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As a travel and tourism marketing agency, every campaign starts the same way — understanding the offer, testing the audience, and letting the data pick the winners. Here's what that looked like for two travel brands.

Case Study 01 · Boutique Travel Planning Agency
Results in Month 1

Destination-specific testing took cost per appointment 70% below target — in the first month.

The Problem

Generic offer, no audience segmentation, underperforming on both lead cost and bookings.

What We Did

  • Weeks 1–2 — Offer Validation: Tested the original offer across 11 destination-specific ad groups to find a profitable baseline.
  • Week 3 — Audience Revalidation: Repositioned the offer to match a more premium audience. Tested 11 locations and cut underperformers.
  • Week 4 — Scale: Narrowed to the 8 winning destination/audience combinations and scaled spend toward closed deals.

Results vs. Target

Target: $79
$71
−10%
COST PER LEAD
Target: $528
$156
−70%
COST PER APPT.
68
LEADS
31
APPOINTMENTS
45.6%
BOOKING RATE
22.6%
CLOSE RATE
Google Ads 7 Sales Closed Destination Testing
Case Study 02 · Luxury Travel Concierge Service
3-Month Testing Cycle

Audience-specific landing pages dropped cost per lead 81% while volume scaled to 542 leads.

The Problem

Broad, generic targeting wasn't converting. No audience-specific messaging, no segmented funnel.

What We Did

  • Built three separate landing pages — one per core audience: couples (romantic getaway), families (stress-free planning), friend groups (celebration trip) — each with its own headline, copy, and creative.
  • Split-tested every page to find the winning layout and message per audience.
  • Identified the strongest-converting segment and shifted budget accordingly.

Audience Performance

Couples308 leads · $3.23 CPL
Families110 leads · $9.05 CPL
Friend Groups62 leads · $16.08 CPL

Month 1 → Month 3

Month 1: $32.56
$6.16
−81%
COST PER LEAD
Target: $419
$133
−68%
COST PER APPT.
542
LEADS
25
APPOINTMENTS
50%
BOOKING RATE
25%
OPT-IN RATE
Meta Ads Audience Testing 3 Landing Pages Built

Why These Aren't All Travel Brands — Yet

Every campaign below was built the same way: audience testing, creative iteration, and weekly optimization. The parts of paid media that don't change by industry. What does change is the offer and the booking flow, and that's exactly what gets mapped out with every new client before a single ad goes live.

The results below are proof of the process. As a Travel & Tourism Marketing Agency, travel is now our focus.

Learn more about how we got here.
2,675
LEADS GENERATED
583
APPOINTMENTS BOOKED
10
INDUSTRIES SERVED

Results shown reflect campaigns where I led paid media strategy, audience targeting, creative testing, and budget optimization.

Proof of Process

Real campaigns.
Real numbers.

Ten industries, one tested process.

Cabin Manufacturer
583
LEADS
$5.61
CPL
122
APPTS
$26.79
CPA
Door-to-Door Sales
1,055
LEADS
$13.46
CPL*
289
APPTS
$49.12
CPA*
Fitness — Multi-Location
721
LEADS
$20.29
CPL
73
APPTS
$200.41
CPA
Therapy Clinic
74
LEADS
$12.72
CPL
16
APPTS
$58.84
CPA
Tax Advisory
80
LEADS
$56.91
CPL
34
APPTS
$133.91
CPA
Local Cleaning Service
27
LEADS
$38.81
CPL
9
APPTS
$116.44
CPA
Pet Resort
21
LEADS
$20.42
CPL
5
APPTS
$85.77
CPA
Fitness — Local Studio
51
LEADS
$23.72
CPL*
7
APPTS
$145.62
CPA*
Children's Tutoring
25
LEADS
$124.13
CPL*
10
APPTS
$310.32
CPA*
Business Funding
38
LEADS
$122.97
CPL*
18
APPTS
$259.60
CPA*

*Calculated as a weighted average across individual ad sets/campaigns rather than a single platform-reported blended figure.

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