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07 · Performance Marketing

Marketing that grows revenue and proves it

Performance marketing at OlDevs is a full-funnel growth engine — every channel instrumented, every dollar attributed, every result reported. Six disciplines run as one system.

You own accounts, data and IP Monthly reporting Reply within one business day

Attribution · this quarter

GA4 · server-side
Direct
Paid
Social
Organic
Email

312

Booked calls

3.1x

ROAS

−31%

CPL

Performance Marketing, in short

OlDevs runs full-funnel performance marketing for corporations, franchises, associations, government bodies and founders across Canada from its studio in Vancouver, British Columbia.The service covers SEO and AI-search visibility (GEO), paid search and shopping, paid social, email and lifecycle, analytics and conversion-rate optimisation, and in-house ad creative, run as one instrumented system. Every channel is tracked through GA4 with server-side events and attribution modelling, and results are reported monthly with a plain account of what was spent and what it returned.

Key facts

01Disciplines
SEO, paid, social, email, analytics, creative
02Ad platforms
Google, Bing, Meta, TikTok, LinkedIn, YouTube
03Measurement
GA4, server-side tracking, attribution
04AI search
GEO for ChatGPT, Perplexity, AI Overviews
05Account ownership
Always yours, from day one
06Reporting
Live dashboard plus monthly review

07 · Performance Marketing

Growth, measured and compounded.

Six disciplines, one system

01

SEO & Content

Technical audits, keyword and intent research, and an editorial engine that ranks and converts — on Google and in the AI answers your buyers increasingly trust.

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02

Paid Search & Shopping

Google and Bing search, Performance Max, and Shopping campaigns run with disciplined bid and budget control.

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03

Paid Social

We run full-funnel campaigns across Meta, TikTok, LinkedIn and YouTube: cold prospecting that finds new buyers, warm retargeting that brings them back, and reporting that shows exactly what each dollar returned.

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04

Email & Lifecycle

Automated lifecycle flows, newsletters, and CRM segmentation that turn buyers into repeat revenue.

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05

Analytics & CRO

GA4 and server-side tracking that capture every conversion, attribution modelling that shows which channels earned it, and a continuous conversion-rate optimisation programme that turns those insights into measurable lift.

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06

Creative & Media

Scroll-stopping ad creative, motion, UGC, and conversion copywriting, produced in-house by one team.

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07

Social Media & Ad Platforms

Organic channels and paid campaigns work better when one team plans both.

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08

Advanced Marketing & PR

Earned media, story development, crisis communications and stakeholder relations, planned and measured alongside your paid and owned channels.

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09

Commercial Production

Broadcast and online spots produced end to end: scripting, casting, locations, crew, direction on the day, and every cut and aspect ratio the media plan needs.

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10

Video Production

We plan, shoot and finish video for organisations across Canada and the United States.

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11

Photography & Content Capture

Product, lifestyle, location, team and facility photography, shot in bulk days that fill a content calendar rather than one campaign.

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12

Motion Graphics & Animation

We produce 2D and 3D motion, explainers, kinetic typography and animated logos for teams across Canada and the United States.

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13

Social Media Production

We produce short-form vertical video, creator-style content, carousels and stills on a repeating calendar, edited to each platform's current specification.

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14

GEO & AI Optimisation

Generative engine optimisation is content architecture and machine readability: answer-first pages, consistent entity data, structured markup and the crawler access you choose.

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15

Local SEO

We build the page architecture, structured data, listing accuracy and review programme behind local visibility, then report what moved location by location.

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16

Google Business Profile

We claim, verify and maintain your profiles, then keep categories, hours, services and photos in step with your website.

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17

Media Relations

We build the media list, mine the stories inside your organisation, write the releases and kits, pitch them, and prepare the people who speak.

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18

Crisis Communications

We prepare the statements, roles and channels your organisation needs before an incident, then work alongside your team while it plays out.

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19

Stakeholder & Community Relations

Stakeholder mapping, consultation programmes, member newsletters, and board and funder reporting in English and French.

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20

Thought Leadership

We interview the people in your organisation who actually know the subject, then turn what they say into articles, talks, research and a LinkedIn presence in their own voice.

