How Social Nucleus have helped increase Factory Weights’s total sales by 84%

  • Total sales up by 84%
  • Orders up by 63%
  • Store sessions up by 138%
  • AOV up by 15%
INDUSTRY:

Health & wellness

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Data-Driven Strategy

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Unrivalled Creative Offering

Get access to 60 top-tier creatives each month—across all formats and types—at no extra cost. Every creative piece we produce is guided by data, ensuring maximum impact.

Global Ad Management

Managing over £20 million in ad spend annually, we have the experience and insight to keep your brand at the cutting edge of market trends.

Results-Oriented Campaigns

With over £150 million in sales driven annually, we know what works. Our campaigns are designed to convert, leveraging our extensive market knowledge.

Click the link below to explore how our data-driven approach and creative offerings have led to remarkable outcomes for our clients, scaling to 8 figures and beyond.

Introduction

Factory Weights is a brand that offers premium-quality gym equipment for far more affordable prices than other suppliers.

All their products are delivered straight from their factory to customers’ doors, meaning they can offer their kit at the lowest prices possible.In a predominantly pricey market, Factory Weights came to Social Nucleus to maximise the impact of their ad campaigns with a key focus on demonstrating their competitive prices compared to their competitors.

How Did We Fix It?

We started by aligning on the key business metrics:

  • MER: Marketing efficiency ratio
  • CAC: Customer acquisition costs
  • NCAC: New Customer acquisition costs
  • NC / RC: New Customers vs Returning Customers
  • AOV: Average order value
  • CVR: Conversion rate

With a vast potential for growth, we were thrilled to collaborate with Factory Weights. Our paid specialists focused on creative testing to determine what truly resonates with different customer segments. Given the brand's extensive and versatile product range, we developed unique, tailored campaigns for each group, with creative experimentation being a key driver of their success.

Ads should never take a one-size-fits-all approach, which is why creative testing is crucial. By finding a marketing strategy that works for them, we managed to combat any fear of scaling by increasing their ad spend month on month.

Pain Points

Prior to partnering up with Social Nucleus in July 2023, Factory Weights was struggling with their return on investment and wasn’t seeing huge results off the back of paid social.

Aside from seeing serious growth, they were looking for an agency that they could have a strong, efficient and transparent relationship with.Initially, when onboarding Factory Weights, they voiced their concerns regarding budgets and their ability to scale due to issues surrounding stock. This meant that they were reluctant to increase budget and nervous to scale.

Creative Challenges:

  • Testing fewer than 20 creatives per month.
  • Creatives did not highlight their unique selling point (USP) of ‘quality gym equipment, at an accessible price point'.
  • Content was limited to model shoots, with no lifestyle visuals to support it.
  • Video transitions were slow and unengaging.
  • There was a clear lack of emotional appeal in the ads, with too much focus on the product itself.

Ad Account Challenges:

  • Testing using ABO (Ad Set Budget Optimisation), with 96% of spend wasted on poor-performing tests.
  • Optimising for a 7-Day Click and 1-Day View window.
  • No cost controls were in place to manage wastage or leverage machine learning.
  • Meta's forecasting indicated a low expected conversion rate (eCVR), resulting in poor ad performance.

What Sets Us Apart?

Consolidation is Crucial

Running too many campaigns can lead to overlap, and overlap often results in over-reporting. Over-reporting skews your data and leads to poor decision-making, particularly if you're still relying on a 7-day click and 1-day view attribution model. To maintain clarity, it's essential to streamline your campaigns and avoid unnecessary complexity.

Cost Control

By applying cost controls to your ad account, you can direct the algorithm to deliver the CPA you need. When testing new creatives, Meta uses its forecasting tools to predict expected CTR (eCTR) and conversion rate (eCVR) before entering the auction. If the system predicts that the creative won't hit the required CPA, it simply won't spend any budget. No spend means no wasted resources, which ultimately preserves margin—a crucial factor for any emerging brand. More margin = more growth potential.

Focus on Click-Based Outcomes

Ensure your account is optimising for click-based outcomes only. Avoid relying on view-based conversions, as these sales aren't truly incremental and don't provide genuine value. Their only impact is inflating your ROAS, making it seem more impressive than it really is. This is precisely why your advertising platforms like Google and Meta might report higher sales figures than your backend system does. The key to an accurate understanding of your campaign's performance lies in focusing on outcomes driven by genuine engagement, not passive views.

Creative is Always King (or Queen!)

Creative is the cornerstone of success. You must be continuously testing multiple ads weekly in your ad account. Think of it in simple terms: approximately 96% of your ads will either underperform or receive little to no spend. The quicker you can test 100 ads, the quicker you'll discover the 4 that deliver strong returns. Constant testing isn't a luxury—it's a necessity in today’s competitive landscape.

Trust the Machine

Stop trying to outsmart Meta’s algorithm, which processes more data daily than any other platform in the world. Meta has insights beyond what any human can access, and in most cases, it knows best. Sometimes this means putting your ego aside—forcing spend on underperforming ads, pushing for fake engagement, or overly retargeting can hurt your results more than help. Let the machine do what it’s designed to do, and you'll avoid creating unnecessary challenges for yourself.

Unit Economics

We prioritise a deep understanding of your Unit Economics during onboarding. We analyse your product margins, identify your most profitable lines, and set clear north star metrics. This gives us a clear path to hitting your goals. Many brands rely on vague figures, leading to poor decision-making. By grounding our strategy in precise data, we make informed, confident decisions that optimise your ad spend and drive sustainable growth. With a firm grasp on your Unit Economics, we focus on the right products, set achievable targets, and build campaigns for long-term success.

The Next Steps:

Creative Strategy:

  • Our in-house creative team began delivering 40 new creatives per month for Factory Weights.
  • We placed a strong emphasis on the key USPs.
  • Our creative strategist scripted and sourced UGC (user-generated content) to amplify these USPs.
  • We focused on promoting high-margin products, allowing for a higher NCPA (New Customer Acquisition Price) within the ad account.
  • We introduced new copy alongside the increased creative volume to ensure alignment between visuals and messaging.
  • Multiple mood boards were created to guide their future shoots, ensuring their content aligned with our creative vision.

Ad Account Strategy:

  • We set up a Testing/Scaling campaign structure to minimise wastage when introducing new ads.
  • The entire ad account was shifted to a Cost Cap setup, instructing the machine to find sales at our target CPA and no higher.
  • Using Cost Caps also reduced wastage and gave us another lever to pull when we found winning creatives to scale.
  • We changed the optimisation window to a click-only attribution model, forcing the machine to work harder to generate sales.
  • A creative feedback loop was implemented to ensure continual improvement in the quality and performance of our ads, week by week.

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