Executive Summary

Blue Illusion is a leading Australian fashion retailer with 100+ brick-and-mortar stores and an
established online presence. In February 2025, Blue Illusion engaged Blue Sense Digital to
clarify paid-media impact, eliminate wasted spend, and accelerate new-customer acquisition.
By applying rigorous data-driven tactics across Google and Meta, we achieved:

2× year-on-year growth in Google new-customer revenue
A lift of +79% YoY growth rate in new-customer revenue on Meta
– all within the first 90 days, while maintaining a conservative, new-customer-only
measurement approach.

Challenges

Obscured Incrementality
Meta’s view-through attributions and Google branded spend masked true new-customer impact.
Inefficient Account Structure
Cold campaigns were retargeting existing customers; Google budgets were also skewed wards branded keywords.
Misaligned Objectives
Meta traffic/view-content campaigns drove no incremental orders but consumed 10% of ad spend.
Data Integrity Gaps
No clear framework to isolate paid-media’s contribution amid seasonality and organic/store sales.

Solutions

We applied our three pillars of performance marketing, tailored for Blue Illusion’s dynamics:

Technical Account Structure
- Excluded returning customers & site visitors from all cold-prospecting campaigns
- Switched all Meta campaigns to seven-day click attribution only
- Reduced Google branded spend to <20% of budget; expanded non-branded Shopping campaigns in every geo
- Turned off inefficient objectives (Traffic, View-Content, Demand-Gen, Performance Max outside AU)
Creative Velocity & Diversity
- Audited historical ads; confirmed a healthy 50+ new creatives/month
- Forecasted ad‐level contribution profit to ensure each asset’s ROI comfortably exceeded production cost
- Empowered Blue Illusion team to ramp creative volume in line with revenue targets
Data Integrity & Assurance
- Measured only new-customer revenue, then indexed YoY growth against the six-month pre-engagement trend
- Built a daily acquisition‐to-spend regression model (“aMER Curve”) to identify diminishing returns
- Recommended geo-specific GeoLift tests for rigorously validating incremental ROI in key states

🚀 Results

(First 90 Days)

Google New-Customer Revenue
– March (full month): +130% YoY ($87K → $202K)
– April: +89% YoY
– Overall: 2× average YoY growth rate
Meta New-Customer Revenue
– March: +36% YoY (a +36-point inflection)
– April: +79% YoY (another +36-point lift)

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