Work / Auto Relief Assistance

WebAds
Consumer services · 2023–Present

From zero to paying customers in 60 days.

A landing page and Facebook and Instagram ads built around one goal: qualified applications. Profitable by day 60, then scaled up.

  • 60Days to profit
  • 7.2%Visitors who applied
  • $18Cost per customer
  • 5.4xReturn on ad spend

The challenge

01 / 04

A new offer with no proof.

Auto Relief Assistance launched a new consumer service with solid economics, a clear pitch, and zero history of finding customers. No data, no ads, no learnings, no benchmarks. Just an offer, a budget, and a need to prove the numbers fast.

Most agencies in this situation reach for the shotgun: launch a brand campaign, build awareness, hope. We don't. The brief was specific: reach profitable customer acquisition in 90 days. Not someday, not next quarter. Scale could come after.

What we did

02 / 04

Funnel first, not awareness first.

With no history and a hard deadline, you don't spend on awareness. You spend on direct response with high-intent targeting and obsess over conversion at every step. Every dollar either wins a customer or teaches us how to win the next one.

The 90-day plan ran three tracks at once: a single-purpose landing page built for one action, Meta ads aimed only at people showing clear purchase intent, and 12 ad variations tested in week one and narrowed to 3 winners by week three.

  • The page: one offer, one action, a 4-field form, loads in under 2 seconds
  • The audience: Meta ads to people with documented intent, no broad targeting
  • The creative: 12 video and image variants, narrowed to 3 winners
When you have no data, your job is to generate it, not hide from it with brand metrics.
Delivered
  • Conversion-first landing page (one offer, one button)
  • 4-field application form built for phones
  • Trust signals above the fold
  • Meta ad campaigns with high-intent targeting
  • Starting library of 12 ads: video, image, carousel
  • Server-side conversion tracking
  • Heatmaps and weekly conversion sprints
  • Lead routing to the sales team with response-time monitoring

The landing page hit a 7.2% conversion rate by week 4, against a 2–3% industry norm. That single number changed the math on everything else.

Timeline

03 / 04

How it unfolded.

  1. Weeks 1–2

    Build and launch

    Landing page, form, ads, campaigns, and tracking all built and live.

  2. Weeks 3–4

    Aggressive testing

    12 ad variants tested, 3 winners found. Audiences refined on early data.

  3. Weeks 5–6

    Funnel tuning

    Landing page conversion climbed from 4.1% to 7.2%. Cost per customer fell from $34 to $18.

  4. Weeks 7–8

    Profitable scale

    The numbers turned profitable. Budget scaled up. Daily tuning across ads and audiences.

  5. Month 3+

    Sustained growth

    Spend is now multiples of the original budget. Ads return 5.4x. New audiences and formats expanding.

The results

04 / 04

Hard deadline, harder execution.

Auto Relief Assistance reached profitable customer acquisition by day 60, a month ahead of the brief. Cost per customer settled at $18, with the landing page converting 7.2% of visitors across all traffic. Ads at scale return 5.4x.

The work continues today. The original 4-field landing page still does most of the heavy lifting, with fresh ads and refined audiences on the same conversion-first foundation. New services get added with the same playbook: build the funnel first, test hard, scale only when the numbers work.

  • 60Days to profit
  • 7.2%Visitors who applied
  • $18Cost per customer
  • 5.4xReturn on ad spend

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