The customer's main challenge was not being able to deliver a profitable ROAS on Facebook and Instagram, despite their core audiences being present there, especially on Instagram. There was a lot of engagement that did not result in sales.

Their ROAS was stuck at around 50% (0.5 : 1).

Of note, the Northern Hemisphere was heading into spring, which is their busiest time, with 90% of their sales coming from the US, Europe and the Middle East, so it was important to see results very quickly.

My role was to audit their Facebook account and suggest a strategy to achieve drastic improvement in performance, with ROAS being the key metric.

I reviewed their past campaigns, as they had been active on Facebook for over 3 years, and reviewed their Shopify analytics and GA, to isolate what had worked or came close to working in the past. This included their geographical targeting. I put forward a hypothesis based on the observation that their luxury fashion dresses historically generated most of the sales in a few key cities around the world.

I built new audiences and reconfigured their geotargeting based on my past performance analysis, restructured their account to better reflect the most recent best practice and what I have seen work for similar accounts. I tested different objectives and target metrics to gradually find the winning strategies and then focus on scaling those.