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21

Brand & Reputation Management

We monitor reviews, brand search results and every place your organisation is described, then correct what is wrong and publish what is missing.

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The compounding effect

How compounding channels typically build.

SEO, lifecycle and CRO feed each other: the longer the system runs, the more each dollar returns.

LaunchMonth 3Month 6Month 9Month 12

Illustrative index of how compounding channels typically build over a first year — not a projection or guarantee of results.

Process

How we run it — a continuous loop

  1. Audit

    We start with a full audit of your analytics, ad accounts, site and competitors to find where budget is being wasted and where growth is cheapest to win.

  2. Strategy

    You receive a channel plan with targets, budget split, audiences, messaging and creative direction, agreed in writing before anything launches.

  3. Launch

    Tracking, landing pages, creative and campaigns go live together, with every conversion event verified end to end on day one.

  4. Optimise

    Bids, budgets, audiences, pages and creative are tuned every week against your cost and return targets.

  5. Report

    A live dashboard and a monthly review show exactly what was spent, what it returned and what changes next, and then the loop starts again.

How we work

How we make it compound

01

SEO written for search engines and AI answers

Technical audits fix crawling, speed and structured data first, then keyword and intent research feeds an editorial engine written to rank in Google and to be cited by ChatGPT, Perplexity and Google AI Overviews (GEO), with AI citations tracked alongside classic rankings.

02

Measurement before media

GA4, server-side tagging and each platform's conversions API are installed and verified before any campaign goes live, so every lead and sale is attributed from the first click.

03

Landing pages owned by the campaign

Paid traffic lands on pages we build and test ourselves, because disciplined bidding cannot rescue a page that does not convert.

04

Creative tested in volume

Every campaign launches with several hooks, formats and variants, and fatigued ads are replaced on a weekly refresh cycle before performance slides.

05

A weekly optimisation cadence

Bids, budgets, audiences, negatives and placements are reviewed every week against your cost-per-acquisition and return-on-ad-spend targets rather than left to platform automation alone.

06

One dashboard, one source of truth

Every channel reports into a single Looker Studio dashboard your team can open any day, backed by a monthly written review of what worked, what did not and what changes next.

Who it's for

Performance Marketing for organisations that have to get it right.

Whether the audience is a customer, a member, a citizen, or your own team, the work has to hold up under real use.

Corporations

Multi-channel budgets, procurement-grade reporting and attribution your finance team will accept, run by one accountable team instead of four separate agencies.

Associations & government

Membership drives, public awareness campaigns and service uptake that meet accessibility and privacy standards, with reporting written for boards, councils and funders.

Franchises

Brand-level campaigns with location-level landing pages, local SEO and budgets, so every franchisee sees their own leads and their own numbers.

Entrepreneurs & startups

A measured path from first campaign to repeatable acquisition, with tracking, creative and lifecycle set up properly the first time so growth compounds instead of restarting.

1 business day

Reply on every quote request

12+

Years running campaigns and builds

+41%

Average conversion-rate lift in the first six months

Selected work

Selected performance marketing work.

Client names are withheld; the problem and the outcome are the point.

01Development

A regional franchise group

Industry
Quick-service retail
Services
Web Development · Android & iOS Apps · Performance Marketing
Duration
10 weeks
“For the first time one team owned the app, the site, and the pipeline. We stopped refereeing vendors and started shipping.”
— COO, regional franchise group

Challenge

Twelve franchisee microsites, two unmaintained apps, inconsistent branding, and no shared lead pipeline.

Solution

One multi-location web platform, a rebuilt iOS and Android app on a shared API, and centralised performance marketing — launched in ten weeks.

+42%

Qualified leads

−31%

Cost per acquisition

14→1

Properties consolidated

02Marketing

A privately held dental group with 14 clinics across British Columbia and Alberta

Industry
Healthcare
Services
Performance marketing · Paid search & shopping · SEO & content · Analytics & CRO
Duration
9 months (ongoing)
“For the first time I can tell the partners what a new patient costs in Kelowna versus Calgary, and the number is real because it comes from the booking system.”
— Chief Operating Officer, multi-location dental group

Challenge

Each clinic ran its own ads through whichever agency the practice manager had inherited, so the group was bidding against itself on the same keywords in the same cities. Booking forms were tracked as page views, not bookings, which meant nobody could say what a new patient actually cost. Organic traffic went almost entirely to the homepage, then left.

