What if the marketing agency you hired to grow your chiropractic practice is actually keeping you from understanding one of the most important parts of your business? In Part One of this conversation, Dr. Lauryn sits down with Dr. Travis Stewart to unpack how taking control of his own Facebook and Instagram ads helped transform a struggling new practice.
Travis shares how he went from roughly $12K to $70K a month by bringing marketing in-house, developing condition-specific ad funnels, and learning how to create messaging that actually builds trust and converts. They also explore the shift from clinician to CEO, simplifying marketing so it remains sustainable, building a team around a bigger vision, and confronting the burnout and identity challenges that can come when your entrepreneurial ambitions grow beyond patient care.
Key Takeaways
- Owning your marketing creates control. Travis stopped depending on agencies, learned the mechanics of Facebook and Instagram advertising, and built an in-house system that helped take his practice from roughly $12K to $70K per month.
- Effective chiropractic advertising starts with relevance and trust. Condition-specific messaging, strong hooks, clear positioning, social proof, and a compelling call to action can make an ad feel built specifically for the patient seeing it.
- Practice growth requires a CEO mindset. Learning to track data, understand demand generation, simplify systems, and make informed business decisions became just as important as being an excellent chiropractor.
- More revenue does not automatically create more freedom. As the practice grew, Travis moved from being money-poor and time-rich to money-rich and time-poor, forcing him to build a team, delegate, and rethink where his time and attention belonged.
About the Guest
Dr. Travis Stewart is the owner of Move Chiropractic in Boulder, Colorado, and co-founder of Making Moves, the coaching company behind Chiro Ads Academy. After opening his practice during the 2020 lockdown, Travis helped grow it from roughly $12K to $70K per month in just a few months by bringing his marketing in-house and developing his own Facebook and Instagram advertising system. Since then, Travis and his team have helped more than 450 chiropractic practices implement their own ads, managing over $5 million in ad spend and generating more than $30 million in care plan revenue for clients. He also hosts *The Arena*, where he shares strategies for chiropractic practice growth, marketing, leadership, and entrepreneurship.
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