Labyrinth Escape Rooms
The problem
Labyrinth was spending $4,200/month on Google Ads and getting walk-in bookings -- but their cost-per-booking had crept from $18 to $41 over 18 months. They had no idea why. Their agency told them "the market is more competitive." The real reason: 63% of their spend was going to keywords with zero commercial intent.
What Atmos did
Within 48 hours of connecting the account, Atmos flagged 340 negative keywords that should have been excluded from day one. It identified "escape room near me" as their single highest-converting keyword -- and found they were bidding 40% less on it than their three nearest competitors. On week two, the human ads manager approved a bid increase on that keyword and paused 12 underperforming ad groups.
- ►340 negative keywords added in week one
- ►Bid strategy shifted from manual CPC to Target CPA at $19
- ►Ad copy tested: 8 variants in 30 days, winning copy identified
- ►Human manager reviewed and approved all 23 optimization decisions
Results
CPA reduction
47%
from $41 to $21.70 per booking
ROAS improvement
3.1x
from 2.1x to 6.5x in 60 days
Monthly bookings
+68%
same budget, 68% more conversions
"Our agency told us the market was more competitive. Atmos told us we were bidding on garbage keywords. That difference cost us $40,000 before we found Atmos."
Marcus Thorne
Owner, Labyrinth Escape Rooms