Multi-Product Lifting Equipment Manufacturer
A U.S. manufacturer of below-the-hook lifting devices — spreader beams, coil handlers, custom rigging solutions, and specialty lifting products. The account had grown organically over the years without intentional structure. We rebuilt it around product intent.
An account that grew without a plan
A U.S. manufacturer of below-the-hook lifting equipment — spreader beams, coil handlers, custom lifting solutions, and specialty rigging devices — came in with an account that had grown organically over the years without intentional structure. Early campaigns were named after product lines but mixed intent, mixed audiences, and mixed budget into a setup that made it nearly impossible to know what was actually working.
The account held several years of campaign history. Some of the original campaigns — named after specific product series — still existed with zero spend, the remnants of an earlier era before the account had any real structure. They were placeholders the account had never fully moved past.
Different buyers. Same campaigns.
The product catalog was broad — and each product line served a different buyer. A plant engineer speccing coil handling equipment is not the same buyer as a construction contractor pricing spreader beams, or a crane rental company sourcing custom lifting solutions. Mixing them into shared campaigns meant the wrong message reached the wrong person at every turn.
Without product-level campaign separation, there was no way to answer basic questions: Which product lines were driving the most qualified traffic? Where was budget being wasted? Which verticals were worth more investment? The account couldn't answer any of it.
Product intent as the organizing principle
We restructured the account around product intent rather than broad product names. Each major product line got its own campaign with keywords and ad copy matched to that specific buyer's search behavior and language.
Product-specific search campaigns
Each major product line got its own dedicated search campaign — keywords, match types, and ad copy built around the specific buyer intent for that product, not pooled with everything else. Five-plus product lines, each with its own budget, its own keywords, its own performance data.
Industry-specific display targeting
Display campaigns targeting specific verticals — construction audiences, crane manufacturers, industrial material handling — rather than broad interest categories. Different creative for different industry contexts.
Brand protection campaign
A dedicated campaign capturing branded searches — buyers who already know the company and are actively looking for it. Currently running under $1.00 per click. This is the easiest lead to lose to a competitor if you're not protecting it.
Remarketing and YouTube
Remarketing campaigns to bring back site visitors who didn't convert on first visit. YouTube campaigns for product awareness in specific industry verticals — B2B buyers research before they search, and video gets in front of them earlier in that process.
Performance Max for niche segments
PMax campaigns for specialty product segments where audience signals and creative assets could drive incremental reach beyond what manual search campaigns capture.
Structure that scales
The account now runs 10+ active campaigns across Search, Display, YouTube, and Performance Max. Core product line campaigns produce qualified leads at $57–98 per conversion. The brand campaign captures buyers who already know the company at under $1 per click — over 8,000 brand-intent conversions in the data.
One honest note: in B2B manufacturing with long sales cycles and a distributor network, Google Ads tracks qualified buyer activity — quote requests, phone calls, spec sheet downloads — not closed revenue. The distributor who handles the sale closes the loop offline. These conversion numbers represent the right buyers raising their hand. What happens next in the sales cycle isn't in Google Ads, and anyone who tells you otherwise is making it up.
What the structure buys is clarity. Budget decisions are made from product-line data, not account-level averages. When one line outperforms, budget follows. When a campaign stops earning its spend, you can see it.
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