Acquiring demand through paid channels while measuring cost, quality, conversion, and the conditions that make acquisition sustainable.
Year: 6, Month: 9, Week: 3, Day: 5 This Tale is about how bureaucracy in VK Ads (ads platform of VK, a Russian social network) slowed us down, while a channel on Yandex Zen (Yandex’s content platform) learned to walk on its own — supported by a careful “suction tube” from Yandex Direct (Yandex’s PPC […]
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Year: 6, Month: 3, Week: 2, Day: 6 This one barely needs extra text — I’ll quote the report. “Traffic (full period: 22 May to 3 June)Spend: RUB 12,955Applications: 82Average cost per application: RUB 158 Most likely tomorrow or the day after we’ll need new ad creatives, these have already burned out. We’ll launch new […]
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Year: 5, Month: 4, Week: 1, Day: 2 Six leads again for migration lawyers — and they appeared only after what we called a “failed launch” of audience tests. What was the point? We realised we hit the target from the start. Luck played a role. Law is a domain where people can move fast […]
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Year: 5, Month: 3, Week: 3, Day: 6 We got leads from the first launch, and for a moment it felt like legal services were a walk in the park. Someone will tell me it isn’t. You need a working brain and steady hands to set up ads. I agree. Still, the main trick often […]
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Year: 3, Month: 9, Week: 1, Day: 2 In the middle of winter 2023, a client from our recurring management projects gave us a boss-level task: they wanted 3,000 subscribers per month instead of 1,000, while keeping the same price we had been hitting for four months straight: RUB 70 per subscriber on average. We […]
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Year: 5, Month: 2, Week: 2, Day: 5 We almost had a dentistry case that turned into a live lesson on how to waste time and money. The client came to us right before New Year 2024. We even moved the payment date to meet them halfway. They arrived with two landing pages. Small spoiler: […]
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Let me try to explain, in a short article, why you need to spend money on Yandex auctions first — and only then even think about “paying only for conversions”. (Yandex is Russia’s largest search ecosystem; Yandex Direct is its ads platform, similar in role to Google Ads.) Nice to meet you — I’m Bogdan. […]
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Dear clients and executors (traffic managers, performance marketers, SMM folks), let’s try to stop this medieval bloodbath around “the creative is trash, the author is trash”. We’ll talk, specifically, about paid traffic. It’s common that the traffic manager makes the creative: the text, the image, or both. That is, the “creative”, exactly as I said. […]
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About the project in this case: These are “online psychologists” services like Alter, Yasno, and Zigmund.Online (Russian online therapy platforms). They call themselves “Easy Life Center”. Maybe one day I’ll write a fuller case about them (most likely, yes), but right now I’m focusing on the copy. Everything below is written in my voice: Creatives: […]
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EasyLife online platform promotion strategy About the project We’ve already met the EasyLife brand before. In April 2022. The results of that meeting are described in this VK case study (VK / VKontakte — the biggest social network in Russia; think “local Facebook”). I’ll briefly recap them here: Back then, we spent next to nothing […]
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