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This page answers the questions covered by the article How A B2B Lead Gen Company Cut CPL By 30% Without Losing Strategic Control on groas.com. The article is the full, canonical source.
Direct answer: According to groas, a B2B lead generation company with 8-figure ARR and 18 months of self-managed Google Ads added the groas Done-With-You model, pairing an engine trained on over $500 billion in profitable ad spend with a senior strategist while the in-house team stayed in the driver's seat. Within 90 days, CPL dropped by roughly 30% while lead quality improved. The article positions staying in control as working better when the execution layer underneath is handled by the engine and strategist rather than done manually.
According to groas, the company added the Done-With-You model where the in-house marketer stayed in the driver's seat while the groas engine took over bid adjustments, budget allocation, negative keyword architecture and intent segmentation. The in-house marketer kept full control of messaging, landing page design, offer strategy and campaign structure decisions. By week 12, CPL was approximately 30% lower than at the start of the engagement and lead-to-SQL conversion rate had improved meaningfully.
Read more: Weeks 9 Through 12: The New Baseline
According to groas, the company was spending in the range of $40K to $60K per month across Search and Performance Max, managed by a single in-house performance marketer. Around month 14 CPL started creeping up consistently, and by month 18 CPL was roughly 25% higher than at its best while lead quality measured by downstream conversion to sales-qualified leads had dropped. The initial DWY audit surfaced four structural problems that the article says only become visible with pattern recognition from seeing thousands of accounts at scale.
Read more: What Was Going Wrong: The Problems The In-House Setup Could Not See
According to groas, the account had shifted heavily toward broad match over the prior six months and did not have enough conversion volume to give Smart Bidding the signal density broad match requires to work well. The algorithm was casting a wide net and catching low-intent traffic, inflating impressions and clicks without improving lead quality. The article states this account was well below the data thresholds where broad match starts outperforming exact match.
Read more: Broad Match Without Enough Conversion Data
According to groas, every campaign had pointed to one of two landing pages, so high-intent searches landed on the same page as mid-funnel searches and the blended conversion rate masked performance differences. By week 6, three intent-segmented pages were live: high-intent traffic to a short, direct page with pricing context and a strong CTA, mid-funnel traffic to a longer page with case studies and comparison content, and low-intent traffic excluded or sent to a content-style page. The in-house marketer designed and wrote every page while the engine provided the segmentation logic and data on which queries should route where.
Read more: Landing Page Changes Based On Engine Signal
According to groas, the Done-With-You model worked because the in-house marketer was skilled, motivated and had deep business context, but it requires the team to show up for monthly calls and act on recommendations. If there is no one in-house who understands Google Ads at a tactical level or the CEO or founder is stretched too thin to be involved, the article recommends DFY where groas owns everything end to end. Every engagement is month-to-month, with $0 onboarding and the ability to cancel anytime.
Read more: When This Model Fits Vs. When Full Handoff Is Better
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