Case study · Lead generation · Meta

74% lower cost per application for Lindsay's First Nations Auto

Lindsay's First Nations Auto
−74%
cost per application · 29 months
Business
Lindsay's First Nations Auto Financing, BC
Goal
Financing applications
Channel
Meta only
Timeframe
29 months, ongoing

The starting point

Lindsay's First Nations Auto serves First Nations vehicle financing across British Columbia. Lee Maingot's team was referred to me in early 2024. Their existing Meta campaign was producing applications at CA$166.04 each. At that cost, the ads were an expense, not a growth channel.

What I did

I rebuilt the account around a single conversion goal: completed financing applications. One prospecting campaign optimized for website leads, one instant-form campaign for lower-friction volume, and continuous creative iteration in a community-specific voice the client reviews before anything runs.

No dashboard hand-waving. The client sees the cost per application every month and decides budget with real numbers. At one point they asked to cut the budget in half because applications were coming in faster than the finance team could process them.

Results

Metric
Result
Change
Cost per application
CA$166.04 → CA$43.70
CA$44.10 blended lifetime
−74%
Applications
1,631 over 29 months (about 56 a month)
Client tenure
29 months and running
budget raised on request
Retained

Figures from the ad account, archived July 2026.

Lee Maingot
3 sales in September and 2 already for November directly from the ads.
Lee Maingot, Finance Manager · November 2024

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