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Persona 06 · Transitions · Sale · Succession

What are you
actually selling?

We prepare your practice for sale, in the background, while you keep operating. Your solo brand becomes a transferable business that a buyer can step into and run. The reviews, the rankings, the patient list, and the second domain all get positioned to transfer cleanly and price at the top of the range. We've walked surgeons through this many times, on both sides of the table, so you arrive at closing with a bigger number and a clean handoff.

PROFILE · THE TRANSITION
06
ExitSell · Scale · Hand off
01The overview · Make it sellable

We help you sell your practice. For more.

The work: carefully convert a doctor-named practice into a location-named practice a buyer can actually purchase. Reviews land on the practice. The website is about the practice. Before-and-after photos belong to the practice. The Google Business Profile, the second domain, the patient database, and the content library all sit in the practice's name, not yours. The practice becomes the primary asset, and the people become interchangeable. That's what a buyer is paying for.

Small, deliberate moves do most of the heavy lifting. A logo refresh. A second location-targeted domain stood up alongside the original. A subtle change on the Google Business Profile that protects rankings while shifting the identity. Each one is small. Together they can multiply your value at the closing table. And the technical traps that quietly cost surgeons six figures at closing, like closing the wrong Google Business Profile during a rebrand or transferring a domain out of order, we handle every one so you never see them.

We've walked this playbook many times. Multiple practice sales, on both sides of the table. You get a clean handoff and a bigger number, and the buyer gets something they can actually run.

Distinguished surgeon in a charcoal suit standing at the floor-to-ceiling windows of a corner office at golden hour, looking out over the city, the inflection point where strategic decisions about the next chapter get made calmly
02 · The playbook

The small moves
that decide the multiple.

The number you walk away with usually comes down to a handful of small decisions made in the months before the deal table. Six we know cold from doing this many times.

01

Give a buyer a brand they can run.

A surgeon-named domain narrows the pool of buyers willing to pay full price, because they can't really run a practice named for someone else. We build up a second location-named domain like StLouisPlasticSurgery.com alongside yours, so a buyer has something they can step into and own. Your original brand keeps running the whole time.

02

What we protect on the way to closing.

A handful of technical traps can quietly knock six figures off a sale price: closing the wrong Google Business Profile during a rebrand, transferring a domain out of order, having no location brand to fall back on. We handle every one in the right sequence, so the value you built shows up at the closing table.

03

The moves that multiply your number.

A refreshed logo, a second geo-targeted domain, a subtle change on the Google Business listing. Small, deliberate moves we've made many times, and together they can multiply what your practice is worth at closing.

04

Solo practitioner to sellable business.

That's the conversion. Your personal brand becomes a corporate, geo-targeted brand, and the asset transfers, the buyer steps in, and the exit multiplies.

05

Your numbers don't drop while we work.

The brand evolves underneath while your patients keep booking, your monthly revenue holds, and your rankings stay put. The income a buyer is going to price the practice on doesn't take a hit during the conversion, and that protects every dollar of your sale.

06

We've walked this many times.

Retained through practice acquisitions, brought in by private-equity buyer groups after the deal closed. We know what diligence looks for, and how the deal hinges on infrastructure decisions made in the months before closing.

03 · The transition scenarios

Five paths we've walked, more than once.

Whether you're 18 months from a sale or 7 years out, you're likely on one of these paths. Each has its own playbook, and each lives or dies on infrastructure decisions made long before the deal.

01

Sale to a private-equity group or national chain.

Your practice gets wrapped into a larger group that's buying up similar practices around the country. You usually stay on as Medical Director for a few years, and your final payout depends on what the practice produces during that time.

The sale price is based on your earnings, and on the parts of the practice a buyer can actually run without you. Search rankings, Google Business Profile, reviews, patient list, brand recognition: they price all of it. Practices with a strong location brand sell for meaningfully more than ones named for the surgeon. We've handled the marketing through these deals and watched the price shift based on small decisions made months earlier.

A surgeon in a charcoal suit shaking hands with a private-equity buyer across a glass boardroom table at golden hour, signed documents and a fountain pen between them, downtown skyline in soft focus behind. The moment a deal closes calmly.
The close: a major deal lands without drama
02

Sale to a younger surgeon or associate.

You sell the practice to a surgeon you've trained, or to someone newer buying their way in. The smoother we hand off your domain, rankings, patient list, and reviews, the more they're willing to pay for it.

Done right, your buyer steps into a practice already ranking, already getting calls, already trusted in town, and they pay for that. Done wrong, they're starting over with a name change and rankings that took a year to recover. The prep work is what makes the difference, and what protects your final number.

Senior surgeon of European descent in a charcoal suit standing beside a younger Indian-American surgeon in navy in front of a credential wall at golden hour, the moment of handoff from one generation to the next
The handoff: one generation walks the other in
03

Quiet rebrand and ownership transfer.

