Bing Ads for animal hospitals: a second road to your entrance

Bing Ads (Microsoft Advertising) hangs roadside boards on a search engine that sits beside the better-known one. We design and manage those boards for animal hospitals and pet hospitals, pointing each campaign at a single department page, and then count the rings and form messages that arrive through them.

The account is the hospital's, the click budget goes straight to Microsoft, and our work is billed monthly.

Why a hospital might hang a board on this road

Every search engine is a separate road with its own signposts. A board on Google does not appear on Microsoft's road, so a hospital that advertises in only one place leaves the other stretch bare. Bing Ads is how that stretch gets marked, using the department pages and wording you have already approved.

We regard it as a second platform and not as a copy of the first. Its campaigns are drawn and read separately, and the handover sheet gives their rings and form messages a column of their own, next to those of any other board you run.

Microsoft publishes its own limits for ad wording. The owner reads them before a board goes up, and we word the ads from the owner's list with those rules open in front of us.

What we put on this road

  • Account

    An account in the hospital's name

    You open it, hold it and pay Microsoft from your own card. We come in as a manager, and that access can be withdrawn the day you choose.

  • Campaigns

    One board per door

    Departments, towns and locations each receive a campaign, sent toward its matching department or town page.

  • Turn-aways

    A list of wrong turns

    Negative terms keep job seekers, students and supply shoppers from ever meeting the board.

  • Counting

    Calls and forms per board

    Tracking pins every ring and form message to the campaign behind it, and keeps owners' names, animals' names and record lines out of the data.

Door, board and the reader we aim at

A campaign on this platform is drawn against a door in your building and a kind of searcher.
Door on your planBoard hung on this roadSearcher we aim at
A department on your listAn ad group using your words for the doorSomeone typing that department's name with a place beside it
A second locationA campaign tied to that street addressA searcher near the address and no other
A town on your service listA board that names the townA person looking for a hospital in that town
A kind of animal you listA board for that animal onlyA searcher naming the animal and a place
The main entranceA board in your hospital's own nameA person who already knows where you are

From sketch to a board on this road

  1. Read the existing signs

    We inspect the department pages and the Maps pin that the first board will point to, and correct any that disagree.

  2. Draw and approve

    Ad text and keyword lists reach you as drafts, and none runs until you have signed off the wording.

  3. Open and read

    First campaigns run under a budget you fix, and each month's handover sheet shows which boards carried calls and forms.

Questions about this road

Must Google Ads run alongside it?

Not at all. Every platform is priced as its own plan, so a hospital can open Bing Ads alone and add another platform later if it wishes.

Who pays Microsoft?

The hospital, with the payment method on its own account. We invoice separately for designing and managing the campaigns.

Can an ad here name a department?

Yes, in the owner's wording. We add no claims about the way any animal is looked after.

Are campaigns copied from another platform?

No. Each is drawn fresh for this road, against the same doors, then read separately.

Do boards on this road tie us to a term?

No. The plan renews monthly, and nothing is charged at the start.

Ask about a board on this road

Tell us in the message which department you want marked, or reserve a callback slot for a conversation with the CEO.

Which departments should be signed first?

Tell us which departments should fill up first, which towns send clients your way, and which shelters, rescues, trainers and breeders refer them. Leave client names, pet names and record details out entirely.

Tell reception about the hospital

Name the departments to build up, the towns you draw from and the groups that send you clients. A short paragraph is enough, and a human reads every note.

Pick a weekday and half hour. When it arrives, the phone number above rings, and the voice is our CEO, Ross Cohen.

When should we ring?

The time you choose will appear in this line.

Slots are weekday half hours, converted to the zone you select.

Every floor line ends at one front desk

On the call we choose the first departments to sign, the towns to aim at them and the platform to open with, then sketch the first month together.

These doors slide open for the drawing alone and promise nothing.