Acuity Optical

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Healthcare Success partnered with Acuity Optical, the retail division of Acuity Eye Group, to strengthen brand presence and drive patient growth across key Southern California locations over 15 months using an integrated marketing approach.

This included SEO, paid digital campaigns, web support, creative strategy and HIPAA-compliant solutions, helping Acuity Optical compete with large national retailers.

(based on reporting from March 2024 – March 2025)

Acuity Optical focuses on eye exams and retail eyewear with showrooms in Indio, El Paseo and Arcadia. The division aimed to increase appointment volume while strengthening its brand to effectively compete with large national chains.

  • Inconsistent marketing workflow and creative support across locations
  • Limited brand cohesion and underutilized digital platforms
  • Complex compliance requirements for digital marketing (e.g., HIPAA)
  • Drove appointment growth at key locations
  • Elevated brand presentation across digital, web and environmental design
  • Implemented strategic SEO and web improvements for better patient engagement and discoverability

Healthcare Success approached Acuity Optical’s objectives with a 360-degree, cross-functional strategy:

  • Adapted existing brand guidelines to elevate the visual presentation
  • Enhanced paid social, web content and environmental design to engage patients
  • Paid search and social campaigns to drive appointments and capture new patients
  • Strategic SEO targeting site architecture, content gaps and technical improvements to improve discoverability and patient engagement.

Over 15 months, Healthcare Success executed comprehensive solutions to achieve Acuity Optical’s goals:

  • Delivered robust creative output for marketing campaigns, internal needs and event promotions
  • Introduced dynamic imagery and immersive content across digital and web platforms
  • Implemented HIPAA-compliant solutions with Freshpaint to ensure legal compliance and secure digital marketing practices, while working closely with Acuity Optical’s legal team to navigate ad platform requirements and mitigate risk
  • Optimized appointment scheduling and conversion tracking across locations, ensuring a universal, consistent process for patient intake
  • Enhanced call handling and phone protocols, prioritizing professional, prompt and thorough appointment management to reduce lost opportunities
  • Strategically identified and addressed workflow gaps, improving intake, digital tracking and patient engagement

Our paid search strategy alone delivered 794 unique leads and 159 new patients in a single month, at an average acquisition cost of $189 per patient. ROI on the first visit was nearly 2:1.

Over the average patient lifetime ($2,800), ROI grew to 14:1 (not including referrals or ancillary purchases).

Healthcare Success partnered closely with Acuity Optical to elevate brand perception and create a visually engaging experience across all touchpoints.

These samples demonstrate the depth and breadth of our creative partnership, showing how the Acuity Optical brand was brought to life while integrating precise operational processes, call tracking and compliance measures that directly supported patient growth.

Through integrated creative, digital, SEO and strategic services, Healthcare Success positioned Acuity Optical as a contender in a highly competitive retail optical market.

This partnership demonstrates our unique ability to drive patient growth, enhance operational efficiency and elevate brand impact across multi-location healthcare practices.

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Integrated Marketing Delivers 14:1 ROI & Boosts Appointments by 20%

Executive summary

Positioning Acuity Optical to Compete & Capture Market Share

Pain points

Key outcomes:

Delivering Tangible Benefits Through Full-Spectrum Marketing

Delivering Synergy Between Creative Execution & Appointment Growth

Driving Patient Growth & Elevating Brand Presence

Acuity Optical
Case Study
Acuity Optical
Key Statistics
14:1
Paid search ROI based on patient lifetime value—well above typical healthcare industry benchmarks
20%
increase in appointments at key locations within the first three months, generating 159 new patients
$189
average cost to acquire a new patient—at the low end of the national average ($150-300) for eye exam acquisition
26.9%
paid search click to inquiry conversion rate—well above the 4.63% national average for healthcare
-20%
decrease in paid search cost per conversion
55¢
paid search cost per click—surpassing healthcare benchmarks by 77¢
Healthcare Success acted as a full-service agency of record, providing integrated marketing strategy, creative support, web development, paid digital campaigns and SEO expertise.
Our strategy
Creative and brand strategy
Digital Marketing
SEO and web optimization
Implementation and Results
These efforts translated into measurable growth and a more polished, competitive brand presence.
Creative Highlights
Paid Social Ads
Solar Eclipse Promo + Fire Relief Program + Vision and Vino Socials
In-Store Header Designs