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From 4,529 to 11,587: Pro Speed Racing’s Year-on-Year Surge

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A 12-month leap in sales, efficiency, and return on social ad spend. Where 74% more spend delivered 155% more sales.

Scaling paid social ads sounds simple. Increase the budget. Watch sales grow. If only it were that obedient.

The thing is: it’s not an obedient dog. It’s a highly caffeinated greyhound that only runs fast if you point it in the right direction — and occasionally decides it prefers chasing something else entirely.

What often happens instead? Costs climb, ROAS slips, efficiency disappears, and suddenly your “growth strategy” feels more like a generous donation to the algorithm.

But we’ve done this before, so we knew what to do.

This wasn’t so much as making louder ads. It’s about smarter growth. So we scaled strategically across paid social sales campaigns, prioritised high-performing conversions, and let the data dictate when and how we pushed harder.

The result? Let’s just say 2025 made 2024 look like a warm-up lap.

The Client: Pro Speed Racing

Pro Speed Racing isn’t dabbling. They’re serious operators in the performance automotive space. Tuners, parts, upgrades. The kind of brand people trust with their pride and joy.

Their audience knows what they want. They just need to find it at the right moment.

Which is exactly why they partnered with us — to scale their social media advertising strategically, not emotionally.

The Challenge: Scale Without Slipping

The brief wasn’t “just run ads.”

It was:

  • Increase sales
  • Improve return on ad spend
  • Lower cost per purchase
  • And scale year-on-year

Oh, and do it in a competitive eCommerce market where everyone is fighting for the same car obsessives, like drivers jostling for pole position.

Sure, no pressure.

The Strategy: Push Hard. But Push Smart.

We focused heavily on paid social sales campaigns, not vanity metrics.

That meant:

  • Doubling down on high-performing purchase campaigns
  • Refining audience targeting based on buyer behaviour
  • Optimising creative for conversion, not just clicks
  • Scaling budget strategically, not emotionally

The goal wasn’t traffic. It was transactions.

And when the data said something was working, we leaned in. The algorithm nodded. We nodded back.

The Results: Paid Social Success

Here’s what happened year-on-year:

  • Impressions up 108.58%
    (Driven by a 150.51% increase in paid social Sales campaigns)
  • Website purchases up 155.84%
    From 4,529 to 11,587 purchases
  • Cost per purchase down 29.70%
    From $4.14 to $2.91
  • ROAS up 29.12%
    From 221.21 to 285.62
  • Total spend up 74.97%
    But performance outpaced spend growth, lifting overall ROI

In a nutshell:

Spend increased by 74.97%. Purchases increased by 155.84%.

Which is marketing’s way of saying, “Okay, that went well,” with a big, bright smile on its dial.

Here’s Why It Worked

It’s because we didn’t chase noise.

We focused on:

  • Conversion-first structure
  • Continuous optimisation
  • Strategic scaling
  • And letting the data drive the throttle

Oh, did we say we love data? And did we say it drives (pun intended) all our decisions?

Here’s the basics: more budget doesn’t automatically mean more profit.

But when you scale the right campaigns, at the right time, with the right optimisation behind them?

You don’t just grow. You compound.

And suddenly scaling feels less like gambling and more like engineering.

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