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.

Plated was a new startup and needed to grow rapidly. The challenge was to find new ways to grow outside of the traditional channels. At the time Facebook was not known as a growth channel but we were not only able to make it work but we were one of the first major success stories for Facebook ads.

• CPO (Cost per order) was drastically increasing
• Competition like Zomato had an upper hand
• Hyperlocal targeting had very high CPA

This is a weight loss product that was entering a competitive market. Our unique challenge was being able to demonstrate that the product worked since the science behind it occurs on the inside of the stomach and we had no way of showing this in real-time.