Wealthsimple is a leading FinTech company in Canada offering customers the ability to invest in various financial instruments such as stocks and crypto coins. I was brought on to manage their paid search while they were aggressively growing in customers acquisition. My goal was to deliver new clients to Wealthsimple at the agreed upon Target cost, while growing spend month over month in line with their overall company growth.

Increase e-commerce sales via Google/Bing Ads profitability at higher spend levels ($150-$200k/mo starting spend).

Existing challenges within the account limited their ability to test new prospecting strategies and limited their growth potential. For example, prior to our involvement, the majority of the budget was dedicated toward branded search campaigns, as many competitors were bidding on their branded terms in hopes to capture away TaxJar's most valuable traffic. Unfortunately, this fierce competition resulted in higher-than-expected costs and required much of the focus, energy, and budget.

Even after successfully freeing up budget from the branded search issues, profitably acquiring new business was no easy feat. Tax services are consumed on an as-needed basis. A brand awareness effort would only be effective if the messaging was powerful and the timing was perfect. That is, even if a business owner hears about TaxJar and thinks they should sign up for the services, it’s typically something that is pushed on the back-burner.

More than ever, if would be crucial to meet their potential customers when they are actively in the market for tax services and in the medium in which they would best respond to our messaging.

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BlackLeaves was an up and coming fit tea brand in Australia, with some traction from influencers and a couple viral campaigns in the past. Their main problem was, they were not able to scale past $500 a month in adspend. Meaning they did not have a proven way of scaling their business. With stock laying around they needed help quick, because if the stock doesn't move it's expired.