MACU PPC stats

Higher-Ed Growth and Efficiency

The Granular team has extensive hands-on experience managing full marketing strategies for higher-ed clients with 7 and 8-figure annual digital marketing budgets. Our Founder, Jordon Meyer ran PPC in-house for two leading Midwest for-profit colleges and our team has collectively managed higher-ed PPC for over a dozen colleges and universities.

Background

This university was seeking to improve the performance of its paid search. Management of the paid search accounts was previously handled by a prominent Seattle-based agency, and the university had a hunch that they were getting “the B team”. Granular conducted an extensive paid PPC audit where we uncovered extreme amounts of neglect and inefficiency.


The
 Opportunity

Step one was to stop the bleeding caused by a national PPC agency. CPCs over $100 per click were rampant throughout the account…when the average of our other higher-ed clients was much lower for similar targeting. After we restructured the entire account, it only took one month to reap the rewards of granular, data-driven account management.


Goals

  • Identify areas of waste, reduce media budget, and pay for Granular’s services through efficiency
  • Develop a roadmap for growth
  • Prove that PPC can be scalable while remaining efficient


Granular’s
 Solution

  • We  performed a comprehensive PPC audit and found areas for immediate cost-cutting and efficiency gains
  • The restructuring of the accounts saw immediate positive returns that set the groundwork for continued success
  • CPC reduction with Ad Quality Score improvements based on architecture and keyword mapping
  • Advanced reporting dashboards and value-based bidding to ensure that we aim to attract the most valuable students


The Outcome

  • Google Ads Leads increased by +61% year-over-year
  • Google Ads Cost Per Lead reduced by –28% year-over-year

 

MACU PPC stats