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AD AGENCY
We help businesses grow with effective digital advertising in Newcastle and other corners of Earth.
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Modern online advertising
Data-driven Advertising
Invest, measure and optimise.
It’s no secret that online advertising channels like Facebook, Google and YouTube are fantastic places to capture new leads and drive engagement for businesses. Huge user attention levels, precision targeting and amazing tracking capabilities across all devices. We’ll help you figure out how to get the best result for your budget.
WORK WITH USGOOGLE PREMIER PARTNERS
A PREMIER PARTNER AGENCY
Our relationship with Google
We’re one of just a handful of agencies in Australia to be awarded the Google Premier Partner badge. This just means that the big G has recognised our proven track record of excellence in Google Ads campaign management, account performance and client service.
Of course, we’re not just a Google Ad agency. We have a proven track record across all the major online advertising channels – Facebook, Instagram, YouTube, Linkedin and more
EXPECT RESULTS.
43¢ Cost Per Conversion
BRISBANE AIRPORT
Brisbane Airport
The friendly folks at Brisbane Airport Corporation were excited to let Queenslanders know about their new service to Vancouver with Air Canada. We were even more excited to exceed their expectations with Facebook ads!
Channels and Tactics
- Mapped out highly targeted ad creative and messaging to specific audience segments
- Drove prospects to a high-converting contest landing page with viral social sharing built-in
- Tweaked audience strategy throughout the campaign to further optimise cost-per-lead metrics
- Leveraged retargeting to build email list from BAC’s large volume of website visitors
Outcomes
We went above and beyond what the Brisbane Airport was hoping to achieve from their campaign. Monitoring the conversion data closely, we tweaked and tested the ads to find the best cost per conversion, ending up at just 43 cents per new subscriber.
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An International Disruptor
CAMPLIFY
Camplify
In early 2015, our director Dave also co-founded a little Newcastle-based startup that had big dreams of becoming the “Airbnb for caravans”. A bold new plan, Camplify had this big vision of activating people’s under-utilised RVs to more people experience the joys of camping. Starting life as a twinkle in CEO Justin Hales’ eye, Camplify was just another “peer-to-peer marketplace idea” at the time. With no funding, no customers and no idea of what the future would hold, all we really knew was that there were a tonne of RVs that were sitting on people’s lawns not being used. That was enough for us to take a leap of faith and become part of Camplify’s digital marketing team.
Channels and tactics
- An international SEO strategy built for scale
- Google advertising automation and profit optimisation based on utilisation modelling
- Hyper-targeted social media advertising
- Marketing automation management
- Tests of every growth hack under the sun
- Much, much more
Outcomes
Camplify is currently valued in excess of $30m and boasts the largest RV rental fleet in Australia and the UK. A sensational story of growth, this star Newcastle tech company now sends thousands of people on holidays every month and holds a dominant share of the RV sharing market and has just expanded into Spain and New Zealand. Our role in the journey? Well, much of Camplify’s user growth has come from the digital marketing activities we’ve helped ideate and execute. Camplify is no doubt one of the jewels in our crown and we’ve loved every second of our involvement with this awesome Aussie startup!
Here are a few nice things Camplify’s CEO said about us:
“Redback continually surprise me with their professionalism, expert knowledge and ability to smash the KPI’s I set them out of the water.”
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OUR CLIENTS LAST YEAR
Our Clients Last Year
Nobody likes a bragger, but hey – the proof is in the pudding. Last year, we helped our clients (mostly small to medium sized companies) generate over 80,000 conversions from Google Ads alone. We’re not talking “Contact page visits” or “Clicks”. We’re talking leads.
- Inbound phone calls
- Enquiry form submissions
- Quote requests
- Appointment bookings
- Online sales
- and more…
Real Conversion Numbers
If you haven’t already guessed, we’re big on data and accountability. The graph above shows real numbers from our real clients and for the majority of our wonderful clients, Google Ads are still the most cost-effective advertising channel for new customers. We’re honoured to be one of just a handful of Google Premier Partner agencies in Australia. This partnership gives us and our clients access to top-notch training and support directly from Google. The best part? Things are only getting stronger. Year on year, we’re seeing insane results for our clients’ businesses via Google’s advertising suite, including:
- Google Adwords / Pay Per Click search ads
- YouTube video advertising
- Google display and remarketing
- Google mobile app advertising
We’d love to send some conversions your way too!
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Effective Social
Ads at Scale
Property Website
Property Website
One of Australia’s largest property sites came to us looking for a custom solution to their social advertising offering. The challenge was to automate campaign delivery at scale, whilst still maintaining a level of personalisation across every single advert.
Channels and tactics
- Hyperlocal mobile ad targeting parameters for 55,000 Sa1 regions across Australia
- Development of a web app to override Facebook’s default geo-targeting capabilities
- Automation of setup and management processes for up to 1500 campaigns at a time
- Dynamic ad creative and responsive campaign optimisation
- Messenger conversion funnels
- Facebook lead ads
- Instagram advertising
- Lots more
Outcomes
- Smooth, cost-efficient process achieved for managing up to 1500 localised campaigns simultaneously
- A far superior cost-per-lead scenario compared to previous social efforts
- Lots of very useful, localised data insights
No doubt about it, this was a curly problem to solve – but we enjoyed the challenge thoroughly!
