Hottest Commodity · Rx DTC Specialty

I built and ran the full paid-to-telehealth-to-prescription funnel for an Rx DTC brand. I'll do it for yours.

Fractional CMO services for Rx DTC and telehealth founders who need a senior operator instead of an agency team. End-to-end execution on Meta, Google, ClickFunnels, telehealth integration, HCP outreach, and ambassador programs. Documented results from running an actual Rx funnel for 18 months.

Jordan B. Allodi · Founder, Hottest Commodity
Documented Performance

The Aquoral Spray Rx DTC funnel

Real numbers from running the full paid-acquisition-to-telehealth-to-prescription funnel for K Pharmaceuticals. Reference call with the founder available on request.

Funnel Performance · 6-month active window

Rx Accept Rate
93.3%
telehealth qualification held
Avg Order Value
$96.92
at full price, no discounts
States Reached
30
genuine national footprint
Peak Month
60
orders Feb 2024, 5x prior months

120 total orders, 110 unique patients, $11,630 in revenue across the window. The funnel qualified nearly every click into a successful Rx prescription. A 93% acceptance rate at the telehealth gate is at the top end of what any Rx DTC operator can credibly claim.

Paid Acquisition Performance · Google Ads, 7-month verified window

Blended CTR
4.14%
vs 1-2% pharma benchmark
Average CPC
$0.66
in a regulated Rx vertical
Total Clicks
13,092
across 316K impressions
Total Spend
$8,644
Oct 2023 to Apr 2024

Campaign-level CTRs ran from 3.74% to 5.87%, both well above the typical pharma category benchmark. Top-performing keywords delivered 9% to 18% CTR. Meta Ads ran concurrently across the same window with $2,754 verified March 2024 spend; combined paid acquisition across both channels totaled approximately $15,000 to $20,000. The HCP, KOL, ambassador, and foundation channels generated additional organic referral traffic alongside paid.

The acquisition system

Five integrated channels, operated in parallel, all routing into a single telehealth-to-prescription funnel. No agency team, no junior account managers, no handoffs.

01
Paid Acquisition
Meta and Google through Rx fair-balance review. Multi-angle creative testing.
02
Landing Architecture
ClickFunnels pages, symptom qualification, education and conversion path.
03
Telehealth Booking
Integrated appointment booking on the brand site. Seamless prescriber handoff.
04
HCP & Foundation
Sjögren's Foundation, Mayo, Rush, Loyola, RDH, AAOSH outreach and KOL partnerships.
05
Ambassador Program
Dental hygienist and medical professional ambassadors extending into clinical communities.
The honest lesson

The ceiling on this engagement was not the marketing.

The acquisition system worked. 93% Rx acceptance, 800+ qualified leads, 30-state footprint, multi-channel attribution including organic referrals from foundations and HCPs, and a peak month that 5x'd the previous month's volume. The system was proven across paid and organic channels.

Of every 100 orders that cleared the telehealth gate with an approved prescription, only 68 successfully shipped to the patient.

The remaining 32 got stuck between pharmacy order placement and fulfillment, or were canceled outright. When ad spend increased, fulfillment bottlenecks increased in lockstep. The brand's growth curve flattened at a point dictated by operational capacity, not by acquisition performance.

I share this because it is the thing a Rx DTC founder most needs to hear from a fractional CMO candidate. A marketer who tells you only about the wins will not warn you when your telehealth or fulfillment partner is about to become your ceiling. I watched it happen in real time, in my own numbers, on a product I had personally built the funnel for. That experience is not theoretical. It is the lesson I bring into every new engagement.

What I do for Rx DTC brands

Four areas of senior-operator execution

No strategy decks without execution. No junior account managers. One operator with hands-on experience in every layer of the Rx DTC stack.

01

Full Funnel Build or Rebuild

Paid-acquisition-to-telehealth-to-prescription, end to end. Meta and Google ad accounts that survive Rx fair-balance review, ClickFunnels (or alternative) landing architecture, telehealth booking integration, and patient nurture sequences.

02

Partner Vetting and Stress Testing

Telehealth prescribers, pharmacy fulfillment, mail-order logistics. Diagnose partner risk through the order data and the operational metrics, not the sales pitch. Stop the ceiling problem before it becomes the ceiling.

03

HCP, Foundation, and Ambassador Outreach

Disease-specific foundation programs, KOL partnerships, and ambassador networks (dental hygienist, medical professional, marketing affiliate) that generate organic referral traffic alongside paid. Diversify acquisition with channels that attribute back to your order data.

04

Operating as Your Fractional CMO

Hands-on execution on Meta, Google, landing pages, email drip, and patient care coordination. Senior operator presence in your weekly meetings, monthly board reporting, and quarterly strategic planning.

Who this is for

Three Rx DTC founder profiles

Profile 01 · Pre-launch

Pre-launch Rx DTC brand needing the funnel built from scratch

You have FDA approval, a manufacturing partner, and a telehealth prescriber network in negotiation. You need someone to design and build the entire acquisition funnel before you spend a dollar on paid media.

Profile 02 · Early revenue

Existing Rx DTC brand at $500K to $5M ARR with a leaking funnel

You are running paid media, you are getting telehealth bookings, but your CAC is too high or your appointment-to-prescription conversion is too low. You need a senior diagnosis and a hands-on rebuild of the broken stages.

Profile 03 · Agency frustrated

Founder paying an agency $20K to $40K per month and not getting senior attention

You hired a specialized Rx DTC agency and got assigned a junior account manager. The senior partner you met in the sales call is not the person running your account. You want one operator, one point of accountability, at a lower price point.

About Jordan

One senior operator. End-to-end Rx DTC execution.

Jordan B. Allodi is the founder of Hottest Commodity and JBA Media. He has spent the last 17 years building and operating direct-response marketing systems across e-commerce, telehealth, prescription DTC, and B2B verticals.

His specialty inside Hottest Commodity is fractional CMO work for Rx DTC and telehealth founders, anchored by 18 months of hands-on funnel operation for K Pharmaceuticals (Aquoral Spray) and 18 months of B2B marketing operations for Biomed Innova in the pharma services space.

Jordan operates as a single point of accountability on every engagement. There are no junior account managers, no agency handoffs, no strategy decks without execution. The operator you meet in the discovery call is the operator who runs your account.

17+ years operating direct-response marketing systems
18 months as the marketing operator behind Aquoral Spray's full Rx DTC funnel for K Pharmaceuticals
18 months running B2B outbound and marketing operations for Biomed Innova
Founder of Hottest Commodity (fractional CMO practice) and JBA Media (full-service agency)
Based in the Chicago area
Book a funnel audit

30 minutes. One operator. A candid read on your Rx DTC funnel.

If you are scaling acquisition for a prescription product and want a candid read on your funnel from someone who has built one end to end, I would love 30 minutes. We will review your current funnel architecture, identify the one or two highest-leverage opportunities to improve CAC and conversion, and discuss whether a deeper engagement makes sense.

No pitch deck. No junior account manager. One conversation.
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