They wanted to generate sales online and were never able to get a decent ROAS

During our initial analysis of the company we identified the following challenges:

• Lead Generation from Facebook Ads was incurring a high overall cost. However, the number of sign-ups and the click-through rate were not satisfactory;
• To improve quality scores and lower costs, we needed to create optimised landing pages but the website was a bespoke build and was extremely limited;
• A need to improve the number of conversions without increasing the budget due to constraints.

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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Late-stage funded startup in the greetings/invitations space. Experiencing non-brand traffic declines and down trends from organic search channel during Q4 of 2019 that reached as low as -37% YoY.