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How StudioHawk won 28% more MRR customers from paid media.

StudioHawk is an SEO agency. For three years we’ve run their Google Ads and Meta Ads: testing bidding strategies, keeping search terms clean, building a landing page strategy, and helping make sure their new website was built to convert paid traffic.

The results

28%more MRR customers from paid media
3years running their Google Ads & Meta Ads

MRR customers are clients on monthly recurring revenue. Measured on customers won, not leads.

What StudioHawk says, word for word from Trustpilot
Lawrence HitchesChief of Staff, StudioHawk

If you need paid media done right, this is your team

Paid Media Plus have handled paid media across our agency for many years now, and I wholeheartedly endorse them for helping us grow our MQLs. We've referred clients their way over the years because of it. Jeremy genuinely understands business outcomes and works alongside our team like an extension of it. He's proactive and responsive and is thinking about how we can push the needle further. On top of all that, he's just a wonderful bloke to work with. Can't recommend him highly enough.

March 25, 2026Unprompted review
Business name
StudioHawk
What they do
SEO agency
What we did
Google Ads & Meta Ads management
Working together
3 years
Measured on
MRR customers
The goal

Customers on retainer, not just enquiries.

For an SEO agency, the business that matters is clients who sign up and stay, paying every month. An enquiry that never becomes a retainer doesn’t move the needle.

Paid media for SEO services has its own challenges. Plenty of people searching around SEO are after free tools, tutorials or jobs, not an agency to hire.

So the work has focused on two things: making sure the budget reaches businesses ready to invest, and making sure the website turns those visitors into enquiries.

What we did

Four disciplines, kept up for three years.

None of this is a one-off fix. It’s the ongoing work that compounds.

Tested multiple bidding strategies

Why it matters

The right bidding strategy depends on an account’s data and goals, and that changes as an account grows.

What we did

We tested multiple bidding strategies to find what delivered the best customers for StudioHawk, rather than settling for a default.

Kept the search terms clean

Why it matters

Searches around SEO attract plenty of people who aren’t looking to hire an agency.

What we did

We constantly monitored the search terms reports and added negative keywords to exclude poor-quality terms.

Built a landing page strategy

Why it matters

Every improvement in conversion rate lowers the cost of winning each customer.

What we did

We implemented a landing page strategy designed to improve conversion rates from paid traffic.

Shaped the new website for paid media

Why it matters

A new website can quietly undo paid media performance if it isn’t built with conversion in mind.

What we did

We worked with StudioHawk’s team to make sure the new website was built to support a strong conversion rate from paid media.

The results

28% more MRR customers.

Paid media is now bringing StudioHawk 28% more customers on monthly recurring revenue, the kind of growth that compounds every month those clients stay.

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