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Services · 12 Disciplines
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The Work · 06 Case Studies
Six builds. Six different worlds.

Insight for elective practices.

News & Resources
Reputation
How Patients Choose a Doctor Now — and Why a Directory Often Decides First
The shortlist gets built before a patient ever reaches your website — on reviews, the map pack, AI answers, and a new layer of independent directories. Here's how those lists get made, and how to make sure you're on them.
Social
110 Plastic Surgeons With the Biggest Instagram Followings
A live research archive: the 110 plastic surgeons we found with the largest Instagram audiences — each with their profile, website, Google rating, domain authority, and site speed, captured June 2026.
SEO & Search
How Google Decides Who Wins Atlanta's Facelift Search
A full teardown of Atlanta's facelift market: who ranks, why, and exactly what the top practices do on Google, schema, and site speed. Our 2026 competitive research report.
Video
Video-First SEO: How a Surgeon on Camera Out-Ranks Every Text-Only Practice in Town
Google stopped rewarding the most pages and started rewarding the most trust. A surgeon on camera out-ranks the text-only practices in your market. Here's the full playbook.
Testimonials
The 3-Act Patient Testimonial That Books Consults, Not Just Collects Stars
A five-star review is proof; a patient's story is persuasion. The testimonials that actually book consults follow the same three acts every great story does.
Own your assets
Who Really Owns Your Website, Domain & Google Profile? For Most Practices, It Isn't Them
If you ever sell, relocate, or switch agencies, one question decides how painful it gets: who actually owns your digital front door? For most practices, it isn't them.
Funnels & CRO
Traffic Is Vanity: The Funnel That Turns Clicks Into Booked Consults
Traffic is vanity; a booked consult is revenue. Most practice sites collect visitors and quietly lose every one. Here's the funnel that turns a click into a calendar appointment.
Before / After
Before-and-After, Reinvented: Why Two Flat Photos Lose to Transformation in Motion
The before-and-after is the most persuasive asset in elective medicine, and two flat photos barely scratch it. In motion, it becomes the closest thing to watching the decision itself.
A decade of what actually works in elective-medicine marketing.
Persona 02 · Defending · Refresh + Leverage

Defending the practice
you've built.

You're the market leader, and newer surgeons are closing in with fresh reviews, faster content, and modern sites. We refresh your platforms and put the assets you already own back to work, so you keep the lead without touching what's working.

PROFILE · DEFENDING SURGEON
02
HoldEstablished · Market leader
01The overview · Who he is

How does an established practice defend the position it's built?

You built a real business: a full surgery center, a partner or two, a long-tenured team, and a name patients ask for. You've owned the Map Pack so long you stopped checking it.

The threat isn't a competitor. It's the slow erosion of the signals that built your lead, and the assumption that what worked for a decade will keep working. It won't. We refresh the platforms and put your assets back to work, the things a newer surgeon can't fake.

Illustrated mountain with the market-leader's practice 'Premier Aesthetics' perched at the summit while climbers, surgeons and rivals, work their way up the slopes toward it
02 · The philosophy

Stay ahead.
Stay booked.

Your reviews, photos, and pages all fade on a clock. We stop the decay and put the assets you already own back to work, so you keep the lead and the competitors stay behind.

A dense neural-network constellation of citation sources, Google at the center surrounded by a deep web of established directories, social platforms, vendor sites, press hits, and authority signals
The signal map · Every node is a vote
01

Your lead is aging out, not being stolen.

Old reviews count for less. Old photos look dated next to a newer surgeon's video. Pages that ranked for years slip. Nobody is taking your spot. It's quietly expiring, and we stop that.

02

New reviews win. Old ones fade.

You have 400 reviews; the newcomer has 80 but pulled 12 last month. Google and AI both reward recent ones. The fix is simple, and your patient base is far bigger than theirs.

03

You already own what they can't fake.

Before-and-afters, testimonials, press, awards, and thousands of past patients. A newer surgeon would pay a fortune to build it. You have it already. Most of it is just sitting unused, and we put it to work.

04

Refresh the platforms, keep the brand.

Your name and reputation are hard-won, so we protect them. It's the site, gallery, and listings that expire on a calendar. We modernize those and leave everything else alone.

05

Lead with proof, not hype.

Thousands of cases and a reputation patients trust. That track record is the one thing a newer surgeon can't fake, and most practices never put it where patients can see it. We do.

06

Elective medicine is all we do.

We work the toughest plastic surgery markets every day. We already know your competitors and what's working in search and AI. No learning curve on your dime.

03 · The five big issues

What MAA sees in almost every defending practice.

Five quiet patterns that erode a market lead. We name them, then fix them.

01

Your best assets are buried.

A career of content, reviews, and patients, sitting unused on hard drives.

  • Thousands of before-and-afters most patients never see
  • Years of cases nobody has recorded you talking about
  • Reviews scattered across Google, Yelp, and Healthgrades, never reused
  • Every past patient's email, in a system nobody opens
  • Awards, memberships, press, and talks never put to work
A before-and-after gallery deployed across laptop, desktop, and phone, what an activated asset library looks like in the wild
Activated library · Deployed everywhere
02

Your reviews slowed down.

400 reviews, but only a few lately. Google rewards the recent ones.

