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"We have three physical stores in Texas but our online store was barely doing anything. Brand Surge changed that completely. The brand search campaign alone ran at 48x ROAS and the SEO work built us a real organic channel on top of paid. We've never had results like this before."
Ivan Ontivros
Gear Team Apparel
1. The Challenge
- Multiple physical Texas outlets with an underperforming online store — e-commerce revenue was a small fraction of total sales
- Untapped paid search potential: no Performance Max campaigns, no Shopping feed structure, and no brand-vs-non-brand campaign separation
- Competitive custom team apparel market dominated by heavily funded national brands with large ad budgets
- SEO starting from a low base — average position of 21.8 meant virtually no page-one organic presence for core product terms
2. Our Strategy
We built a full-funnel paid strategy around four distinct campaign tiers — branded capture, non-branded discovery via Performance Max, Shopping feeds for product-level conversion, and Meta campaigns for retargeting and new audience prospecting. Each tier had a dedicated ROAS target reflecting its funnel position. In parallel, we launched an SEO push targeting high-commercial-intent terms: custom team jerseys, baseball uniforms, team apparel packages, and sport-specific queries where Gear Team Apparel had a competitive edge on price and personalisation.
3. Execution
Launched a Performance Max campaign (tROAS 340%) as the primary non-branded acquisition engine, supported by a brand search campaign running at target impression share 100% — this alone achieved a 4,812% ROAS at just $11.59 cost per conversion. Added Shopping campaigns for branded and non-branded product feeds, and ran Meta ads targeting youth sports leagues, school coaches, and club managers across Texas and surrounding states. On Meta, retargeting past website visitors with product-specific creative drove repeat purchases and increased AOV. SEO content was built around team sport categories and buying guides. The result: $906K in Google Ads-attributed revenue from $166K in spend — a 5.45x blended ROAS — alongside $1.3M in total tracked revenue and 24K organic clicks from 2.21M search impressions.
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4. What We Learned
For multi-location sports apparel brands, the biggest ROAS win is almost always brand search — Gear Team Apparel's branded campaign ran at 4,812% ROAS because it captured buyers already searching for them by name. The lesson: protect your brand terms relentlessly before spending on non-branded acquisition. On Meta, targeting coaches and team managers (not just end consumers) opened up bulk and club orders that significantly lifted average order value and LTV. SEO content around sport-specific package pages delivered compounding organic traffic that reduced paid dependence over time.
Key Results
Achieved over 12 months (Jan – Dec 2025)
Total Revenue · Tracked across all channels in 2025
Google Ads ROAS · $906K sales on $166K ad spend
Brand Search ROAS · 4,812% ROAS — $11.59 cost/conversion
Organic Impressions · 24K clicks from SEO in 2025
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Google Ads overview: 67.7K clicks · $906K in purchases/sales · $166K spend · 1,320 conversions (Jan–Dec 2025)
Campaign breakdown: Brand Search at 4,812% ROAS · PMax Non-Branded at 482% ROAS · Shopping Brand at 490% ROAS · Blended ROAS 521%
Google Search Console: 24K organic clicks · 2.21M impressions · consistent growth across the full year
Google Analytics: $1.3M total revenue · 3m 05s average engagement time · strong upward traffic trend across 2025
Results like these don't happen by accident. We structure every campaign around what actually moves the needle — the right channels, the right targeting, and a clear line back to revenue.
Founder & CEO, Brand Surge FZ-LLC
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