The Challenge

Prior to working with Diogenes Solutions, the team at Gakken focused their efforts on Amazon Marketing with no Success usually just opting for automatic Amazon PPC campaigns that were costly and not profitable.

To position itself as a Top selling children’s book company, Gakken would have to prioritize targeted manual PPC campaigns. They would need to focus on ASIN targeting competitor products. Book targeting needs to be conservative in bidding and hyper targeted.

The Gakken team sought me out as the right person to take on the challenge.

The goal was to refine Gakkens PPC targeting with manual Selection, identify high-impact keywords, Categories and Products as well as display ads to fill topic gaps throughout the funnel, and ultimately, grow traffic and conversions.

The brand faced several tough periods during the ups and downs of the pandemic, at times also overlapping with the natural seasonality of its vertical.

They were again facing a drop in sales and ROAS and I was working on a strategy to improve their ROAS.

Chasing paper was having a hard time understanding their customer acquisition funnel and scaling on Paid Social. They had a lot of sample swatch sales happening throughout their acquisition funnel and couldn't understand the true value of these customers.

Michelle was approached by a fintech B2B SaaS company to scale their paid growth marketing efforts. Through a careful data-driven approach, Michelle experimented with multiple paid channels and identified the most promising channel based upon the Cost of Acquisition (CAC).

Up until now, the company had not experimented with paid channels, and weren't sure if they could make the costs work for their self-serve software product.