SGA Growth · YTD 2026 Performance & Plan

Allure Dental

How every lead performed January to September 2026, and the disciplined plan to grow. Built from a live GoHighLevel pull.

Agency: Wonderist Window: YTD, Jan to Sep 2026 1,723 leads · 276 cases All-time: 4,141 leads · 728 cases

The bottom line

Allure has two engines that both work — organic and paid search. One channel, paid social, is dead weight.

Why it mattersOrganic search and paid search are 85% of leads and 94% of case value, and both close well (20% and 16% lead-to-sale). Paid social brought 145 leads this year and closed exactly one. Allure is not a channel problem; it is a concentration-and-cleanup opportunity.
1,723
Leads
Jan to Sep 2026
276
Cases closed
16.0% lead to sale
$679K
Case value
est., won cases
$2,459
Avg case
volume business
20.0%
Organic lead→sale
the best channel
0.7%
Paid social L→S
1 of 145 closed
Protect organic

786 leads, 20% close, $350K. The single biggest engine and the best converter. Keep SEO and reputation funded; this is earned equity, not a spend dial.

Lean into paid search

678 leads, 15.5% close, $291K at the highest AOV. The rare paid channel that pulls its weight. Hold or grow it once we confirm cost-per-case.

Fix or cut paid social

145 leads, 1 close, 47 marked unqualified. Classic Meta instant-form junk. Rework the targeting and offer, or move the money to search.

Performance by channel

Organic and paid search carry the practice. Paid social does not convert.

Why it mattersOrganic and paid search are 85% of leads and 94% of case value, and they close at 20% and 16%. Paid social is 8% of leads and closes at 0.7%. Direct and referral are small but efficient.
ChannelLeadsBookedClosedCase value Book rateLead→saleAvg caseVerdict
Total1,723426276$679K 24.7%16.0%$2,459

Where the case value is

Closed case value by channel, YTD (est.)

How well each converts

Lead to closed case, percent

Case value is GHL's estimated opportunity value on won cases, not collected production from the practice management system. Allure's GHL uses low default deal values, so dollar figures are directional and understate true cosmetic case value. Treat lead counts and close rates as the hard numbers; treat dollars as estimates. “Booked” = reached the Appointment Booked stage or beyond. 1 unattributed lead is folded into the total.

The funnel, month by month

Lead flow is steady and strong. The leverage is mid-funnel, not at the top.

Why it mattersAllure draws roughly 190 leads a month and converts 16% to a case. More leads is not the constraint; moving more of the leads we already get from contact to booked to closed is.
Cohort funnel by lead-created month, current stage as of the pull. Rows are cumulative: a booked lead also counts as contacted. Two caveats: “Shown” is not a stage in this pipeline, so show rate is not trackable. And “Contacted” is under-recorded because inbound phone-call opportunities often stay in the intake stage and are never moved to Contacted, which deflates contact rate. Lead-to-sale is the clean measure. August and September closes are still maturing (leads are credited to the month they entered), so their closed and case-value changes reflect timing, not performance. Change columns compare September to August and to July: green = up 5% or more, yellow = within 5%, red = down 5% or more.

Return on spend

We can score ROI the day the spend file lands. One input is missing.

Why it mattersGHL gives us leads, conversion, and estimated case value by channel. It does not give us ad spend. For Nashville we layered in the Wonderist budget file and computed cost-per-case and ROAS per channel. The moment Allure's monthly spend by channel arrives, this same report produces that.
What we can already say, directionally
  • Paid search is almost certainly the strongest paid dollar. $291K in estimated case value, 105 closes, 15.5% lead-to-sale, and the highest average case ($2,773). At any reasonable spend it is carrying its weight.
  • Paid social is almost certainly underwater. 145 leads produced one $500 case. Any media spend behind it is losing money until the targeting and offer are rebuilt.
  • Organic and direct are brand-funded. They carry no direct media cost and together closed 167 cases, so they are the efficiency backbone, not a spend lever to crank.
Send one thing to unlock the full ROI view

Allure's monthly ad spend by channel (Google / Meta) and the Wonderist retainer line items. With it, this report adds a budget-by-channel breakdown, a cost-per-case figure, and a ROAS-by-month heatmap, exactly as the Nashville plan has.

Case value by channel, by month

Organic is the steady base. Paid search spikes with the big cases.

Why it mattersOrganic search delivers case value every month like clockwork. Paid search is lumpier and carried April with a single large month ($118K). Paid social is a flat line at zero, and direct and referral are occasional.

Monthly case value by channel

Stacked, Jan to Sep (est.). Organic and paid search do the work.

Case value by channel by month

Read it: estimated case value credited to the month the lead was created. Change columns compare September to August and to July (green = up 5% or more, yellow = within 5%, red = down 5% or more); recent closes are still maturing. Gross, last-touch, directional.

Case mix: volume with a cosmetic tail

This is a volume practice. A small tail of larger cases is the upside to grow.

Why it mattersThe median closed case is just $726 and 236 of 276 cases are under $5K, so Allure runs on everyday dentistry. But the top 10% of cases still drive 48% of value, and the largest was $35,203. The growth play is lifting the high-value tail, not chasing more small leads.

Closed cases by size

276 won cases, Jan to Sep, grouped by value (est.)

48%
of value from the top 28 cases (largest 10%)
$35,203
largest single case
236
cases under $5K, the volume core
The tracking gap to fix

GHL is not tagging service line. There is no cosmetic-vs-general label on opportunities, and the low default deal values mean the dollar figures understate real cosmetic work. Add a treatment or service-line field in GHL so implants, veneers, Invisalign, and full-arch are trackable, and set realistic case values. Until then, case value is a rough proxy and almost certainly too low.

