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The Green Elephant

How a hyper-local Google Ads rebuild lifted The Green Elephant's leads by 983%

Education · 3-month sprint
Google AdsSEOMeta AdsCRO

Whitehat Agency turned our Rosebery centre's quiet phones into nonstop tour bookings almost overnight. Enquiries soared, waitlists filled, and we finally have the visibility our families deserve.

Stavros
Founder, The Green Elephant
The Green Elephant Early Learning — Google Ads and SEO case study by Whitehat Agency
01
+983%
Leads
Tour and waitlist enquiries
02
+1,560%
Conversions
Via Meta Ads remarketing
03
−30%
Cost per acquisition
On paid campaigns
01 · Challenge

Award-winning centres that families couldn't find online.

The Green Elephant runs award-winning, family-owned early-learning centres in Rosebery, Waterloo, Beaconsfield and Horsley Park. The reputation is strong; the digital programme behind it wasn't pulling its weight.

Their existing Google Ads campaigns lumped every centre into one ad group, broad-match keywords burned through budget on irrelevant searches, and there was no remarketing — so tour enquiries flatlined even as new centres opened. The handful of parents who did click landed on slow, one-size-fits-all pages with the 'Book a Tour' button buried below the fold.

Pre-engagement baseline
Early learning · Sydney
Ad structure
Flat
Every centre in one ad group
Keywords
Broad-match
Burning budget on irrelevant terms
Remarketing
None
No second touchpoint for parents
Landing pages
Generic
Tour CTA buried
02 · Approach

A hyper-local rebuild — by suburb, by age, by intent.

We rebuilt the entire paid programme around the way parents actually search for childcare. Every suburb, every age group, every centre got its own focused funnel — with landing pages built to convert tour enquiries fast.

Then we layered remarketing and CRO discipline on top, so window-shopping parents were re-engaged with the right reassurance signals at the right moment.

The Green Elephant playbook
5 workstreams · 90 days

Hyper-local Google Ads re-architecture

Split the account by suburb and age group ('childcare Rosebery', 'preschool Rosebery'), introduced SKAGs and layered negative keywords to slash wasted spend.

Tour-ready landing hubs

Built lightning-fast pages for every centre with virtual tour video, educator bios and sticky 'Book Your Visit' buttons proven to lift conversion intent.

Parent-proof ad extensions

Fee transparency, sustainability credentials and 4.9-star ratings surfaced inside the SERP — lifting Quality Score and click-through rate together.

Full-funnel remarketing

Synced Meta and YouTube audiences to re-engage window-shopping parents with child-led learning reels and limited-spot reminders.

CRO sprints

A/B-tested reassurance headlines ('Family-Owned Since 2015'), colour psychology and risk-reversal copy ('No-Obligation Tour') — driving record enquiry-completion rates.

03 · The result

Quiet phones, packed waitlists.

Within three months, lead volume jumped 983% as qualified parents flooded the tour and waitlist pipeline. Meta retargeting drove conversions up 1,560%, turning ad clickers into booked centre visits at record pace.

Across the campaign, 5,500 brand-new high-intent users discovered The Green Elephant for the first time — and cost per acquisition fell 30%, so every ad dollar reached further than before.

Leads · indexed, 90 days
Google Ads + CRM
+983%
leads, 90 days
−30% CPA
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Results

The numbers that filled the centres.

Four early-learning centres, four very different catchments, one paid programme. Here's what a hyper-local rebuild delivered in 90 days.

01
+983%
Leads
Tour and waitlist enquiries flooded the pipeline from qualified parents.
02
+1,560%
Conversions via Meta Ads
Window-shopping parents re-engaged and converted at record rates.
03
+50.3%
Traffic surge
5,500 net-new high-intent users discovering the brand through the campaign.
04
−30%
Cost per acquisition
Every ad dollar stretched further through tighter targeting and CRO discipline.
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