Celebrante is an Australian celebrant directory which makes money from celebrants when users make an enquiry with them through the Celebrante website.

The business model is simple, generate enquiries through the website at less than it costs in marketing to generate the enquiry.

The previous owner was forced to sell the website after rising Google AdWords costs had made the website no longer profitable.

Lance Tapsell, a long-time celebrant and customer of the site decided to purchase it and try to get it profitable again.

By engaging Pathfinder, the business was able to dramatically reduce its cost per lead and ensure profitability for the business and its future.

• Defining the global media strategy and playbook based on business goals for Existing and New customers through direct and indirect channels using ATL-BTL media. Supervising the execution of media campaigns to drive growth for the business through media, launching new products and services across 16 different markets integrated with CRM and Sales. 
• Defining customer segmentation and audience-data strategy; identifying personas, and segments, user journey and selection of media-data-channels to target.
• Driving growth and improving conversion rate by planning testing roadmaps through paid and owned channels and data sources: Paid social / Facebook and Linkedin, Programmatic display, ABM, Paid search, email marketing automation (Pardot) and landing pages.
• Reporting and success measurement: Standardizing ways to measure success through the whole funnel, identifying metrics and set of media and performance reports.
• Driving digital transformation by developing media training, generating content and presenting it live and via mobile app formats, focused in 2 main areas: Media planning (process-focused) and media strategy (strategy-focused) delivered to 22 local markets.

1. Bringing a product to market requires months of strategy and research into the target market. Slinger Bag hit the market for the first time with their portable tennis ball launcher, so our understanding of the U.S. tennis player and general consumer sports goods market was imperative. The product was also set to launch in the U.K, which required a separate strategy.  
2. Generating brand awareness, especially for a new brand, requires an essential mix of paid search and social campaigns and an effectively designed landing page to optimize traffic for sales. 
3. COVID-19 initially shut down manufacturing and continued to add unforeseen manufacturing and shipping delays throughout 2020

Never done paid media and was only in UK, want to launch in US