• Drive qualified MBA applications from candidates who are more likely to apply for the current intake.
• Past 3 years did not have full/filled classes (there was room for more students). There were many applications, but not enough qualified candidates.

Simply Local is building a marketplace for farmers and ranchers to sell direct to consumers. They were looking to scale both their customer base and farmer base as they refine their offerings. They had a very aggressive cost per lead goal, along with limited geographical targeting (Austin, Texas area)

The brand was struggling to improve the ROAS of their online store above 300%, after getting a taste of 800 - 900% during the pandemic, when people being stuck at home all day every day was beneficial to a brand like theirs. The brand was already familiar to consumers who were used to seeing it at stores like Harvey Norman and Kmart, but now could no longer shop at those stores. Another challenge was not being able to offer discounts on their products deeper than the stockist retailer were offering.

The target ROAS was 500 - 600%. The channels they were using were Facebook/Instagram Ads and Google Ads.  Facebook was an area of concern as they did not see consistent returns there, although the channel very well during lockdowns.

Wealthsimple is a leading FinTech company in Canada offering customers the ability to invest in various financial instruments such as stocks and crypto coins. I was brought on to manage their paid search while they were aggressively growing in customers acquisition. My goal was to deliver new clients to Wealthsimple at the agreed upon Target cost, while growing spend month over month in line with their overall company growth.