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Performance Marketing

Clio & Google Ads

Clio is the world's most popular legal practice management software. They enlisted Intrepid's CRO department for ad copy optimization to improve the CTR, CR, CPA, and QS of their Google PPC campaigns.

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Increase in CTR
Increase in CTR for some campaigns.
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Reduction in CPA
Reduction in CPA for some campaigns.
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Improvement in QS
Average improvement in Quality Score.
The Challenge

RSA ad copy that couldn't be A/B tested headline by headline.

Clio wanted to improve performance of their Google PPC ads, which were transitioning to the RSA format. However, Google Ads does not allow specific A/B testing of RSA headlines.

Our Strategy

Testing value proposition "buckets" instead of headlines.

01Strategy
Bucketed headlines by value proposition theme

Intrepid's CRO department pioneered a new approach to work within the limitations of Google Ads' new RSA format, which does not allow for individual headline testing. To identify the best-performing creative strategy, we created "buckets" of headlines focused on different value proposition themes: leadership, aspirational benefits, and immediate practical benefits. After phase one of testing, we would continue evolving the winning test to focus on more nuanced expressions of the best value propositions.

02Hypothesis
Iterative testing to boost clicks and traffic quality

We hypothesized that iterative testing which narrowed down the best-performing ad copy strategy would result in immediate boosts to performance — in some cases, generating more clicks and in other cases, passing more qualified traffic.

The Results

All-time high conversion rates for Clio.

90% increase in CTR for some campaigns (20% avg increase).
60% reduction in CPA for some campaigns (35% avg reduction).
20% average improvement in Quality Score.
All-time high conversion rates for Clio.
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