This innovative cakery opened a Shopify to drive custom cake orders and cakes in a jar couriered nationwide as dessert or given as a great surprise gift!

The client tried to run Facebook and Google ads themselves to promote their store and drive online orders. They soon realised they didn't know what they were doing - nor had the time to learn and experiment.

Celebrante is an Australian celebrant directory which makes money from celebrants when users make an enquiry with them through the Celebrante website.

The business model is simple, generate enquiries through the website at less than it costs in marketing to generate the enquiry.

The previous owner was forced to sell the website after rising Google AdWords costs had made the website no longer profitable.

Lance Tapsell, a long-time celebrant and customer of the site decided to purchase it and try to get it profitable again.

By engaging Pathfinder, the business was able to dramatically reduce its cost per lead and ensure profitability for the business and its future.

They had good results with ads but wanted to scale with more consistency

We were tasked with uncovering potential audiences, testing messaging and visuals, as well as landing pages, to understand and project potential KPIs.

Once we had initial benchmarks, our goal was to improve the performance, polish the messaging, and help the client raise the necessary capital by showcasing initial achievements.