Adventure Warehouse's #1 goal was to sell excess inventory. In a crowded, trend-driven and competitive market, Adventure Warehouse knew that they needed to be in front of consumers when they were searching for their products. They chose to work with a group of PPC specialists to ensure that the excess inventory they had sitting in their facilities would move and move quickly.

• Too much competition for this product
• We had to find a way to sell a lot in a short period of time
• They never advertised in the past

SendGrid was a well-established email API frequently used by businesses for transactional email use cases, attempting to break into the email marketing space with an email marketing campaign. After around two years of struggling to break into email marketing, marketing leaders were interested in a way to build more content marketing traffic to the site via organic search channels. Problem was, email marketing is an extremely difficult vertical for content marketing.

The Canadian tax industry is very competitive. TurboTax and H&R Block are the giants in the space. SimpleTax came along with any innovatively easy product and fun product that challenged the status quo. The brought fun to a stale space. My job was to efficiently bring in new customers to simpletax.ca through primarily paid search, and assisted with paid social activities. It was very important the message was 'on brand' which had a more 'fun' approach than the competitors. We also had tight CPA requirements as the payment model was a 'pay what you want' or donation model.