Healthcare marketing since 2006

Your growth depends on two things: attracting the right patients and helping them choose your practice. Denali brings advertising, websites, patient education, and staff training together to help ophthalmology and dental practices do both.

Healthcare only since 2006 · In-house video production · Free initial strategy call

Selected work

Work built around real practices.

Explore websites we have designed and built for ophthalmology and dental practices.

Our focus

Experience in the care you provide.

Other elective specialties

Search, patient education, and conversion support for practices where patients choose their care.

Plastic & cosmetic surgery →Dermatology →
About our founder

Built on how practices actually work.

Paul M. Stubenbordt, Founder, President & CEO of Denali Creative
2001In ophthalmology
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Paul M. Stubenbordt

Founder · President & CEO

Paul Stubenbordt has worked in ophthalmology since 2001. He founded Denali Creative in 2006, bringing marketing, staff training, optometric outreach, and practice operations into the same conversation.

That experience shapes how we connect your marketing with the people who answer the phone, schedule consultations, and support patients.

Paul also produces The Marketing Doctor, sharing conversations and practical ideas for growing healthcare practices.

Marketing strategySales & phone trainingOptometric outreachBusiness developmentPractice managementClinical operations
How we work

A clear route from diagnosis to growth.

01

Find the opportunity

Review your market, marketing, and patient inquiry process.

02

Build the plan

Set priorities around your procedures, capacity, and goals.

03

Prepare and launch

Build campaigns and content, verify tracking, and train the team handling inquiries.

04

Measure and improve

Review qualified inquiries, consultations, and acquisition costs; refine the work as results develop.

Example approaches

What a focused growth plan could look like.

These illustrative scenarios show how we would approach common challenges in ophthalmology and dentistry. They are not client case studies or measured results.

Ophthalmology

Help more LASIK inquiries become consultations

The challenge

A practice receives LASIK inquiries, but too many prospective patients leave before scheduling a consultation.

Our approach

Review how patients discover the practice and what happens after they inquire. Build clear candidacy and cost information, connect advertising to dedicated landing pages, and coach the team on responding to questions and booking the next step.

What we would measure

Qualified inquiries, consultation booking rate, appointment attendance, and cost per booked consultation.

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Dentistry

Create a clearer path to implant consultations

The challenge

A practice wants to grow implant care, but its website and campaigns give prospective patients little help understanding their options or taking the next step.

Our approach

Create focused implant content and landing pages, explain the consultation process, and feature useful doctor-led education. Align campaigns with patient intent and help the front desk follow up consistently.

What we would measure

Qualified implant inquiries, booked and attended consultations, treatment acceptance, and cost per acquired patient.

Explore dentistry marketing →
Video & patient education

Help patients get to know you.

Our in-house 4K studio produces the assets that build trust before the first phone call — doctor explainers, patient testimonials, procedure education, and YouTube content engineered for search.

Doctor explainersPatient testimonialsProcedure educationYouTube strategySocial cutdownsOn-site shootsScripting & teleprompter
Practice economics engine

What is your marketing actually worth?

Explore how your budget, inquiry costs, and conversion rates affect potential patient volume and revenue. Adjust the assumptions to reflect your practice.

Ad spend + media, per month
How many leads book a consultation
How many consults convert to a case
Projected monthly revenueLIVE
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Return on ad spend
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Cost per patient

Illustrative model using adjustable assumptions, not documented client results. Revenue excludes practice costs and agency fees. Your actual performance will vary; this is not a forecast or guarantee of results.

Questions

Straight answers.

A healthcare marketing agency helps medical, dental, and elective surgery practices attract and convert patients. Denali combines SEO and answer engine optimization, Google Ads, medical website design, video production, and conversion strategy — all built for healthcare compliance, patient psychology, and procedure-level economics.

Elective procedures like LASIK, premium IOL cataract surgery, and cosmetic dentistry have unique patient journeys, long consideration windows, and high lifetime value. Since 2006 we've focused exclusively on these specialties — so strategy is informed by real procedure economics, not generic templates.

Answer engine optimization (AEO) helps search and AI systems understand your practice and its content. We organize clear answers to patient questions, accurate practice information, and structured website data. Rankings and citations depend on each platform and cannot be guaranteed.

AI supports research, content development, and campaign analysis. Experienced healthcare marketers guide the work and review it before publication. Clinical content should also be reviewed by your practice for accuracy.

Start with a free 30-minute strategy call or request a free marketing audit. Your audit and review call are completed within three business days of your request. We review your website, search visibility, advertising, and patient inquiry process to identify priorities for your practice.

Start the climb

Find your practice’s next growth opportunity.

Start with a free 30-minute strategy call about your goals, your market, and where your patient acquisition process could improve.