Company: The Source By Circuit City
Location: Ontario, Canada
Industry: B2C, Retail
Annual revenue: $700,000,000
Number of employees: 4000

Quick Read:

When an online electronics retailer runs a holiday-season Google paid search campaign, and the resulting cost per acquisition is far higher than the average cost per order, something is not right. Yet that's what happened with the 2005 holiday campaign of The Source By Circuit City.

The following year, Source flipped its keyword strategy, changing the focus from paid-search result position to achieving lower customer acquisition cost per order. The change resulted in a 58% reduction in per-order cost during the 2006 holidays.

The Challenge:

In 2005, The Source By Circuit City, the Canadian Internet arm of the popular electronics retailer, ventured into the paid search space for its holiday campaign. It was an expensive undertaking.

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