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DRIVING REAL ESTATE CONVERSIONS FOR CAPITAL CITY WITH AN AGGRESSIVE PAY-PER-CLICK CAMPAIGN

CAPITAL CITY

A PPC Case Study

Capital City began in 2006. Since then, the company has developed over 40 projects all around Washington, DC. These projects include the transformation of unique properties like commercial buildings, boutique condos, and historical estates into new walkable urban communities.

One of Capital City’s main services includes acquisition at which point the company considers multiple scenarios to maximize the value of a property for everyone involved in the deal. They tie this in with their sales and marketing where they set the design solutions including product size, type, and mix necessary to make the project both livable and highly marketable.

On the development side, Capital City values transparency and collaboration to deliver high-quality projects. The team and all stakeholders are involved from beginning to end which is enabled, through our efficient processes, to ensure the satisfaction of everyone involved. With construction, Capital City prioritizes budgeting and ensures that the initial budget is carried throughout the construction. In addition to that, the company keeps an eye out for new and innovative construction materials and practices to meet or exceed the expectations of all stakeholders involved in the project.

Lastly, Capital City offers a wide variety of investment opportunities. Through its collaborative strategy, the company has made a long track record of creating fruitful returns for its investors.

We officially started running our PPC service in September 2019 and continue optimizing Capital City to the present date.

The Challenges

The client had been using the maximize conversions and strategy within Google ads, which resulted in a high number of impressions, but poor ad copy resulted in a low 1.02% CTR.
His cost per conversion was super high at $167.25 for every lead.
They weren't keeping up with the negative, so they were paying for a lot of "non-valuable clicks."
They weren't tracking conversions properly, phone numbers on the website weren't clickable and they weren’t tagging other elements that would be considered a conversion
The conversion rate was pretty low at only 1.32%

The Solutions

We set up several new campaigns. These campaigns were set for "manual bid" instead of using Google's automated billing strategies. The cost per click was immediately decreased by over 76%! We were only paying an average of $0.51 per click when we launched in September. The new ad copy we created also resulted in our CTR increasing 23.5%.
Over the course of 6 months, we've been able to achieve an average cost per lead of $34.48. This is a DECREASE in lead cost by 79.38%!
We set up a general negative keyword list inside of Google ads and we also set up individual negative keyword list for each one of the campaigns we had set up. Every week, we would do our weekly "negs" which resulted in better budget allocation towards winning keywords. This also helped lower the bounce rates on average of 11% and increased site time.
Once we set up the Google Tag Manager & configured his conversions properly, we were able to tag other conversion points that the client had initially forgotten about. Our conversion rate immediately went up from 1.32% to 3.01% in our first month! Over 6 months as we've optimized this campaign, our conversion rate has had a 511% increase.
The current conversion rate is over 8% and 87 commercial leads produced in the month of January 2020. We've had an 867% INCREASE in conversions over the course of 6 months.