This is a guest post from Moziak Skin & Body to show how they were able to grow their revenue exponentially with Google Ads and call tracking.
For the past three years, I have been documenting the growth of my day spa. What used to be once a small $5,800/mo day spa today operates around $70,000.
Over the years, we have tried a lot of various marketing channels. Without a doubt, the single most valuable channel we have for Mozaik Skin & Body is our Google Ads. Our budget has grown from $500/mo to close to $3,000/mo in just a couple of years and the return of advertisement has continued to grow with it.
I wanted to share with all you our strategy that we have used to grow our Day Spa. Here are our results from AdWords for the past 30 days.
- AdSpend: $2,930
- Clicks: 1,200
- Conversions: 200
- Cost Per Conversion: $14.65
We classify a conversion as someone booking online for the spa, or calling directly to book over the phone.
- Average Spend of Conversion: ~$150
- Total Revenue Generated: ~$30,000
Know the basics
Before you begin publishing anything on Google Ads, you need to start with a dedicated landing page that is going to convert your future customers. There are thousands of documents that focus on this subject specifically, so we’re cover the basics of a good landing page.
Links
Unless the link is a direct call to action, where the customer will get your desired result, remove it. The last thing you want to do to spends $3–7 on a single click only for someone to click your Facebook Link. When they get to Facebook, they’ll get distracted with all those notifications and you can kiss that $3 buy.
Calls to Action
Your calls to action are the buttons you use to generate the leads. They should be clearly visible, and noticed that those are the actions they are supposed to take. The call to action should be clear and match what the buyer’s feeling. Using much more aligned button text will only increase the conversion rate.
Call to actions that don't insight action:
- Submit
- Sign up
- Get Started
You want to align the call to action button with the exact action you plan on users taking.
Call to actions should lead to specific actions:
- Get Instant Quote
- Book Your Spa Visit Now
- Book Your FREE Consultation
If you have sold them on the idea of using you, you want them to as quickly identify that exact button they need to click. You literally want to think “Does this button explain exactly what they want to do?”
Headlines & Offers
If you don’t want to invest the energy into creating pages for each offer you have, that aligns with each campaign, then you should probably consider hiring a professional who will do it for you.
Each product has a campaign, each product has a dedicated page on someone’s website. Google Ads (Google Shopping) drives people directly to the page with that product. Why? Because if someone wants “Red Nike Indoor Soccer Shoes”, they don’t want to see all of Nike’s shoes. They want to see Red Nike Indoor Shoes.
That’s why Google setups their ads that way; for optimal conversion. You should be doing this with your local services as well.
At the day spa, we offer massages, facials, and packages. Each offer we put into Google Ads has its own page & special offer to help convert. The more you can align your clients intent with your message, the strongest your conversions are going to be.
Proof of Quality
There is a big difference with someone that is coming to your page that is cold, and through paid traffic, over a SEO/Yelp Visitor.
Those coming through SEO & Yelp already know something about you, (Google’s Ranking Counts). All you have to do is sell them services. Whereas a Google Pay Per Click Customer (or any Cold Traffic), still might have questions about your quality of services.
That’s why it’s super important to include on your landing page social proof, and real proof. Here are some of the things we use for our landing pages:
- Testimonials
- Social Proof (Reviews from FB, Yelp, Google)
- Mentions in Publications (Any Kind)
- Awards
- Certifications
The Google Ads Setup
The key to setting up Google Ads is to do it in a way that allows you to quickly & effectively monitor your performance. My setup may not be the ideal for other industries, but it works for me & the spa.
Campaigns
Unique combination between area we target & landing page. For example, we might do:
- LP: $75 Massage, Target: Scottsdale
- LP: $139 Massage & Facial, Target: Scottsdale
- LP: $75 Massage, Target: US
Scottsdale is the only city in the US with its name. Thus, we can easily target tourists searching for us. We also set a smaller budget on this campaign, because we also know that a lot of solicitors may be using this method to find us.
AdGroups
Now that you have the landing page targeting a specific buyer, it’s time to build AdGroups for those keywords. Most people suggest SKAGS, Single Keyword AdGroups. Basically, you setup one Keyword per AdGroup.
This is probably one of the best ways to set up Google Ads, because it gives you the granular details you need to know. There are plenty of guides about how & why this works, so I’ll be focusing on how to cover my setup.
For the Campaign: LP: $75 Massage, Target: Scottsdale
We want to target specific people looking for massages. Keywords that we would be using would be like:
- “Massage”
- “Scottsdale Massage”
- “Massage in Scottsdale”
- “Massages near me”
For the Campaign of our Package Offering, we could simply target people searching for “Day Spas”, “Spas”.
The ultimate point of the break down is to make sure the searches align with the offer. We could offer Massages to people searching for Spas. But offering Two/Three Hour packages to someone wanting Massages will hurt us.
Go Granular!
There is a lot of profit to be made when you go granular. Take for example our Massages. We offer Couples Massages & Regular Massages. The search term for Couples Massages isn’t as strong, but still, has quite a bit of search.
Originally, we would just serve them the same ad. Turns out, they don’t want the same service as each other. One wants therapeutic results, the other wants something for a special occasion. We needed to break apart and create unique landing pages & keywords to go with that landing page.
Our results skyrocketed for Couples Massage once we built a specific campaign for it. In fact, here were our results in June:
- Clicks: 92
- Cost: $175
- Conversions: 31 (34%)
- Revenue Generated: $3,689 (31 @ $119 each)
That should be the simple proof that you must invest the energy & the time to go granular with Google Ads.
Don’t Skip on Implementing Conversions
I always hear this from other businesses, “I think it’s working”. The truth is, when you are paying for a click, you absolutely should know what’s working and not. With all the tools that are available, free or paid, there is absolutely no reason you shouldn’t know.
First & foremost, you should be tracking every online conversion with Google Analytics. This will let you know how your form is doing, your call-to-action. From this, you can figure out if things need to be improved.
Second — If you are a local business, please get a call tracking number. Even better if you get one that does KW Tracking as well. Close to, if not, the majority of all conversions will be phone calls. If you don’t know if half the people are converting or not, how can you possibly optimize? That’s why using something like CallRail is absolutely vital to your success.
From here, once it’s set up & properly reporting, you can actually spend time optimizing. You don’t have to use your “gut” to figure out.
This guide should get you with a great foundation for how to be successful with Google Ads.
Final Note — If you have any specific questions about Google Ads I can help with, please feel free to ask me in a new group I started, Service Business Hustlers. Four other service business founders & I have paired up to help others business owners on their journey.