The most underappreciated move in elective medicine, and the one that protects every dollar of digital equity through a transition.

  • Google Business Profile ownership transferred without losing rankings or reviews
  • Domain redirected, business name updated, link equity preserved
  • Citations updated across every directory in lockstep
  • Patients searching the old name find the new entity seamlessly
  • Done right, years of accumulated digital equity transfer cleanly
  • Done wrong (closing the old, opening a new), rankings collapse for 12-18 months
Modern brushed-bronze practice sign reading 'ST. LOUIS PLASTIC SURGERY' on a limestone facade at golden hour, faintly ghosted older 'NELSON MD' lettering behind it, the transition implied rather than announced
The new sign: transition implied, not announced
04

Associate buy-in.

A younger surgeon joins the practice and eventually buys part of it. The marketing introduces them to your patients early, so they're already booked, busy, and earning by the time they buy in.

When the buy-in happens, you collect on the value you've already built in them. The practice keeps producing without missing a beat, and your handoff to retirement (or to a lighter role) is smooth because there's already a second surgeon patients trust.

A diverse team of four professionals (senior surgeon, Asian-American associate surgeon, Latina nurse practitioner, Black aesthetician) standing shoulder-to-shoulder in a sunlit upscale practice at golden hour. The practice that's bigger than one person.
The team: the practice is bigger than one person
05

Medical Director transition.

The surgeon stays involved but operates less, or stops performing surgery altogether. Non-surgical revenue and associate surgeons drive the practice.

The marketing has to support this: the brand can't be all about surgical work the senior surgeon isn't doing anymore. New content features the team. Service pages organize around procedures and practice expertise, not just the senior bio. The senior surgeon's authority stays intact, and the practice keeps producing.

Senior surgeon in a charcoal suit and reading glasses at an executive desk in a sunlit office, calmly reviewing reports on a tablet. Through the glass doorway, the active practice runs in soft focus, the role evolved from operator to oversight.
Oversight: still present, no longer in the OR
04 · The transition plan

Three phases.
A bigger check at closing.

Every prep engagement runs the same three phases. We audit what's transferable, move what isn't, and polish the brand a buyer will pay top dollar for. Your patients keep booking, your monthly revenue keeps coming, and your sale price climbs the whole way through.

1
Audit · Months 1 to 2

Phase 1: the brand audit.

A full inventory of every digital asset, every brand element, and every place the surgeon's name lives. An honest assessment of where the practice actually stands.

  • Domain, hosting, DNS: who legally owns what
  • Google Business Profile, social handles, ad accounts: registered to surgeon or practice?
  • Reviews, content, press: anchored to person or location?
  • Doctor-centric vs. practice-centric architecture decision
  • Realistic timeline based on exit horizon
Start the audit
2
Migration · Months 2 to 6

Phase 2: move the assets.

Quiet, methodical migration of every asset from personal name to practice entity. Patients don't notice, rankings stay intact, and the infrastructure becomes transferable.

  • Domain consolidated under practice entity
  • Google Business Profile ownership transferred, rankings preserved
  • Social media accounts cleaned up and renamed where needed
  • Vendor contracts moved under practice control
  • Patient database in a transferable CRM, not a personal Gmail
  • Citations updated in lockstep across every directory
Start the migration
3
Diligence-ready · Months 6 to 12

Phase 3: ready for the closing table.

Brand and operations polished, with reporting clean enough to survive buyer scrutiny. A practice a buyer can actually buy, and pay top dollar for.

  • Practice brand evolved smoothly, patients feel no change
  • Content and service pages organized around the practice, not just one surgeon
  • Operations documented for buyer due diligence
  • Reporting in formats diligence advisors recognize
  • Smart moves installed: second domain live, Google Business Profile optimized, logo refreshed
  • The walk-up to a deal feels prepared, not panicked
Get ready for the table
PRO NOTE · ON CHANGING DOMAIN NAMES

Your domain is the last thing we touch, and often, we don't touch it at all.

Changing your primary domain (the actual www.YourPractice.com) is one of the most delicate maneuvers in marketing. Done out of order or without a plan, you can wipe out years of Google rankings overnight and spend twelve months clawing it back. That's real money, sometimes six figures of monthly revenue, gone while the practice is sitting at the closing table.

So the smart play is usually the opposite of what people expect: keep the old, seasoned domain in place, and change everything else first. Logo, trademarks, brand identity, tone of content, photography, social handles, Google Business Profile naming. All of it can shift over months while the trusted domain stays put, and your rankings, traffic, and reviews all come with it. By the time a buyer's diligence team looks at the brand, it's already where it needs to be.

