Case study · Strategy

£3.9K to £33.6K a month in a year

How did Lead Academy grow from £3,900 to £33,600 a month in a year? A UK eLearning business. I built an omnichannel funnel across Google Ads, SEO, Meta, email automation and dynamic remarketing. Monthly revenue rose about 8.6x within a year and later passed £200,000 a month (internal records).

Period
2020 – present
Country
UK
Route
Employer: Orbit Technology

The numbers

What changed

Overall Strategy

£33.6K

monthly revenue, up from £3.9K within a year (≈8.6x)

Later over £200,000 a month. 2021 sales were £111K against £69K in 2020.

Source: WooCommerce sales analytics; later figure from internal records

Paid Media

£82,320

profit from Google Ads, after a £7,089 loss

£134K spend returned £216.5K conversion value across 2,886 sales and 266,889 clicks at £0.51. Before: £19.9K spend, £10.6K value.

Source: Google Ads dashboard, Apr 2021–Oct 2022

Overall Strategy

£370K

sales, 9,822 orders and 52,240 sign-ups

January 2021 to October 2022.

Source: WooCommerce sales analytics, Jan 2021–Oct 2022

SEO

38,300

organic visits a month in year one, up from 4,100

56–59K by July 2022 (36.3K keywords in Semrush) and 178,400+ a month later. About 12,500 keywords ranked; 167K Google clicks in 16 months; #1 featured snippet for "how to get student id card uk".

Source: Semrush and Search Console; 178,400+ figure from internal records

Evidence

From the source dashboards

WooCommerce orders report for Lead Academy, January 2021 to October 2022: £370,145 gross sales and 9,822 orders
WooCommerce report, 1 Jan 2021 – 31 Oct 2022: £370,145 gross sales, 9,822 orders.

Cropped from the original screenshots. Client account names removed.

Before and after

Charted from the same sources

Monthly revenue, within one year↑ 8.6x

Source: WooCommerce sales analytics, 2020–2021. Bars start at zero.

What I changed

The work

  • Built the funnel end to end: Google Ads, SEO, Meta, email automation and dynamic remarketing.
  • Designed the offer ladder: Starter, Core and Profit Maximiser.
  • Turned a loss-making Google Ads account into a profitable one by rebuilding around return, not volume.

For you

What it means for your company

A funnel is a system, not a channel. If your paid media works but nothing connects it to email, remarketing and search, the growth stalls where the channels stop.

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