Beauty Salon Google Ads — Sugar & Wax Haven

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Sugar & Wax Haven · Tempe, AZ · Beauty studio

A Google Ads account that spent $755 and closed 261 customers.

No broad match, no guessing. High-intent-only keyword targeting, a tight negative list, and weekly bid and search-term tuning. Here’s exactly what a disciplined account looks like.

69.96%
Conversion rate

The Challenge

Wanted paid leads. Not more browsers.

Sugar & Wax Haven already had a strong organic presence, but organic takes months to move. They wanted a paid channel that could bring in booked clients now, without burning a small local budget on people who were never going to book.

Most local Google Ads accounts leak budget on broad, low-intent clicks that never convert.

The Approach

Here’s exactly what we did.

01

High-intent-only targeting

Kept the campaign to keywords that signal someone is ready to book, not just researching. No broad match experiments on a small budget.

02

Tight negative keyword lists

Built out and maintained a negative list to cut off searches that looked relevant but never converted, before they could cost a click.

03

Weekly bid & search-term tuning

Reviewed the search-term report every week, adjusted bids, and pruned anything wasting spend. Quality Score climbed to 8–10 as a result.

Result — Google Ads

$755 spent. 261 conversions. Math you can use.

$755Total ad spend
261Conversions
69.96%Conversion rate
$2.89Cost per conversion

Live dashboard screenshot to be added.

$2.89 per conversion. Most local service businesses pay $20–40 or more.

Quality Score of 8–10 across the account’s core keywords.

261 conversions from a $755 budget. No wasted spend on low-intent clicks.

Your turn

Find out what a tightly-targeted account could do for you.

Free Google Ads account review. No obligation, just the real numbers.

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