MENTAL HEALTH MARKETING

Helping Mental Health Providers Reach More Patients

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From solo practices to multi-location practices — we help you grow with purpose.

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User Engagement

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Admission Inquiries

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Admissions Calls

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HOW WE CAN HELP​

Is Your SEO Agency Struggling to Bring Qualified Leads?

We know you are busy and we know what you really care about – not keyword rankings, or organic traffic, but Qualified Leads.

What Is Drug Rehab SEO?

Drug Rehab SEO is a specialized strategy that connects treatment centers with patients searching for professional treatment help.

At 12 Steps Marketing, we help drug rehabs boost visibility, highlight unique programs, and establish authority. Our data-driven campaigns generate qualified leads, admissions, improve retention, and deliver measurable ROI—turning online searches into admissions. With 12 Steps Marketing, your treatment center shows up when it matters most: at the moment of need.

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+10 Years of Addiction Treatment Marketing & Driving Growth

12 Steps Marketing is a digital marketing agency located in Los Angeles, California that helps drug rehabs and mental health treatment centers tackle their toughest marketing challenge – Generating Qualified Leads.

Everything we do at 12 Steps Marketing Agency is focused on identifying bottlenecks and optimizing your search engine marketing campaigns to generate qualified leads.

Through a “blended” multi-channel marketing strategy that uses local, search, and paid advertising opportunities to drive census and growth for addiction treatment centers.

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Stop Wasting Money on SEO Campaigns That Doesn’t Drive Admissions

Many addiction treatment centers are looking for ways to improve their SEO performance and increase ROI, but they don’t know where to start.

When it comes to getting new qualified leads, clients, or admissions for your recovery treatment center, there’s nothing more powerful than search engine marketing.

However, you’ve probably worked with some local SEO agencies at some point and got mediocre results (despite being promised otherwise).

A non-recovery specialist digital marketing agency struggles with addiction treatment marketing because their strategy focuses on the wrong metrics such as vanity keywords, traffic volume, and ghost clicks. To get meaningful results, you need to focus on what really matters — Qualified Leads.

Why Work With 12 Steps Marketing?

12 Steps Marketing agency has been in operation for over 10+ years, helping addiction treatment centers get more qualified leads from search engines. Unlike other digital marketing agencies, we specialize in the Behavioral Health and Mental Health industries. We know what it takes to stay competitive and ahead of the curve. While everyone else is chasing down vanity metrics, we figured out what matters most to your business and focus on fixing the issues.

Sustainable Growth
Create a lasting sustainable growth for your business with a result-driven SEO campaign.
Drive Qualified Leads
Drive steady stream of qualified leads to your treatment website and convert them into actual paying customers.
Create Value
Create value with user-focused content that converts.
Establish Authority
Become the subject-matter expert and go-to source in the addiction recovery industry.
WHAT WE OFFER​

SEO That Drives Patients, Not Just Rankings

We’ll help you figure out what matters most to your addiction center marketing so you can stay focused on running your business.
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Multi-Channel
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Generate inbound phone calls, leads and new admissions.

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Qualified Lead Generation

Develop lead assets, setup lead nurturing and engagement funnels.

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Reduce CPA

Reduce reliance on paid ads. Increase return on investment (ROI).

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Ready To Start Generating Qualified Leads?

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Recovery Content
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Build on the basics and scale your operations with a predictable and reliable growth roadmap.

OUR CAPABILITIES​

10 Mental Health Center Marketing Ideas To Accelerate Growth

Proven mental health marketing strategies that will help you attract more patients.
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Mental Health SEO

Use SEO to drive more traffic to your website from the search engine. Make sure you’re also targeting local-based searches mental health center "Near Me” or “Mental health center in [City]”.

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Mental Health Web Design

Make your website to not only looks appealing but also to be easy-to-navigate to your website visitors. Also, make sure you’re making your website look great on mobile devices since most people are using their phones to look for your services.

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Mental Health PPC Ads

Use Google PPC ads to generate leads, raise awareness, and drive more prospective patients to your business.

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Social Media

Stay active on all social media platforms and engage with your prospective patients by creating interesting content, designed to educate them and make them feel interested to learn more about your business.

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Email Marketing

Build an email list of your prospective patients who don’t contact you right away. Once you have a list, you can use an email marketing campaign to nurture the list and make them trust you more.

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Referral Marketing

Encourage your past patients to refer new patients to your Mental Health Center by offering things such as incentive for a referral.

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Mental Health Conferences

Look for an opportunity to create a word of mouth marketing buzz in a conference, where you can find your target audience.

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Reputation Management

Build a solid online reputation for your mental health center, so you can make people feel more interested to choose your services.

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Digital PR/Media

Traditional media still works today, and you can use it to gain brand awareness and get noticed by your target audience.

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Mental Health Social Media

Stay active on all social media platforms and engage with your prospective patients by creating interesting content, designed to educate them and make them feel interested to learn more about your business.

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Mental Health Email Marketing

Build an email list of your prospective patients who don’t contact you right away. Once you have a list, you can use an email marketing campaign to nurture the list and make them trust you more.

CASE STUDIES

We Deliver Amazing Results

We focus on our clients success, and everything else falls into place.

RINSE & REPEAT

A Proven Framework for Any Treatment Center, Any Budget

Our addiction marketing strategy has been proven to work for all types of treatment centers, no matter where you’re located or your specialty. It’s been proven time and time again to get new qualified leads in the door.

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$36.2K

Monthly SEO Value

+1,117

1st Page Rankings

+67.3K

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+6.5K

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My Time Recovery's Census Reached +90% Within 100-Days

“We would highly recommend Vince if you are in need of someone to navigate your investment on your way to building out a larger profit center and helping addicts/alcoholics in need!”
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2018 Revenue

$1.8M

2019 Revenue

$2.4M

2020 Revenue

$2.6M

2021 Revenue

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For Every $1 Spent on Paid Ads, 12SM Agency Has Directly Generated $15.69

“12 Steps Marketing has done a great job creating and managing our campaigns on Google advertising and Facebook. This is a complicated field that is constantly changing.”

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“Vince and his team provide excellent service and have always gone above and beyond to make sure we have the knowledge we need to do the best marketing we can for our company!”

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FAQs

Your Questions, Answered.

Whether you’re just starting your treatment center or preparing to scale up, you can learn everything you need in one place.

Short answer is, YES. Search Engine Optimization is an essential marketing channel every recovery center must invest in long-term. 

We use tangible and measurable metrics such as traffic, online form submissions, PDF downloads, and phone calls to measure our SEO marketing success. Keyword Ranking does not always mean more traffic so we do not focus on ranking vanity keywords.

Depending on your regional competition and desired growth, we can match your intensity with our SEO marketing. Our monthly retainers can vary in three different tiers. First tier is Local SEO which starts at $3,500/monthly, 2nd tier at $5,500/monthly for State level targeting, and $8,500 on the 3rd for National SEO.
Yes. SEO marketing takes time and we encourage all our cilents to invest minimum of 6-8 months to see true lasting results.
100-Days or less. We’re confident that we can deliver tangible results compare to most other SEO agencies.
We’ll come up with a super-charged growth roadmap to dramatically increase your traffic, leads, and sales and put your business in a position of dominance. We’ll guide you through this roadmap and quickly build the foundation for your SEO marketing campaign. Uncovering the low-lying fruits and hyper-profitable, untapped traffic in your vertical.
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