Paid Ad Marketing

This PPC campaign was for the promotion of Fuel Cycle’s Consumer Insights Summit called FC Connect that was a national virtual conference featuring industry leaders at Fortune-500 level brands.

Drive event registrations through paid acquisition channels

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Target professionals within a Total Addressable Market (TAM) exceeding $1B 

Goal

Generate high-intent leads for post-event sales outreach 

Maintain strong cost-per-conversion while scaling reach

Advertisement for the FC Connect Consumer Insights Summit on September 1-2, 2020. Featuring a woman in a black top and white skirt, smiling and holding her hands in front of her. Includes logos of brands like Denny's, IBM, ESPN, BET, Fandango, GAP, Wells Fargo, McKinsey & Company, and others. Prominently displays green 'Register Now' buttons and the event details.

Strategy


Built and managed PPC campaigns across Google Ads and Meta Ads Manager

Google Ads for high-intent keyword targeting

Display placements for brand awareness and retargeting

Meta Ads for audience segmentation and lookalike targeting

Conversion-optimized landing pages aligned with ad creative

Execution

A digital advertisement for FuelCycle Market Research Platform featuring charts, graphs, and images of a woman using a laptop, highlighting its features like cost savings and brand usage by major companies such as Hulu, Amazon, Google, and Facebook.


Multi-channel approach combining search, social, and display advertising to reach active and passive audiences.

Created multiple ad formats including:
• Display banners
• Social ads
• Search ads
• Retargeting ads

Performed A/B testing on:
• Headlines
Creative variations
• CTA buttons
• Audience segments

Targeted:
• Marketing Directors / CMOs
• Market Research professionals
• Brand Managers
• Enterprise and mid-market companies
• Previous event attendees and retargeted visitors

Results

  • 4,000+ event signups

  • 173 Marketing Qualified Leads (MQLs)

  • Reached a TAM valued at over $1B in potential enterprise clients

  • Increased conversion rate through iterative ad testing and audience refinement

  • Successfully generated leads for post-event sales pipeline

Tools Used

  • Google Ads

  • Meta Ads Manager

  • Google Analytics

  • Wordpress / Elementor

  • Adobe Creative Suite