Digital Marketing · BangalorePortfolio · 2026
Case studyMagnum HondaAutomotive · Paid Search & Social

Restructuring reporting to scale budget confidence.

KPI36% Lower Cost Per Lead (CPL)Leads: 59 → 84
Role
Paid Media & Account Executor
Platforms
Meta Ads · Google Ads · Instagram · Facebook · Website
Timeline
01 · Intro

Magnum Honda — Automotive. Paid Media & Account Executor, working across Meta Ads · Google Ads · Instagram · Facebook · Website.

02 · Challenge

Keep showroom leads and test-drive volume flowing across four Honda model lines — City, Elevate, Amaze and ZR-V — while keeping ad spend predictable and performance reporting genuinely trustworthy rather than a single-month snapshot.

03 · Objective

Drive consistent lead volume per model line through a recurring weekend offer and monthly campaigns, with reporting that reflects real trends.

04 · Audience

Bangalore and TMK-region car buyers, split by region inside the weekend Meta Ads structure.

05 · Thinking

Treat reporting as something to verify before acting on it, not just something to produce. Use ad-group and creative-level detail to make real budget decisions rather than working off headline numbers alone.

06 · Strategy

Recurring weekend offer campaigns — Google Ads recharge, landing page checks, social, then Meta Ads split by region. A documented monthly reporting structure per model line. Ad-copy libraries built around distinct angles per model: reliability, premium, efficiency, safety, hybrid.

07 · Execution
  • Built monthly social media content calendars end-to-end.
  • Drafted ad copy from scratch across all four model lines.
  • Ran and monitored both Meta Ads and Google Ads directly.
  • Updated the City and ZR-V launch website pages.
  • Fixed schema markup for the Kanakapura Road location and handled SEO for the Autoterrace used-car vertical.
  • Built two distinct reporting structures: a weekend-offer report on Google Ads (spend and leads per model, broken down by ad group) and a monthly-offer report on Meta Ads (creative-wise spend, leads and CPL per model, plus a 30-day / 3-month / 6-month trend dashboard using total spend ÷ total leads per window rather than averaged monthly CPLs).
08 · Evidence

Instagram: @magnumhondacars

Google Ads Weekend Offer — Cost per Lead by Month
₹605
₹1146
₹735
₹941
May
June
July
August

Between June and July, cost per lead dropped by roughly 36% while lead volume actually increased — from 59 to 84 leads in the same move.

MonthLeadsSpendCost per lead
May40₹24,180₹605
June59₹67,612₹1146
July84₹61,743₹735
August60₹56,433₹941
09 · Impact

I took ownership of performance reporting across Google and Meta Ads — analyzing historical trends, identifying a ~25% cost-per-lead gap between ad groups, and building a reporting system that translated performance patterns into actionable next steps.

  • Caught and corrected a misleading performance read before it could shape a budget decision, by tracing a favorable-looking number back to an unrepresentative reporting window.
  • Turned an Elevate ad-group comparison into a concrete monthly budget recommendation, based on a ~25% cost-per-lead gap between the two ad groups.
  • Improved how performance trends are measured — using total spend against total leads across 30-day, 3-month and 6-month windows instead of averaging monthly figures, avoiding distortion from low-spend periods.
  • Brought weekend-offer cost per lead down ~36% month-over-month while scaling lead volume up.
10 · What I learned

Verifying a number before trusting it changes what a reporting process is actually worth — a reporting system is only as good as the checks built into it.

What this demonstrates
  • Performance marketing
  • Reporting integrity
  • Budget planning
  • Cross-platform paid media execution