Newsletter Growth: Facebook Ad Success

Challenge

Goldendoodle Advice, a successful affiliate site, struggled to maintain consistent traffic after Google updates affected their rankings. They needed a strategic pivot to maintain traffic, which drove ad revenue and affiliate sales.

Solution

Goldendoodle Advice partnered with Marsh Rabbit Media to create a newsletter campaign aimed at owning their audience and ensuring consistent engagement with their content.

Key steps included:

Newsletter Series Creation:

MRM developed an engaging newsletter series for over 3,000 email subscribers. Here is an example of one of those newsletters:

Example email newsletter from Goldendoodle Advice featuring a welcome message, introduction to the author, tips on what to expect from the email series, a featured article on popular vitamins for Goldendoodles, a discount offer for the eBook "D is for Doodle," and instructions to ensure delivery to the inbox.

Facebook Ad Campaign:

To further promote the newsletter series, MRM ran a targeted ad campaign across Meta to acquire new subscribers. Here are some examples of the dynamic ad variants we created for the various Meta environments:

A series of Facebook and Instagram ad previews promoting the Goldendoodle Advice newsletter. Each ad features different photos of adorable Goldendoodles with the headline: “If you love Goldendoodles, our newsletter is for you,” adapted for various Meta placements including Facebook Feed, Instagram Feed, Video Feeds, Instagram Explore, Marketplace, and Instagram Profile Feed.

Results:

Subscriber Growth:

Over a 10-day period and a $200 budget, the Facebook ad campaign successfully acquired 305 new subscribers at a cost of $0.66 per subscriber.

Performance overview panel showing results of a Facebook ad campaign: 305 on-Facebook leads acquired at a cost of $0.66 per lead, with a total spend of $200.

Enhanced Engagement:

The newsletter series provided a reliable platform for ongoing engagement with Goldendoodle Advice’s audience, driving traffic and supporting ad revenue and affiliate sales.

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