In one month, bookings more than doubled on the same media spend at a B2C marketplace

B2C marketplace · Pre-seed

The campaigns spoke to every audience the same way and weren't optimized for confirmed bookings. The money bought interest, not appointments.

Start with the levers that work immediately, before any structural change: optimize for the conversion that pays the bills and segment the message by specialty.

• We segmented Google Ads and Meta Ads campaigns and creatives by specialty, with a message for each one's pain.
• We switched campaign optimization to the confirmed booking, the bottom-of-funnel conversion.
• We adjusted GA4 tracking to measure confirmed bookings reliably.

+106% confirmed bookings and a 50% lower cost per booking in one month, with media spend practically stable.

• Paid media almost always has very short-term levers. The right conversion, segmentation and message change results in weeks, not quarters.
• The platform delivers what you ask for. If the campaign optimizes for clicks, you get clicks.
• A message per segment beats a generic message. One creative focused on a single specialty had a CTR more than 3 times the account average.

1. Before touching budget or adding new channels, check your optimization conversion: it must be the final action, such as a booking or purchase, not a click or a started form. Set it as the primary event in GA4 and as the goal on your media platforms.

2. Split campaigns and creatives by segment (specialty, category or customer profile), with one message per pain point, and read the cost per final conversion of each segment after two to four weeks.

3. Ask an LLM:

   I have these customer segments [paste the list] and this offer [describe it]. For each segment, write the main pain in one sentence, 3 ad headlines of up to 30 characters and 2 descriptions of up to 90 characters that speak to that pain and lead to a booking.

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