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title: "Ophthalmology Marketing"
---
Two decades in medical and aesthetics
We don't market for everyone. We market for practices like yours.
Eye care is two businesses wearing one coat. On one side is medical eye care, largely insurance and Medicare based, high in volume, won on being found locally and trusted. On the other is elective vision correction, LASIK, refractive lens exchange, premium cataract lenses, which is cash-pay, considered, expensive, and decided slowly, on trust, with cost and financing front of mind. Most practices and most agencies run one playbook for both, and either underfill the medical schedule or leave the elective revenue, where the margin is, on the table. We are selective: we work best with practices that want to grow both their medical base and their elective revenue, that want to own their market for the long term, and we keep it honest, never putting a claim or a price in your marketing your practice cannot stand behind.
Specialties
20+
years marketingfor practices
01
Fill the medical schedule.
Your medical patients search for an eye doctor near them, a cataract surgeon, a glaucoma specialist, and increasingly they ask an AI. We build the local and AI search presence, the reputation, and the booking path that make your practice the obvious, trusted choice for medical eye care in your market, and keep the schedule full.
02
Win the high-value elective patient.
A LASIK or premium-lens patient is making a big, considered, self-pay decision. We create the demand, build the surgeon credibility and reviews that decision runs on, present cost and financing honestly so price is a bridge and not a wall, and design the consultation path to actually convert, not just book a tire-kicker.
03
Make the two feed each other.
A trusted medical brand is the best possible source of elective patients, and elective revenue funds the growth of the whole practice. We build the site, the content, and the tracking so the funnels reinforce each other instead of competing for attention, and so you can see which is producing what.
What we do for eye-care practicesA complete eye-care growth engineOne coordinated engine, not a menu of disconnected tactics. Each part feeds the next.
A premium, fast website
Built on Urge Foundation, structured for both medical and elective journeys, and built to be read by both search engines and AI.
Local SEO & Google Business Profile
So you own the map pack for medical eye care across your service area.
AI search optimization
When a patient asks ChatGPT or Google's AI for an eye surgeon or a LASIK provider nearby, your practice is in the answer.
Paid search & paid social
The demand engine for high-value elective procedures, capturing patients already researching and creating new interest.
Reputation & reviews
The trust layer that decides both a medical choice and a surgical one, kept recent and steady.
Cost-transparent, financing-aware content
Because on the elective side, honest information about price and payment is what moves a considered decision forward.
Marketing automation & lead management
The follow-up that nurtures a high-ticket LASIK decision and turns medical inquiries into booked appointments.
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Why Urge
Built to be found, trusted, and booked.
Found.
Puts you in front of the medical patients searching for eye care in your market right now.
Trusted.
The surgeon credibility and reviews that both a medical choice and a surgical one run on.
Booked.
An honest, well-designed path that turns an expensive elective decision into a booked procedure.
Owned.
We build both funnels as one system, on assets you own, so the practice grows on every front instead of trading one for the other.
Since 2003
marketing medical and aesthetics practices
5.0
★
average client rating
1,000
+
brands built
100
%
US-based team
How it worksHow we work
01
Map both funnels
We study your medical services, your elective procedures, your competitors, and exactly what each kind of patient searches, then build a plan that fills both.
02
Build the foundation
The website, the Google presence, the review engine, and the tracking, the owned assets everything else compounds on.
03
Create & capture demand
Local and AI search and reputation for the medical base; demand creation, surgeon credibility, and cost-clear content for the elective revenue.
04
Convert & measure
The consultation and follow-up systems that turn high-value interest into procedures, with honest tracking that shows which funnel produced what, so budget follows results.
Get a growth planSee our work
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Talk with a senior strategist who's helped practices grow since 2003, no bots, no junior rep.
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FAQOphthalmology marketing questions, answered
**Q: Why do you run two funnels instead of one campaign?**
Because your medical patients and your LASIK patients decide completely differently. Medical eye care is insurance-based, local, and high-volume, won on being found and trusted. Elective procedures are cash-pay, considered, and expensive, won on surgeon credibility, honest cost information, financing, and a consultation built to convert. One campaign for both underfills the schedule or leaves elective revenue on the table. Two funnels, one engine, grows the whole practice.
**Q: How do you market LASIK and premium lenses without the race-to-the-bottom discounting?**
By competing on trust and clarity instead of price alone. Patients making a big elective decision want a surgeon they believe in and a price they understand, not the cheapest coupon. We build the surgeon's credibility and reviews, present cost and financing honestly so price becomes a bridge rather than a wall, and design a consultation that converts on confidence. That wins better patients than discounting does.
**Q: Can you grow the elective side without hurting the medical schedule?**
That is the point of running them together. A strong, trusted medical brand is the best source of elective patients, and elective revenue funds the practice's growth. We build the site and tracking so the funnels reinforce each other and you can see exactly what each is producing, instead of one cannibalizing the other.
**Q: We're mostly cataract and general medical. Is this still for us?**
Yes. The medical funnel, local search, reputation, easy booking, is the core of what fills a cataract and general ophthalmology schedule, and premium-lens upgrades add a cash-pay layer on top of it. You do not need a LASIK suite to benefit; you need to be the found, trusted, obvious choice for eye care in your market.
**Q: Do reviews matter as much for an eye surgeon as for other doctors?**
Arguably more, because both a medical and a surgical choice run on trust. Patients read about five reviews and check roughly two sources before choosing, and most discount anything older than a year. For a high-value, irreversible procedure like LASIK, a steady stream of recent, real reviews and visible surgeon credibility is one of the highest-leverage assets you can build.
Still have a question we didn't answer?
Send it over and a strategist will reply with a straight answer (and a tailored plan) within one business day.
Ask us directly
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