You never needed a system. Word of mouth did it. Newer practices automate the ask and pull 10 to 15 reviews a month while you pull one or two. We wire the same system to your bigger patient base and take you from 1 to 2 a month to 20+ in 90 days.

Phone showing a flood of incoming 5-star Google reviews, what flips on when the system is wired to your existing patient base
20+ reviews a month in 90 days
03

Your site has aged where it counts.

It looks fine on your iPad. On mobile and to Google, it reads old.

  • Built for desktop, but 70% of your patients are on mobile
  • Thin service pages, written before AI search existed
  • A dated bio and gallery that don't show your recent work
  • Slow to load, so patients leave before it opens
A cracked old iPhone showing a non-responsive practice website with text cut off and a 'Website Not Optimized for Mobile' warning
Not optimized for mobile · Where patients live
04

Your marketing is fine. Fine doesn't win.

You earned this position in a tough market. The rules changed.

The site, social, reviews, and SEO were all fine when they launched. The rules shifted underneath them. We modernize everything, working alongside the team you already have, with no disruption to how the practice runs.

An older blue sedan with a magnetic practice sign on the door, the visual shorthand for marketing that's fine but isn't winning anymore
Dependable but dated?
05

Social and video are slipping.

Your team won't be cranking out Reels, and they shouldn't have to.

A newer surgeon's staffer shoots a Reel at lunch and gets 40K views. You don't need to match that or learn a camera. Catch 30 seconds on your phone after an interesting case and send it. We do the rest, everywhere.

Phone showing 'One Asset. 8 Places.' content distribution across YouTube, IG, TikTok, Facebook, LinkedIn
One clip · Eight platforms · Hire it out
04 · The subscription

One subscription.
Three pillars.

Stop the decay, put your existing assets back to work, and out-publish the newcomers. You defend the lead, save time, and make more money from patients you already have.

1
Stop the decay · Save time

Stop the decay.

Everything quietly eroding your position, stopped in 30 days, then kept up as Google moves the goalposts.

2
Activate your assets · Win

Put your assets to work.

Everything you already own, pulled into one place and back in front of patients.

  • Old before-and-afters refreshed with new context, no new shoots
  • Your best cases recorded: you talk, our team edits
  • Every review found, consolidated, and reused
  • Every past patient's email in one place, finally reachable
  • Memberships and talks highlighted; we book the next stage
3
Authority · Make money

Pull further ahead.

Your depth, shown across the channels that matter, with no extra work for you. Send a phone clip; we turn it into content that ranks in Google and AI search.

05 · The content engine

One content asset.
Eight platforms.

Send us a phone clip between cases. We turn it, and your old before-and-afters, into content for every platform. Your effort: 30 seconds. The reach: everywhere.

01

Website blog

Authority, SEO, dwell time

Long-tail organic traffic for years

02

Email newsletter

Warms the existing list

Cheapest channel. It converts

03

Google Business Profile Posts

Local Google ranking signal

Directly impacts map pack

04

Instagram

Reel + grid + Stories

Where prospects research

05

Facebook

Older demographic

Still converts boomer-era buyers

06

YouTube

Long-tail SEO + AI search source

YouTube is now an AI search input

07

TikTok

Cold reach, new demographics

The youngest patient pipeline

08

LinkedIn

Peer, vendor, referral channel

Underused by surgeons. High signal.

06 · The engagement shape

Twelve months of defending and compounding.

Stop the decay in month 1. Put your assets to work in month 2. By month 6, your review velocity matches or beats the closest newcomer.

M 1
Stop the bleed
Top-4 competitor benchmark delivered. Review automation live. Listings and schema cleaned up.
M 2
Activate assets
Old photos, reviews, and the full patient list pulled into one place. First batch of before-and-afters redeployed with fresh context.
M 3
Modernize
Website refresh begins, same brand, modernized underneath. First phone clip turned into authority content.
M 4–6
Velocity recovery
Reviews climbing fast as past patients reactivate. Map Pack steadies. Content runs across all eight platforms.
M 6
Benchmark vs. the newcomers
Re-audit. Your review velocity usually matches or beats the closest newer surgeon for the first time in years.
M 7–12
Lock and compound
Authority library deepening from the clips you send. AI search visibility climbing. Testimonial pipeline running.
M 12
Annual review
Full re-benchmark. Position quantifiably defended. Next year's growth angles identified.
07 · Why defending surgeons hire MAA

Protect your position.
You do surgery. Keep the lead.

01

We protect what you built.

No "start over" pitch. We refresh and modernize your name, brand, and position, never replace them, working alongside the team you already have.

02

You stay in the OR.

Surgery is your job; marketing is ours. We handle the daily work, content, reviews, site, social, AI search. You send the occasional phone clip between cases.

03

You stay number one.

One predictable monthly cost. No scary rebuild quote, no surprise fees. The work compounds so your lead keeps widening. After 6 months, either side can walk with 30 days' notice.

In their words
We were already #1 and didn't want to coast. They keep us there on rankings, reviews, and content, so nobody catches up.
★★★★★
Now booking 2026 · Available today

Book your defensive audit.

We pull up your top competitors and show you, side by side, where you're winning, where you're slipping, and the fastest way to pull further ahead. You leave knowing exactly how to defend the lead and book more of the patients already looking for you.