High Alert is an initiative aimed at keeping Kiwis up-to-date and informed with alerts about dangerous drugs. Individuals are prompted to subscribe by email in order to receive important updates regarding new drug trends or threats.
High Alert faced challenges due to advertising bans on illicit content. In order to side-step these obstacles that affected both their targeting and messaging, Aro helped High Alert to construct a unique digital strategy which allowed them to build brand exposure, message awareness and exponentially grow their subscriber base.
1. Launch the High Alert brand and generate mission awareness
2. Get subscribers to sign up for drug warning alerts
"The Aro Digital team really helped us hit the ground running and get our digital marketing approach right from the very start. The team always went above and beyond to support us and we really valued their expertise and professionalism. The campaign was a huge success and we’re looking forward to doing more great work with Aro in the future."
Meridian Energy is NZs largest generator of electricity from renewable sources. They’ve been seeing great success on paid and organic channels for some time. But, with Google only getting more competitive, they looked to Aro to supercharge their organic performance.
To significantly move the needle in a dynamic search environment, it was crucial for us to get creative on how we approached the SEO strategy. By chipping away at all major search engine ranking factors we were able to generate some pretty shocking results - we’re not talking short-circuits.
1. Increase annual organic sessions by 10%
2. Grow annual B2C conversions by 10%
3. Expand Meridian’s backlink profile by 8%
"The team at Aro Digital has helped us to build our SEO strategy and worked closely with us to achieve organic growth. We really appreciate their SEO expertise and how easy they are to work with. Big thanks for the ongoing strategic and tactical support - we’ve achieved great results in the SEO space after just a few months!"
homes.co.nz is your one-stop-shop for all things property. They’re driven to provide useful property information to users through tools and features that you can actually trust.
They’ve already seen some significant results across Social Media & Google Ads for their platform membership campaigns, so were curious to see if similar strategies would work in driving different website conversions, including ‘Favourite a Home’.
To successfully drive the ‘Favourite a home’ website actions, it was crucial for us to give an incentive for these users to go to the site and perform this action. We achieved this through using a combination of Social Media, Google Ads & Display 360 strategies, which allowed us to reach every user possible, and to communicate the incentive in multiple ways.
1. Drive new & existing users to the site.
2. Drive ‘Favourite Home’ Conversions from new & existing users.
3. Generate more homes.co.nz sign-ups from the new users.
"The "Favourite a home you love" campaign was a big success for our business and the result of yet another great collaboration with AroHQ. During this project Aro worked extremely strongly in the areas of campaign ideation & refinement, building on the learnings of previous campaign results and taking the lead in all elements of campaign delivery for us. This campaign delivered strongly to our objectives of web traffic, engagement and growing our user base for future communications. We value the very honest transparent relationship we have with the Aro team - it means our work together is very focused, productive and a lot of fun!"
The Hurricanes were looking to prove the efficacy of their digital campaign spend and desperately needed to find a solution so they could better understand their direct return on investment. Having to think outside the box, we implemented a number of workaround solutions to successfully track and measure membership transactions (and the value) that were made on a third-party booking platform. We then launched a 2-stage funnel and staggered campaign strategy across Facebook and Instagram to deliver incredible results and take their social game to the next level.
1. Setup correct tracking & measurement to measure membership sales
2. Increase conversions from social campaigns YoY
3. Drive consideration of new membership and ticket offerings
"The Aro team have enabled the Hurricanes to deliver targeted customer journeys across our email, social and website platforms - ultimately improved our customer's digital experience. Aro also implemented a dashboard that tracked memberships by channel, device and demographic. This dashboard coupled with the strategic and tactical support from Tim, Jonty and the team enabled optimisation across the membership campaign."
InvestNow is an online platform that makes investing easy. InvestNow are all about removing the hassle and the middle-man to grow their clients investing success.
They have experienced excellent growth over their first two years of business - and wanted to move the needle even further. After a number of in-depth discussions, we discovered a number of digital strategies that could launch their business to the next level.
InvestNow sits within a highly competitive environment, so in order to drive the growth we were looking to achieve we had to adapt our campaign and messaging techniques, and ensure that our budget was spent in the right areas. This was achieved through a full-scale digital strategy that helped us classify all the various customer segments, align channel objectives, and forecast expected results.
1. Increase the total sum of funds under management
2. Increase the total number of signups to the platform
3. Drive leads through social and paid search using InvestNow’s LikeMe tool
“Our first two years, since launch, had delivered the growth targets we had expected but it also showed us there was significant upside potential - we needed someone to help us realise the opportunity. Aro Digital gave us the solution - a team of digital marketing experts with a proven and highly-respected track record. We are only a few months into working with Tim, Jonty & Lucy and the numbers don’t lie … we are seeing record growth in our business”
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We reduced Red Cross's Google Ads spend by 75% while increasing overall revenue by 9% over the same period. By focusing our spend on non-brand terms, we able to spend money on ads that were driving new customers, rather than reaching current customers.
1. Increase Total Revenue
2. Acquire New Customers
3. Reduce Google Ads Cost
"Tim and Jonty and the team at Aro Digital have really helped our marketing and comms team at New Zealand Red Cross to improve our understanding across digital marketing, from Google Ads to Facebook campaigns to organic content. They're really helpful and professional. We've still got quite a way to go, which means lots more plans for Aro to continue helping us on our journey!"
Wellington BBQs & Fire is a well established local business. Selling a variety of products, ranging from BBQs, Fireplaces and Spa Pools. You might have popped in to one of their stores in Lyall Bay or Petone.
Previously working with another local digital agency to run their Google Ads account, they were being left in the dark about what was going on under the hood.
1. Grow market share in BBQ, Fireplace & Spa digital landscape
2. Drive leads (product enquiries & phone calls)
3. Drive people to physical stores
Canopy Camping hosts New Zealand's most incredible overnight stays. If you haven't been on one yet - we highly recommend you check out the Canopy Camping website.
We wanted to massively increase the number of voucher sales for Christmas 2018. Canopy Camping vouchers make an excellent gift - especially for those last minute shoppers who may be a little behind schedule.
Considering the visual appeal of this product, we decided to run a Social Media campaign on Facebook and Instagram to increase the number of pre-Christmas voucher sales.
1. Increase total Voucher Sales
2. Increase average order value of Voucher Sales
3. Maintain a low cost per acquisition
Atopis is a New Zealand skin care company that launched in early 2017. At the time their product line consisted of core products; dry itchy skin cream (for eczema), acne prone skin cream, and anti-aging cream.
The business decided to stick to online as their only means of sales and partnered with a digital agency. However, after 7 months of promoting products through paid search, social media, and other platforms they were just not seeing the return they were hoping for.
Atopis reached out to us and after a chit-chat we decided we'd love to work together.
1. Increase traffic through to their product offering
2. Increase overall sales and revenue
3. Hit an ROI of at least 200%
Aro Digital’s overhaul and rationalisation of our AdWords marketing campaigns have slashed our cost on keywords and given us an average ROI +180% on our direct digital marketing spend. Smart and savvy, these guys cut to the chase, increased our online profits and kept us firmly in the driver’s seat with excellent reporting.
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