As one of the world's leading news agencies, Reuters goes "back to the start, where there’s no bias and no agenda to tell the real story," thereby providing a critical service all Reuters employees deeply believed in. Yet as a small business unit in shrinking industry (Publishing) within a large company (Thomson Reuters), the news agency was severely limited in both staff and budget.

My challenge was to help grow revenue through the digital marketing channel for the news agency with only $100k-$200k budget and no staff support within the new agency.

• Industry-standard overall conversion rate of ~2%;
• Old-school product pages;
• No upsells, no bundles, no post-purchase emails.

Nu-Tank are a Queensland polyethylene water tank manufacturer. With 25-years industry experience manufacturing high quality water tanks, they are a leading supplier of water tanks in the state and across Australia.

While they had a website and a digital presence, marketing efforts were still very reliant on traditional media, particularly television and print to generate leads and brand awareness.

Past attempts at running Google Ads through digital marketing agencies were unsuccessful and management were unsure if they could justify the return on investment.

1. Bringing a product to market requires months of strategy and research into the target market. Slinger Bag hit the market for the first time with their portable tennis ball launcher, so our understanding of the U.S. tennis player and general consumer sports goods market was imperative. The product was also set to launch in the U.K, which required a separate strategy.  
2. Generating brand awareness, especially for a new brand, requires an essential mix of paid search and social campaigns and an effectively designed landing page to optimize traffic for sales. 
3. COVID-19 initially shut down manufacturing and continued to add unforeseen manufacturing and shipping delays throughout 2020