Overview

Clear Water Press enjoys a lower cost-per-acquisition, and increased site visits with shopping ads, paid search campaigns, e-commerce SEO and Facebook advertising.

Out of Bounds has completely removed our frustration with tracking! Their digital marketing services are comprehensive, customized, and effective. Thank you for all you do!

- Daniel Schwabauer | Clear Water Press

Client Profile

Clear Water Press is an Olathe, Kansas-based publisher of writing curriculum for middle and high school homeschool student writers. They have three brands: One Year Novel, Cover Story Writing and Byline Writing – which are sold on their e-commerce site at ClearwaterPress.com

Challenge

We brainstormed with their marketing team to come up with the following digital marketing objectives: (1) Grow online revenue while maintaining an acceptable return on investment, (2) Target advertising to homeschool parents, (3) Reduce the cost-per-acquisition while expanding brand awareness.

Solution

* Deploy Google Tag Manager across all four sites and enable cross-domain e-commerce tracking.

* Reach new customers by deploying paid search advertising across Google AdWords and BingAds.

* Sell products directly from live inventory feed to online shoppers with products ads on Bing Shopping, Facebook Catalog, and Google Shopping.

* Improve organic visibility with on-page SEO improvements, streamlining information architecture.

* Use different audience targeting depending on where the potential customer is in the shopping funnel.

Results

* Return on ad spend up 500% YOY

* Facebook revenue up 400%

* Increased brand awareness with homeschool target audience