A luxury stays brand at a price point most agencies would not touch. A tiny audience, a long consideration cycle, and real doubt that paid ads could work at all. The client is unnamed by agreement.
At ₹50,000+ a night the audience is tiny, the decision takes weeks, and one lazy discount-coded creative can cheapen the brand for a season. The work had to look like what it costs.
Luxury-honest creative and targeting. The property presented at full value, to the narrow audience that can afford it. No discount language anywhere.
A qualification bar built together. The definition of a qualified lead was agreed with the client's sales team before campaigns scaled, so lead quality was never a dispute.
Hand-built booking attribution. Bookings traced lead by lead through CRM uploads and guest remarks, catching long cycles, including one booking that closed three months after the first touch.
Cost per lead fell by nearly 80% while lead volume grew roughly 10x, past 3,000 leads. More than 20 bookings averaging ₹1.5 lakh+ each were tracked back to campaigns, for a blended return above 7x with the best month close to 25x. The property saw sold-out periods with enquiries still arriving.
Making paid ads work at ₹50,000 a night is mostly a matter of refusing to advertise it like a discount hotel.
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