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Client Smile Design Dentistry
Industry Healthcare · Dental DSO
Engagement Multi-location PPC + Paid Social · ongoing
Case № 033 · 2022 / 2024

Cut cost-per-call 30% while scaling high-quality leads across 50+ dental offices.

Smile Design Dentistry, a 50+ location DSO, struggled with inflated ad spend, poor-quality leads, and limited tracking. We restructured PPC accounts, added full-funnel paid social, and created tailored landing pages — resulting in higher lead quality, better ROI, and scalable growth across the network.

Result +20% PPC conversion rate, -30% cost-per-call, and full coverage across 50+ locations.
Approach Funnel-stage and geography-segmented campaigns, location-specific landing pages, and full-funnel paid social.
Services
PPC Strategy Paid Social Landing Page Development Call Analytics Conversion Optimization
Stack Google Ads · Meta · CallRail · landing-page system
// smile-design-dentistry.live
PPC conversion rate
+20%
↗ YoY
Cost per call
-30%
↘ stabilized
Locations live
50+
↗ network
Cost per call · 12-month curve
-30%
About the client

A multi-location dental support organization built on cosmetic, emergency, and preventive care — at scale.

Smile Design Dentistry, founded in 2004 with its first office in Dade City, Florida, has grown into one of the most recognized dental support organizations (DSOs) in Central Florida and Tampa Bay. With more than 50 locations, Smile Design offers comprehensive services from cosmetic dentistry and emergency dental care to preventive checkups and specialty treatments.

While their offline reputation was strong, Smile Design faced significant challenges scaling its digital marketing strategy. Poor campaign segmentation, wasted ad spend, low-quality leads, and lack of tracking limited their ability to acquire high-value new patients.

i The challenge

Spend went up. Patient quality didn't.

Smile Design Dentistry's growth was limited by challenges in both marketing and operations. Their PPC campaigns targeted too broadly, generating leads that rarely converted into patients. This led to high acquisition costs, low ROI, and wasted staff time on unqualified leads.

Tracking and analytics were weak, offering little insight into performance, ROI, or where leads were lost in the funnel. Operational capacity added pressure: some locations could take on more patients, while others lacked staffing — yet marketing spend wasn't tailored to these differences, resulting in uneven performance.

Social media was also underutilized. Engagement was low, and paid social wasn't leveraged as a growth channel.

Pre-engagement baseline Month 0
Tracking Limited
Targeting Broad
Paid social
ii The solutions

A bottom-of-funnel rebuild — segment, localize, measure, scale.

Redefine Web executed a restructured PPC and social-media strategy designed for scale and precision. We built bottom-of-funnel search-focused campaigns, segmented by funnel stage and geography, to channel high-intent leads directly to the locations best equipped to handle them.

Dedicated landing pages increased relevance and conversions, while CallRail analytics enabled differentiation between leads that booked and those that didn't. In parallel, we launched Smile Design's first paid-social campaigns with a full-funnel strategy, nurturing prospects from awareness to conversion through ad-variation testing, video-based engagement, and demographic-focused targeting.

  1. Restructured PPC by funnel and geo
    Per-location, per-stage campaigns so high-intent leads went to offices with capacity, not the next available phone.
  2. Brand-consistent landing pages
    High-converting landing pages that matched ad creative — local trust + national brand consistency.
  3. CallRail analytics integration
    Patient-quality scoring on every call, so optimization targets actual booked patients, not just rings.
  4. Full-funnel paid social
    Awareness → consideration → conversion campaigns built around video and demographic precision.
  5. Continuous A/B creative testing
    Ongoing creative iteration with capacity-aware budget allocation between high- and lower-volume offices.
  6. Geo-modified targeting at the bid level
    Bid logic per neighborhood — not just per office — to capture patients searching from drivable distance.
Services used
PPC Strategy Paid Social Landing Page Development Call Analytics Conversion Optimization

Strength in numbers.

Marketing spend efficiency improved, lead quality increased, and the cost per lead steadily decreased month after month — across all 50+ offices.

01 · PPC conversion rate
+20%
PPC conversion rate increased by 20%, driving higher engagement from high-intent patient leads across all locations.
02 · Cost per call
-30%
Cost per call decreased by 30%, lowering acquisition costs and maximizing ROI for paid channels.
03 · Locations live
50+
Successfully launched optimized campaigns across 50+ locations with scalable PPC, social, and landing-page strategies.
↗ Headline result · +20% conv. rate · -30% CPC
Reporting cadence · weekly · per-location