OBS. 03 / 10 Lifecycle Marketing  ·  CRM

The appointment funnel loses 74% of leads before they ever become customers.

Of every 100 appointments your digital channels generate, roughly 26 result in a sale. The other 74 vanish between the booking and the register — and every media dollar you spend to book the next appointment enters a system that loses three of every four.

Revenue Lost · Per 100 Bookings
$119k
At a $1,611 average ticket, closing only 26 of every 100 booked appointments leaves $119,214 in potential revenue on the table, per cohort.
The Fix, at a glance.
CURRENT → TARGET · 180 DAYS
Cancellation
25% 18%
−7 pts
Show Rate
58% 68%
+10 pts
Close Rate
60% 67%
+7 pts
Sales per 100
26 37
+42% revenue
Who We're Losing Every booked appointment is a real person who wants to walk pain-free.
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The Return to Joy
01 Problem Identified

The 74 you lose don't leave in one place. They leave in three.

Understanding where the funnel leaks is the difference between a media problem and a lifecycle marketing problem. The loss is not distributed randomly — it clusters in three distinct, specifically-addressable stages. Each has a different root cause. Each has a different fix.

74% LEAK RATE per 100 bookings
25
Cancel before the fitting
Booked online, never walked in. No confirmation or nurture sequence exists today to hold the lead.
25%
31
Don't show up
42% no-show rate on the 75 appointments that remain. Reminder and expectation gaps drive anxiety-based drop-off.
31%
18
Show but don't close
40% walk-out rate at the fitting. Price shock against a sub-$800 consumer expectation is the dominant driver.
18%
26
Actually buy
The only outcome that produces revenue. Everything upstream serves this number — and everything upstream is leaking.
26%
Why this matters

This is the single largest revenue opportunity in the entire document package — and the one most completely unowned by any current agency.

02 The Data They Provided

Three documents. One consistent story. Your data.

Every number on this page is sourced to a document the Good Feet team provided in the RFP package. Nothing here is agency estimation dressed as insight. The evidence is corroborated across three independent sources that triangulate the same conclusion.

Primary Source Dec 2024

Adtaxi Corporate Review

Cancel
25%
Show
58%
Close
60%

Corporate-managed market averages, reported directly from Tableau CRM. Average ticket: $1,611. The booked-appointment number is what platforms report to executive dashboards — the register tells a different story.

Corroborating Oct 2025

Customer Journey Map

SEE CLICK LEAK BOOK LEAK FIT LEAK BUY

The journey map identified three friction points — Keep Appointment, Day of Fitting, and Close — that align precisely with the quantitative drop-offs. Qualitative confirmation of the numbers.

Reporting Gap Dec 2024

Adtaxi Platform Reporting

542
REPORTED
236
ACTUAL

"Adtaxi Influenced Appointments" vs. actual "Show Appointments." Executive dashboards see the top number. The register only ever sees the bottom one. The gap is where strategic decisions go wrong.

The Funnel, Reconstructed

Watch 100 booked appointments become 26 sales.

BOOKED 100 appointments −25 CANCEL REMAINING 75 appointments −31 NO-SHOW SHOWED 44 appointments −18 WALK OUT CLOSED 26 sales 25% cancel 42% no-show 40% walk-out
The Headline
26/100
Of every 100 booked digital appointments, only 26 become paying customers. The remaining 74 are the largest revenue leak in the business.
The Compounding Cost
74%
Every new media dollar enters a system with a 74% failure rate. That failure rate is the single largest inefficiency in the entire digital investment.
Who shows up when the system works

A customer who walked pain-free is a customer who tells the next ten.

03 The Money Left on the Table

Three stages. Three fixes. Three compounding wins.

Perfect close is not the ceiling. Realistic peer-benchmark performance is. We model the math against achievable targets drawn from appointment-based retail and healthcare lifecycle benchmarks — where best-practice systems routinely operate.

Stage 01 · Cancellation
25% 18%
Cancellation rate · reduce 7 pts

Confirmation touch within five minutes of booking.

A personalized SMS + email sequence fires the moment an appointment is booked. Calendar invite, clear "what to expect" primer, financing primer — all before buyer's remorse can form.

Why the target is realistic Nurture-based systems in healthcare and appointment retail routinely operate at 15-18% cancellation rates. 25% is the signature of an absence of confirmation architecture, not consumer behavior.
Stage 02 · No-Show
58% 68%
Show rate · add 10 pts

Day-before education. Morning-of reminder.

A 48-hour touch delivers a specialist video, a fitting walkthrough, and financing details. A day-of reminder carries directions, a photo of the storefront, and a single-tap confirm-or-reschedule.

Why the target is realistic Anxiety and uncertainty drive the majority of no-shows in appointment-based retail. Structured reminder sequences consistently produce 68-75% show rates in peer categories — the Good Feet baseline of 58% reflects no such sequence exists today.
Stage 03 · Close
60% 67%
Close rate · add 7 pts

Price transparency before the fitting room.

Financing and pricing context surface in the landing page, the confirmation touch, and the 48-hour education touch. The in-store specialist is no longer the one delivering the $1,611 surprise.

Why the target is realistic Consumer verbatims explicitly identify price shock as the dominant close-rate objection. Removing the surprise — through pre-appointment expectation-setting — reliably produces 5-10 point close-rate improvements across retail and healthcare.
Revenue per 100 Booked Appointments

The three fixes compound. +42% revenue per cohort.

Current 26 close · baseline
$41,886
26%
Post-Intervention 37 close · 180-day target
$59,607
37%
Peer Best-in-Class 48 close · 24-month ceiling
$77,328
48%
Recoverable in Year One · No New Media
+$17,721 per 100 bookings

At system scale, the numbers become impossible to ignore.