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Over $100k of Ad Spend GOOONE.
PROFESSIONAL FIRM
Professional Firm
In business, it can be scary to let go of things that worked for you in the past. This mid-sized professional services firm had sensed for years that they were no longer getting value from their annual investment in traditional advertising. However, they couldn’t be certain that this channel wasn’t still working for them and were worried that they could lose business if they dropped their ads. We were more than happy to step in and help them make a data-driven decision to focus their budget into measurable digital channels.
Channels and tactics
- Successful shift of budget from print to digital advertising
- New website focussed on mobile user experience and conversion rates
- Google advertising optimisation
- Technical SEO and content strategy guidance
- Tests of every growth hack under the sun
- Lots more
Outcomes
- 27% YOY increase in monthly organic search traffic (from a 5 digit base)
- Overall advertising spend reduced significantly
Over $1m in New Product Sales
ELECBRAKES
Elecbrakes
Elecbrakes is Australia’s first Bluetooth electric trailer brake controller. This innovative device was invented on the NSW Central Coast / Newcastle by an innovative team of engineers and trailer manufacturing experts. With the Elecbrakes system, a controller is fitted to the trailer and wired into the existing electrical circuits. A remote control or smartphone with the Elecbrakes app is then used to monitor, change settings and control the trailer’s brakes.
Channels and tactics
- Google search ads
- Facebook ads and groups marketing
- Instagram lead-gen ad campaigns
- On-site SEO
- Traditional database marketing
- New website
Outcomes
In under 2 years since launch, we were able to help Elecbrakes achieve over $1,000,000 in sales for this new product. The launch of their new website and remote control saw their monthly sales increase by 160% in the first month and they now enjoy a dominant search market share in the electric brake controller category Australia-wide. Their month-on-month growth is still trending UPwards aggressively and we’re very excited to see how Elecbrakes will continue to disrupt the traditional brake controller industry – both here in Australia and abroad!
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$3 Million Increase in Yearly Revenue
HOME SERVICES COMPANY
Home Services Company
Sometimes, the only thing our clients care about is revenue growth. With this home services provider, that what definitely the case. We started working with this client in 2015 after they’d been through a rocky few years. Their website was looking tired and couldn’t be found anywhere. Their traditional marketing channels weren’t cost-effective anymore and we were brought in to turn that all around.
Channels and tactics
- Aggressive Google Adwords pay per click search advertising campaigns with strong focus on optimising for a lower cost-per-lead.
- Ongoing localised Search Engine Optimisation (SEO) and content strategy
- Careful attention to the clients’ mobile website experience and conversion rates
- Commitment to encouraging customers to leave great reviews on Google and Facebook
- Marketing automation processes setup to re-engage customers who have bought in the past
- Above the line advertising spend shifted from traditional media to Facebook and Instagram
- Adaptive approach to budgeting and tactics based on seasonality and market factors
Outcomes
Fast-forward to 2018 and we’ve played a key part in growing this small business’ annual revenue by over $3 million per year and still trending UPwards.
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Hyper-targeted Acquisition
SHOPPING CENTRE
Shopping Centre
We’ve been working with one of Australia’s largest shopping centres over the past few years – specifically on helping them build a stronger database. With so much going on for this client on the marketing front, our sole job has been to take some heat off the internal marketing team and just focus on driving their paid social channels.
Through a series of targeted social advertising campaigns on Facebook and Instagram, we’ve been able to help this client grow their database significantly – at a much lower cost-per-acquisition than their previous provider could achieve.
Not only are we building their database cost-effectively, we’ve also been able to provide this client with some fascinating insights on their target audience personas using Facebook’s powerful analytics tools.
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Enrolment Enquiries
UP 43% YOY
EDUCATION PROVIDER
Education Provider
We recently worked with an Education Provider to improve leads across their 30+ locations across Australia. This client needed help to capture potential customers searching on Google for their services and increasing brand awareness in local regions.
Channels and tactics
- Website analytics / conversion tracking implemented
- Localised Google Ads across 30+ locations Australia-wide
- Localised Facebook lead-gen campaigns across 30+ locations Australia-wide
Outcomes
- New booking enquiries UP by 43% year on year
- Over 500,000 people reached on social media
Dominant Market Share in Search
PEST CONTROL COMPANY
Pest Control Company
This is a story of maximising opportunity. Every ounce of opportunity. On search engines. Really, who doesn’t want a dominant share of Google’s search results in their chosen market? For this pest control business, it is all about squeezing the lemon for every last bit of tangy, delicious SEO juice.
Channels and tactics
- New mobile-first website experience
- Aggressive, data-driven approach to Google advertising
- Budget shift from traditional media to digital
- Facebook as an engagement and nurturing tactic
- A clever approach to generating real, genuine Google reviews
- Customer re-engagement strategy support
- A comprehensive approach to content for dominant search engine visibility
- and more…
Outcomes
- Drastically improved conversion rates
- Dominant share of local organic search engine market
- A really happy client who said this about us:
“I deal with Vicinity because they get results! They know their Search Engine Optimisation and digital marketing better than anyone I have ever dealt with before. They also put the needs & objectives of the customer FIRST.”
