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Meta and TikTok ads

Paid social that targets patients in your catchment area

Meta Ads let you reach people in a 5km radius of your practice who match the demographic profile of your best patients, before they even know they need your service. We write the creative, set the targeting, and keep the spend compliant with HPCSA guidelines.

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Patient journey

How paid social fits your patient journey

Paid social works at the awareness stage, before a patient starts searching. Someone who sees an educational video about composite bonding on Instagram may not have known the treatment existed. Meta lets you reach people within a 5km radius of your practice who match the profile of your best patients, before they ever type a search query. This extends your reach beyond patients who are already decision-ready and builds a pool of warm prospects who convert more easily when they reach the search stage. Meta retargeting then keeps your practice visible to website visitors who did not book on their first visit, serving ads across Facebook, Instagram, and Messenger.

Common challenges

What we hear from practices about paid social

"Our Facebook ads get lots of likes but no bookings"

Engagement campaigns and lead generation campaigns are different objectives. We run lead form ads with a booking intent, not reach campaigns optimised for reactions.

"We got a compliance warning about a before-and-after post"

HPCSA prohibits certain types of patient imagery in advertising. All our creative goes through a compliance check before it goes live.

"We tried Meta but the targeting never felt right"

Lookalike audiences built from your existing patient base outperform broad demographic targeting by a significant margin. We build these from your CRM export on day one.

"TikTok feels too young for our practice"

TikTok's 25 to 44 demographic is growing rapidly in South Africa. For aesthetic treatments, it is the platform where treatment consideration begins. Short-form education content performs well for high-value procedures.

What changes

What this looks like when it works

Full control over your daily spend

You control exactly how much you spend, down to the day. No minimum contract on ad spend, no hidden platform fees.

Retargeting that follows your website visitors

Meta's retargeting pixel lets us serve ads to people who visited specific pages on your website, so your Invisalign campaign only reaches people who already looked at your Invisalign page.

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Why OneConsult

Why OneConsult for paid social

Compliance review on every creative

All ad creative is reviewed against HPCSA advertising guidelines before it goes live. You do not have to guess about what is permitted.

Custom audiences built from your patient data

We build lookalike audiences from your existing patient database in the first week. Campaigns start with warm signals rather than cold demographic guesswork.

Full spend transparency

You see exactly where every rand goes: which placements, which audiences, at what frequency. No black-box reporting.