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Healthcare · Orthopedic ClinicPerformance CreativeCondition · Authority · Recall
Case Studies→Premium Orthopedic Clinic

We stopped selling the clinic and started speaking to the condition — urgency, fear, aspiration. And monthly leads grew 4.2×.

+4×More leads a month since takeover — once the creative spoke to the condition, not the clinic.
>25%Lead-to-patient conversion rate — the message that earned the click also brought the right patient.
3 anglesOne per condition — urgency for the pinched nerve, empathy for chronic joint pain, aspiration for height correction.
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We always knew the patients were out there — we just couldn't reach them. GTMLab changed that. The right people started finding us, the phone started ringing, and appointments went up by a lot. For the first time, growth feels like something we control.

Co-Founder
Premium Orthopedic Clinic
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Industry
Healthcare · Orthopedic Clinic
Lens
Performance Creative
Engagement
Aug 2025 → ongoing
Approach
Condition · Authority · Recall
LensPerformance Creative
IndustryHealthcare / Specialist Orthopedic Clinic
ConditionsPinched nerve · joint & musculoskeletal · height correction
Use cases
Creative Engine Scale
Services
Performance Creative
Channels
Meta Ads
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Part of the Premium Orthopedic Clinic series · one client, three lenses

You're reading the Performance Creative lens. The Premium Orthopedic Clinic was a single engagement we tell three ways — same client, three disciplines, plus the overview. Read the rest in any order: Performance Marketing, Data & Analytics and the Overview.

Intro

We worked with a premium orthopedic clinic in Jakarta— a specialist treating active, often painful musculoskeletal conditions: pinched nerves, joint and bone disorders, and height-correction treatments. When we took over paid media, the demand was real and high-intent — patients who'd been suffering for weeks and were actively searching — but the paid setup wasn't capturing it: no Google Search presence, a Meta account with no funnel structure, and no measurement tying spend to actual patients.

This page is the Creative lens: the message itself — why clinic branding doesn't move a patient in pain, and how leading with clinical authority and a distinct angle per condition did. The channels that carried it live in Performance Marketing; the tracking that proved which message brought real patients lives in Data & Analytics.

Meet the clinic.

The clinic is a specialist orthopedic practice serving patients with active musculoskeletal conditions — pinched nerves, joint and bone disorders, and height correction. These aren't impulse buyers: they've typically been in pain for weeks or months and are actively researching solutions, which makes them ideal for high-intent search and responsive to proof-driven, clinically authoritative social creative.

The gap was infrastructure, not demand. The Jakarta orthopedic market is competitive — private specialists, hospital departments, and traditional-medicine alternatives all chase the same patient — and at takeover the clinic had zero paid search visibility, a Meta account with no awareness-to-intent funnel, one creative serving three very different patient personas, weak attribution, and a lead-to-patient conversion rate that no one was using as a signal. The opportunity was significant; the setup simply wasn't built to capture it.

The principles we rebuilt the creative on.

ReelsBefore

Concept : Talking-head UGC, pain re-enactment cutaway

Older adult with knee pain

Open with a relatable pain moment but never resolves into a clear treatment promise or CTA

The winning creative set.

A sample of the creatives that carry each condition — the right register, clinical proof, and a clear path to relief. Each slot is ready for the live asset.

ReelsAfter

Concept :

Expert Testimonial -> Strengthening Credibility

Clear Message from Expert in Industry Strengthening Credibility, Branding, and Awareness

ReelsAfter

Talking-Head Founder, Myth-busting hook

Chronic pain patient, tried everything but the problem never actually resolves

Adress the exact walls the viewers already hit, medication and physio not working, then resolves it with a graded set of options targeted at the source instead of one hard sell, which reads as diagnostic expertise

ReelsAfter

Concept : Talking-head founder, belief-correction hook

Older adult that dismiss joint paint as normal aging

moves with the viewer through four beats in 40 seconds -> wrong beliefs, worsening damages, root-causes diagnosis, and an explicit delay-makes-it-worse warning, so the CTA arrives as the logical next step rather than a sales push

The shift — from branding to authority.

This is the high-level cut. The working build is roughly 10× more nuanced — each angle splits by condition, funnel stage, and format, with its own variant and conversion event per cell.

Results — the creative system.

Reported in relative terms and rates, measured through the CRM lead-to-patient tracking.

+4×More leads a month since takeover
~10→>25%Lead-to-patient conversion rate
3 anglesOne per condition, in its own register
AuthorityClinical proof over clinic branding
Recall→captureVideo builds, static converts
Per conditionNurture content tailored to each patient

Honest read: this compounded over nine months, not overnight, and the click side does tire — creative was refreshed on a cadence to hold efficiency as spend scaled. The conversion rate is measured offline through the CRM, because in healthcare the lead only proves out when a real patient books and shows up. Better creative brought more of the right people; the care team is what closed them.

What this rebuild taught us about healthcare creative.

  1. Lead with the condition, not the clinic. — A patient in pain is searching for relief, not a brand. Clinical authority — proof and a path — persuades where branding doesn't.
  2. One message can't serve three conditions. — Urgency, empathy, and aspiration are different emotional states. A creative per condition converts each far better than one averaged across all.
  3. Match the register to the moment. — Acute pain needs reassurance; chronic pain needs empathy; an elective choice needs proof. The tone has to fit where the patient actually is.
  4. Let each format do its job. — Video earns recall before the patient is ready; static captures the lead when they are. Asking one creative to do both does neither well.

The message went from clinic branding to clinical authority, one angle per condition — and the right patients started arriving.

Each condition meets a creative built for its moment, video builds recall before the patient is ready, and static captures the lead when they are. The care team closes; the creative keeps the right patients coming.

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The rest of the engagement.

The Premium Orthopedic Clinic was one engagement told three ways. Keep going — here's the rest of the set:

Overview— the full engagement, end to end. +4× more leads a month

Performance Marketing— a two-channel funnel built per condition. 75× ROAS, up from 12×

Data & Analytics — the CRM loop that made patients visible. >25% patient LTV

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We grew a leading on-demand doctor and wellness brand on less ad spend — more patients, more revenue, and double the return on media.

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↗Luxury Boat Tours
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We rebuilt a luxury boat-tour operator's paid engine from zero — and grew the channel where the margin lives: direct revenue, up over 30% in 30 days.

Performance MarketingData & AnalyticsFunnel & CRO
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CAC Reduction · Predictable Revenue · Creative Engine Scale · Channel Ownership

We built IKIGAI's paid acquisition engine from scratch — an intro offer that brings in members who came for the practice, not the discount.

10X+ROAS on the 14-Day intro offer
60X+ROAS on the teacher-training program
Performance MarketingFunnel & CROData & Analytics
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