Case Study · Crystals & Jewellery, UK

Store revenue up 448% — while holding a 5x return on every ad pound.

A UK crystal jewellery brand at £85–£150 price points, from zero paid advertising to £100k+ months. March 2025 to present.

Ad Creative CRO Google Ads Meta Ads SEO Website Design
Awaken Crystals · Account Summary
● 5.71x BLENDED ROAS
STORE REVENUE GROWTH
+448%

Campaign Period: March 2025 to present

Results at a glance

The numbers first.

£991,147
Store revenue
Up 448% on the previous period
5.71x
Blended return on ad spend
Against a 5x target
£560,177
Revenue from paid channels
From £98,112 managed spend
5,500
Purchases from paid
Across Meta and Google
+15%
Conversion rate
After the website redesign
£100k+
Monthly sales now
Up from roughly £30,000
The brief

Zero ads. One condition.

When they came to us in March 2025, they were running no paid advertising at all — no previous agency’s work to unpick, no existing account to inherit. They wanted more sales, and they set one condition:

Every campaign had to hold a 5x return on ad spend — ruling out buying volume at a loss to make the top-line number look better.

Before spending anything

What we found first.

Purchase events were firing incorrectly. Any campaign we launched would have taught Meta the wrong thing.

We rebuilt the tracking, fixed the technical problems on the site, then redesigned it around how people actually buy crystals: bigger product photography, clearer pricing, a shorter checkout path.

+15% Conversion rate after the redesign — so every campaign afterwards sent traffic to a page that converted better than the one we started with.
The program

Started with £179. Then scaled.

We started on Meta in March 2025 with a small test budget — £179 in the first three weeks. Once the tracking proved reliable and the first creative angles found buyers, we scaled. Google Ads came later, once Meta had built enough brand demand for search to capture.

Meta Ads

Google Search

Shopping + PMax

Ad Creative

SEO

Website + CRO

The part most accounts get wrong

We doubled the budget. The return went <span class="font-serif-italic text-[#FFCC00]">up.</span>

Scaling usually costs you efficiency — you double the budget, the algorithm reaches into colder audiences, and your return falls. This brief made that trade unacceptable. So we tracked it closely.

March – November 2025
£2,966 / mo
4.54x ROAS · 1,063 purchases in first 9 months
AFTER SCALING
December 2025 – September 2026
£6,182 / mo
5.10x ROAS · 3,298 purchases in following 10

The lever: creative volume — fresh angles entering the account every week so no single ad carried the budget into fatigue — and exclusions that stopped retargeting campaigns paying to reach existing customers.

12.00x on Google

Where the Google budget actually went.

£10,779 of spend produced £129,309 and 1,139 conversions at £9.46 each. Google's own recommendations pushed the other way throughout — we funded Search to its ceiling first and let Performance Max compete for what was left.

Campaign Spend Revenue Cost / purchase
Search £1,009 £69,415 £1.67
Performance Max £8,378 £54,786 £18.31
Standard Shopping £1,394 £5,108 £18.32
The imbalance, visualised
Share of Google budget 9%
Share of Google revenue 54%

Search took 9% of the Google budget and produced 54% of the Google revenue — buying purchases at a tenth of what Performance Max cost.

The outcome

£98,112 in. £560,177 back. Blended 5.71x against a 5x target.

Monthly sales before
~£30,000
Monthly sales now
£100,000+

Meta alone has run at 4.93x since launch and 5.10x over the most recent ten months. Store revenue reached £991,147 — up 448% on the comparable prior period.

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