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Search Ads Cost-Per-Lead Down 59%
RENTAL BUSINESS
Rental Business
When we took over this rental business’ search marketing from another agency, we had some high standards to maintain. However, with a little sideways thinking and some clever execution by our campaign management team, we were able to reduce CPA significantly. In non-geek speak, that means our client now pays less for every new customer we bring to their business from search engines. Yippee!
Channels and tactics
- Aggressive Google and Bing Ads campaigns
- Cross-device conversion rate optimisation
- Ad split testing
- Careful budget management across 10+ locations
- Dynamic objectives based on search impression share and ROI
- Social remarketing to improve overall CPA
- Online reviews strategy to boost conversion rates
- Other bits and pieces
Outcomes
- Search Ads Cost Per Lead Improved 59%
- Overall conversions UP by 33% in 2 years
Video Advertising for 2018
The modern human is consuming video on their smartphone – not free-to-air TV. We’ll design a modern, mobile-first video marketing strategy for your brand.
TV ADVERTISING vs ONLINE VIDEO
STILL RELYING ON TRADITIONAL MEDIA?
What is happening to traditional TV advertising?
In short: It’s kinda dying.
Recent industry reports reveal that TV has lost 32% of its prime time audience in the 18-34 demographic and 19% in 25-54s since online alternatives like Netflix and Stan came into the market back in 2015. In addition to this stat, the latest Deloitte Media Consumer Survey showed 43% of respondents had a video streaming subscription like Netflix – a figure that is growing steeply year-on-year. To be honest, this shift to non-advertiser funded “TV” platforms is a actually threat to the entire advertising industry.
As of now, the best way we see to approach this change is to start investing and testing digital video content and ad channels like YouTube advertising, Facebook, Instagram and Linkedin.
Our Process for
Digital advertising Success
Our process is simple. We use our experience to help you put the right creative in front of the right people and we measure the results. Then, we look at the data and figure out how to get an even better return on your ad spend.
YOUR ADVERTISING TEAM
These humans can help you get bang for your advertising buck
Dave
Managing Director
Dave
Managing Director
Guitar's Name: Thelma
A kid from the bush who grew up in tiny mining towns, Dave has an infectious passion for marketing, creativity, technology and people. After graduating with a degree in Business Marketing & Psychology, Dave spent 7 years working with hundreds of businesses via gigs in large marketing & advertising firms. One day, he woke up and decided to start a digital marketing consulting business from his bedroom, with a vision to do things a little differently, to help businesses grow and stay ahead of the curve.
Fast forward to 2019 and Dave’s role at Redback is to ensure we are well equipped to deliver the best possible outcomes for our clients now and well into the future. Dave is also the co-founding CMO of star Aussie caravan sharing community Camplify. He sits on the board of Australia’s first SingularityU chapter and is also director of Interactive Minds Newcastle, a series of educational events for marketers and agencies.
What drives this creative + analytical + happy lump of a lad forward?
Well, in Dave’s simple words, it’s the “real weird, awesome buzz” he gets whenever we achieve tangible, meaningful growth results for a business.
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Ben
Optimisation & Automation Manager
Ben
Optimisation & Automation Manager
Worst habit: Laughing when he definitely shouldn’t be!
Ben joined the team in July 2017. After managing to grow and monetise his own Instagram accounts to over 900,000 followers, Ben wanted to apply his skills to a range of businesses in agency land. Since joining the team, Ben has worked heavily on optimising our clients’ Facebook ad campaigns for maximum results across a wide range of industries and business objectives.
Ben is a natural problem-solver – a real modern day growth tactician with a strong focus on numbers. We love unleashing his brain on interesting digital marketing problems when they arise!
What drives this clever young man forward?
“The awesome feeling of always growing & improving my skill set in the industry I love!”
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Jazz
Copywriter & Messaging Strategist
Jazz
Copywriter & Messaging Strategist
Favourite Colour: pink
Jazz is a cat obsessed content creative with 6 years of experience as a freelance writer and media officer.
(He has several years of experience prior to that as a market researcher, landscape gardener, news radio presenter, sourdough baker, aspiring novelist and software developer — but not all at the same time.)
Jazz sharpened his skills working as a speech writer and media officer for a Member of NSW State Parliament. He then went on to work closely with researchers and academics at the University of Newcastle, as part of their media team. Recently, he’s helped tell compelling stories about start-ups and innovative entrepreneurs for commercialisation consultancy gemaker. He now keeps busy helping our clients develop remarkable content for their websites, digital media and content marketing strategies.
What drives this passionate communicator forward?
People. Every business has people and their stories at its core and every customer is a person. As a writer and a human being engaged with the world, it’s the people around Jazz and the endless complexity of their inner worlds that fascinates him and motivates him to be the best communicator he can be.
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