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Pearl Street.

A dental brand built to multiply. Five practices became seventeen, and the playbook went with them.

A Pearl Street dentist reviewing an X-ray with a patient

Practices managedStart to handoff

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Brand, design, PPC, social, Google Business Profile and SEO for every location, until they brought it in-house to prepare for an acquisition.

Client

Pearl Street Dental Partners

Industry

Multi-location dental

Services

Brand, design, PPC, social, GBP, SEO

Coffee consumed

Seventeen offices' worth

Chapter 1

Five practices. Five names. One owner.

Pearl Street started as a handful of Texas dental practices, each with its own name, its own reputation in its own town, and a growth plan that meant buying more of them.

The patients knew the practice down the street, not the parent company. So the job wasn't one brand. It was a brand system: a parent that could hold any number of local practices without erasing the name patients already trusted.

Chapter 2 / Naming the parentManagement, company, partners, group

One word decides who it's for.

Management, Company, Partners, Group. Each one tells dentists, patients and future buyers something different. We set them side by side, in one typographic voice, and landed on Pearl Street Dental Partners.

Final Pearl Street corporate lockups: Dental Partners, Pearl Street, Partners
Grid of parent name options in one typographic style
Chapter 3 / A system that scalesParent and practice, one family
Early logo roughs, four directionsLogo comp A with practice lockups: Flower Mound, Wesley, Marshall, Tyler, Stone Creek

Every new practice slots in on day one.

Each practice keeps its local name. Flower Mound, Wesley, Marshall, Tyler, Stone Creek. They all sit in the same frame, type and palette as the parent. Add a practice, drop in the name, and it already looks like family.

Marshall Family Dental and Flower Mound Dental lockups tested at three sizes

Fig. Practice names tested at three sizes inside the same frame.

Chapter 4 / The playbookRun it again, and again

Every acquisition got the same launch.

When Pearl Street bought a practice, we ran the playbook. Same steps, same standard, a new name on the door.

01

Brand

Practice lockup, cards, signage.

02

Site

A practice website and offer pages.

03

GBP

Google Business Profile set up and tuned.

04

SEO

Local terms, citations, fresh content.

05

PPC

New-patient and implant offers on Google.

06

Social

Facebook ads and a local presence.

Business card system for practices and the business team
New-patient family offers$49 / $99
Implant offer$999

The offers each practice launched with, every one with its own landing page.

Chapter 5 / The handoffBuilt to be handed over

When we started

When they took it in-house

The best compliment: they took it in-house.

As Pearl Street prepared to be acquired, they brought marketing in-house. Seventeen practices, one brand system and a playbook that could run without us.

It proved something we're proud of: we can run marketing for a multi-location business while it's growing, and leave it ready for whoever comes next.

More than one location? ↗

We build the system once and run it everywhere you grow.

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