeys, clinical trust, and the way people actually choose a doctor.

  • AI-first systems

    Receptionists, WhatsApp triage, and attribution built in-house — we answer patients in seconds and tie every click to a booked appointment.

  • Compliance built-in

    HIPAA-aware handling, ASCI-reviewed creative, and GDPR/DPDP sign-off on every campaign — our standard, not an upcharge or an afterthought.

  • Senior on every account

    The senior who pitched you stays on the engagement. No bait-and-switch to juniors learning on your budget.

  • Measured to the appointment

    Patient-level attribution across calls, forms, and walk-ins. Monthly reports show booked patients — not just clicks and impressions.

  • Receipts, not promises

    We name our clients and show the work. Quarterly reviews with the numbers attached, every cycle.

The Branding Pioneers healthcare-marketing team at work

Healthcare-only · since 2016

A team that does one thing well.

Keep going

Adjacent services, problems we’re asked about most often, and the case files that show how we work.

Practical notes & supporting evidence

More detail for your next decision.

A practical reference for this page
  1. Start hereThe Academy. Operators teaching operators.

  2. Establish contextUse the published scope and relevant source material

  3. Choose the next stepFollow the linked resource and assign an owner

Putting The Academy. Operators teaching operators into practice

Use the academy to organise learning around a defined healthcare marketing responsibility. Start with the skill you need to apply, then connect a learning resource with a real task such as reviewing a service page, checking a campaign brief or understanding a source report. Keep clinical approval responsibilities separate from marketing training.

Choose the resource that matches your next decision

Begin with the question you need to answer, then choose the most appropriate destination in this collection. A guide explains a method, a checklist supports a repeatable review, a calculator explores assumptions and a case file documents a particular engagement. Reading them as interchangeable resources can create confusion. If you need to brief a supplier, start with the relevant service or framework. If you need to assess evidence, start with the source reports and the limits stated alongside the example.

Use the collection to narrow the investigation rather than adding every possible task to a marketing plan. Identify the stage where progress is blocked: discovery, understanding the service, making contact, arranging an appointment or following up. Choose a resource that addresses that stage and keep a short note of the evidence you need. A focused review is easier to act on than a long list of unrelated recommendations, particularly when clinical approvals and operational changes involve different people.

Apply the material to your own practice

Document the local conditions before adopting an example. Include the service mix, available clinicians, languages, appointment process and existing digital assets. A method used by a hospital network may need to be simplified for a solo practice; a single-clinic process may need explicit location ownership when used by a chain. Keep those adaptations visible in the brief. The resource provides a way to organise the work, while your own records establish whether its assumptions fit.

Assign a person to each next action and define how completion will be checked. Editorial tasks need content and approval ownership, technical tasks need a release review and measurement tasks need a named source account. Keep evidence attached to the relevant decision instead of relying on a general claim that the programme is performing well. Revisit the plan when the service, market or operational capacity changes. The related links on this page let you move from an overview into the detail needed for that next action.