Q2 2026 Client Case Study

Case Study

4.75x ROAS in the first quarter of a rebuilt account

How we took a paid search account with no active infrastructure and turned it into a primary growth channel ahead of a brand’s most important sales season.

4.75xROAS
$0.34Cost per Click
~$375Revenue per Sale
23K+Clicks
The Situation

Rebuilding ahead of the season that mattered most

This client had run paid marketing before, but brought us on specifically to ramp up ahead of their most important sales season. Rather than optimizing an existing account, we rebuilt the structure from the ground up in the first month, positioning it to scale hard as seasonal demand hit its peak.

The Approach

Four campaigns, four distinct jobs

Rather than launching a single catch-all campaign, we built four campaigns, each assigned a specific role in the funnel, so growth never depended on any one channel holding up alone.

1
Prospect Max Clicks Finds net-new buyers who haven’t interacted with the brand yet
2
Retarget Demand Gen Recovers shoppers who showed intent but hadn’t converted
3
Convert Performance Max Carries the largest share of revenue using full-inventory signals
4
Sustain Shopping Maintains steady, predictable volume from bottom-funnel intent
The Bigger Picture

It wasn’t a side channel, it was the growth engine

Paid search was directly responsible for a significant share of total store revenue, and the growth it drove was real audience expansion, not just repeat buyers spending more.

~40%of total store gross revenue
35%+of all orders
~180%store revenue growth, quarter over quarter
92%+of orders from new customers
$8.4K Month 1 (Rebuild) $14.6K Month 2 $15.1K Month 3 (Peak Season)

Ad-attributed revenue by month, rebuild in Month 1 gave way to a fully scaled account heading into peak season.

Why It Worked

Every stage of the funnel had dedicated spend from day one

A single-campaign approach usually means picking one job, prospect, retarget, or convert, and hoping the rest happens organically. Splitting the funnel across four purpose-built campaigns meant each stage of the buyer journey was covered from the first month, rather than waiting for one campaign to “learn” its way into covering all three.

Results reflect one client’s first-quarter performance. Individual results vary by industry, product margin, and starting account maturity.

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