System-Wide · Annual Loss
Revenue leaking today
$200-285M

Estimated annual revenue lost to funnel drop-off across the full system, based on 15,000-20,000 monthly digital bookings at current 26% close.

24-Month · Best-in-Class
Ceiling at peer benchmark
$60-85M

If the system reaches peer benchmarks (85% survive, 72% show, 70% close = 48 sales/100), recovery compounds into a permanent structural advantage.

What this means

This isn't a media optimization. This is revenue recovery — a permanent structural lift with a payback period measured in weeks, not years.

04 How We Solve It

One strategy. Two specialists. Shared accountability for the handoff where revenue disappears.

Jekyll + Hyde owns everything before the phone rings. Ryze owns everything after. The nurture sequence owns the stretch between them — the three steps where 74% of revenue is lost today.

Where TV ends, digital picks up. The nurture sequence owns the handoff.
JEKYLL + HYDE Demand Creation THE HANDOFF where 74% of revenue is lost today RYZE AGENCY Demand Capture & Nurture TV The Spot Airs Phone Pickup BOOK Appointment NURTURE SEQUENCE Pre-Appointment FIT Fitting Room BUY Sale Closes Retention
The nurture sequence: three touches that recover the cohort.
T=0 BOOKING 1 T+5 MIN Confirmation Calendar invite, financing primer kills cancellation 2 T−48 HOURS Education Specialist video, clinical claim, pricing sets price expectation 3 MORNING OF Day-Of Reminder Directions, urgency, one-tap confirm drives show rate FITTING SALE
Jekyll + Hyde
Supporting — Creative Alignment

TV sets the expectation that nurture reinforces.

A viewer who sees the 30-second spot promising "pain-free in 90 days," books online, then receives nurture touches explaining exactly what happens at the fitting is dramatically less likely to cancel than a viewer who books on impulse with no architecture to hold them.

  • Creative-to-nurture handoff TV creative explicitly sets fitting expectations that Ryze's post-booking touches reinforce in the customer's own language.
  • MGH clinical claim in the spot Claim-forward creative reduces the "typical, no real info" objection — the largest driver of no-shows in the 45+ segment.
  • Flight calendar shared weekly Appointment volume spikes follow TV flights. Nurture throughput must be staffed and scheduled to match.
  • Gender-matched creative rotation "Back in the Picture" and "Caution Tape" deployed where data shows highest underperformance on show rate.
Ryze Agency
Lead — Lifecycle & CRM

Three-touch nurture. Deployed in 60 days. Measured at the register.

A disciplined SMS + email sequence between booking and fitting, integrated with the Good Feet appointment system and Tableau CRM. The explicit goal: cancellation below 18%, show rate above 68%, within six months of full deployment.

  • Touch 1 — Confirmation (T+5 min) Calendar invite, "what to expect" primer, first mention of CareCredit to set price expectations before sticker shock.
  • Touch 2 — Education (T−48 hours) Store details, a video from a real specialist, concrete answer to "will this work for me" rooted in the MGH clinical claim.
  • Touch 3 — Day-of (morning) Final reminder with urgency framing, directions, and single-tap confirm-or-reschedule.
  • Tableau CRM integration Every touch measured against booking-to-close outcomes. Source-to-sale attribution replaces booking-as-success vanity reporting.
05 The KPIs

The instruments by which both agencies should be held accountable.

Three primary KPIs drive the intervention and define success. Four supporting KPIs surface the diagnostic detail that tells us why a metric is or isn't moving. All seven feed one shared dashboard that both agencies access and the client owns.

Primary KPI · P1
Cancellation Rate
25% CURRENT
Current
25%
6-Mo Target
<18%
Primary KPI · P1
Show Rate
58% CURRENT
Current
58%
6-Mo Target
>68%
Primary KPI · P1
Revenue per 100 Bookings
$41.9k CURRENT
Current
$42k
6-Mo Target
>$59k
Supporting Diagnostic KPIs
Supporting P2 · Weekly

Close Rate by Lead Source

TARGET · > 67% From 60% baseline. Distinguishes lead-quality issues from in-store ops issues.
Supporting P2 · Monthly

Cost per Closed Sale (Blended)

TARGET · −30% Blends media spend with cancellation and show. The only honest acquisition metric.
Supporting P3 · Weekly

Nurture Touch Engagement

TARGET · > 40% OPEN Diagnoses sequence fatigue, timing, and messaging effectiveness.
Supporting P3 · Weekly

CareCredit Application Rate

TARGET · 3-4× CURRENT Proxy for price-expectation management. Correlated to close rate.
The 180-day accountability roadmap. Every milestone is measurable.
DAY 0 kickoff DAY 30 Integration Live Tableau CRM connected. Nurture templates built. Test markets selected. DAY 90 Test Markets Live 2 DMAs running. Cancel <20%. Show >62%. DAY 180 System-Wide Cancel <18%. Show >68%. $32-42M annualized recovery documented. YEAR 1 Franchise Adoption Sequence codified; full-system rollout.
What success actually looks like

Every fixed stage of the funnel is a person who walks out of the store smiling — and tells a friend.

37 sales per 100 bookings isn't a metric. It's 37 people, per cohort, whose knees, backs, and hips stopped hurting. Thirty-seven testimonials in the making. Thirty-seven referrals waiting to happen. The numbers on this page compound because the product actually works — and every appointment we hold, every cancellation we prevent, every price conversation we front-load, puts one more person in a position to experience that.

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