When a domain switch is the right call, it's a tech-heavy project: properly mapped 301 redirects across every URL on the site, careful canonicalization, ownership handover in Google Search Console, and weeks of monitored diagnostics after launch. This is experts-only territory.We've executed it many times, in the right sequence, without losing rankings, and we also know when the right answer is "leave the domain alone." That call alone has saved clients meaningful money on their sale.

05 · The sellable-asset checklist

These are practice assets
you can actually sell.

Each item on this list is real money in your pocket at closing, and most surgeons leave several of them on the table. We move each one out of your personal name and into the practice in the months before any deal, so every item below shows up on the asset list, and in the price.

Domain and hosting
  • Domain registered to the practice entity, not your personal name
  • Hosting account under practice email and billing
  • SSL, DNS, and Cloudflare under practice control
Google properties
  • Google Business Profile owned by practice email, not your personal gmail
  • Search Console, Analytics, Tag Manager all under practice account
  • Ownership documented and transferable on a single sheet
Ad accounts
  • Google Ads under practice billing entity
  • Meta Business Manager owned by the practice
  • Ad-account history preserved through any ownership change
Brand, content and website
  • Website about the practice, not just the founding surgeon's bio
  • Before-and-after photos owned by the practice, not licensed to one person
  • Content library on shared practice storage, not personal drives
  • Practice-branded social handles where personal handles dominate today
  • Photo and video rights documented and assignable to a new owner
Patient data and CRM
  • Patient database in a transferable CRM, not personal Google Contacts
  • Email list owned by the practice, not the surgeon's personal account
  • Review-flow system running on practice infrastructure
Reviews and reputation
  • Reviews encouraged to name the practice, not just the doctor
  • Healthgrades, RealSelf, Vitals, Yelp listings under practice control
  • Citation consistency across every directory
Vendor contracts
  • Every vendor contract under the practice entity
  • Web, hosting, ads, tools: billing flows through the practice
  • Vendor relationships documented and handoff-ready
Systems and documentation
  • Consult and booking processes documented for a buyer to read
  • Marketing engine documented with clear ROI reporting
  • Staff training and clinical protocols formalized
Legal and financial
  • Marketing reporting in a format diligence advisors recognize
  • Cost-per-acquired-patient, channel ROI, attributable revenue, all clean
  • Every credential and password documented in a transferable format

This is unsexy work that materially affects exit value. Most practices have never been audited for it. The earlier you start, the cleaner the deal, and the higher the multiple.

06 · The prep timeline

First call to ready-for-the-table.

Every prep engagement runs the same cadence. The whole conversion typically lands in 12 months, sometimes faster if the urgency is real. Quiet from the outside, substantial underneath.

Call 1
The honest diagnostic
Do you have a business or a job? What's the practice actually worth today, and what would it take to lift that number meaningfully? Plain English, no sales pitch. By the end of the call, you know whether the prep work is worth it.
Month 1
Audit and risk list
A full inventory of every digital asset and where it sits. The technical traps get identified (wrong-GBP-closed scenarios, personal-name assets, missing location brand), and the smart moves get prioritized in order of value created per week of work.
Months 2 to 6
Quiet migration and smart moves
Assets move from personal name to practice entity. A second geo-targeted domain stands up. The Google Business Profile gets optimized without losing rankings. Logo and brand evolution begin. Patients don't notice, and rankings hold. The conversion happens underneath.
Months 6 to 12
Ready for the table
Brand and operations polished, reporting clean, documentation in the formats diligence advisors recognize. The practice presents as a real, transferable business. Walking into a deal feels prepared, not panicked.
Post-deal
Earnout and handoff support
If the sale closes, we keep the marketing engine producing through the earnout, protecting your number, supporting the new owner, and making the transition out of the spotlight smooth. We've worked with private-equity buyers after close many times.
07 · Why people call MAA for transitions

We've walked this before.
Multiple times, on both sides.

01

We've been through real deals.

Practice sales to PE. Sales to associates. Quiet rebrands. Medical Director transitions. Associate buy-ins. Most agencies in elective medicine have never been through a single transition. We've been on both sides of multiple, and we still work with practices and platforms on both.

02

We know the playbook cold.

The small moves that lift your sale price, the technical traps we protect against in the months before closing, the right order to do everything in so your rankings hold, your patients keep booking, and your revenue keeps coming the whole way through the conversion. We've run this playbook many times.

03

We work behind the scenes.

The transition is invisible from the outside. Your patients keep booking, your rankings hold, and your competitors see no opening to attack. The conversion happens in the background, and your monthly revenue keeps coming the whole way through.

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Start prepping your practice for sale.

A 30-minute call. We'll tell you roughly what your practice would sell for today, what's currently costing you money, and what we'd change to get you a bigger check at closing. Specific, and no pitch.