Playground Surface Installer Sees 86% Year-over-Year Increase in Website Leads

Company Overview

adventureTURF LLC, a playground surface installation company, started with roots in the landscaping industry. It began as a division of MJD’s Property Solutions, which was founded by Mike Dallmann in 2005. MJD’s Property Solutions served both the landscaping and playground surfacing industries.

As demand for their rubber surfacing division began to increase, the company decided to establish and brand the playground surfacing division as adventureTURF, LLC. They offer site preparation, debris removal, retaining wall and drainage solutions, landscaping experience and many playground equipment & safety surface options. They are now one of the largest nationwide installers of poured-in-place rubber and rubber tiles.

167%

Year-on-year increase in website traffic

86%

Year-on-year increase in website leads

534%

5-year increase in website leads

The Challenge

When MJD’s Property Solutions decided to establish adventureTURF as a separate division, Mike Dallmann found himself in a predicament: adventureTURF’s website was not generating enough traffic.

Dallmann felt confident in his product and service and knew that in such a niche market there was certainly a high demand but with little traffic, he was not producing the leads, contracts, and work that he needed.

adventureTURF found EVH Marketing to help to optimize their website. In a collaborative effort to increase exposure to potential customers, Improve & Grow was brought in to help with paid ad campaigns and search engine marketing.

The Solution 

To help adventureTURF accomplish their goal, we conducted an initial online marketing assessment to determine the baseline numbers and data. Our research allowed us to learn more about the industry and inform the client of the likely outcomes before our campaigns even began.

The assessment helped us to outline the following online marketing campaign objectives:

  • Increase website visibility to generate qualified traffic from users interested in a playground surfacing solutions through a combination of organic search engine optimization and pay-per-click marketing
  • Generate qualified online leads with a profitable return on marketing spend

Prior to working with us, adventureTURF had no experience with search engine optimization (SEO) or pay-per-click marketing, so we started from the ground up.

We began by conducting a complete online inventory, as well as keyword research, and set them up with a Google Analytics account. This allowed us to create effective campaigns, analyze monthly performance reports, and identify actions based on trends.

For SEO purposes, we monitored target keyword ranks and configured SEO campaigns, as well as optimized website landing pages to target keywords.

Our paid ad efforts included setting up a Google AdWords account, and configuring budgets, bid strategies, and search ad campaigns, all in line with strategy and budget. We developed the ad copy based on client selling points and target customer pain points.

Display re-marketing ad campaigns were also used to re-engage qualified website visitors. All the campaigns were monitored and regularly maintained to optimize key performance metrics.

At the same time as our efforts, EVH Marketing worked to optimize the website, improving user engagement and conversion rates and conducted ongoing maintenance of website content and SEO work.

Key deliverables

Initial Results

adventureTURF knew they were seeing results when they were no longer able to keep up with the number of work requests they were receiving. Before efforts began, the website conversion rate was less than 0.5% and they receive at most one lead per month. At the 12 month mark, they were receiving 68 monthly website leads.

In the first month, they began receiving leads from their paid ad campaigns. After 3 months, they started to see an increase in organic search traffic. After a full year, they went from 57 organic search sessions per month to over 2,200 sessions per month, a 38X increase!

Playground Surface Installer Sees 86% Year-over-Year Increase in Website Leads

Here is what Dallmann had to say about the initial success of the campaign:

The marketing campaign has FAR EXCEEDED my expectation. Not only are my current staff and I completely booked with new projects, we are looking to add new staff to accommodate our influx of business. This happened in a short 6 months. I could not be more impressed with the results of this campaign!

Long Term Results

The explosive growth seen in their first year was expected, given that they were a new brand and had not been investing in marketing. What was more impressive was to see the year-on-year growth they experienced in the subsequent years, as shown in the chart below. In the second full year, they experienced a 167% increase in traffic and an 86% increase in website leads. They continued to see growth the next few years until things settled in around the 6 year mark. At that point they were getting over 120,000 website visits per year, which was up 1,226% over the first full year of marketing, and over 1,800 leads per year, which was up 534% over their first full year of marketing.

adventureTURF - Website Traffic and Leads by Year

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