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Case studies

The numbers, and what it took to get them.

Anonymised campaigns from live accounts, including the parts that did not work first time. Client names are withheld under NDA — happy to walk through the detail with references on a call.

Placeholder content. Every case below is written in a realistic house style but the figures are illustrative. Swap in your real campaign data — the layout takes any number of cases and the filters pick up new tags automatically.
Off-plan launchDUBAI

Marina tower, 340 units

Launch weekend plus twelve weeks of absorption. The winning angle was the payment plan, not the view — which took two weeks of testing to accept.

−41%COST / SQL
3.2×CONTACT RATE
1,480QUALIFIED LEADS
MortgageUAE

Eligibility-first lending funnel

Moving income and down-payment questions ahead of contact capture removed most unbankable applicants before the bank ever touched them.

+118%APPROVAL RATE
−33%CPL
12WEEKS
FormationUAE · KSA

Free zone set-up programme

Arabic-first advertorial plus an activity-type filter tripled the share of enquiries genuinely ready to file within 30 days.

2.9×QUALIFIED VOL
−27%CPA
9MARKETS
BrokerageDUBAI

Community-exclusive buyer leads

Splitting one campaign into eleven community-level funnels cut wasted agent hours and made the numbers legible per team.

+64%VIEWINGS
−22%CPL
11COMMUNITIES
BrokerageGCC

Suitability-filtered financial leads

Compliance-approved creative and an experience-first question set. Fewer leads, dramatically fewer unsuitable applicants reaching the desk.

−58%UNSUITABLE
+41%CONVERSION
0COMPLIANCE ISSUES
Retail bankingUAE

Credit card acquisition at scale

Salary banding on step one and employer category on step two. High volume, tight caps, quality held steady across six months.

$21BLENDED CPL
+37%APPROVAL
24kLEADS / 6 MO
InvestorUK · IN · CIS

Overseas investor acquisition

Source-market campaigns in four languages with a residency and financing-route filter, feeding a Dubai developer's international desk.

4LANGUAGES
−19%CPL VS LOCAL
2.4×DEAL SIZE
AccountingUAE

Corporate tax season campaign

Deadline-driven demand with a turnover filter and a service-line router, so consultants received enquiries already sorted by practice area.

+92%QUALIFIED VOL
6WEEKS LIVE
−31%CPL
WealthUAE · UK

HNW advisory enquiries

Deliberately low volume. Long-form pre-lander, five respectful questions, and an offer of a conversation rather than a download.

68LEADS / MONTH
44%MEETING RATE
$148CPL
Deep dive

Marina tower launch, week by week

One case in full, so you can see how a campaign actually behaves rather than only where it ended up.

The brief

A Dubai developer with 340 units releasing across three phases. The internal target was a cost per sales-qualified lead well below what they were paying two incumbent vendors, and a contact rate their agents would stop complaining about.

What we got wrong first

The opening creative led on the view and the address — the things the brochure led on. It produced strong click-through and a poor funnel completion rate: people were interested in looking, not buying. Week two replaced the hero angle with the payment plan structure, which cut click-through by nearly a third and roughly doubled the qualified lead rate.

The funnel change that mattered

The original funnel asked for budget first and payment route last. Swapping them moved the hard disqualification earlier: people who could not finance the purchase dropped out at step two instead of step five, which freed budget to buy more of the traffic that could.

Where the volume came from

By week six the mix looked nothing like the plan. Two regional property portals and one native platform were producing the majority of qualified leads; a well-known international publisher that had looked essential on paper was switched off entirely.

Outcome

Over 68 days: 1,480 qualified leads delivered, cost per sales-qualified lead down 41% against the client's blended incumbent cost, and a contact rate 3.2× their previous vendor average. Phases two and three opened ahead of schedule.

campaign · funnel shape at day 68
ImpressionsAll surfaces
ClicksBlended
Funnel startsStep 1 answered
Payment route passedThe hard filter
Completed & verifiedDelivered
Sales-qualifiedClient confirmed

Timeline

WEEK 1

Open wide

3,100 placements, six angles, controlled spend. Information gathering.

WEEK 2

Angle switch

Payment plan replaces the view as the hero. CTR falls, quality doubles.

WEEK 3

Funnel reorder

Payment route moves from step five to step two.

WEEK 6

Supply concentration

78% of placements cut. Spend consolidates into three sources.

WEEK 10

Scale

Daily caps doubled at stable cost. Arabic variants added for GCC buyers.

“The week-two conversation where they told us our own brochure angle was wrong was uncomfortable and completely correct.”

DK
Demo NameHead of Sales · Developer

“Our underwriters noticed before our marketing team did. The applications simply started making sense.”

RN
Demo NameHead of Retail · Lender

“Eleven separate funnels sounded like overkill. It turned out to be the whole reason the numbers worked.”

SF
Demo NameManaging Director · Brokerage
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