Strategic marketing diagnostic and implementation

ABOUT ALISA CONNER

Building patient acquisition systems for specialty medical practices.

We find exactly where your revenue leaks are and show you how to stop them so your practice growth and revenue amplify.

 

WHY the Clearest View Comes From Outside The Clinic

The most valuable thing I bring to a specialty practice is a clear view from outside it.

With more than 50 revenue diagnostics behind me across referral-dependent businesses, I see the patterns that the people living inside a practice have long stopped noticing, and the through line surprised even me. The reasons a specialty practice loses patients it has already earned are the same reasons any referral-dependent business loses revenue it has already earned.  Hiding in plain sight in the referral that never gets tracked, the call that slips to voicemail, the consultation that never converts, the reputation nobody is managing.

Because I am not buried in your day-to-day, I spot those gaps quickly, which leaves your physicians free to focus purely on medicine and your team free to focus on patients.

Finding the revenue hiding in plain sight is the whole job, and it is the thing I do best.

WHY I WORK WITH 3-4 practices

You might wonder why I cap my client list so tightly. It’s very intentional because when I am diagnosing the blind spots costing a practice multiple six figures a year, it can’t be done from a template or at volume. I need time to understand your specialty’s patient journey, your market, the competitors quietly taking patients who should have been yours, and the realities of running a practice that no playbook accounts for. Most healthcare marketing consultants scale by handing you over to junior staff. I scale by being selective, which means the practices I take on get my attention rather than someone else’s checklist, and that is what makes a real transformation possible.

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Background

My background starts in enterprise operations and marketing at GE and Canon, where I learned how mid-market organizations actually run, and where revenue quietly leaks when no one owns the whole system.

Since then, I have spent more than a decade diagnosing revenue systems for small businesses and entrepreneurs. Across those diagnostics, the same nine areas show up again and again as the places independent specialty practices lose revenue they have already earned, from referrals and scheduling to reputation, follow-up, and the technology that was supposed to fix all of it. That pattern is the backbone of how I diagnose a practice, specific enough to find your particular leak and universal enough to hold across every specialty I serve.

Additionally, I am StoryBrand-certified, which matters more than it sounds, because most practices are losing patients to unclear messaging rather than to a better surgeon.

What I am Not

Here is the part worth saying plainly.

I am not another piece of software for your stack, and I am not an agency with services to upsell you. Plenty of vendors will sell you a tool, and the tool will sit on top of a broken process and make the same leak run faster.

What I build is the underlying process, the strategy, and the systems that determine whether the technology you already pay for closes the gap or simply automates it. Tools process patients who have already entered your system. My work is everything that happens before that, the reason a patient finds you, chooses you, shows up, and comes back.

The Graduation Philosophy

Most healthcare marketing agencies are built to keep you dependent, because dependency is the business model. I built mine around the opposite. The goal is to make your practice self-sufficient, which is why most engagements move through three stages.

First, I do the work with you, then I show your team how to run it, and finally, I step back to strategic oversight while your people carry it.

My best partnerships need me less over time, not more.

You are not hiring a permanent vendor; you are building a patient acquisition capability that outlasts our work together, and that is the whole point.

What Drives This Work

I have watched too many excellent practices struggle because they cannot connect their spending to the patients they gain. Brilliant physicians who can manage a complex surgery, a clinical team, and the maze of insurance, and who still cannot answer their partners when asked what the marketing is actually producing.

That is not a competence problem; it is a visibility problem, and it is fixable.

When a practice owner can finally point to where the dollars go and which channels bring patients in, when a conversion blocker that quietly cost them months of growth gets fixed in weeks, when a practice that depended entirely on one founding physician’s reputation becomes something that can be sold or passed on, that is the work, and that is why I do it.

The Work By The Numbers

50+

Revenue diagnostics across specialty practices and referral-dependent businesses

9

Leak areas that pinpoint where a practice loses revenue it has already earned

20-40%

Typical lift in marketing ROI

$500K+

Average referral revenue recovered

Experience spans ophthalmology, orthopedics, dermatology, and multi-location specialty groups, built on a foundation of enterprise marketing at GE, Canon, and StoryBrand certification.

Ready to find out what your practice is actually losing.

Start with the free worksheet. It takes 10 minutes and produces a number that changes the conversation.

READY TO TRANSFORM?

So if you have a feeling your practice is losing patients you already earned, and you want to know exactly where before you spend another dollar on marketing, start with the number and finally see the leak everyone else has been walking past.