• Low leads to sales ratio – The AdWords campaign generated a good number of leads with a decent conversion rate of nearly 7%, but the quality of leads was poor, resulting in a total leads to sales conversion rate of only 3%, as 40% of the leads were non-workable. The main challenge, therefore, was to reduce the non- workable leads percentage and improve the leads to sales ratio.
• High CAC (Customer acquisition Cost) – Of all channels, AdWords' CAC was the highest ($120). In response to this, management was considering reducing the AdWords monthly budget, which could adversely impact the sales and growth projections.

Our marketing team reviewed the client’s business, needing one week to understand it and how the company ran its AdWords campaign. The following improvements were made:

• Keyword Match Types were reset from Broad to either Phrase or Exact, as keywords that are broadly matched have good Click-Through Rates (CTR) but are expensive.
• The ads, which had been scheduled to run all day, were restricted to run from 9am to 10pm when conversion rates were acceptable.
• New Ad Groups were created to improve the Quality Scores, which were now monitored.
• CRM was now used, resulting in a clearer identification of the performing and non performing keywords.
• Negative Keywords were added to improve performance.
• All key parameters (including CTR, main keywords, conversion rate, and quality score) are now checked daily to ensure all campaigns are running optimally.
• The quality score threshold was changed to 7/10. If it falls below this value, the landing page or ad group will be revised.
• Action must be taken if the click-through and conversion rates fall below their set values (5% and 8%, respectively).
• Cost per conversion values were set to improve the control of CPC and CAC.

Our review and the improvements made yielded the following results:

• Costs were reduced as non-performing keywords (i.e., not generating sales within a month) and keywords with high CPC values were identified and eliminated.
• The average conversion rate improved from 7% to 12%
• The number of leads that convert to sales doubled.
• The CAC fell from $120 to $95