Two leaks in the data

Both are fixable without buying a single new lead.

Why it mattersBefore adding spend, plug these. One is a wasted channel; the other is pipeline hygiene that makes every report, and every follow-up, more reliable.

Paid social is burning leads

  • 145 leads, 93 contacted, 47 marked unqualified, 1 sold. The leads are real people, but they do not qualify or convert.
  • This is the Meta instant-form pattern seen across the Wonderist portfolio: cheap cosmetic-quiz leads that close near 0%.
  • Rework or redirect. Rebuild the targeting and offer (retargeting, high-intent creative), or move the budget into paid search, which closes at 15.5%.

The intake stage is a black hole

  • Phone-call and intake opportunities rarely move to Contacted, so contact rate reads artificially low and the funnel is hard to trust.
  • Set a stage-hygiene rule: every opportunity moves out of intake within 24 hours, to Contacted, Booked, or Unqualified.
  • Add a service-line field at the same time so we can finally measure cosmetic vs general. Pure process work, near-zero cost.
A separate website and cosmetic-readiness audit for Allure exists and is not repeated here; this section covers only what the live GHL data shows.

Monthly trend

Lead flow is remarkably steady. Case value is lumpy, driven by the big cases.

Why it mattersLeads hold near 190 a month all year. April was the standout for case value ($178K on 44 closes), carried by paid search. August and September look lighter only because their closes are still maturing.

Leads, closed cases, and case value by month

Bars: lead and closed-case counts (left). Line: monthly case value, est. (right).

The plan, next 90 days

Clean up the waste, concentrate on what works, then grow the high-value tail.

Phase 1Days 0 to 30 · Clean up and instrument
Stop the waste, make the data trustworthy
1
Rework or pause paid social.
145 leads, 1 close this year. Rebuild targeting and offer around retargeting and high-intent creative, or move the budget to paid search. Set a 60-day close-rate gate before any re-scale.
Paid media
2
Set a pipeline-hygiene rule in GHL.
Every opportunity leaves the intake stage within 24 hours, to Contacted, Booked, or Unqualified. This alone makes contact rate and the funnel real.
MM / GHL
3
Add a service-line field and realistic case values.
Tag implants, veneers, Invisalign, and full-arch, and replace the low default deal values so cosmetic revenue stops being undercounted.
Ops / GHL
4
Send the spend file to unlock ROI.
Monthly ad spend by channel plus Wonderist retainer line items. With it, this report adds cost-per-case and ROAS by channel, as Nashville has.
Growth
Phase 2Days 30 to 60 · Concentrate on what works
Fund the two engines, grow the tail
5
Protect and tune the organic engine.
786 leads at a 20% close. Keep SEO, reputation, and Google Business Profile funded; add pages for the high-value services (implants, veneers, full-arch) to pull more large cases.
SEO / Content
6
Push paid search toward high-value intent.
It already closes at 15.5% with the best AOV. Shift budget and keywords toward implant, veneer, and full-arch intent to lift average case value, once cost-per-case is confirmed.
Paid media
7
Reactivate booked-but-unclosed leads.
150 leads booked year to date and did not close. Run a re-engagement sequence (financing, proof, limited consult slots) against the owned database. Near-zero cost.
MM / GHL
Phase 3Days 60 to 90 · Scale what proves out
Spend follows evidence
8
Re-scale paid social only past a close-rate gate.
If the rebuild gets paid social above a 5% lead-to-sale on a real offer, add budget. If not, keep the money in search and organic.
Paid media
9
Engineer a referral track.
Referrals are tiny in volume but convert. Add a structured ask at case completion and a VIP card to turn satisfied patients into a steady, free channel.
Practice
10
Stand up a monthly channel scorecard.
This report, monthly: leads, close rate, case value, and (once spend lands) cost-per-case by channel, so budget follows performance.
Growth

90-day targets

Paid social lead→sale
0.7% → 5%+
Rebuild or redirect budget
Service-line tagging
0% → 100%
Every opp tagged in GHL
ROI visibility
None → Live
Cost-per-case once spend lands
Cases over $8K
19 → grow
Lift the high-value tail
Bottom line: cut the paid-social waste, make the GHL pipeline and service-line data trustworthy, concentrate budget on the two channels that already close (organic and paid search), grow the high-value case tail, and send the spend file so ROI goes live.

Sources & method

  • Window: performance runs Jan 1 to Sep 30, 2026 (YTD), by lead-created month. All-time context (Aug 2024 to present) is shown in the header chips.
  • Data: live GoHighLevel opportunities pull on Oct 6, 2026, 4,141 records all-time, 1,723 in the YTD window. Aggregate only, no patient names or contacts. Channel is the GHL source, normalized.
  • Case value is an estimate. It is GHL's opportunity value on won cases, not collected production. Allure's GHL uses low default deal values, so dollar figures are directional and understate true cosmetic case value. Lead counts and close rates are the hard numbers.
  • Funnel proxies: “Contacted” = reached the Contacted stage or beyond; “Booked” = reached Appointment Booked or beyond; “Closed” = won. This pipeline has no “Presented Treatment” stage, so show rate is not trackable.
  • Cohort lag: won cases are credited to the month the lead was created, so recent months (Aug, Sep) understate conversion as those cases are still maturing.
  • No spend data yet. ROAS and cost-per-case require Allure's monthly ad spend by channel, which is not in this pull. Provide it and the full ROI view is added.
  • Service line is untagged in GHL today, so cosmetic vs general case mix is inferred from case value only. Fixing this is a plan item.