Most clinics and salons market by accident
You are brilliant at what you do. Your clients love you. But your marketing is a mix of occasional Instagram posts, a Google listing you set up three years ago, and hoping that referrals keep coming. Here is what we hear from clinic and salon owners every week:
Relying on word of mouth alone
Word of mouth is brilliant, but it is not a strategy. If your only marketing channel is hoping clients tell their friends, you have no control over your growth. One quiet month and the diary is empty.
Competitors outranking you for 'near me' searches
When someone searches 'dentist near me' or 'facial near me,' they are ready to book. If your competitors appear above you in Google Maps, they are getting those bookings instead of you.
No system for turning one-time clients into regulars
A client comes in for a single treatment and never returns. Without rebooking automations, follow-up emails, and loyalty incentives, you are constantly paying to acquire new clients instead of retaining existing ones.
Before/after content that doesn't comply with ASA/CAP rules
You know before/after photos drive enquiries, but you are not sure what you can and cannot claim. One complaint to the ASA and your ad account gets suspended, or worse.
Spending on social but not tracking what drives bookings
You are posting five times a week, running the occasional boosted post, but you have no idea which content actually turns into appointments. Without tracking, you are guessing.
Byter Academy's Health & Beauty Marketing course gives you a clear, step-by-step system to attract new clients, retain existing ones, and grow your practice or salon. Compliance-first. No guesswork.
Curriculum
What you'll learn
Curated lessons from across the Byter Academy curriculum, selected specifically for health and beauty businesses. 32 lessons, 14+ hours of practical content.
Local SEO & Google Business Profile
Dominate local search for your practice or salon. Set up and optimise your Google Business Profile, build citations, generate reviews, and rank for high-intent 'near me' searches.
Google Ads & PPC
Run profitable Google Ads campaigns for your clinic. Learn campaign structure for multi-treatment businesses, landing page strategy, call tracking, and how to measure cost per booking.
Instagram Marketing
Build an Instagram presence that converts followers into clients. Content pillars, Reels strategy, before/after posting, UGC from clients, and booking link optimisation.
Content Strategy & Planning
Plan content that builds trust and drives bookings. Content calendars, treatment education posts, seasonal campaigns, and compliance-safe copywriting for health and beauty.
Marketing Automation
Automate your client communications. Rebooking reminders, birthday campaigns, post-treatment follow-ups, review requests, and loyalty programme emails.
Review & Reputation Management
Build a five-star reputation online. Systematic review generation, responding to negative reviews, managing Google, Trustpilot, and industry-specific directories.
Featured Framework
The Trust-First Framework
In health and beauty, trust is everything. People are putting their face, teeth, skin, and body in your hands. Your marketing must build confidence before it asks for a booking.
Review Generation System
Set up automated review requests via text and email after every appointment. Learn timing, platform selection, and how to ethically increase your review volume without incentivising.
Credentials & Trust Signals
Display GDC registration, CQC ratings, professional memberships, insurance details, and qualifications in a way that builds immediate trust with prospective clients.
Compliant Before/After Content
Learn what the ASA and CAP codes actually say about before/after imagery. How to shoot, label, and publish transformation content that drives enquiries without risking complaints.
Google Business Profile for Practitioners
Set up your GBP with the correct primary and secondary categories for health and beauty. Add services, attributes, health insurance info, and practitioner profiles.
Local Search
Local Search Domination
"Dentist near me" and "facial near me" are among the highest-intent local searches in any industry. The person searching is ready to book. This section teaches you how to be the one they find.
Highest-Intent Searches in Your Industry
Searches like 'dentist near me,' 'facial near me,' and 'Botox [town name]' have some of the highest conversion rates in all of local search. People searching these terms are ready to book today, not next month.
GBP Categories for Health & Beauty
Choose the right primary category (Dentist, Beauty Salon, Skin Care Clinic, Medical Spa) and add every relevant secondary category. This determines which searches your listing appears for.
Citation Consistency
Your name, address, and phone number must be identical across Google, NHS Choices, Doctify, Yell, FreeIndex, and every directory your business appears on. Inconsistencies confuse Google and hurt your rankings.
Retention
Client Retention Engine
Acquiring a new client costs five to seven times more than retaining an existing one. This section teaches you how to build automated systems that keep clients coming back.
Rebooking Automations
Trigger reminder emails and texts when a client is due for their next hygiene appointment, root touch-up, or skin treatment. Automated rebooking recovers thousands in revenue that would otherwise be lost to forgetfulness.
Birthday & Anniversary Campaigns
Send personalised offers on birthdays and client anniversaries. A simple 10% off birthday email has some of the highest open and redemption rates of any automated campaign.
Loyalty Tiers
Create a simple loyalty structure that rewards repeat visits. Bronze, Silver, Gold tiers with increasing benefits. It does not need to be complex, it just needs to make clients feel valued.
Treatment Plans as Marketing
Frame multi-session treatments (orthodontics, skin peels, laser courses) as treatment plans with clear timelines and outcomes. This turns a single booking into a committed series.
Compliance
Compliance-First Content
Health and beauty marketing in the UK is heavily regulated. This is a good thing: it protects consumers and separates professionals from cowboys. But you need to know the rules.
ASA/CAP Rules on Health Claims
The Advertising Standards Authority and CAP Code govern what you can claim in ads and social media. Learn the specific rules around health, beauty, and medical claims so you never get caught out.
What You Can and Cannot Say
You cannot claim a treatment 'cures' or 'eliminates' without clinical evidence. You cannot use time-pressure tactics on medical treatments. You cannot target under-18s with cosmetic procedures. Know the lines.
Before/After Photo Guidelines
Same lighting, same angle, same distance. No filters, no editing beyond cropping. Clear labelling of what treatment was performed and over what timeframe. Informed consent documented and stored.
This course does not give legal advice. It teaches you the marketing rules that the ASA, CAP, and Google enforce, so you can create effective content without risking penalties, account suspensions, or complaints.
Practical Outcomes
What our students learn to build
Every lesson leads to something tangible. By the end of this course, you will have built a complete marketing system for your clinic, salon, or practice.
Optimised Google Business Profile
Fully configured GBP with correct categories, services, attributes, photos, and a review generation system that runs on autopilot.
Treatment-Specific Landing Pages
Individual web pages for each treatment (teeth whitening, facials, Botox, haircuts) optimised for search and designed to convert visitors into bookings.
Instagram Content Calendar
A 30-day content plan with content pillars, post types, caption frameworks, and a Reels schedule tailored to health and beauty businesses.
Automated Email Sequences
Welcome series for new clients, post-appointment review request, rebooking reminders, and birthday campaigns, all running automatically.
Google Ads Campaign
A structured Google Ads account with campaigns per treatment, ad groups by intent, landing pages, call tracking, and conversion measurement.
Compliance Checklist
A documented checklist for reviewing all marketing content against ASA/CAP rules before publishing. Covers social posts, ads, website claims, and before/after imagery.
Free Tools
Calculate your marketing ROI
Free tools to help you work out what to spend on marketing, measure your return on ad spend, and calculate the true cost of acquiring a new client.
We had a decent reputation locally but relied entirely on word of mouth. After working through the course, we set up proper Google Ads, rebuilt our Google Business Profile, and started sending automated rebooking reminders. New patient enquiries went up 60 percent in three months, and our hygienist diary is now fully booked two weeks in advance. Wish we had done this years ago.
Sarah T.
Practice Manager, dental clinic in Surrey
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Google Ads for Clinics and Practices
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Marketing Glossary
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Free Calculators
ROI calculator, ad budget planner, and CPA calculator. All free.
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