Case
Scaled a new cosmetic brand from $0 to $122K/month revenue with Google Ads in 6 months
Beauty
Google ADS
B2C Service
Sales
In this case:
From Zero Revenue to Six-Figure Brand in a Highly Competitive Beauty Market
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A new cosmetics brand entered one of the most competitive eCommerce categories with no established Google Ads presence and an ambitious goal: build demand, acquire new customers, and scale revenue profitably.
Starting from $0, we built and scaled the brand’s Google Ads acquisition system across Search, Shopping, and Performance Max.
Within six months, Google Ads revenue grew to $122.7K per month, while maintaining an average 3.11 ROAS.
More importantly, this growth wasn’t driven primarily by existing branded demand.
By October, 82.64% of Google Ads spend was allocated to prospecting campaigns, allowing the brand to continue reaching new audiences and expanding beyond customers already searching for its name.
Breaking Into a Saturated Beauty Market From Scratch
Launching a new cosmetics brand meant competing for attention against established beauty companies with stronger brand recognition, existing customer bases, and significantly more historical advertising data.
The main challenges were:
- Zero established Google Ads presence — campaigns and performance data had to be built from the ground up.
- Highly competitive beauty market — the brand was competing in an advertising environment with aggressive competitors and expensive clicks.
- Scaling without destroying profitability — increasing spend quickly could not come at the expense of sustainable ROAS.
- Different performance across markets — budget needed to follow geographic demand rather than being distributed equally.
We designed Google Ads around prospecting and new customer acquisition from the beginning.
Services & Technologies
- Google Ads
- Google Search Ads
- Performance Max
- Google Shopping
- Google Merchant Center
- Audience & Geo Segmentation
- Conversion Optimization
We built a diversified Google Ads ecosystem designed to capture existing demand while aggressively creating opportunities to acquire customers who had never interacted with the brand before.
The account was segmented geographically across Top Tier, EMEA, and additional markets, giving us greater control over budgets and allowing investment to follow the regions producing the strongest returns.
We separated branded demand from prospecting campaigns to get a clearer picture of true acquisition performance.
Brand campaigns captured high-intent searches efficiently, while Search, Shopping, DSA, advertorial landing page campaigns, and multiple Performance Max configurations were used to reach customers higher in the funnel.
As performance data accumulated, underperforming campaigns were reduced or paused and budgets were gradually increased across the strongest campaigns, products, and markets.
This created a scalable acquisition engine capable of growing from $0 to more than $122K in monthly Google Ads revenue within six months.
BUILDING A GOOGLE ADS SYSTEM FROM ZERO
We built a diversified Google Ads structure across Search, Shopping, and Performance Max, covering both branded demand and new customer acquisition. Campaigns were separated by purpose, product, and geography, giving us greater control over budgets and performance as the account scaled.
SEPARATING BRAND DEMAND FROM REAL PROSPECTING
We separated branded and non-branded campaigns and applied brand exclusions to prospecting campaigns where applicable. This prevented existing brand demand from inflating acquisition results and gave us a clearer picture of true prospecting performance. By October, 82.64% of ad spend was invested in prospecting.
SCALING MARKET BY MARKET
Instead of distributing budget equally, we segmented campaigns across Top Tier, EMEA, and other markets. This allowed us to identify the most profitable geographies and progressively shift more budget toward markets with the strongest revenue and ROAS potential.
SCALING SPEND WITHOUT LOSING CONTROL OF ROAS
We continuously optimized campaigns, paused underperforming segments, and increased budgets across winning products, campaigns, and markets. This controlled scaling approach helped grow Google Ads revenue from $0 to $122.7K per month while maintaining a 3.11 average ROAS.
From $0 to $122.7K Monthly Google Ads Revenue in Six Months
Between May and October 2024, the beauty brand went from having no meaningful Google Ads revenue to generating $122.7K in monthly revenue from Google Ads.
Growth accelerated rapidly as campaign data accumulated and budgets shifted toward the strongest products, markets, and prospecting strategies.
In July, monthly revenue increased 233% MoM to $29K, with a 3.11 ROAS.
In August, revenue grew another 97% MoM to $57.3K, while maintaining a 2.8 ROAS during aggressive expansion.
By October, Google Ads generated $122.7K in monthly revenue at a 3.1 ROAS, with prospecting campaigns becoming the primary growth engine.
Prospecting revenue increased 115% compared with September, demonstrating that growth was increasingly coming from expanding customer acquisition rather than relying on branded demand.
- Prospecting performance matters more than headline ROAS alone. Separating branded and non-branded traffic gave us a much clearer picture of whether Google Ads was actually generating incremental growth.
- Campaign diversification creates more opportunities to scale. Search, Shopping, DSA, advertorial campaigns, and different Performance Max configurations allowed us to identify multiple profitable acquisition channels.
- Geographic segmentation improves budget control. Separating markets allowed investment to move toward regions demonstrating stronger commercial potential.
- Brand exclusions are essential for understanding acquisition performance. Without separating branded demand, prospecting campaigns can appear more efficient than they actually are.
- Scaling should happen progressively. Increasing budgets alongside continuous optimization helped the account grow without sacrificing control over profitability.
- The highest ROAS isn’t always the campaign that should receive the most budget. Branded campaigns naturally generated stronger efficiency, but prospecting was responsible for creating the new demand required to scale the business.
This campaign structure allowed us to break into one of the toughest markets with confidence. The growth from zero to six figures in just half a year exceeded our expectations while keeping ROAS strong
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