The customer wanted to get CPL down from ~$100 to something more reasonable. Even though they make a lot of money from these leads, the client's goal was to continue to decrease costs.

Beyond the overarching objectives, our main focus was with undergraduate and postgraduate student recruitment through ongoing campaigns, as well as advertising university courses, open days, postgraduate open evenings and Clearing.

Specific examples of objectives set by Leeds Beckett also included:

1) Supporting the university’s growth plans through targeted and effective campaigns

2) Growing the number of applications

3) Improving efficiencies and reducing costs in all paid channels

In 2012 I founded the Inkkas company (www.inkkas.com) and successfully scaled the company from zero into a multi-million dollar brand and then sold the company in 2016 to celebrity investor Marcus Lemonis. The process of launching and scaling a new Ecommerce brand from scratch was riddled with many challenges along the way. Some of the major challenges included branding, go-to-market strategy, fulfillment, sourcing, web design & development, customer acquisition, paid advertising, conversion rate optimization and more. Along with my founding team, we were able to overcome every obstacle and devise a customer acquisition strategy the led to success.

Nu-Tank are a Queensland polyethylene water tank manufacturer. With 25-years industry experience manufacturing high quality water tanks, they are a leading supplier of water tanks in the state and across Australia.

While they had a website and a digital presence, marketing efforts were still very reliant on traditional media, particularly television and print to generate leads and brand awareness.

Past attempts at running Google Ads through digital marketing agencies were unsuccessful and management were unsure if they could justify the return on investment.