Solution

We consolidated everything into one ad account with location-level campaigns and a shared negative-keyword list, so clinics stopped competing for the same clicks. Analytics was rebuilt to record a booking only when the practice-management system confirmed one, giving the group a real cost per new patient by clinic and by service. We then wrote and structured service and location pages for the procedures patients actually search for, and ran a series of booking-form tests: fewer fields, insurance questions moved after the appointment request, and a phone-first option on mobile.

−38%

Cost per booked new patient

2.4×

Organic bookings from service and location pages

14

Clinics reporting on one dashboard

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03Marketing

A founder-led direct-to-consumer outdoor apparel brand shipping across Canada

Industry
E-commerce & retail
Services
Performance marketing · Paid social · Email & lifecycle · Analytics & CRO
Duration
6 months
“I stopped waking up to check the ad account. The flows run, the numbers reconcile, and I can plan inventory against them.”
— Founder, direct-to-consumer apparel brand

Challenge

Paid social was the brand's only growth channel, and after a platform pricing change it stopped paying for itself. Email was a single monthly newsletter to the whole list, most creative was reshot product photography that looked like everyone else's, and the founder was making budget decisions from platform-reported figures that did not match the store's own order data.

Solution

We set up server-side conversion tracking and reconciled it against order data, so spend decisions rested on what actually shipped. Creative moved to a weekly testing cadence of short customer-shot video, founder explainers and comparison formats, with losers cut on a fixed schedule. Email and SMS were rebuilt into lifecycle flows, including welcome, browse and cart recovery, post-purchase care and a winback sequence, so revenue no longer depended on the day's ad auction. On-site, we tested the product page and checkout, which raised conversion enough to change the economics of every paid click.

3.1

Blended return on ad spend, up from 1.6

27%

Of monthly revenue now from email and SMS flows

+19%

Site-wide conversion rate after product-page and checkout tests

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FAQ

Performance Marketing — questions we hear first.

Paid search and paid social typically produce measurable leads or sales within the first two to four weeks, once tracking is verified and the platforms' learning phase completes. SEO and AI-search visibility build more slowly, with meaningful movement usually visible in three to six months and compounding after that. We set channel-by-channel timelines during the strategy phase so expectations are written down before launch.

You do. Every ad account, analytics property, pixel, audience and email list is created under your organisation's ownership with OlDevs added as a managed user, and all creative, copy, landing pages and dashboards are yours to keep if we ever part ways.

For paid media we run Google Ads (Search, Shopping and Performance Max), Microsoft Advertising, Meta, TikTok, LinkedIn and YouTube, and for measurement we use GA4, Google Tag Manager with server-side tagging, Looker Studio and each platform's conversions API. For email and lifecycle we work in Klaviyo, HubSpot, Mailchimp and most major CRMs, and we integrate with whatever stack your site or app already runs on.

Yes. Generative engine optimisation (GEO) is part of our SEO and content discipline: we structure pages into clear, citable answers, add complete schema markup, publish an llms.txt file, keep AI crawlers unblocked and build the third-party mentions AI engines rely on when deciding which brands to recommend. We track AI citations alongside classic rankings so you can see visibility in both.

Campaigns are built to comply with PIPEDA, Canada's Anti-Spam Legislation (CASL) and, where applicable, GDPR, using a consent management platform with Google Consent Mode and double opt-in for email. We also keep every account inside each platform's advertising policies, which matters for regulated sectors such as health, finance and housing, with verification and access held under your organisation's control.

We slot in as the specialists you are missing, whether that means full management or paid media and analytics working alongside your own content people, with a shared Slack or Teams channel, a weekly optimisation summary and a monthly review call. Ongoing management covers bid and budget control, creative refreshes, landing-page tests, tracking maintenance and platform updates, so nothing is left to platform automation alone.

Fees depend on the channels involved, the media budget under management and how much creative and landing-page work is needed, so we scope every engagement individually rather than publishing packages. Request a quote with your goals and current channels and we will reply within one business day with a recommended plan and a clear fee.

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