Parallax Thinking / Marketing intelligence

A private dental practice

Twelve months, before and after Parallax

New patients
314
+44%vs prior 6 months
New-patient revenue
£379k
+61%first-year value
Ad spend
£24k
−40%less, and better
Conversion rate
1.81%
+0.5ptenquiries per visit

The mismatch · traffic

The website got busier for six months, then we made it quieter.

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Monthly sessions

The mismatch · conversion

Yet the share of visits that became an enquiry fell the whole time, then climbed.

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Conversion rate, percent

The reveal

What the ad platform reported, against what the booking system showed once we wired it in.

£1,003actual cost per patient
£155what the ads reported

The platform counted 259 enquiries. Only 40 became patients, each worth about £310.

The funnel · where it leaks

Enquiry to consultation to patient. The amber step is where the value escapes.

Enquiries888web forms
62%kept
Consultations549booked
40%closed
New patients218started care

Where the money went · cost per patient

Cost to win a patient by channel, against what a paid patient is worth. Paid towers over the line.

worth ~£310
Paid Search
£1,041
Paid Social
£900
Organic Search
£0

Ad spend · monthly

High and swinging through the before period, then cut. The worst-value month is in amber.

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Total ad spend per month

Revenue, same window
+£143k
Six months after acting on the data: revenue up 61% on 40% less ad spend. The website got quieter and the practice got busier.