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A specialist paid-traffic agency that helps doctors attract private patients through Google search campaigns.
The service niche made the ads legible: teach doctors enough Google Business Profile basics to earn trust, then sell execution to clinics that want more patients.
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Sylan Accioli worked in industry for nearly 15 years while studying digital marketing and building websites on the side. In 2018, a doctor from an entrepreneur group asked him to help launch a course about better patient communication and private practice economics. Sylan handled paid traffic and technical setup; Henrique handled copywriting. The first launch returned zero despite high effort, but it created experience and introduced them to doctors who needed marketing execution. They later built an agency focused entirely on medical clients. Instead of relying on a course launch model, they leaned into Google search campaigns and doubled the number of clients within a few months after joining a training program. They added a lower-priced Google Business Profile course that helps doctors improve local visibility and gives prospects a smaller first purchase before hiring the agency. In the interview, agency revenue is reported at R$42,000 per month and course sales at about R$30,000 per month, while the headline total is around R$62,000. These figures do not reconcile exactly, so keep the streams separate.
For a medical advertising agency, the first customers are easiest to find through trusted communities and a narrowly defined specialty, not a generic promise to run ads for any business.
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16:50 · hear it in the videoPortuguese, as spokenData credibility: Founder interview published by Tiago Tessmann, who presents the guest's results. Sylan Accioli says the agency serves medical clients, reached R$42,000 monthly agency revenue, and sells about R$30,000 per month of course products; the host and title state a roughly R$62,000 combined figure. Those amounts do not reconcile exactly and are unaudited. The founder reports doubling client count within a few months after focusing on Google search and describes a first 2018 launch with zero return. The course was for doctors using Google Business Profile, with 17 optimization points. Accioli says much of current demand still comes from the early course relationship. No dashboard or independent financial evidence is shown. The founder identifies himself as being from Rio de Janeiro; the agency's exact registered location is not specified.
The first paid work emerged from a course launch for a doctor who wanted to help other physicians improve patient communication and move toward better-remunerated private consultations. Accioli managed the paid traffic and technical pieces, while Henrique supplied copy.
A referral and education loop helped the agency turn its first project into a repeatable pipeline. The original course taught doctors about marketing, and some students then asked for help executing paid campaigns.
The founders' first course launch produced zero return, even though they invested heavily and learned a great deal. For a small agency, that kind of quiet launch can feel like proof that the entire niche is wrong, when the actual gap may be offer, targeting, timing, or channel fit.
This is a service business with a small education product attached. The agency works only with medical clients and sells paid traffic management, especially Google search campaigns intended to help doctors attract patients. Its course teaches doctors to create and maintain a Google Business Profile, examine competitors, check local positioning, and improve 17 profile elements. That course serves as both a standalone product for practices that want to do the work themselves and an introduction to the founders' marketing approach. The founders described the core client base as doctors and discussed paid search as the acquisition channel that helped them double client count within a few months. They also previously tested a higher-ticket course model for physicians, but that did not confirm the expected conversion rate. The important product choice is specialization: the agency can build a repeatable understanding of healthcare practice economics, local search, and the questions doctors ask before outsourcing. Client results still depend on location, specialty, competition, appointment capacity, and landing-page conversion; campaign management alone cannot solve a broken intake process.
The business combines recurring agency fees with sales of a Google Business Profile course for doctors. In the interview, Accioli says the agency reached R$42,000 in monthly revenue and course sales averaged about R$30,000; the headline combines them as roughly R$62,000 per month. The listed components add to more than the stated total, so use the streams individually and treat the total as an approximate reported figure. The course helps doctors who cannot yet afford managed marketing, and some later hire the agency. The founders also observed that some people who saw the course advertisement chose to inquire about services instead of buying the course. For a similar business, keep course and retainer economics separate: course revenue is less predictable and depends on launches or steady enrollment, while retainers require delivery capacity and client retention. Set service pricing according to campaign scope, locations, reporting, and call handling rather than using the interview's revenue as a rate card. Track gross margin after labor, software, and any subcontractors. Make it clear whether media spend is billed directly to the practice or handled through the agency.
The interview focuses on channel strategy and revenue rather than naming a detailed software stack or cost structure. A two-founder medical marketing shop can start with standard campaign management, landing-page, analytics, call-tracking, and reporting tools, keeping the clinic as owner of its advertising account and data. Avoid building custom software until repeated client work shows a clear bottleneck. The major cost is founder delivery time: keyword research, campaign setup, landing-page review, conversion troubleshooting, and client communication. Productize the recurring parts with checklists for intake, tracking, campaign launch, weekly optimization, and monthly review. Separate initial setup work from ongoing management so onboarding does not erase the first month's margin. For the course, record production and support costs, payment fees, and refund rates; do not assume a digital product has no operating cost. Keep patient data out of general-purpose marketing systems where possible, and confirm that call recording and ad claims follow applicable rules. As the client base grows, hire against a documented repeatable process rather than adding staff to compensate for inconsistent scope.
Copy the sequence of learning through a real customer project, turning that work into a niche agency, and using education to serve prospects who are not ready for a retainer. The most useful positioning decision was to focus on doctors rather than competing as a generic paid-traffic provider. Their course also meets a real buyer at a lower commitment level and gives the team a chance to demonstrate expertise. Change the dependence on a single source of referrals: the founders say a large share of demand still traces back to their original course relationship, so a new operator should add direct outreach, partnerships, and useful search content early. Do not promise that a profile will remain at the top of Google or that ad spend guarantees patient bookings. Choose a specialty, document the economics of a new patient, and report booked consultations rather than impressions alone. Keep client-side intake and follow-up inside the engagement plan, since leads that go unanswered can make good campaigns look ineffective. The model is replicable for marketers with healthcare knowledge and sales discipline, but the founder's reported revenue does not establish typical results.
The agency faces concentration risk if referrals from one course or educator account for much of demand. The founders say that channel still contributes substantially, even as they want more than one acquisition source. A change in that partner relationship could reduce new leads quickly. Healthcare advertising also carries compliance and reputation risks: claims about outcomes, patient targeting, reviews, and sensitive data require care. Client churn can rise when a practice lacks appointment capacity, responds slowly to inquiries, or expects immediate results from a competitive search market. A course may cannibalize service demand or attract buyers who never implement its lessons, so track learner activation and upgrades rather than gross sales alone. The headline revenue is self-reported, and the stated R$42,000 agency revenue plus roughly R$30,000 course sales does not match the approximate R$62,000 combined claim exactly. Before copying the model, validate fee collection, retention, and delivery hours. A founder who cannot sell to doctors or explain attribution will struggle even with solid campaign skills. Avoid scaling payroll until recurring client revenue covers a stable delivery process.
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