How Grand Prix Yachting achieved a 10.9 x return on their ad spend for Hamilton Island Race Week
10.9X
Return on ad spend
3X
Email subscribers
10
Happy crew members
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Day 2 of Race Week
Our strategy for this campaign needed to be fast and effective, as the client had not invested much previously in marketing … and the timeframe from campaign launch to the first day of racing was ten weeks.
We ran videos, images and collection ads to a cold audience; the people who engaged with those ads were then shown another message with a call to sign up.
The message itself needed to overcome a couple of obstacles:
(A) Many people think yacht racing is expensive and
(B) They also think you need to be a highly-skilled sailor to crew on a racing yacht such as this Volvo 60.
However, the skipper is skilled at taking beginners and getting them up to speed within two days.
We took a bold approach with the opening line, literally in all caps: “YOU DON’T HAVE TO BE A ROCKSTAR” …
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