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Channel — email & SMS

Med spa email marketing that mines the list you already have.

Segmented campaigns, win-back sequences, and deliverability engineered so what you send actually reaches an inbox — built from the patient list already sitting in your CRM, not a purchased one.

15 minutes on your list and what’s actually in it. We’ll tell you if email is even the right first move.

The difference

Most clinics already have the list. Nobody is emailing it right.

Every med spa with more than a year of patients has, sitting inside its EHR or CRM, a list of names worth more than most ad budgets — people who already trusted the practice enough to book, pay, and show up once. Almost none of that list gets emailed or texted with any discipline. What goes out, if anything, is one newsletter to the entire database at once: the patient who booked a treatment last week gets the same blast as the one who ghosted after a single consult two years ago. The problem was never a shortage of ideas — a slow-Tuesday promotion, a new-treatment announcement, a nudge to the person who didn’t rebook. It’s that sending any of it well requires two disciplines most practices never set up: knowing who should get which message, and making sure the message actually reaches an inbox instead of a spam folder or a blocked number.

Segment the list by what a patient actually did, and get the technical and legal groundwork right, and the same database starts producing bookings nobody had to buy an ad to reach.

The work

Three layers of med spa email marketing, in this order.

Segmentation first. A well-timed message sent to the wrong person is still the wrong message.

Segmentation & targeting

A list only works once it stops being one list.

A single newsletter sent to an entire patient database treats a first-time patient the same as someone who’s booked six times and asked about a membership — the wrong message for almost everyone who receives it. What we build instead splits the list by what’s actually known about each patient: treatment history, time since last visit, whether they’ve asked about but not booked a specific service, and where they sit relative to a membership or package. Each segment gets its own campaign, not a variant of the same one — a lapsed-patient segment and a recent-member segment are never looking at the same subject line. The split isn’t a one-time export, either; segments update as patients move between them, so someone who books after months in “lapsed” rolls into a different list on their own.

Segmented sendsTreatment & behaviorNo one-size blast
Lifecycle sequences

A lapsed patient gets walked back, not blasted once.

A single “we miss you” email to a patient who hasn’t booked in a year competes with everything else in their inbox that day and, if it fails, gets no second attempt. A win-back sequence instead spaces a small number of touches — an email, then an SMS a few days later, then a different email further out — each carrying a different angle, on the theory that whatever caused someone to lapse on message one isn’t necessarily what brings them back on message three. No-show recovery runs on the same mechanism, triggered by a specific event — a missed or canceled appointment — rather than a calendar date, so outreach starts while the visit is still fresh. Every sequence has one exit condition that matters more than any message in it: the moment a patient books, it stops.

Win-back sequencesNo-show recoveryStops the moment they book
Consent, deliverability & reporting

Every message goes out through the same compliant door.

Segmentation and sequencing only matter if the message actually arrives, and arrival is a compliance problem before it’s a technical one. Every patient record carries its own consent — captured the same way for everyone, at intake, rather than assumed from the fact that a phone number sits in the chart. On the email side, we set up SPF, DKIM, and DMARC on the sending domain so mailbox providers can verify the message actually came from the practice and wasn’t forged along the way — the single biggest lever over whether a campaign lands in the inbox or the spam folder. SMS runs through a properly registered A2P sender rather than a personal number pressed into service, because carriers throttle unregistered traffic outright. None of it gets measured in opens or clicks here — the report that matters ties a campaign back to the booking it produced.

TCPA consentA2P registeredDeliverability-engineered

What med spa email marketing includes here

Segmentation

by treatment, spend and behavior

Lead Nurture

the enquiry that didn’t book yet

Win-Back

lapsed patients, on a schedule

No-Show Recovery

the slot rebooked, not written off

Slow-Day Campaigns

a quiet Tuesday filled on Monday

SMS & A2P

fully registered, so messages deliver

Deliverability

SPF, DKIM and DMARC set up properly

TCPA Consent

captured on every form, by design

Revenue Reporting

campaigns measured in bookings

Segmentation, sequences, and deliverability setup run on the platform —see what the monthly fee covers →

FAQ

Questions we get on the first call

How often is too often to email or text our patient list?

There’s no fixed number that’s safe for every practice — the honest answer depends on the segment, not the list as a whole. A recently active patient who opens most emails can handle more frequent contact than someone who hasn’t engaged in months; sending both groups on the same weekly schedule wears out the engaged group and drives the disengaged one to unsubscribe or, worse, mark the message as spam. That complaint rate matters more than most practices realize, because mailbox providers track it at the sending domain level — enough complaints and every campaign from that domain gets treated with more suspicion, including the ones going to people who actually want them. The practical rule is to let engagement set the pace, not a fixed weekly calendar.

Why do our emails end up in spam, and what do SPF, DKIM, and DMARC actually fix?

Landing in spam is usually a trust problem, not a content problem — mailbox providers are deciding whether to believe a message came from who it claims to, and the three records fix three different pieces of that decision. SPF lists which mail servers are allowed to send on the domain’s behalf. DKIM attaches a cryptographic signature that proves the message wasn’t altered in transit and really did originate from the claimed domain. DMARC sits on top of both and tells the receiving server what to do when a message fails either check — quarantine it, reject it, or let it through — and gives the domain owner visibility into how often that’s happening. None of the three touches subject lines, sending frequency, or whether recipients actually want the message; a domain can pass all three checks and still land in spam over poor engagement. What they fix is impersonation and forgery, not the whole of deliverability.

Is it even legal to text our existing patients, and what do A2P registration and TCPA consent actually require?

Being an existing patient doesn’t by itself create legal permission to send marketing texts — TCPA requires consent for that specifically, a different bar than the implied consent that covers something like an appointment reminder. A patient has to affirmatively agree to receive marketing messages, typically captured at intake or through an opt-in on a form, and that consent needs to be documented, not assumed because a phone number exists in the chart. A2P registration is a separate requirement layered on top of consent: carriers require any business sending text campaigns at volume to register its sending number through the 10DLC system, and unregistered traffic gets filtered or blocked outright regardless of consent. Both pieces have to be in place — consent makes the message legal, registration makes it deliverable.

Do you write the campaigns, or do we?

We write them, on your platform account, in a voice built from how the practice actually talks to patients — not a generic template with the clinic’s name dropped in. That includes the segmented campaigns and the win-back sequences, scheduled and sent without someone on staff drafting copy between patients. Anything needing a clinician’s precision — dosage language, claims that touch regulated territory — gets reviewed before it goes out, and the practice can see and approve any campaign in advance if that’s how it wants to work. What we don’t do is hand over a blank template and leave the writing to whoever’s free that week.

The other channels

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